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ESPN suspends Tony Kornheiser for comments about SportsCenter anchor Hannah Storm's wardrobe
NY Daily News ^ | 2/23/10 | Mike Obenauer

Posted on 02/23/2010 10:01:52 PM PST by pissant

Pardon the interruption: Tony Kornheiser has been benched from "Pardon the Interruption."

ESPN has banned the print, radio and TV personality from its popular "PTI" show for biting on-air comments he made last week about SportsCenter host Hannah Storm's wardrobe.

Kornheiser, who has built a persona on caustic shots at a wide swath of sports figures, couldn't get away with turning his sights into ESPN's house – saying Storm dressed "like she has sausage casing wrapped around her body" and calling the 47-year-old anchor "a Holden Caulfield fantasy," referring to the protagonist in J.D. Salinger's book "The Catcher in the Rye."

Kornheiser opened his ESPN Radio show by briefly addressing the suspension, saying he "had made intemperate remarks, and stupid remarks, about Hannah Storm … and as a result of this I have been sent to the sidelines from PTI for a while." The suspension is expected to be for two weeks.

"I've said about a thousand times while doing radio in my life the following sentence: If you put a live microphone in front of somebody, eventually that person will say something wrong. This was one of the times I said something wrong," Kornheiser said. "It seems to me without any question that I broke the rules, and this is the punishment that's come."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/2010/02/23/2010-02-23_espn_supsends_kornheiser_for_storm_comments.html#ixzz0gQk7dMSN

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: espn; hannahstorm; kornheiser
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I think he was being too generous to Hannah's wardrobe.

But she is a tasty morsel.


1 posted on 02/23/2010 10:01:52 PM PST by pissant
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To: Perdogg; numberonepal

Sausage casing PING


2 posted on 02/23/2010 10:03:02 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

Don’t think they finished filling that casing.


3 posted on 02/23/2010 10:04:22 PM PST by digger48
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To: pissant

hahhaa hahahhaha hahahhahaha


4 posted on 02/23/2010 10:04:58 PM PST by dalebert
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To: pissant

She could definitely use a fashion consultant.

How old are those pictures?


5 posted on 02/23/2010 10:06:36 PM PST by smokingfrog (You can't ignore your boss and expect to keep your job... WWW.filipthishouse2010.com)
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To: smokingfrog

Mid-70’s, I would guess.


6 posted on 02/23/2010 10:10:15 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: pissant

I agree with Kornheiser; that outfit in the top pic is HORRIFYING.


7 posted on 02/23/2010 10:13:10 PM PST by no dems (If you think Obama is a better President than Sarah Palin would be, lay down the crack pipe.)
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To: smokingfrog
"How old are those pictures?"

The first one is just a day or two old. She's no spring chicken. She was at Notre Dame (as an undergrad) the same time I was there, 30 (ish) years ago.

8 posted on 02/23/2010 10:13:28 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: pissant

She’s gorgeous and she does her job well. The clothes don’t annoy me. She looks cute in them. Leave her alone.


9 posted on 02/23/2010 10:14:06 PM PST by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy

Like something out of the disco era.


10 posted on 02/23/2010 10:16:30 PM PST by smokingfrog (You can't ignore your boss and expect to keep your job... WWW.filipthishouse2010.com)
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To: pissant
a Holden Caulfield fantasy

The bastard!

11 posted on 02/23/2010 10:21:57 PM PST by fhayek
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To: pissant

That skirt is tacky.


12 posted on 02/23/2010 10:26:00 PM PST by Judges Gone Wild (Who is this uncircumcised, to oppose the armies of The Living God?)
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To: pissant
"This is sort of what I do, and I'm sorry for it. ... Not the first time and won't be the last time, but I apologize for it this time."

That's the first honest apology I've heard from a celebrity in a long, long time.
13 posted on 02/23/2010 10:32:59 PM PST by WackySam (To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
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To: pissant

Fashion comments? Men are getting too much estrogen in the water supply.


14 posted on 02/23/2010 10:42:42 PM PST by donna (SarahPAC has donated money to...(wait for it)...Lindsey Graham!)
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To: pissant

I remember Hannah as the weather girl for one of the Houston tv stations a loooong time ago. Her nickname was “Miss Cold Front”.


15 posted on 02/23/2010 10:48:27 PM PST by OrangeHoof ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Bend over suckahs".)
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To: Hoosier-Daddy
Mid-70’s, I would guess.

LOL, when I saw the top picture, I thought, 1973?

16 posted on 02/23/2010 11:09:18 PM PST by sockmonkey
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To: pissant

First photo: Imitation teeny-bopper hooker.
Second photo: Looks like a real woman.

However, the question is not whether Kornheiser broke protocol in criticizing her clothing. The question is was he telling the truth.


17 posted on 02/23/2010 11:27:47 PM PST by ToTheMax
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To: ToTheMax

Telling the truth will ALWAYS get you reprimanded or fired. That is what’s WRONG with America.


18 posted on 02/23/2010 11:32:49 PM PST by historyrepeatz
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To: sockmonkey
LOL, when I saw the top picture, I thought, 1973?

Kind of like the "throwback" days in sports where they wear 30-year-old uniforms.

19 posted on 02/24/2010 2:36:39 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is fading.)
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To: pissant

She looks good to me. Maybe Kornheiser is just feeling catty, PMS perhaps?


20 posted on 02/24/2010 2:39:13 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
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