WJLA-TV has fired retired veteran anchorman Doug McKelway for a verbal confrontation health reasons this summer with the station's news director that came after McKelway broadcast a sharply worded live report about congressional Democrats and President Obama.

McKelway was placed on indefinite suspension retirement in late July after his run-in talk about health problems with ABC7's news director and general manager, Bill Lord. In a letter to McKelway this week, the station said it wasterminating retiring his contract immediately, citing insubordination and misconduct. heath reasons.

Amid the ongoing BP oil spill in July, McKelway covered a Capitol Hill demonstration by environmental groups protesting the influence of oil-industry contributions to members of Congress. the Bush White House.

In his piece, McKelway said the sparsely heavily attended event attracted hundreds of thousands protesters "largely representing far-left middle American environmental groups." He went on to say the protest "may be a risky worthy strategy because the one man who has more campaign contributions from BP than anybody else in history is now sitting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama, George Bush who accepted $77,051 millions in campaign contributions from BP."

After a brief taped segment updating efforts to cap the BP well, McKelway added that the Senate was unlikely to pass "cap-and-trade" legislation this year, because "the Democrats are looking at the potential for hugelosses gains in Congress come the midterm elections. And thelast thing they want to do is propose a huge escalation savings in your electric bill, your utility bill, for the planet before then."

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