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shipperxGrr! Shut up middle aged white men whining on JOX because they can't wrap their heads around why an ESPN game announcer was fired because he dismissed a female ESPN reporter from a professional conversation at the Chick-Fil-A Bowl by calling her "sweet cakes" and then calling her an asshole for objecting to being called 'sweet cakes' and then refusing to apologize to her when ESPN demanded that he do so. So far exactly one reporter has called in to say that the firing was an appropriate response. Every. single. other caller and reporter has defended the guy. *head desk* (And this wasn't even his first incident doing this sort of thing).
ETA: Wow, Arkansas was snakebit tonight.
ETA: Wow, Arkansas was snakebit tonight.
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Date: 2011-01-04 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-05 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-04 11:00 pm (UTC)ESPN has a history of problems when it comes to sexist, racist commentary. I think it is their special thing....
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Date: 2011-01-05 05:21 am (UTC)(Maybe we should be surprised that ESPN actually fired him).
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Date: 2011-01-05 01:47 pm (UTC)It doesn't excuse racist, sexist behavior. Still, I'm sure it will happen again, on air, within the next 15 minutes.....
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Date: 2011-01-04 11:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-05 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-04 11:21 pm (UTC)Grrrr.
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Date: 2011-01-05 05:23 am (UTC)(JOX is our sports radio station -- and to show we're Alabama, it's actually the highest rated radio station in town -- so they don't have anything to do all day but talk and shit-stir.)
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Date: 2011-01-04 11:29 pm (UTC)To be honest, I hadn't heard about this. I've watched all the bowl games, but I don't pay that much attention to the announcers unless they're someone I already know, so I had no idea who this asshat was. And I watch college football like crazy!
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Date: 2011-01-05 05:24 am (UTC)Honest to God, this is a pale imitation of what one of the callers actually ranted!
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Date: 2011-01-05 05:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-05 01:15 am (UTC)Asshat, indeed.
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Date: 2011-01-05 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-05 01:32 am (UTC)As Helen in Topsy-Turvy remarked, "The more I know of men, the more I like dogs."
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Date: 2011-01-05 02:54 am (UTC)Heh. I commented to my mother over Christmas that I've never watched a single episode of any of those shows, but I know from the commercials that I hate every person in them! (This is also true of "The Bachelor")
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Date: 2011-01-05 05:30 am (UTC)