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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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To: TigerClaws

lol!


41 posted on 02/12/2019 12:24:06 PM PST by georgiegirl (Count me Deplorable)
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To: TigerClaws
Racist kitten...
42 posted on 02/12/2019 12:26:28 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: TigerClaws
This is it:


43 posted on 02/12/2019 12:28:32 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

44 posted on 02/12/2019 12:29:58 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

shouldn’t saying triggered, trigger you?

like the knights who say Ni...


45 posted on 02/12/2019 12:34:51 PM 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
Are you kidding me????

Lawton is home to Ft Sill, home of the artillery. As an old artilleryman, I strongly protest.

Geronimo is buried on Ft Sill; he's probably turning in his grave right now.
46 posted on 02/12/2019 12:56:32 PM PST by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: TigerClaws

Just ridiculous. Our society is now harmfully tainted with all this PC and triggering baloney. If people are that sensitive, buy a big bubble on Amazon and stay put in it!


47 posted on 02/12/2019 1:04:54 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: SpaceBar

If anyone has ever wondered what a maoist 60’s-like ‘great leap forward’, complete with ‘denouncements’, and public humiliations would look like right here, you now have your answer.

perfect description of today’s America


48 posted on 02/12/2019 1:20:29 PM PST by samtheman (How can there be so many brain damaged Americans?)
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To: stylin19a

Lawton is really dark.


49 posted on 02/12/2019 3:50:48 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: Sequoyah101

sad, but I get it, but I don’t. Thanx


50 posted on 02/12/2019 4:15:15 PM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: pfflier

“We are being conditioned to this. One person in 300 million is all it takes to get a person fired. Imagine the power of that weapon when unleashed next election.”

Hmmm, it would be nice to harness that kind of power.


51 posted on 02/12/2019 4:20:07 PM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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To: TigerClaws
I guess meteorologists ought to just stick to the weather and cut the chit-chat and other happy talk. Or somebody out there will be offended and cause them to lose their job.

I think we should pass a law outlawing all chit-chat and happy talk on the newscasts. Not just the weather but news and sports as well. Those sportscasters need to get SERIOUS - they are way too happy telling us all those scores.

Then I think we need to start going after radio DJs in a big way.

52 posted on 02/12/2019 4:23:32 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: stylin19a

Same here. Looks like a nice girl. Doubt she meant a single thing by it. There used to be a card game called hangman. Guess that was racist too. Oh well. IDGAF what anyone thinks.


53 posted on 02/12/2019 4:30:15 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE
It is a variation of what the dims tried to do to Justice Kavanaugh. Find one person with a vague allegation and it immediately gains credibility. Enough to end a career.

That used to lie solely with the power of the press but now social media is taking on the mantle of these decisions.

54 posted on 02/12/2019 5:08:00 PM PST by pfflier
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To: TigerClaws

Apparently KSWO management supplied the book from which they selected each day’s brain teaser. Can you say lawsuit?


55 posted on 02/13/2019 10:44:14 AM PST by Lacey
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Here are my thoughts on this subject. I'm from this TV market BTW.
56 posted on 02/14/2019 2:12:11 AM PST by E.G.C.
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