[Popman]

Yes, the guy slipped up and he should have been fired on the spot. This is not a response to PC run amok. It's a response to inconpetemce.

I would have done the exact same thing as manager and have in the past with similar situations.

Obviously, with someone as important as the SOS on the air, you don't make mistakes that that.

[EveningStar]

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[Michael Goldsberry]

"Coon" down here means "Coon Ass", which means someone from Louisiana.

My sister's husband calls himself a Coon Ass with pride, as he should.

Shuck them crawdads, baby!

[Diplomat]

Yea, and Cruz Bustamonte never utters the "n" word either.

[cardinal4]

Pic of Lenihan..

[SkyPilot]

His comment is really much ado about nothing. The fact that he immediately apologized is telling. Moreover, you can tell by the transcript that he meant to say "coup."

There is a morning FM radio station in Philadelphia that, by contrast, is so racist and hateful it makes this incident look laughable.

The station spews the most hateful things you have ever heard, and they get away with it every single day.

It is "White a$$es" this, and ""White crackers" that every day. But, no one calls them on it.

[SouthernFreebird]

The fact that he had that in mind while talking about her is disturbing. I think that word associated with black people is worse than n!gger.

[Purrcival]

Geez, this is as silly as that flap over Rush and his comments about the news coverage of Donovan McNabb.

[Quicksilver]

I can't help but think of the character Johnny Fever:

Before his gig at WKRP, Johnny worked in Los Angeles, but he got fired for using a dirty word on the air. As Johnny recalled "I used the word 'booger' on the air. I was making about a hundred grand a year down there. Then one day I said "booger," a bunch of bozos called the station, and the next thing I know I'm in Amarillo hosting a garden show."

[RedBloodedAmerican]

It may have been a "slip" or "accident" but you don't call black people "coons". Southern racist term. I heard it all the time growing up down here. Not good. Calling the guy who got fired a stupid honky for doing it is less offensive ;)

The term coon is IMO worse than the "N" word, as I have heard Caucasians referred to with the N word, and "coon" is strictly used on Negroes. Not good at all.

[StarCMC]

WOW ~ I don't listen to KTRS, but my kneejerk reaction is PC run-amok!

[taxesareforever]

"Slipsey". Nope, don't count when a resonable explanation is provided. Only works when you are a demorat and from Virginia.

[TBP]

Should have used "honky" instead. That would have gotten him a raise.

[Valin]

Dave Lenihan was dismissed after what he called an inadvertent slip of the tongue. Within 20 minutes, station CEO Tim Dorsey apologized on the air to listeners and announced that Lenihan, who had been with the station for less than two weeks, had been let go.

Air America is looking for people.

[Christian4Bush]

If anyone is interested, Larry Elder is talking with the host (Dave) on his show now.

It's KABC 790 in Los Angeles, http://www.kabc.com, or http://www.larryelder.com

[Thumper1960]

I wonder if that station has Burger King ads boasting BK's "Big Bucking Chicken" sandwich.

Wasn't there an incident when a reporter/propagandist "mis-spoke" Niger Innis' name as the "N" word?

Nothing like sitting back with a beer and some popcorn and watching it all go by.

[DejaJude]

“She’s just got a patent resume, of somebody that’s got such serious skill,” Linehan said on the air. “She loves football, she’s 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 didn’t mean that. That was just a slip of the tongue.” Lenihan later said he meant to use the word "coup."

I would have to hear the actual clip. Was this done in a sarcastic tone? Many have had true slips of the tongue, and many have manufactured the same as a way of getting their true point across.