Posted on 04/20/2015 9:27:01 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
There is plenty of blame to go around for both McHenry and Advanced Towing. People should not be demanding her firing unless and until the complete and unedited tape is released.
As everyone knows by now, ESPNs Britt McHenry gained a lot more fame than she ever had on the sidelines when she had a recent run-in with a woman clerk at a towing company. McHenry showed up to get her car that had been towed from the parking lot of a northern Virginia Chinese restaurant. She had left the vehicle in the parking lot all night.
A security tape released by the towing company shows a distraught McHenry unloading on the clerk, a single mother of three. The ESPN personality begins by bragging she is on television, and tells the clerk she has a degree while the clerk has no education. McHenry tells the clerk she has a brain while the clerk does not. McHenry later goes on to make fun of the clerks missing teeth and again says she is on television while the clerk is in a f*****g trailer. The video ends with McHenry telling the woman lose some weight, baby girl.
The tape has since gone viral and McHenry has been suspended for one week. Many people are calling for her to be fired from the sports network. A petition on change.org calling on ESPN to fire her has, at the time of this writing, received over 15,000 signatures.
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I admit that I emailed ESPN calling for her head. But the tape is VERY edited and who knows what was said to her that could drive any of us to say cruel things. I am rethinking my position and want to hear the full tape.
I, for one, forgive her.
Maybe she should be fired just for being another airhead jock sniffer. Of course, ESPN would be out of business....
Towing companies deserve all the grief they get.
I understand what you're saying, but a true test of character is how one operates under stress.
Sadly, Britt's true heart may have been exposed - and there is only one way of truly changing a heart.
You're now "rethinking what might have been said by that clerk" to warrant McHenry's bitchy, mean and hateful spew of "juvenile outrage" because she had to pay to get her auto back?
It sounds as though you are rethinking McHenry's juvenile outrage might have been caused by someone else. Hmmmm.
I really WANTED HER fired. She made fun of overweight people, people with bad teeth, people with mediocre job and people who didn’t go to college all in one fell swoop!!
But I would like to hear the full tape.
Why isn’t anyone posting an article about Tebow being singed :) that would be a great thread :)
If my car was towed, I wouldn’t want a tape running. It’s a money making venture for the parties involved.
There is a thread on Tebow. Most of us are very happy for him.
I hope that twit is fired. No excuse for that behavior. Just another privileged “better than everyone else” blonde bimbo.
Hear hear
I could give a running FBOMB what was said to those thieving bastards
All this self righteous concern trolling is nauseating
People here claiming they want her fired
What the hell is wrong with this forum sometimes
Towing companies can very quickly get into your pocket for 1000s in cities
They make bonding companies and pawn brokers appear generous
I despise them
And they strong arm
I got into with one....it wasn’t pretty
They will run up charges to try to keep cheap cars they take to auction
Sure McHenry is a snoot but save your pity on towing companies
Gutter trash...not nice folks....not impound lots anyhow
For all we know she was doing the walk of shame when she went back to the Chinese restaurant for her car.....
>>>Towing companies deserve all the grief they get<<<
What does that have to do with an Office Clerk who happens to work for a Towing Company being attacked for simply doing their Job?
Just for clarity, I had my Car Towed once when the Condo Association Parking Pass fell from its hanger on my Rear View Window.
I was upset because the Tow Truck Driver should have been able to see it resting on the Seat where it fell, but I didn’t verbally abuse the Clerk I paid at the Yard when I picked up my Car.
So, at least she did not drive drunk. It is a scam to tow from late night establishments. We preach about not driving and when they do they get towed?
Yeah you’re right. It was REALLY ugly what she said. Despite me being ultra conservative, I am not a snob and only two of my 15 friends graduated college. The ones that didn’t are great guys and are firemen cops etc.
I have eight issues so don’t like that comment.
The bad teeth thing is just horrible to say.
And not everyone is going to take over the world with their careers. The things she said are disgusting and elitist. but she’s a democrat lol
I missed the tebow thread!!!!::: I practically live on this board lol. How did that happen? I LOVE that atheists heads are exploding over his signing with the eagles. I actually singed the petition to get her fired and emailed twice and called once, I was so outraged.
I think she’s a classless idiot, but let the market decide.
Bottom line is reporters like her are a dime-a-dozen and easily replaceable, and they won’t carry the baggage that she does now.
May be unfair, but that’s how it is in the public eye.
Oh man, that must have been painful, hope he's ok.
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