Posted on 02/28/2017 5:29:33 AM PST by PBRCat
ABC 7 did exactly that to veteran sportscaster Mark Giangreco, suspended without pay for several weeks for calling Donald Trump “this cartoon lunatic” elected by “a country full of simpletons.”
Giangreco is technically a sports anchor, but any sportscaster who stuck to the dry recitation of scores and injuries wouldn’t last long on TV. He’s expected to inject his opinions and humor in an appropriate way, except of course when he doesn’t.
ABC 7 didn’t say which part of the statement rankled. I’d assume it was the dismissing half their audience as idiots part. Frankly, I’d expect to get in trouble if I called one reader a simpleton, and would never do it. Plus, shifting gears a moment, a man who spent his career hobby-horsing through the low-wattage mental wasteland of TV sports reportage probably shouldn’t question anyone’s intellect.
Or heck, maybe it was using “cartoon” as a pejorative. ABC 7 is owned by Disney after all.
Giangreco’s suspension begins Monday. It’s ominous because while many corporations are trying to distance themselves from the anti-American infamy of the Trump administration, Disney is punishing a man for stating the obvious, crudely.
“Sports anchor Mark Giangreco’s Twitter comments are not in line with ABC 7 Chicago’s non-partisan editorial standards,” the station fretted, a statement more shameful than anything Giangreco tweeted.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
No, the simpletons were the ones who voted for 8 years of Obama. Like this idiot.
Rock, paper, scissors whom is the bigger dick, Giangreco or Steinburg the author.
Steinberg by ten furlongs.
The Sun Times, via Steinberg just called Trump and us, “this cartoon lunatic” elected by “a country full of simpletons.”
And there's the money shot...
The writer has a large volume of hostility.
The drying out process may not be going well?
Maybe a switch to decaf would help?
To his credit, the "one too many shots to the head" sports simpleton has finally admitted that PRESIDENT Trump was ELECTED President of the United States by the American people that he refers to as "simpletons". That's the first step back from dabbling in fascist "democrat" insanity. Hey, it's a start.
“a country full of simpletons” says a man noted for his brilliant scientific mind. /s
Should there have been a barf alert on this thread? It took a lot of reading to get to the excellent summary you just gave.
A nasty drunkard who is filled with self-loathing since he abandoned the bottle.
I wouldn’t have figured Giangreco was a d-bag.
can’t blame giangreco ... he was simply trying out for an espn slot
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