Posted on 02/24/2017 5:17:44 AM PST by GonzoII
He’s not the only one. Mike Lupica in New York writs as much about politics as he does about sports. The problem is that while he may know a lot about sports, he knows little about anything else. So he adopts a very high-minded writing style intended to “impress” those readers smarter than he is, using a lot of big words I doubt he understands with a style like he is balancing a plate on his head and the column ends up as a pompous rendition written by one out of his league, stilted, condescending, like a child decided he was a surgeon and dressed in white holding a toy doctor’s bag but can’t tell you a thing about medicine.
I don’t think the bashing of Trump was the reason he was suspended. It was calling America “a country full of simpletons” that was the issue.
In any business that is interested in the bottom line, when you deliberately insult half or more of your customer base, you can expect to be fired.
I’m hoping he is not returned to the air. But then Brian Williams is somehow not working in a manure factory but is still somehow getting paid a lot of money for shoveling bull$#!+ every day.
Suspended? He should be fired for insulting 62,000.000 Americans as “simpletons.”
From Wikipedia:
Giangreco has two brothers: Thomas Giangreco, a medical device consultant in Buffalo, New York, and Pete Giangreco, a Democratic Party political consultant who has worked on seven presidential campaigns, including the 2008 presidential campaign for then-Senator Barack Obama.
No I sure wasn't wearing a custom made suit. I was wearing blue jeans and a nice polo. I was at the ATM in the Leo Burnett building (where I worked for the iconic ad agency at the time, just across Lake Street from Channel 7..) and Giancrecco was right behind me. I finished my transaction, turned around, saw him and said "you're Mark Giangrecco!" and he replied he was, he was in a rush and didn't have time for an autograph.
I laughed hard right in his face as I didn't ask him for an autograph. Nor would I. Didn't like him then, don't like him now.
I'd also ran into Kathy Brock, Cheryl Burton, Ron Magers and a few others who all couldn't have been nicer. I met Kathy Brock again a few years ago at an MS Gala that the band I'm in played at. She sang with the band and took pictures with everyone. What a class act she is. (She's also very tall!)
There are a lot of simpletons in the US. Usually, they are referred to as "Democrats" or "RINOs".
There is no right of free speech with your employer (unless you work for the government).
“Giangreco is the brother of Pete Giangreco, a leading Chicago-based Democratic political consultant whose clients have included Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel and Tammy Duckworth.”
He was bashing Trump supporters, many of whom listen to him. Who’s the “simpleton?”
He’s no doubt angling for a job at failing ESPN. I see a mouse in his future - maybe working for Disney or maybe working for Chuck-E-Cheese.
Another twit done in by unrestrained tweeting.
Well maybe but doesn’t Disney own the Chicago ABC outlet as well.
He may have been suspended because he called his viewership a bunch of simpletons.
But I’ll take as good news anyway :)
You are right. ABC-7 WLS is an ABC “o&o” (owned and operated) so the parent company is Disney. So maybe his future is with rats rather than mice.
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