“The lesson: the absence of respect for the opinions of others, accompanied by a lack of humility and a surplus of contempt for fairness and civility, will doom even intelligent, talented and hard-working individuals to inevitable failure, because they cannot be trusted, not by employers, not by colleagues, not by friends.”
—Me, from January of last year, writing about the demise of Keith Olbermann at MSNBC
Rush, Sandra, Bill, and Jack, plus many, many others, please—please— take note.
Ethics Alarms 
Yep:
X =
strongly held opinions,
+self-serving self-righteousness,
+pathological pettiness
= “the absence of respect for the opinions of others, accompanied by a lack of humility and a surplus of contempt for fairness and civility.”
F(X) = doom of even intelligent, talented and hard-working individuals to inevitable failure (and diminished trustworthiness),
Where F is the “function” of unethical culture – all F-ed-up, that is.