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Radio Host Fired for Using Racial Epithet
ajc.com ^ | 03/22/06 | CHERYL WITTENAUER

Posted on 03/22/2006 8:09:00 PM PST by rawhide

ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis radio station quickly fired a talk show host for uttering a racial epithet as he talked about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his morning show Wednesday.

Dave Lenihan apologized on the air immediately after making what he said was a slip of the tongue. KTRS president and general manager Tim Dorsey agreed the remark was accidental but said it was nonetheless "unacceptable, reprehensible and unforgivable."

Lenihan had been heaping praise on Rice, who has frequently said she aspires to run the NFL one day but has more recently ruled out seeking to replace retiring Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.

"She's been chancellor of Stanford," Lenihan said on the air. "She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. 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."

He said he had meant to say "coup" instead of the racial slur.

KTRS listeners soon began calling the station to complain. Twenty minutes after the utterance, Dorsey went on the air to apologize to Rice and KTRS listeners.

"There can be no excuse for what was said," Dorsey said. "Dave Lenihan has been let go. ... There is enough hate. We certainly are not going to fan those flames."

(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: duplicatethread; epithet; lenihan; radiohost; rice; secretaryofstate; slur; talkradio; threadnumberfour
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1 posted on 03/22/2006 8:09:04 PM PST by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Good. Best way to save your FCC license.


2 posted on 03/22/2006 8:14:29 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: rawhide

I'm sure she's been called worse.


3 posted on 03/22/2006 8:14:53 PM PST by proudpapa (of three.)
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To: rawhide
But I guess it's OK for every lib cartoonist to draw her like some Aunt Jemimah look alike, with the big lips and the big teeth.

Racist bastards.

4 posted on 03/22/2006 8:15:09 PM PST by lawnguy (Give me some of your tots!!!)
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To: rawhide

Isnt it time to take the gloves off, liberals are going to
get us all killed, they have no spine to stand up to real enemies they perfer to create dis harmony in our country
and embolden the terrorists(muslims anywhere). Liberals are the enemy and should be stripped of their citizenship and flown to Iraq to face torture and dismemberment!


5 posted on 03/22/2006 8:15:32 PM PST by claptrap (optional tag-line under reconsideration)
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To: proudpapa
I'm sure she's been called worse.

 

Probably in the NY Times offices.

6 posted on 03/22/2006 8:16:27 PM PST by Fintan (Hey, you can't make this stuff up.)
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To: rawhide
I suppose that he could have said, "WOP"!

Having an Eyetalian Grandma meant that I had to suffer the slings and arrows of the ubiquitious "wooden spoon" that all Grams carry.

She taught us kids that there was no more serious a sin than to "name call"! Unfortunately, too many of us don't learn this lesson.

7 posted on 03/22/2006 8:16:54 PM PST by Young Werther
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To: proudpapa

I believe he meant to say coup because of the way it reads......and because a black chik running the NFL would certainly be a coup, after all the whining about black coaches, managers, q-backs etc etc etc.


8 posted on 03/22/2006 8:18:24 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

Just heard his interview on KFI 640, just a slip of the word coup..


9 posted on 03/22/2006 8:20:21 PM PST by herewego (Got .45?)
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To: rawhide

If he made a mistake and meant to say "coup", it might have been a legitimate mistake. "Coup", and "coon" are similar enough.


10 posted on 03/22/2006 8:21:44 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: rawhide

how many articles have been written about this? more people have heard the "racial" comments from the MSM than actually heard it live on the radio.


11 posted on 03/22/2006 8:22:51 PM PST by Echo Talon
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To: cardinal4

ping


12 posted on 03/22/2006 8:24:54 PM PST by StarCMC (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing...thank you Sarge.)
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To: rawhide

You can read the story and listen to the actual audio at..

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/AD472B79A45C0CEB86257139006ED837?OpenDocument


I seriously doubt the radio host intended the word to come out. A major screw-up on his part, but it was just a dumb mistake. Don't these radio guys have a delay to bleep this out?

I think the station went too far, but I also recognize how terrible the backlash from potentially the whole country could have been.

-- Joe


13 posted on 03/22/2006 8:27:41 PM PST by Joe Republc
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To: Zack Nguyen

The gravity of a black woman running the NFL would be a coup, period! "coon" just doesn't fit as the last word of the (1 or 2) sentence(s).

They'll lynch him anyway, because they can.


14 posted on 03/22/2006 8:27:59 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: StarCMC

Don't make a mistake or you will be financially crushed. Well, the libs started it, so let them reap what they've sown. Funny that it usually a lib who gets brought down on this sort of thing. Love to see them eat their young!


15 posted on 03/22/2006 8:28:20 PM PST by chit*chat
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To: rawhide

What a disgusting society it is that breeds such brittle, craven lemmings as those that fired this guy. There is no room for grace in PC totalitarianism.


16 posted on 03/22/2006 8:31:10 PM PST by TEEHEE
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To: rawhide

I'd like to see Rice comment on this.


17 posted on 03/22/2006 8:33:41 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
I believe he meant to say coup because of the way it reads......and because a black chik running the NFL would certainly be a coup,

Unless this DJ has a history of such comments, who other than Moonbat Comlibs could come to such a conclusion?

18 posted on 03/22/2006 8:34:34 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (If you don't like Jesus, you can go to hell.)
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To: rawhide

I believe the guy made a genuine mistake, apologized for the slip of the tongue ON the air, before he was fired.

This is another argument for the use of the 7 second delay and a competent producer in the control room that might have saved this guy's ass, and his job.

On the other hand, if the comment had been made on Air Amerika, it would have been hailed as "speaking truth to power".


19 posted on 03/22/2006 8:38:04 PM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: sageb1

The talk show DJ is a well-spoken, flat out nice guy. He was just back from Europe, and intending to run for political office.

I'd like to see Rice HIRE HIM.

Can you imagine? They'd both be heroes.


20 posted on 03/22/2006 8:40:01 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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