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General Discussions => Spunk => Topic started by: davepeck on March 24, 2006, 10:17:41 am
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get a room!
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that banana can really busta move.
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can somone say new signature? (https://thebreakfast.info/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetradersden.org%2Fforums%2Fimages%2Fsmilies%2Fbanana2.gif&hash=850ad946d201548ed44bdb708b16b59850f0ba13)
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Paul Ryan, with regard to pretty much everything other than spelling and apparently grammar..........> brilliant. :)
BOOM SHAKA LAKA!!!
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Paul Ryan, with regard to pretty much everything other than spelling and apparently grammar..........> brilliant. :)
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:that: Paul Ryan on this thread.............................BRILLIANT
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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.
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joc, you are my fav
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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.
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its these \'little mistakes\' that keep people like the Bachinski\'s out of the radio/public speaking business.
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didnt really sound like **** or anything.
:ass: :sigh:
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didnt really sound like **** or anything.
:wah:
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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 **** and now this will likely hurt his chances.
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no gump fans! COME ON!
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I thinkit all boils down to CYA...........
Cover yo ASS....
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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:
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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.
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good point! :lol:
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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 ;)
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stop the **** and complaining
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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:
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of course, i\'m assuming the world\'s sanity, so that\'s probably my first fault...
:that:
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"when coons get on the porch mam\'s just chases em off with a broom"
:wah:
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"when coons get on the porch mam\'s just chases em off with a broom"
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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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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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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 ****. 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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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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I don\'t know about that.....
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thing is, if he wasn\'t fired, no one would even know about it..
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yeah but the world we live in and what would people say if he wasn\'t fired?
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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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ouch.
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haha
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:doh:
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some excitement in St. Louis yesterday!
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