ESPN suspends reporter after ugly parking-lot rant

ESPN suspended reporter Britt McHenry for one week, hours after a video surfaced of the reporter dressing down a parking lot attendant in brutally ugly fashion.

“I’m in the news, sweetheart, I will f—–g sue this place,” McHenry, a Washington-based reporter, says as the video opens.

McHenry vented about getting her car towed in a since-deleted tweet (as caught and saved by ARL Now) on April 6, and that was the cause of her frustration.

(snip) The video, which appeared on LiveLeak, shows McHenry relentlessly mocking the clerk in a nasty attack, bouncing from jabs at her intelligence to insults about her teeth.

“Yep, that’s all you care about, is just taking people’s money,” McHenry says. “With no education, no skillset, just wanted to clarify that. … Do you feel good about your job? So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing? Why, cause I have a brain and you don’t?”

“Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh?” McHenry says. ” ‘Cause they look so stunning … ‘Cause I’m on television and you’re in a f—–g trailer, honey.”

Interesting people asking why she should be fired for doing what she did.

Sports players are penalized when they are suspected of abusing their spouses. Isn’t that something they do in their personal lives? Nevertheless, the sports team gets involved in their personal lives because they do not want to be labeled insensitive.

Can’t remember which basketball team was involved, but a few months ago a team owner was caught in a racist rant and lost his team over it. Isn’t that his personal life. What business does the sports commissioner have meddling in this owner’s personal life. The answer is that the basketball owners do not want to be associated with racism.

So now we have this blond air head caught ranting demonstrating she is a bigot, a snob, probably a racist, mean spirited and catty, and downright cruel. Now when people see her they will associate ESPN with hiring sub par individuals who are bigots, racists, cruel, mean and ignorant. Does ESPN want to associate their image with this blond air head? ESPN has to wonder how many people will turn the channel because they do not want to watch her. My guess is that she will be sidelined and given assignments in corporate Siberia until she leaves. Her image is shot.

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