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Mandy Bailey fired from KWSO 7News: Huge backlash after ‘hang in there’ word game prompts dismissal
Monsters and Critics ^
| February 12, 2019
| Julian Cheatle
Posted on 02/13/2019 8:40:41 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain
Meteorologist Mandy Bailey has been fired from Oklahomas KWSO 7News prompting a huge backlash from viewers.
Bailey was dismissed just hours after she played a mind mixer word game on air, asking viewers to guess the answer to a conundrum showing the word THERE with a hangmans noose hanging off the letter T.
The answer was hang in there, but the game prompted complaints from some viewers who branded it inappropriate and linked it to racism.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: mandybailey; oklahoma; politicalcorrectness; postedseveraltimes
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To: Ciaphas Cain
So, coat hangers will be banned soon, for containing the word “hang”. Then changing rooms... then it will be illegal to refer to coins as change.... children will be put in prison for playing Hangman... airplanes will be banned before the 10 year limit in the Green New Deal, because they cannot be placed in hangars anymore...
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posted on
02/13/2019 9:37:00 PM PST
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Or an unfortunate horse...
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posted on
02/13/2019 9:39:00 PM PST
by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Ciaphas Cain
There’s not even a “T” in the-word-which-none-may-say (unless you’re a scummy crap artist).
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posted on
02/13/2019 9:41:14 PM PST
by
budj
(combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Oklahoma is not immune to leftist insanity and threats.
To: FreedomPoster
How about playing the word game hang man? Geese we did that in school back in the day.
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posted on
02/13/2019 9:53:56 PM PST
by
redshawk
(0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
To: caseinpoint; Ciaphas Cain
OK thanks. I misunderstood. I am so used to it being the other way around in these crazy times.
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posted on
02/13/2019 9:54:51 PM PST
by
Revel
To: Ciaphas Cain
Whoever made the decision to fire her should be fired for lack of judgement and downright cowardice.
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posted on
02/13/2019 9:59:55 PM PST
by
chuckee
To: Ciaphas Cain
Err, I’m pretty sure they hanged a lot of white folk in Oklahoma over the years...
To: Ciaphas Cain
This makes sense, because only blacks were ever hanged in the past, not rustlers, horse thieves, killers, witches, half of England, anyone who made nazis mad, nazi war criminals, homos in Iran, pirates, mutineers, Revolutionary war spies, the Hitler assassination plotters, Lincoln’s assassins, renegade Indians who mass murdered Minnesota during the civil way.
Nope, only blacks were hanged./s
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:02:32 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: chuckee
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:03:15 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: DesertRhino
This makes sense, because only blacks were ever hanged in the past, not rustlers, horse thieves, killers, witches, half of England, anyone who made nazis mad, nazi war criminals, homos in Iran, pirates, mutineers, Revolutionary war spies, the Hitler assassination plotters, Lincolns assassins, renegade Indians who mass murdered Minnesota during the civil way.You left out Methodists.
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:04:06 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:05:16 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Ciaphas Cain
At least one advertiser has stopped doing business with the station because of this. Please clarify. Did they stop doing business with the station because of what she did, or because of their a$$ clown knee-jerk reaction?
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:06:14 PM PST
by
ssaftler
(Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life left in this country!)
To: Ciaphas Cain
She must have attacked Jussie Smollett in Chicago!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:06:57 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: ssaftler
It was because of their knee-jerk reaction. Probably to just ONE “triggered” snowflake.
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:07:58 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
To: dfwgator
and Dr. Gillespie....(whoever that was)
He was a real doozy.
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:09:02 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Ciaphas Cain
It was because of their knee-jerk reaction So I see from further reading. Sorry, long day. In any case, we would still like to know the advertiser so we can laud them and maybe throw business their way.
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:09:46 PM PST
by
ssaftler
(Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life left in this country!)
To: redshawk
Vincent Price was obviously racist!!!
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:15:07 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Why didn’t she have a burning cross for the ‘T’?
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posted on
02/13/2019 10:48:23 PM PST
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
I only lived in Lawton when I was assigned to Ft. Sill for Artillery Officer Basic Course back in the 70s so I’m not up to date on their advertiser mix on TV. However, if it’s anything like either OKC or Tulsa, it would only take a couple of car dealers or local furniture stores pulling their ads to really screw up the advertising cash flow. A well-organized Facebook page could bring some heat on those advertisers who continue to use KSWO despite this bone-headed firing over a couple of comments from the usual snowflakes.
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posted on
02/14/2019 1:14:29 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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