She's just big boned.
Posted on 11/02/2006 11:29:28 PM PST by raccoonradio
WRKO talk jock John DePetro is back in the hot seat and fighting for his job after calling gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a “fat lesbian” on his radio show yesterday.
Sources say Julie Kahn, vice president and New England market manager for Entercom, owner of WRKO-AM (680) and WEEI-AM (850), is “furious.”
“This corporation has zero tolerance for this type of nonsense. We have a high standard,” said George Regan of Regan Communications, which represents WRKO.
DePetro was pulled off the air today and has been ordered to a meeting at the station.
The latest on-air insult comes nearly four months after DePetro was suspended for two days and ordered to apologize for calling former Turnpike chief Matt Amorello a “fag” on the air.
During yesterday’s show, DePetro called Ross - who is openly gay - a “fat lesbian” while expressing annoyance at the Green-Rainbow Party candidate during Wednesday night’s gubernatorial debate. During the TV debate, Ross repeatedly insisted that she and independent candidate Christy Mihos were being ignored by the major party candidates.
DePetro, hired by WRKO in 2004, did not return a call for comment. Ross called DePetro’s comments “offensive.”
“I think he was indeed being nasty. It’s not news to anybody that I’m a lesbian. This is supposed to be about an election, not name-calling,” said Ross, who was on DePetro’s show only once briefly.
Jason Wolfe, vice president of programming at WRKO and WEEI, is investigating the situation. Wolfe was program director in 2003, when WEEI co-hosts John Dennis and Gerry Callahan were suspended for two weeks for comparing an escaped gorilla to an inner-city Metco student.
In July, DePetro called Amorello “Fag Matt” while saying his wife wears “the pants” in the family.
DePetro formely had a show in Providence where he went after Buddy Cianci and the Plunder Dome scandal
Will he stay at WRKO after this? Or will they replace him with another local host or maybe Glenn Beck (syndie)? John
DePetro...shock talker (another example of hiring someone
who's "on the cutting edge" but then when he "goes too
far"...hmm.)
If she is not a fat dyke, then Rosie O is a homecoming queen.
Ugh!
UGGGGHH is right...I was eating a midnight snack.
Warn a fella before posting pictures of creatures from the depths of the ocean!
Case closed.
It appears the company is about to fire a man for telling the truth.
Is Glenn Beck warming up in the wings? Or maybe Todd Fineburg's
show moves to 9 am (he'd get pre-empted constantly by
Celts and Sox anyway...) Stay tuned...
And she has funny teeth.
Sasquatch lives!
I guess she doesn't really want to be accepted for who she is.
Yeah, the teeth stick out more than the fat or lesbian.
Guaranteed clinically obese. And a lesbian.
Perhaps our channel's producer is confusing her with Pat?
from Boston Radio Watch
Strike two : WRKO suspends DePetro again
Boston's Fox25 news is reporting tonight that WRKO AM 680's midday talk show host John DePetro has been suspended by Boston's AM talk station for the derogatory comments he made on today's show about Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross. Fox25 reported that the comment was about Ross' sexual preference and physical appearance. It was also reported that DePetro will not be on the air tomorrow. The length of suspension has not been disclosed.
Entercom Boston, which has zero-tolerance policy for any kind of discrimination, had suspended DePetro three months ago(BRW 7/18) for making disparaging statements about former Mass. Turnpike Authority Chairman Mat Ammorello on his 9am-Noon program. DePetro served a two-day suspension for that incident.
So???
If ya cant take the heat, stay on the porch! Woof Woof!!!
Oh, that's right, free speech for just your party!
Whaddya mean I'm not kind?..........Just not your kind!
Indeed she does.
If I were managing that station, I would advise De Petro to make his descriptions more complete and not deprive our listeners of full coverage.
She is a four-eyed, doubled-chinned, gap-toothed, fat lesbian.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Didn't Kerry just call Rush Limbaugh "doughy" in his supposed "apology"? Is Kerry losing his job? Yeah, sure...
She's from the Green-Rainbow party (how many shades of green does it take to make a rainbow), so she probably doesn't have any money to run negative ads. This is a great boost to her campaign, and should push her to the high side of 1.4% of the vote.
She looks like a fat 80's David Letterman after the Shakeys's "Bunch of Lunch" buffet.
Actually, I think she'd be the perfect governor for massachusetts. Well, ok, almost perfect -- she's not a traitor and she's not an alcoholic. But she scores high on everything else that state admires.
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