This is genuinely outrageous. Does anyone think that if Wright had said "I'm furious about how high the national debt is, and worried that America has lost is leadership role globally," that he'd have been suspended?
If there is a problem with Wright's work — if it was false or wrong or misleading — he should be fired. The idea that he shouldn't have, or on his own time, express, personal views is absurd.
This doesn't make the public trust us. It makes the public think that we're hiding the truth from them, and punishing those who speak out, or who dare to stray from a safe, and itself deeply biased, conventional wisdom.
