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St. Louis DJ fired for using slur talking about Condie Rice
« on: March 24, 2006, 10:17:41 am »
some excitement in St. Louis yesterday!

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DJ fired for using slur talking about Rice

March 23, 2006

ST. LOUIS -- A St. Louis radio station quickly fired a talk show host for uttering a racial epithet as he talked about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his morning show Wednesday.

Dave Lenihan apologized on the air immediately after making what he said was a slip of the tongue. KTRS president and general manager Tim Dorsey agreed the remark was accidental but said it was nonetheless \'\'unacceptable, reprehensible and unforgivable.\'\'

Lenihan had been heaping praise on Rice, who has frequently said she aspires to run the NFL one day but has more recently ruled out seeking to replace retiring Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.

\'\'She\'s been chancellor of Stanford,\'\' Lenihan said on the air. \'\'She\'s got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She\'s African American, which would kind of be a big coon. A big coon. Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that.\'\'

He said he had meant to say \'\'coup\'\' instead of the racial slur.

AP


http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-dj23.html
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2006, 10:21:05 am »
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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2006, 10:35:12 am »
haha
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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2006, 10:42:03 am »
ouch.
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« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2006, 10:43:27 am »
i mean, i can see where they\'re coming from, but that seems like a fairly honest slip of the tongue, especially if his station manager thought so, too. add in that he was speaking positively about her and not derogatorily, and i\'m just not sure that that was a fire-worthy offense.
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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2006, 10:45:02 am »
yeah but the world we live in and what would people say if he wasn\'t fired?
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2006, 10:48:09 am »
thing is, if he wasn\'t fired, no one would even know about it..
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2006, 10:50:39 am »
I don\'t know about that.....
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2006, 10:53:03 am »
thats so dumb

its obvious from the transcript that the guy didn\'t mean to say it and it doesn\'t even fit in to the flow of what he was saying.

Geez who would have thought in this day and age you could be fired for a freudian slip.

Its not like he was saying no way this BLEEPITY BLEEP, BLEEP should be football commisioner
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2006, 10:55:07 am »
exactly dave. it would have been a 5 second gaff that would have been forgotten about by the next commercial break, instead it becomes this pc hubub. i\'m all for being sensitive to others\' feelings, but i think this is just too far. like my friend who got fired from the local nbc station in richmond for sending out a news release about the huge upcoming erection. sure, its not what they want out there (and sure, she should have proof-read better) but to fire someone for a simple mispelling/misspeaking? seems overboard to me...
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2006, 10:56:19 am »
don\'t get me wrong I don\'t think it\'s a big deal but I\'m sure there are som epeople who would
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2006, 11:01:55 am »
yeah, they may have gotten a couple calls, but nothing that his initial apologies shouldn\'t have taken care of in a sane world, though.

of course, i\'m assuming the world\'s sanity, so that\'s probably my first fault...
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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2006, 11:03:19 am »
"when coons get on the porch mam\'s just chases em off with a broom"
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« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2006, 11:07:32 am »
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"when coons get on the porch mam\'s just chases em off with a broom"

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« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2006, 11:08:45 am »
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of course, i\'m assuming the world\'s sanity, so that\'s probably my first fault...

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