"Ten years of college - down the drain!"
Posted on 06/11/2004 7:42:48 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A college disc jockey who put on a radio show celebrating Ronald Reagan's death was fired Friday from his position as the station's business manager. Scott Hornyak, a 28-year-old undergraduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, had been suspended indefinitely from his disc jockey job at KSUA-FM after the Sunday show. "They're firing me because of what I said, and the public's reaction to what I said," said Hornyak, who goes by the call name "Spider Bui."
H.B. Telling, the station's general manager, said he could not comment on whether Hornyak lost his job because of the broadcast. The university has a policy against discussing personnel issues. No tape of the show was available. But according to Hornyak, he berated Reagan, who died June 5, for his foreign policy in Latin America, Iraq and Afghanistan, and for his response to the AIDS epidemic. Hornyak said the show was "a celebration that Ronald Reagan was dead, was finally dead," and that he told listeners he wanted to "walk over the newly laid dirt" on Reagan's grave.
Telling said the station received numerous complaints about the show. Telling said Hornyak was suspended as a disc jockey solely because of his failure to obey the station's rules, not because of the inflammatory content of the show. He said Hornyak did not fill out a log of the songs he played on air and did not play the station's standard disclaimers announcing that his views did not represent those of the station or the university. Hornyak said he did not fill out the logs due to absent-mindedness and that he did not play the disclaimer because he was busy taking song requests. Hornyak said he was not sure whether he will contest his firing.
You would do well to keep your mouth shut and go to your next job. At least you had a chance through the national media to state your views and rebuttals. Some of us NEVER got that much of a chance. If it were up to me...oh well, forget it.
I hear Air America is hiring. Briefly.
What an evil SOB this guy is. Is he infected with AIDS and wants to blame someone?
I had a friend who was a military "brat" up their. I doubt this sat well with them.
That is usually the way it is "Thing I squish" baby.
Sounds like the reason to me too.
He probably is.
It's obvious this guy just couldn't control his hate.
He is probably a professional student.
I could control his hate. My wife won't let me. His last name has to be made up. Sounds like a homosexual to me...
". . .go to your next job."
Hmmm. . .he is a 28-year-old undergraduate student. . .I'm thinking he doesn't have many prospects in that regard.
That pretty much explains it all.
So9
ok i tried to post a website where some dingle had the same attitude, he was going to hold a Reagan is dead party. now he has posted on his website that the facists have threatened him with death so he called it off. just google eric blumrich. i figure if i post his site i will be banned again
What is with this crap "Reagans response to the AIDS epidemic"??? That`s all I`ve been hearing from these Pinko mutts all week. Excuse me boneheads, but it`s been over 20 years and there still is no cure! So to me what they are suggesting, is that Reagan should have quarantined all AIDS patients or potential AIDS patients, which back then was mainly gays and drug addicts. Are they kidding me? And what would have happened if he did? All hell would have broken loose with these very same lefties screaming "tyranny, homophobia, unlawful imprisonment bla bla bla" What a bunch of ungrateful freggin` mutts. And how much money was spent on AIDS during Reagan? Something like 6 BILLION bucks?
And don't forget to hand the fries to the customer before they cool off.
"Ten years of college - down the drain!"
"They're firing me because of what I said, and the public's reaction to what I said,"
Sounds like a valid reason to me --- but then, I'm not a communist stooge.
Well, I was generally considered to be a "perpetual student," but by age 28 I had a professorship and earned a full $10,000/year only teaching 5 courses per semester (but no research.)
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