Former WDRB we guy fired for alleged on-air racist comment

[IdaCat]

I believe that it was a mistake too. He's not going to jail, though. He was let go by a business that didn't want to deal with the aftermath of what might come, for better or for worse. You can't dictate what people are mad about, just as I can't tell you not to be outraged about this situation that has absolutely no bearing on your life at all

People make mistakes all the time, and people are fired for them too. Sometimes the easiest thing to do is the OK thing to do.

Or how about you stop enabling and giving authority to the leftist PC virtue signalers? Jesus, it's like North Korea, where a tongue twisted slip of a sacred word can destroy a career or even your life.

Social media has given the Marxists a platform for their ******** and it is sickening. Mostly anonymous losers are constantly scanning for anything they can pounce upon and it's dividing the country. Comedians and controversial speakers are no longer welcome at colleges because of the snowflakes looking for reasons to score points with their fellow little Marxist brats.

As for your "jail" remark, you're naive ... or more likely, you're just a leftist. Look at what they're doing in the UK. People are being thrown into prison for what is now classified as "hate speech". You give the "progressives" an inch then don't be surprised where you end up.

I'd rather just go ahead and have a real civil war and get it over with if you idiots are going to continue justifying and supporting this ********, because if this course continues, that's where we're headed. We have a constitution and it's worth fighting for.

 

[funKYcat75]

or more likely, you're just a leftist

I'm not. It's called being a reasonable human being. If you could look at something like this without your 'us vs. them' or 'right vs. left' glasses on, you'd see it too. There are plenty of other things to get everyone's panties in a wad about, but this situation isn't one. JMO. You're not going to change my mind, and Lord knows you'll never change yours.

 

[buckethead1978]

BO was the one that divided this Country more than any politician in American history, and it’s not even close.

Hyperbole much.

You are like a hysterical woman.

 

[IdaCat]

I'm not. It's called being a reasonable human being. If you could look at something like this without your 'us vs. them' or 'right vs. left' glasses on, you'd see it too. There are plenty of other things to get everyone's panties in a wad about, but this situation isn't one. JMO. You're not going to change my mind, and Lord knows you'll never change yours.

I hope you're next. Then you can see how "reasonable" your accusers are when you try explaining your innocence.
:flush:

 

[wildcatbd21]

I'm not. It's called being a reasonable human being. If you could look at something like this without your 'us vs. them' or 'right vs. left' glasses on, you'd see it too. There are plenty of other things to get everyone's panties in a wad about, but this situation isn't one. JMO. You're not going to change my mind, and Lord knows you'll never change yours.

No "reasonable" human being would agree with firing someone over a simple slip of the tongue. The people like the disgusting mayor of Rochester and the other pathetic leftist that get so sorely butthurt over a simple word are the ones that need to growup and stop getting their panties in a wad. A simple word is no excuse for firing someone.

 

[funKYcat75]

I hope you're next. Then you can see how "reasonable" your accusers are when you try explaining your innocence.
:flush:

I hope you lose internet access, but we don't always get what we want.

 

[buckethead1978]

Local news stations have extremely small margins. This was a calculated business decision. Keep a rather new weather guy (they are a dime a dozen) and lose advertisers and lots of money. Or cut their losses and hire another schmoe that can speak better

 

[Glenn's Take]

Did anyone see that Justin Fields is trying to get a waiver to not have to sit out a year because of hardship at Georgia. Someone on the baseball team called him a name. They even kicked the kid out of school for saying it. How will Justin ever overcome? Probably needs therapy because of it.

 

[Mojocat_rivals48469]

no idea if it was accidental, no idea if he's racist....what I do know is we live in a curious time when mob mentality not only is sanctioned, but rules the day. Social media, have to love it.

 

[Ron Mehico]

I’m actually struggling to figure out if this is actual real life. It was a stupid slip-up and how that poor bastard got fired over it is completely insane. I’m just trying to think how easily that could happen to anyone that speaks publicly for a living. Good lord what an absurd overreaction.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

I remember when a DC government spokesman was fired after he quite appropriately used the word 'niggardly' to describe a very stingy and ungenerous budget proposal.

Interestingly, liberals all supported the firing as the price we pay for extinguishing all vestiges of hate -- but several years later when Ohio Senator and potential presidential candidate Sherrod Brown used the same word, it was shrugged off by the left after conservatives tried to drum it up into a controversy.

For the record, I think any controversy over using a perfectly appropriate word that has been in the language for centuries is the absurd pursuit of fools and professional victims.

As for the weatherman, he was clearly caught between the vowel sound in Luuuuuther and Juuuunior and used a similar sound with the hard K in King. Anyone too imbecilic to see that -- including the idiot mayor of the town who insisted on him being punished and the cowardly turds at the station -- should be held in the contempt they have earned.

 

[KingOfBBN]

Or how about you stop enabling and giving authority to the leftist PC virtue signalers? Jesus, it's like North Korea, where a tongue twisted slip of a sacred word can destroy a career or even your life.

Social media has given the Marxists a platform for their ******** and it is sickening. Mostly anonymous losers are constantly scanning for anything they can pounce upon and it's dividing the country. Comedians and controversial speakers are no longer welcome at colleges because of the snowflakes looking for reasons to score points with their fellow little Marxist brats.

As for your "jail" remark, you're naive ... or more likely, you're just a leftist. Look at what they're doing in the UK. People are being thrown into prison for what is now classified as "hate speech". You give the "progressives" an inch then don't be surprised where you end up.

I'd rather just go ahead and have a real civil war and get it over with if you idiots are going to continue justifying and supporting this ********, because if this course continues, that's where we're headed. We have a constitution and it's worth fighting for.

How about the guy in the UK who they tried to jail over making his dog do the Nazi salute as a joke.

People always underestimate where the left will take things once they get a foot in the door.

 

[KingOfBBN]

I remember when a DC government spokesman was fired after he quite appropriately used the word 'niggardly' to describe a very stingy and ungenerous budget proposal.

Interestingly, liberals all supported the firing as the price we pay for extinguishing all vestiges of hate -- but several years later when Ohio Senator and potential presidential candidate Sherrod Brown used the same word, it was shrugged off by the left after conservatives tried to drum it up into a controversy.

For the record, I think any controversy over using a perfectly appropriate word that has been in the language for centuries is the absurd pursuit of fools and professional victims.

As for the weatherman, he was clearly caught between the vowel sound in Luuuuuther and Juuuunior and used a similar sound with the hard K in King. Anyone too imbecilic to see that -- including the idiot mayor of the town who insisted on him being punished and the cowardly turds at the station -- should be held in the contempt they have earned.

What these companies need to do is not comment on anything like this because the crap they’re receiving from the mob will end after a couple of days as they tire out, forget, and move on to the next thing.

 

[Wall2Boogie]

You can tell people like wildcatboston haven’t been outside of their neighborhood when you read him post things like people who call raccoons coons are dumbasses.

Do you live in the 90210 or are you from/know someone who is from Kentucky like the majority of the people who post on this forum?

I would need to more about you to know if you are racist , wildcatsboston

You’re talking about someone who proudly charged dad 5 bucks a month for Netflix. Rest assured he gets that money

 

[sambowieshin_rivals]

Or how about you stop enabling and giving authority to the leftist PC virtue signalers? Jesus, it's like North Korea, where a tongue twisted slip of a sacred word can destroy a career or even your life.

Social media has given the Marxists a platform for their ******** and it is sickening. Mostly anonymous losers are constantly scanning for anything they can pounce upon and it's dividing the country. Comedians and controversial speakers are no longer welcome at colleges because of the snowflakes looking for reasons to score points with their fellow little Marxist brats.

As for your "jail" remark, you're naive ... or more likely, you're just a leftist. Look at what they're doing in the UK. People are being thrown into prison for what is now classified as "hate speech". You give the "progressives" an inch then don't be surprised where you end up.

I'd rather just go ahead and have a real civil war and get it over with if you idiots are going to continue justifying and supporting this ********, because if this course continues, that's where we're headed. We have a constitution and it's worth fighting for.

The right wing nut jobs are just as bad as the "progressives". You are correct---Some of the nutty liberals want to control what people are allowed to say with respect to this tongue twister but the right does the same thing when it comes to telling people whether they can stand/kneel for the flag, telling people who they can or can't get married to, and telling a woman what she can do with her own body. The lefties and righties just aren't as quick to scream Marxist or Hitler when the agenda being shoved down other's throats meets their approval. You are right, but only half right. It is a two sided problem. Both sides need to quit shoving their beliefs onto others.

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

I remember when a DC government spokesman was fired after he quite appropriately used the word 'niggardly' to describe a very stingy and ungenerous budget proposal.

Interestingly, liberals all supported the firing as the price we pay for extinguishing all vestiges of hate -- but several years later when Ohio Senator and potential presidential candidate Sherrod Brown used the same word, it was shrugged off by the left after conservatives tried to drum it up into a controversy.

For the record, I think any controversy over using a perfectly appropriate word that has been in the language for centuries is the absurd pursuit of fools and professional victims.

As for the weatherman, he was clearly caught between the vowel sound in Luuuuuther and Juuuunior and used a similar sound with the hard K in King. Anyone too imbecilic to see that -- including the idiot mayor of the town who insisted on him being punished and the cowardly turds at the station -- should be held in the contempt they have earned.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

I’m past tired of what some black people “recognize” as deragotory.

Can we quit pretending about racism? Percentage wise there’s more racist blacks in this Country than there are whites. Everyone needs to quit pretending otherwise.

All of nonsense about DT dividing this Country is laughable.

BO was the one that divided this Country more than any politician in American history, and it’s not even close.

lol

Seriously, Lincoln's election was basically the final straw that convinced the southern states to secede and thus start the Civil War, but yeah Obama was the one that divided us more than the President whose mere election helped spur the deadliest war in US history where many ramifications of the post war reconstruction era arguably still last and lasted for at least 100 years at minimum.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

I did not listen to it but read the article. Its complete BS. I hope he sues the ish out of the station and the GM personally. The fact the mayor and other officials called for his firing is unreal. It was clearly a mistake. I highly doubt he can get an on-air gig again...this will follow him for life in that type of field. This world is becoming a one big *****.

Well good luck to being the guy that sues for getting fired for using a massively racist term. That's going to really go well for his future in the business.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

You do not get attention by NOT being outraged at something or another. Outrage is how they can get others to give them "stuff," attention, money, so they will shut up. So if you can gin up faux outrage over a guy who slipped up by accidentally combining the words King and Junior into one word...well then virtue signal away...welcome to America.

Coon does not equal King + Junior in any shape or form.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

The OK thing to do would have been for him to have been able to meet with local officials, explain what happened, and give an applogy on the air to explain it was a word slip. Instead, the mayor saw an opportunity to push her racist black agenda and cause an uproar.

The only person in the wrong here is her. If this would have been reversed and a black weatherman accidentally used a word viewed as a racial remark towards whites, do you honestly think she would have gone straight to getting them fired? Rest assured that answer is a resounding no.

I am sick and tired of white paople having to walk around on eggshells for fear of offending another race while every other race gets away with whatever they want.

"While every other race gets away with whatever you want?" Boy do I have some news for you fella. How much time do you have?

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

You are correct that every business has the right to make decisions that they see as beneficial to themselves but that still doesn't make it right. Ever seen Christmas Vacation and the scene where Clark gets his jelly of the month club gift?

Newsflash: It's 2019, not 1989.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

If you are a public spokesman in any capacity and you **** up, repercussions are going to happen. When you royally **** up by saying a racist word like "coon" that has been used for God knows how long as a derogatory term towards black people while trying to utter the name of one of the most important and iconic black people in American history, well the repercussions are going to be worse than if you just slip in "****" or something like that on the air.

 

[wildcatsboston1984_rivals]

I remember when a DC government spokesman was fired after he quite appropriately used the word 'niggardly' to describe a very stingy and ungenerous budget proposal.

Interestingly, liberals all supported the firing as the price we pay for extinguishing all vestiges of hate -- but several years later when Ohio Senator and potential presidential candidate Sherrod Brown used the same word, it was shrugged off by the left after conservatives tried to drum it up into a controversy.

For the record, I think any controversy over using a perfectly appropriate word that has been in the language for centuries is the absurd pursuit of fools and professional victims.

As for the weatherman, he was clearly caught between the vowel sound in Luuuuuther and Juuuunior and used a similar sound with the hard K in King. Anyone too imbecilic to see that -- including the idiot mayor of the town who insisted on him being punished and the cowardly turds at the station -- should be held in the contempt they have earned.

I mean yikes at anyone for using "niggardly" when the Merriam-Webster dictionary literally has 21 synonyms for the word. For example, the simple word of cheap that 99.9% of people would know what it means would have been plenty sufficient. Even if you want to call any outrage that happened as faux outrage and people simply looking to be outraged because they want to be outraged, he could have used cheap and avoided the scenario entirely.

Let's pretend for a second we live in a fantasy world where the concept of racism has never existed, it's a classic example of someone using a "big word" to sound smart when a much simpler word that meant the same thing would have conveyed the same message and been understood by a much broader range of the population. A know your audience type thing, I know less about MSNBC than I know about the North Sentinelese, perhaps only people with big vocabularies watch it.

Any way you look at it, it was just a very moronic decision by him to say "niggardly." Obviously of course if it was just using a big word it wouldn't have resulted in his firing, but still would have been moronic.

 

[Dr. H Lecter]

Coon does not equal King + Junior in any shape or form.

Seriously? K from King and UN or oon from Junior.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

If you are a public spokesman in any capacity and you **** up, repercussions are going to happen. When you royally **** up by saying a racist word like "coon" that has been used for God knows how long as a derogatory term towards black people while trying to utter the name of one of the most important and iconic black people in American history, well the repercussions are going to be worse than if you just slip in "****" or something like that on the air.

Chill out, kid. You got your wish, the guy’s life is completely destroyed. Hope they never come for you someday, I guess.

I remember the guy, bye all accounts a pretty reserved guy. Prolly has hundreds or thousands of on-air hours with nary a hint of racist language.

But that day......shewwwwwwboy, that was the day he’d waited for his whole life. FINALLY. FINALLY he had the chance to call MLK a “coon” on television. All that hard work in meteorology school. All those years in podunk Billings, MT or whatever, earning his way up. He prolly saw MLK coming up on the prompter and felt alive for the first time in years.....”coon”.....”coon”......I can’t belive it’s here! His chance!!!!!

Even though he’s pleading vigorously online to salvage any hope of a career.....inside? Happiest bigot on earth. Apex of his life. He got to live his dreams.

Also, your an terrible poster. Like, really really bad.

 

[KingOfBBN]

The right wing nut jobs are just as bad as the "progressives". You are correct---Some of the nutty liberals want to control what people are allowed to say with respect to this tongue twister but the right does the same thing when it comes to telling people whether they can stand/kneel for the flag, telling people who they can or can't get married to, and telling a woman what she can do with her own body. The lefties and righties just aren't as quick to scream Marxist or Hitler when the agenda being shoved down other's throats meets their approval. You are right, but only half right. It is a two sided problem. Both sides need to quit shoving their beliefs onto others.

False. No conservative wants to “force” someone to stand for the flag. You have the right to not do so and we have the right to think you’re a giant POS.

It’s not conservatives following people to speeches to prevent them from taking place or wearing masks and assaulting people.

To even equate conservatives with the modern left’s behavior is utter ********.

 

[sambowieshin_rivals]

False. No conservative wants to “force” someone to stand for the flag. You have the right to not do so and we have the right to think you’re a giant POS.

It’s not conservatives following people to speeches to prevent them from taking place or wearing masks and assaulting people.

To even equate conservatives with the modern left’s behavior is utter ********.

You must not be a fan of Trump because he talks all the time about what he'd like to do to people that kneel during the anthem and how they should be compelled to do so or lose their job. That said, I personally don't agree with kneeling but respect others right to do so, unlike the commie Republicans.

 

[Dr. H Lecter]

You must not be a fan of Trump because he talks all the time about what he'd like to do to people that kneel during the anthem and how they should be compelled to do so or lose their job. That said, I personally don't agree with kneeling but respect others right to do so, unlike the commie Republicans.

What he'd like to do does not equate to actually doing. He we are told is a dictator..yet apparently a dictator who cannot even make one person stand. So I think a whole bunch of the left are totally full of lies and BS for that kind of rhetoric.

"commie Republicans?" I think we know the party that includes the actual "commies/socialists." They are the speech Nazi's. They are the ones who cost this guy his job for a verbal flub. They are the snowflakes on campus who refuse to even hear a word without outrage and a safe space. You dont see conservatives clutching their pearls and looking for the fainting couch.

Lastly....the USA being protested means you and I are being protested. That is fine....but why do you want to deny MY right to protest THEIR actions? Because the left is fascist...that is why.

 

[warrior-cat]

I'm not. It's called being a reasonable human being. If you could look at something like this without your 'us vs. them' or 'right vs. left' glasses on, you'd see it too. There are plenty of other things to get everyone's panties in a wad about, but this situation isn't one. JMO. You're not going to change my mind, and Lord knows you'll never change yours.

It is next to impossible to when it is just that exact thing that allowed this to happen. Political correctness is too entrenched into all media and everyday life now.

 

[warrior-cat]

Hyperbole much.

You are like a hysterical woman.

No, he is like a man whose woman got mad at him for being right. You should apologize lady.

 

[DidneyWorl]

Boston is an asst gym teacher at a division 3 college. Lol

 

[DidneyWorl]

but the right does the same thing when it comes to telling people whether they can stand/kneel for the flag.

lol. You think free speech expands to your job. GD moronic.

Hey. When you to work monday, make sure you call your co-worker of color a racist name. When you get get fired, try yelling "free speech".

It was clearly not an intended meaning, but the tv station has a right to fire him as they see fit.

 

[sambowieshin_rivals]

lol. You think free speech expands to your job. GD moronic.

Hey. When you to work monday, make sure you call your co-worker of color a racist name. When you get get fired, try yelling "free speech".

It was clearly not an intended meaning, but the tv station has a right to fire him as they see fit.

Big difference between free speech and an unintentional mis-speak. Not being able to differentiate between the two is GD moronic.

 

[DidneyWorl]

Big difference between free speech and an unintentional mis-speak. Not being able to differentiate between the two is GD moronic.

That's exactly what my post said. You were the one who tried to paint kneeling to free speech. Kneeling isn't protected by free speech on the job. Neither is misspeak. Which is why also why I said the tv station has the right to let him go. Keep up.

 

[sambowieshin_rivals]

That's exactly what my post said. You were the one who tried to paint kneeling to free speech. Kneeling isn't protected by free speech on the job. Neither is misspeak. Which is why also why I said the tv station has the right to let him go. Keep up.

What other job in America requires all employees to stand for the national anthem every day before beginning work? I don't even think the military does. Maybe teaching? Should your employer be able to require you to kiss his *** and feet every day as a prerequisite to beginning business every day? It is much Ado about nothing IMO.

 

[DidneyWorl]

It is much Ado about nothing IMO.

Just so we are both clear. I support the decision of the tv station.

I agree it's pointless to dictate that to employees, but it's not my company. Supreme Court will not back the employees for free speech.

People should be more outraged that the NFL acts as a "non-profit" when they are raking in $9 billion a year.

 

[sambowieshin_rivals]

Just so we are both clear. I support the decision of the tv station.

I agree it's pointless to dictate that to employees, but it's not my company. Supreme Court will not back the employees for free speech.

People should be more outraged that the NFL acts as a "non-profit" when they are raking in $9 billion a year.

On that, we can agree wholeheartedly!!!

 

[funKYcat75]

ha.

 

[DidneyWorl]

ha.

That dude looks like any beer drinking uncle that has ever taken a breath

 

[BlueVelvetFog]

lol. You think free speech expands to your job. GD moronic.

Hey. When you to work monday, make sure you call your co-worker of color a racist name. When you get get fired, try yelling "free speech".

It was clearly not an intended meaning, but the tv station has a right to fire him as they see fit.

TV station effed up