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ESPN suspends reporter after ugly parking-lot rant
New York Post ^ | 16 Apr 2015 | Mark W. Sanchez and Justin Terranova

Posted on 04/16/2015 7:01:33 PM PDT by 11th_VA

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?”

The rant somehow gets more personal as the edited video closes.

“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.”

And a parting shot before McHenry leaves: “Lose some weight, baby girl.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brittmchenry; espn
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To: 11th_VA

On the bright side, she didn’t say “And I was like omigod” or “like literally” three times in the same sentence.


41 posted on 04/16/2015 7:52:30 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Sideline bimbos.


42 posted on 04/16/2015 7:55:24 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: 11th_VA

One empty headed blonde with an attitude goes off on a towing company attendant and everyone wants her fired. Another empty headed blonde who’s known for her bad temper has had verbal, and in some cases, physical altercations with people from Arkansas, to DC, and all across this country. Yet, millions of people will happily vote for this woman to be the next president of the United States. Granted, one had her confrontation on videotape while the other one has never had any of hers recorded anywhere. Amazing!


43 posted on 04/16/2015 8:00:45 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Marechal

hee haw?


44 posted on 04/16/2015 8:01:55 PM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: 11th_VA

Watch out she may have some dragons.


45 posted on 04/16/2015 8:03:52 PM PDT by pke
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To: 11th_VA

Well, I guess ESPN and I will be parting ways. This isn’t the first time they’ve allowed junk like this but it is the last time I will support their arrogant reporters.


46 posted on 04/16/2015 8:05:14 PM PDT by Randy Larsen (Aim small, Miss small.)
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To: Jane Long

Spencer Jacobson • 3 hours ago

It’s funny she thinks you need a college degree to be Sideline Barbie.

Avatar
Peeker Boo Spencer Jacobson • an hour ago

Exactly. Peroxide & store bought boobs are her selling points.


47 posted on 04/16/2015 8:08:39 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I agree, don’t like it in Nascar that I watch either..


48 posted on 04/16/2015 8:25:08 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: Randy Larsen
I stopped watching ESPN years ago, in part because most of their "reporters" come across this way on the air. She notes on her Twtter account that she has a Master's from Northwestern, so she is obviously hung up on the college thing.
49 posted on 04/16/2015 8:29:53 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason ("Journalism is dead. All news is suspect." - Noamie)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LOL...a communications degree with a pair of bookends to keep it upright!


50 posted on 04/16/2015 8:32:44 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

football games and sports programs and girls together just don’t do it for me.”

Thank you - me either. And I want a broadcaster who has either played the sport he’s blathering about or looks like he could have.


51 posted on 04/16/2015 8:35:26 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: 11th_VA
McHenry says ‘I’m on television and you’re in a f—–g trailer, honey.”

You're on television because of how well you f--- in the TV trailer, honey - and now a hundred million people know it.

52 posted on 04/16/2015 8:45:50 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Eh. I don't care for it either. But I never paid attention to the sideline people anyway, except the ones who were funny, either intentionally or unintentionally.

I did find one thing really creepy, though. When the last Super Bowl ended, there was this older, femaie cougar-looking woman stalking Malcolm Butler around the field, trying to be the person on the spot and get the interview with him. Every time the camera was on him, you could see this woman lurking in the background, like a predator, making quick dashing movements to try to cut him off at the pass and catch him.

Creepy creepy!

53 posted on 04/16/2015 9:00:35 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: Talisker

If she gets canned, she’d fit right in with the Hillary campaign. She’s got the attitude “I’m special and I deserve everyone’s attention; others can wait.”


54 posted on 04/16/2015 9:11:45 PM PDT by CedarDave (Bush vs. Clinton in 2016? If you have a 24-year old car, the bumper stickers are still good!)
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To: 11th_VA

I don’t have a dog in the fight and don’t care about ESPN, but I REALLY don’t see why I should be upset about someone (celebrity or not) taking their aggressions out on some slimebag employee that works in a place that contracts with slimy cities to impound cars. She was paying a ton of money in a monopoly situation to get her car out of hock and if she wanted to take it out on the POS taking the money, so be it. She should at least be able to do that without getting suspended from her job.

And why DID they edit that tape so heavily, I wonder...


55 posted on 04/16/2015 9:16:58 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Especially the ones with husky voices.


56 posted on 04/16/2015 9:49:19 PM PDT by stillfree? (Tagline? We don't need no stinking taglines!)
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To: fhayek
I do vote 'Not Guilty' though. But I do it with the proper proportion of shame.

Oh, you don't have to feel guilty.

Young Brittany probably has CTE from "entertaining" the various sports teams that she "reports" on.

They never tell the blondes to put padding on the headboard until it's too late...

57 posted on 04/16/2015 10:11:51 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: pke
Watch out she may have some dragons

Nah, she's not "a young girl, who knows little of these things".

Dany was Little People, once.

58 posted on 04/16/2015 10:13:47 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: 11th_VA; All

Looks like she’s really popular at Tina Brown’s “Parties”....


59 posted on 04/16/2015 10:43:14 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Dagnabitt
Steve Buscemi: "I've decided not to park here"

Parking lot attendant: "I'm sorry, but you still have to pay."

Buscemi:"Bet you think your some kind of authority figure, huh? Big man and all."


60 posted on 04/16/2015 11:57:17 PM PDT by boop (Hey, stoop, that's got gears. It ain't no Ford.)
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