Here is a gay race (guy in yellow was the winner):
Posted on 07/18/2006 6:54:47 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
DePetro pulled off air for slur, #2-2692 By Jessica Heslam Boston Herald Media Reporter
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - Updated: 08:13 PM EST
Shock jock wannabe John DePetro has been yanked off the air for two days and ordered to apologize for calling embattled Big Dig chief Matt Amorello a “fag” yesterday on his morning radio show.
“This corporation has zero tolerance for racial intolerance. Mr. DePetro has 72 hours to think about it,” said Jason Wolfe, vice president of programming at WRKO (680) and WEEI-AM (850).
DePetro referred to Amorello - who is married to a woman - as “Fag Matt.”
“And I don’t mean gay fag, I just mean the way when you’re a sophomore, juvenile, in grammar school and somebody would say you’re like a sissy boy fag,” DePetro said on-air. “I don’t mean gay fag. I mean like sissy boy. He’s a little sissy boy. Wife wears the pants.”
Amorello, who has faced calls for his resignation since last week’s deadly Big Dig tunnel collapse, declined to comment on DePetro’s remarks.
But the radio host’s comments incensed gay advocates. “It’s extremely offensive. It’s childish. It’s incendiary,” said Emily Pitt, ofFenway Community Health.
“As far as I know, Matt Amorello is not a gay man, but even if he were, it’s just ridiculous,” said Pitt, who didn’t hear DePetro’s show but received e-mails about it.
“It’s pathetic,” added Massachusetts Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios (D-Cambridge), who is openly gay.
Wolfe was program director at WEEI in 2003 when co-hosts John Dennis and Gerry Callahan were suspended for two weeks for comparing an escaped gorilla to an inner-city Metco student.
DePetro, who is suspended and off the air today and tomorrow, did not return a call. It’s unclear whether he will be docked two days’ pay.
A spokeswoman for the Federal Communications Commission said yesterday they can’t comment on whether a complaint was filed.
Last month, Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen was fined and ordered to attend sensitivity training for calling Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti a “fag.” Guillen later apologized.
During January, February and March, DePetro’s 9 a.m. to noon show was tied for 18th place with Worcester’s WXLO-FM among the coveted group of 25 to 54-year-old adults, according to winter ratings, the latest figures available.
Second, Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios is the Harvard and Georgetown educated genius who has been spending his valuable time recently trying to get Fluff (fluffenutter), a product made for decades by a local company, banned from schools and making needles freely available while we are in the middle of a massive heroin epidemic killing people in Boston like flies... Oh, and yes, he chairs the homeland security committee in a place where evidently a firecracker could cause the whole big did to collapse.
“This corporation has zero tolerance for racial intolerance. Mr. DePetro has 72 hours to think about it,” said Jason Wolfe
since when does the word "fag" refer to somebody's race?
Since when is homosexuality considered a 'race'?
should have called him a girlie boy.
Big deal. This is the VERY LEAST he can be called. In this town you need to be able to take it.
Sen Barrios and the other Sodomites are offennnnnnnded, and we are supposed to lose any sleep?
"Shock jock wannabe" ???? Please. I like Depetro, sometimes it's a little much when he does entertainment topics like American Idol and similar rubbish, but all in all he's good. I like how he uses a phrase that 90% of the public uses in everyday speech and the left assumes he's doing it to be a "shock jock" and to get ratings.
What's next for Johnny D? Sensitivity training?
Fag? He called him a cigarette?
Here is a gay race (guy in yellow was the winner):
"Fag? He called him a cigarette?"
yeah, he asked Fat Matt if he could "bum a fag"
Repeat after me: I'm sorry that Matt Amorello is a fag.
There! It's done. Easy peasy.
Fag!
"Here at WRKO, we don't tolerate intolerance!"
***calling embattled Big Dig chief Matt Amorello a “fag” yesterday on his morning radio show. “This corporation has zero tolerance for racial intolerance.****
Fags have their own race now?
I guess they are now. What's next? Reparations?
LOL! Dat's it!
Well, with the Swimmer and Jean-Francois "I served in Vietnam and have a plan" Heinz heading up a commission to investigate the Big Dig, I can only say: Pass the Popcorn!
Fags have their own race now?
more like sub-species
So, if I get this right......there is a "race" of HOMOs in this world?
I suppose that I missed something in biology, but I sure as hell can't think of what that might have been.
Would somebody, anybody care to bring me up to speed on this?
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