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Radio Host Fired for Using Racial Epithet to Describe Condi Rice Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 By: Cheryl Wittenauer, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) - 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...

That may have seriously have been a slip of tongue, and if it was, his employers are spineless bastards. As a person who gets tight tongued at least once a day and manages to offend with it once every few weeks, he has my sympathies. That is unless he's a bastard and that was some sort of Freudian slip. If that's that case, Ha, Ha!

quote:Originally posted by ma'am: That may have seriously have been a slip of tongue, and if it was, his employers are spineless bastards. As a person who gets tight tongued at least once a day and manages to offend with it once every few weeks, he has my sympathies. That is unless he's a bastard and that was some sort of Freudian slip. If that's that case, Ha, Ha! Yeah, I am not sure if this...

quote:Originally posted by kresge: Yeah, I am not sure if this is a fireable offense. I censure, reprimand, may be needed, but termination? I doubt he would have been fired if he had been speaking about Black folks in general. But, he was talking about Condi. Even concervatives would be up in arms about that. Condi's not a "coon". She represents "equality" in America. She's not like "the rest ...

It is not that common of a saying for one, and psychologically the context in which it arose is revealing.---kresge I think this is the bottom line. The guy's private vocabulary came home to roost. He was outed by his own mind. PEACE Jim ChesterAfrican Americans for African America http://iaanh2.org African American Pledge of Unity We stand, together, after left alone in a land we never ...

quote:Originally posted by James Wesley Chester: I think this is the bottom line. The guy's private vocabulary came home to roost. He was outed by his own mind. *This was on POINT!! Yes, his heart spoke........and it got him in trouble!