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Title: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Sikotic™ on January 18, 2005, 04:05:39 PM: http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050117%2F1508557923.htm

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LAS VEGAS (AP) - A television weatherman was fired after referring to slain civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. as ``Martin Luther Coon King'' on the air, station officials said.

Rob Blair, of KTNV-TV, was delivering the extended forecast Saturday morning when he said: ``Martin Luther Coon King Jr. Day, gonna see some temperatures in the mid-60s.''

Jim Prather, vice president and general manager of the ABC affiliate, said Blair stumbled when he uttered the remark, but the excuse was not enough to save his job.

``This kind of incident is not acceptable under any circumstances, and I'm truly sorry that this event occurred,'' Prather said.

Blair, who worked at the station for about three months, apologized during the station's 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts Saturday.

``I in no way intended to offend anyone,'' he said in the apology. ``I'm very sorry.''
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Matrix Heart on January 18, 2005, 04:14:01 PM: lol he's gonna transfer to one of their Alabama sister stations.

;D
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Da WCC Hopar! on January 18, 2005, 05:27:07 PM: hes gannna get his ass jumped
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: eS El Duque on January 18, 2005, 05:30:34 PM: bad guy
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Suga Foot on January 18, 2005, 05:32:07 PM: Quote from: Kellogg's Cornflakes on January 18, 2005, 04:14:01 PM
lol he's gonna transfer to one of their Alabama sister stations.

;D
lol thats fucked up tho
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Big BpG on January 18, 2005, 10:41:48 PM: I bet the news people were joking about it before they went on air and it slipped from this tongue.

-BpG
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: js83 on January 19, 2005, 01:48:07 AM: i wonder the fuck he was thinkin saying some dumb shit like that.
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: -Euthanasia- on January 19, 2005, 04:42:30 AM: he was probably thinking that he was a coon
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: KING VerbalAssaulta on January 19, 2005, 09:04:00 AM: lol..get a since of ;D humor
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: white Boy on January 19, 2005, 09:56:22 AM: Quote from: LaZ1e on January 19, 2005, 01:48:07 AM
i wonder the fuck he was thinkin saying some dumb shit like that.
seriously

Quote from: KING VerbalAssaulta on January 19, 2005, 09:04:00 AM
lol..get a since of ;D humor
theres a thin line between racist and funny, and he crossed it
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: boycriedwolf619 on January 19, 2005, 10:28:13 AM: glad he got fired hope he gets his ass beat! theres no excuse for that
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Sikotic™ on January 19, 2005, 11:24:13 AM: It happens. He was thinking about it, and it came out. I dunno if he should of actually got fired for a slip up, but since he did, he better make a career switch and pronto.
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Tha G In Deee on January 19, 2005, 02:52:16 PM: Quote from: LaZ1e on January 19, 2005, 01:48:07 AM
i wonder the fuck he was thinkin saying some dumb shit like that.
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Acgrundy on January 20, 2005, 03:52:51 PM: this guy used to do the local news where I used to live (chico) hahahah

I guess this is the 2nd time this type of thing has happened with a chico newsperson (happened with a lady in the past)
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Jimmy Cash2120 on January 21, 2005, 08:28:46 PM: if you listen to the tape, he says "martin luther cu...king jr day"
i don't think he was being rasest. i think he sliped and mixed king with juinor
the forcast was tapped the night before. it got through because nobody thought it was racist
this guy got his life runined because everyone has to be so polliticaly correct
Title: Re: Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur
Post by: Ðøšïå on January 22, 2005, 08:24:45 AM: Quote from: boycriedwolf619 on January 19, 2005, 10:28:13 AM
glad he got fired hope he gets his ass beat! theres no excuse for that