St. Louis Radio Host Fired Over Racial Slip
Thursday, March 23, 2006
David Lenihan has been fired after only two weeks on the air at KTRS in St. Louis. He was praising Condoleezza Rice when he said, "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. Okay? I didn't mean that. That was just a slip of the tongue." Lenihan, who's a huge supporter of Rice, says he meant to say 'coup' for the NFL. The station didn't care and fired him. Lenihan appeared on the Howard Stern show this morning to make it clear that he just slipped up. Everyone on the show agreed he was fired over nothing. "Your comments have no indication that you're a racist," Stern said. Stern also encouraged him to stick up for himself. "I would be breaking out in hives if this happened to me," Stern said. "We support you. It's a lot of bullshit what they're doing to you, David."Labels: good grief, radio
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