[Pravious]

It doesn’t matter what Jerry Lewis is like personally. Nothing can erase the fact that he’s raised mountains of money for MDA since the beginning and that his name is synonymous with the telethon. For them to fire him has to be the dumbest corporate move since Coke decided the world needed “new” Coke back in the ‘70’s.

[tsowellfan]

It doesn’t matter what Jerry Lewis is like personally.

I agree

[al baby]

New Coke was not introduced in the 70’s It was 1985

[rbg81]

Nothing can erase the fact that he’s raised mountains of money for MDA since the beginning and that his name is synonymous with the telethon. For them to fire him has to be the dumbest corporate move since Coke decided the world needed “new” Coke back in the ‘70’s.

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I agree. Whatever their underlying reasons (which may have been valid), this was a public relations disaster for the MDA. I am inclined to think that they approached Jerry years ago about the possibility of retiring (gracefully) and he just blew them off. In the end, they may have felt they were between a rock and a hard place. Very sad.