1 posted on
03/22/2006 3:16:52 PM PST by
cardinal4
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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.
42 posted on
03/22/2006 4:21:57 PM PST by
Popman
("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
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To: cardinal4
"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!
To: cardinal4
Yea, and Cruz Bustamonte never utters the "n" word either.
50 posted on
03/22/2006 5:05:24 PM PST by
Diplomat
To: cardinal4
Pic of Lenihan..
53 posted on
03/22/2006 5:27:25 PM PST by
cardinal4
(David Gregory-the John Kerry of the Media Elite)
To: cardinal4
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.
54 posted on
03/22/2006 5:37:23 PM PST by
SkyPilot
To: cardinal4
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.
To: cardinal4
Geez, this is as silly as that flap over Rush and his comments about the news coverage of Donovan McNabb.
56 posted on
03/22/2006 5:53:52 PM PST by
Purrcival
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To: cardinal4
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."
To: cardinal4
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.
To: cardinal4
WOW ~ I don't listen to KTRS, but my kneejerk reaction is PC run-amok!
65 posted on
03/22/2006 8:06:17 PM PST by
StarCMC
(All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing...thank you Sarge.)
To: cardinal4
"Slipsey". Nope, don't count when a resonable explanation is provided. Only works when you are a demorat and from Virginia.
68 posted on
03/23/2006 1:07:21 AM PST by
taxesareforever
(Government is running amuck)
To: cardinal4
Should have used "honky" instead. That would have gotten him a raise.
69 posted on
03/23/2006 8:00:43 AM PST by
TBP
To: cardinal4
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.
70 posted on
03/23/2006 9:27:33 AM PST by
Valin
(Purple Fingers Rule!)
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71 posted on
03/23/2006 3:44:54 PM PST by
Christian4Bush
(FreeRepublic and Rush Limbaugh: kevlar protection from the Drive-By Media.)
To: cardinal4
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.
75 posted on
03/26/2006 4:47:35 PM PST by
Thumper1960
(The enemy within: Demoncrats and DSA.ORG Sedition is a Liberal "family value".)
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 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.
77 posted on
03/26/2006 6:37:15 PM PST by
DejaJude
(Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
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