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Fired NPR host sees "McCarthyism" - Occupy Wall Street UPDATED BELOW Lisa Simeone, host of two cultural programs on National Public Radio, was fired from one of her positions last night for her leading role in the Freedom Plaza occupation in Washington, D.C. The proximate cause was a series of blogs posts in the Daily Caller asserting that she had violated NPR’s code of ethics, an allegation which Simeone denies. “It overblown. Everyone’s overreacting,” Simeone told Salon in a phone interview. “It’s like McCarthyism.” Simeone, a former weekend host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” show, had not worked directly for the network since 2002. [UPDATE 2:35 pm. "Her activities outside of the job do not violate anything in our employee code and have in no way affected her job performance," Nolan said in a phone interview. Simeone has been active in a group called October 2011 which has occupied Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington since Oct. 5. The problem, says Simeone, is, “I’m not an NPR journalist. “It was bewildering,” Simeone said.