A month after his July 25 suspension, WMAL has fired Michael Graham.  Graham was suspended initially for saying repeatedly that "Islam is a terrorist organization."

Up to yesterday WMAL believed that Graham would be returning to work:  (Washington Post)

The station had conditioned his return to the midmorning shift on reading a station-approved statement in which Graham would have said that his anti-Muslim statements were "too broad" and that he sometimes uses "hyperbole" in the course of his program. WMAL also asked Graham to speak to the station's advertisers and its employees about the controversy.

But Graham refused both conditions, prompting the station to drop him.

Curiously, the July 25 incident occurred a week after Graham's participation in a "Truth Tour" of Iraq, where he would presumably have come into contact with many ordinary Iraqi Muslims, who emphatically are not terrorists.

As Justice Brandeis put it, the limit of free speech is when you "falsely shout fire in a crowded theater."  Graham clearly crossed that line.

(cross-posted at dcdl.org)