Las Vegas Weatherman Fired for MLK Slur

[Sikotic™]

http://cnn.aimtoday.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050117%2F1508557923.htm

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.''

[Matrix Heart]

lol he's gonna transfer to one of their Alabama sister stations.

 

[Da WCC Hopar!]

hes gannna get his ass jumped

[eS El Duque]

bad guy

[Suga Foot]

lol he's gonna transfer to one of their Alabama sister stations.

 

lol thats fucked up tho

[Big BpG]

I bet the news people were joking about it before they went on air and it slipped from this tongue.

-BpG

[js83]

i wonder the fuck he was thinkin saying some dumb shit like that.

[-Euthanasia-]

he was probably thinking that he was a coon

[KING VerbalAssaulta]

lol..get a since of humor

[white Boy]

i wonder the fuck he was thinkin saying some dumb shit like that.

seriously

lol..get a since of humor

theres a thin line between racist and funny, and he crossed it

[boycriedwolf619]

glad he got fired hope he gets his ass beat! theres no excuse for that

[Sikotic™]

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.

[Tha G In Deee]

i wonder the fuck he was thinkin saying some dumb shit like that.

[Acgrundy]

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)

[Jimmy Cash2120]

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