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Talk show host fired after on-air racial slur
Saint Louis Post-Dispatch ^
| 03/22/2006
| Jake Wagman
Posted on 03/22/2006 3:16:47 PM PST by cardinal4
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:16:52 PM PST
by
cardinal4
To: cardinal4
The other thread was pulled due to no link..
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:17:57 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(David Gregory-the John Kerry of the Media Elite)
To: cardinal4
Not that big of a deal. People are overreacting as if he meant to say it. Within the context...it's nothing. How stupid.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:18:16 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Driving home this afternoon, KMOX had a blurb about it, but said nothing of the host's side. It does seem to be an accident, but in todays PC world..
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:19:54 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(David Gregory-the John Kerry of the Media Elite)
To: cardinal4
That is really nothing compared to what the Liberals say about her...
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:21:28 PM PST
by
tomnbeverly
(Liberal Lips Sink Ships....)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Don't you know white men are to be shot (or at least fired) if anyone else wants to feel offended?The converse of course is not true.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:22:31 PM PST
by
hoosierham
(Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
To: cardinal4
If he caught it and appoligied profusely immediately and didn't intend to use the word in the first place, I think the station over-reacted.
This guy doesn't sound like the type that would use the word on purpose, or he wouldn't have reacted as he did.
I don't know the guy. Perhaps this plays into other things he's done. I just don't know. If this is it, and he's an otherwise good host, I'd let him come back and chalk it up to an inadvertent error and a misunderstanding.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:22:47 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(If you don't want to be lumped in with those who commit violence in your name, take steps to end it.)
To: cardinal4
Is that the thinking behind this photo which appeared in USA Today??
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:23:00 PM PST
by
msnimje
(SAMMY for SANDY --- THAT IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD TRADE!!!)
To: tomnbeverly
Im surprised they even acknowledged it. As you say, MSM has been very histile to her. Just like Steele, Blackwell, and Colin Powell..
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:23:11 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(David Gregory-the John Kerry of the Media Elite)
To: cardinal4
This is just plain PC run amuck. It was a slip of the lip. BFD.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:23:39 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(Well, Kerry did win the exit polls.)
To: cardinal4
[Shes just got a patent resume, of somebody thats got such serious skill, Linehan said on the air. She loves football, shes African-American, which would kind of be a big coon, a big coon oh my God, I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that, OK? I didnt mean that. That was just a slip of the tongue. Lenihan later said he meant to use the word "coup."]
I don't know anything about this DJ, but from the context of this quote it appears that this was just an accident.
Still, in the radio business, as a professional such errors are unacceptable.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:24:00 PM PST
by
spinestein
(The network news is to journalism what McDonald's is to food.)
To: cardinal4
Firing him was stupid. He caught himself and profusely apologized right on the spot.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:25:11 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: spinestein
Still, in the radio business, as a professional such errors are unacceptable.Yeah, just ask Doug Tracht, aka "The Greaseman..!"
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:25:41 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(David Gregory-the John Kerry of the Media Elite)
To: BigSkyFreeper
The station wrested the Cardinals contract from KMOX who had it for years. Im sure that had something to do with it..
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:26:47 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(David Gregory-the John Kerry of the Media Elite)
To: cardinal4
PCism run amok... As an aside, when is anyone worried about a (potential) racial slur directed at a republican?
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:27:50 PM PST
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
To: cardinal4
Yeah. I keep hoping that one day Wolf Blitzer will have to talk about "Niger" or "Nigeria"...
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:29:30 PM PST
by
Philistone
(Turning lead into gold...)
To: cardinal4
Lenihans comment was made during a discussion about Rices credentials to become commissioner of the National Football League... She has the credentials to be elected POTUS, IMHO.
To: michigander
It wouldn't surprise me if Condi wrote a letter in support of this talker. Like others in this thread have said, it looks like a definite slip of the tongue. He immediately realized his mistake and apologized.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:32:06 PM PST
by
Kieri
(Dump "Dangerously Incompetent" Debbie, Support Keith Butler for Senate)
To: spinestein
There's a distinct difference between it being an error and "business as usual". The host of "Sly In The Morning" on 1670 AM WTDY in Madison, WI caused some furor over racist comments he made about Rice a couple years ago, and it was not an accident. Of course, he tries to fool his audience into thinking he's an independent, but he's not. He's a flaming liberal. So is his goofball stand-in.
I don't believe he's apologized for it either. He spent the entire time it was in the national spotlight weaseling his way around the whole issue by blaming everyone else but himself. Typical of all liberals.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:33:37 PM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
To: cardinal4
And what of the comments by the newspaper left-wing cartoonist and their other racist friends? Were they fired for racial slurs or were they just patted on the back and told to continue to degrade anyone who is black and a Republican.
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posted on
03/22/2006 3:37:04 PM PST
by
YOUGOTIT
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