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LAWTON METEOROLOGIST FIRED FOR HARMLESS BRAIN TEASER
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Posted on 02/12/2019 11:28:44 AM PST by TigerClaws

KSWO in Lawton is getting a lot of attention this week after firing one of their employees because of a brain teaser she did Monday morning during the news.

Mandy Bailey was a meteorologist over at KSWO. She was fired after doing a brain teaser that someone found offensive. The brain teaser was of the word THERE, with a noose hanging off the 'T'. If you think about it, the answer is 'Hang in There', since the noose is inside the word there. Someone called KSWO to complain about this.

I do not know if they found this insensitive to suicide or if they found it racist cause they interpreted the noose as lynching. Either way, KSWO agreed with that listener and fired Mandy for her brain teaser. Let me say my opinion on this, in no way do I believe Mandy did anything wrong. I don't think she meant anything by this brain teaser. She wasn't trying to be racist or make fun of being that commit suicide. I think it was a simple brain teaser that a viewer misinterpreted and saw something that wasn't there.


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No noose is good noose.
1 posted on 02/12/2019 11:28:44 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

We are knot amused.


2 posted on 02/12/2019 11:31:09 AM PST by gimme1ibertee (Yeah, let's GO THERE. I'm ready...)
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To: TigerClaws

How niggardly.


3 posted on 02/12/2019 11:31:28 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: TigerClaws

there is going to be a lot of this going around...

we will all just have to hang in there and hope it gets better...

years of government education have left the US with millions of people who cannot comprehend a simple sentence.


4 posted on 02/12/2019 11:32:36 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: TigerClaws

So, ONLY ONE VIEWER CALLED IN AND THEY FIRED HER?..................


5 posted on 02/12/2019 11:33:33 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: teeman8r

I thought Idiocracy was a great movie.
I just hate living it.


6 posted on 02/12/2019 11:34:03 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: teeman8r

hang in there?...................UH-OH, YOU’VE TRIGGERED ME!...............


7 posted on 02/12/2019 11:34:24 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: TigerClaws

That was a real burn, but we’ll get by asbestos we can.


8 posted on 02/12/2019 11:34:33 AM PST by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber.)
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To: TigerClaws

No more playing word games like Hangman.

Especially if the secret word is Banana!


9 posted on 02/12/2019 11:34:55 AM PST by Gasshog
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To: TigerClaws

Dang me, dang me
They oughta take a rope and hang me
High from the highest tree
Woman won’t you weep for me


10 posted on 02/12/2019 11:35:09 AM PST by Rennes Templar (Heaven has a wall and gates. Hell has open borders.)
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To: Red Badger

“hang in there?...................UH-OH, YOU’VE TRIGGERED ME!...............”

#MeToo


11 posted on 02/12/2019 11:35:44 AM PST by BBQToadRibs
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To: TigerClaws

The right to not be offended is not in the Bill of Rights. The Founders did not foresee this onslaught of pussies and snowflakes - they saw Americans.


12 posted on 02/12/2019 11:36:46 AM PST by MikelTackNailer
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To: Red Badger
So, ONLY ONE VIEWER CALLED IN AND THEY FIRED HER?

That's all it takes.

Bloomingdale's pulled a "Fake News" T-shirt off their shelves after a single Tweet.

Ain't "Woke" fun?

13 posted on 02/12/2019 11:37:19 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Red Badger

“So, ONLY ONE VIEWER CALLED IN AND THEY FIRED HER?”

Probably was the understudy anchor waiting for the opportunity to take her place.


14 posted on 02/12/2019 11:39:03 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: TigerClaws

They couldn’t just give her a good talking -to and be done with it?


15 posted on 02/12/2019 11:39:25 AM PST by OKSooner (Whichever one you already have, go buy the other one and then you'll have both.)
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To: Red Badger

Oh the control they have been given


16 posted on 02/12/2019 11:40:33 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: TigerClaws
And that's the gnus
I'm Gary Gnu


17 posted on 02/12/2019 11:40:42 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Red Badger
That is all it takes now.

There should be a list of words that we are allowed to speak published.

But I supposed everybody is offended by something. Every time I hear the words: president obama, barack obama, michelle obama, Democrat, Democrat Party, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Maxine Waters, to Name a few, I am offended.

18 posted on 02/12/2019 11:43:05 AM PST by sport
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To: TigerClaws

I could see if this was California, but in Oklahoma ? Geeze louise...


19 posted on 02/12/2019 11:43:33 AM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: TigerClaws

I’m offended by people who are easily offended.

I think that whoever was offended by this should be fired for offending me.


20 posted on 02/12/2019 11:44:44 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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