Posted on 02/28/2007 12:23:03 PM PST by raccoonradio
Radio commentator Cedric Maxwell will apologize for saying a female referee should go back to the kitchen, over the air during a Boston Celtics game Monday night on WEEI-AM, a station official said yesterday.
Over the airwaves, the former Celtics forward ordered female referee Violet Palmer to vamoose after she made a controversial call.
Go back to the kitchen, Maxwell said.
That remark resulted in a moment of strained silence before Maxwell re-launched, saying Go in there and make me some bacon and eggs, would you?
Maxwell is an analyst on Entercom Communications Celtics broadcast team.
Cedrics comments about Violet Palmer were a poor attempt at humor, and we dont condone what he said, Jason Wolfe, Entercoms vice president of AM programming and operations in Boston, said in a statement. Cedric will apologize on air during tomorrow nights Celtics broadcast.
Entercom owns both WEEI-AM (850) and WRKO-AM (650). Typically, Celtics games are broadcast on WRKO, but Monday nights game was on WEEI, as tonights will be.
Maxwells remarks sparked outrage on Boston blog aggregator UniversalHub.com yesterday. Maybe I live on a different planet than most of the listenership of the Celtics these days, but I found these comments to be inexcusably sexist, a person going by the name Dave Adams said on the blog.
That post aroused some comments supporting Maxwell and saying he was only making a joke.
Sources said yesterday Maxwell wont face any disciplinary action besides making the public apology. Last November Entercom officials fired WRKO talk show host John DePetro after he called Green Party gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a fat lesbian on-air.
Who is DePetro? You just can't cross the line of even givning the appearance of slighting the protected class known as homos.
Really? But Wolfie wants Maxwell to apologize...
Yeah, why isn't he going with the Mel Gibson defense?
The Whiner line tonight should be interesting (WEEI just before 6)_
Jason Wolfe is an idiot and a bleepity bleep for what he did to Scotto. The Big Show is talking about it now.
The NBA has female refs?
hmm, will have to go back & forth between Howie & EEI.
Howie mentioned the former ACLU director who got busted
for child porn.
Boston Radio Watch:
Somewhere Johnny Most is doing a play-by-play of a Celtics game, smoking a cigarette and calling NBA referees all sorts of politically-incorrect names. Cedric Maxwell is no Johnny Most. Not yet at least. And that's no quack on Max's quack-o-meter.
The long and embarassing 2006/07 Celtics season is getting longer and more embarassing on the court and on the air. According to a poster/reader on the Universal Hub blog, Cedric Maxwell, the team's 12-year radio analyst and a former Celtics star forward, made an inappropriate comment about NBA female referee Violet Palmer after she called a foul on the Green Team during radio broadcast this past Monday night(2/26) :
"During the first quarter of tonight's radio broadcast of the Celtics game against the Houston Rockets,one of the Celtics players managed to fake out the referee to get a call to go his way. The referee who made this call was Violet Palmer, who happens to be a woman. Cedric Maxwell, the analyst / sidekick on the Celtics broadcast team, proclaimed "Get back in the kitchen!" when she made the call. Max's partner, Sean Grande, tried to throw him a lifeline by pointing out that they had both been previously impressed by Palmer's officiating, but Max continued "Get back in the kitchen and fix me some bacon and eggs!" "
According to the Boston Herald, Maxwell's comments didn't sit well with WEEI/WRKO's programming chief Jason Wolfe who indicated that the C's legend will apologize on the air during the Celtics-New York Knicks broadcast on Wednesday night. Maxwell will not be fined or suspended by Entercom. Since, technically, he's a Boston Celtics employee, the team has not made any comment on his on-air remarks.
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