St. Louis DJ fired for using slur talking about Condie Rice

[davepeck]

KTRS listeners soon began calling the station to complain. Twenty minutes after the utterance, Dorsey went on the air to apologize to Rice and KTRS listeners.

"There can be no excuse for what was said," Dorsey said. "Dave Lenihan has been let go. ... There is enough hate. We certainly are not going to fan those flames."

NAACP chapter president Harold Crumpton commended Dorsey for his swift action.

Reached at home, Lenihan said he was still trying to figure out what happened and was drafting a letter of apology to Rice. He said he never uses the slur he uttered and thinks Rice is "a fantastic woman."

Lenihan, formerly a drive-time host at WGNU radio in St. Louis, had been at KTRS for less than two weeks.

"It was my dream job," he said. "Ratings were going well. It kind of stinks."

yes, stop the hate. even when it\'s not hate. :sigh:

[derickw]

stop the bitch and complaining

[kindm's]

Now that I think about it I think he really got what he deserved.

He thinks Condi Rice is a swell gal. Thats reason enough to fire his ass regardless of what he said

[jking]

good point! :lol:

[Jim Cobb]

for all we know, they could\'ve been trying to fire him for ages and so now they finally had some technicality that they could use.

[derickw]

KTRS listeners soon began calling the station to complain. Twenty minutes after the utterance, Dorsey went on the air to apologize to Rice and KTRS listeners.

"There can be no excuse for what was said," Dorsey said. "Dave Lenihan has been let go. ... There is enough hate. We certainly are not going to fan those flames."

NAACP chapter president Harold Crumpton commended Dorsey for his swift action.

Reached at home, Lenihan said he was still trying to figure out what happened and was drafting a letter of apology to Rice. He said he never uses the slur he uttered and thinks Rice is "a fantastic woman."

Lenihan, formerly a drive-time host at WGNU radio in St. Louis, had been at KTRS for less than two weeks.

"It was my dream job," he said. "Ratings were going well. It kind of stinks."

yes, stop the hate. even when it\'s not hate. :sigh:

[Me!]

I thinkit all boils down to CYA...........


Cover yo ASS....

[RadicalRich1138]

no gump fans! COME ON!

[Rujah]

yeah, i heard this on howard stern yesterday. didnt really sound like **** or anything. the guy didnt seemed pissed at all really. he said he plans on running for congress or some shit and now this will likely hurt his chances.

[Jim Cobb]

didnt really sound like **** or anything.

:wah:

[Dyed_Tie]

didnt really sound like **** or anything.

:ass: :sigh:

[antbach]

its these \'little mistakes\' that keep people like the Bachinski\'s out of the radio/public speaking business.

[jocelyn]

Ok, first of all, Rujah. what does the word **** have to do with this at all. Actually, nevermind.

This is really dumb; I\'m so tired of this pink panty-wearing overly sensitive politically correct world we are living in. The man made a mistake, doesn\'t seem like a hateful guy, and seemed truely sorry about what was said. He seemed shocked and embarrassed that it happened. Firing him was clearly over the top. Chris is right, the station was trying to cover its arse. Stupid stupid.

[Jim Cobb]

:that:

joc, you are my fav

[FrankZappa]

Lenihan, formerly a drive-time host at WGNU radio in St. Louis, had been at KTRS for less than two weeks.

for all we know, they could\'ve been trying to fire him for ages and so now they finally had some technicality that they could use.

probably not the case

This is really dumb; I\'m so tired of this pink panty-wearing overly sensitive politically correct world we are living in. The man made a mistake, doesn\'t seem like a hateful guy, and seemed truely sorry about what was said. He seemed shocked and embarrassed that it happened. Firing him was clearly over the top. Chris is right, the station was trying to cover its arse. Stupid stupid.

Textbook Jocelyn responce. Your the best.

IMO, he made a mistake and should have been repremanded. Was this too extreme a repremand? yes. Would society allow anything less? no. Face it, the station is out to protect it\'s own ass and in order to do that, they want the safest and quietest results to get rid of this so that they can go back to their normal programming. A bunch of us complaining about how they were too extreme is better for the bottom dollar than Jessey Jackson going on CNN to promote a protest march against the station for the next few months. Within a month, 99% of the population will have forgotten about this, ratings will return and the stations bottom dollar will balance back out. That\'s all they care about. I think it\'s pretty obvious that the guy didn\'t mean to use the word, it was just a slip of the tounge. Someone will understand that and give him another chance in the future.