MO Talk Show Host, praising Condoleezza Rice, utters racial slur; fired

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Host, praising Rice, utters slur; fired

Thursday, March 23, 2006; Posted: 9:20 a.m. EST (14:20 GMT)

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (AP) -- A St. Louis radio station quickly fired a talk show host for uttering a racial epithet as he talked about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on his morning show Wednesday.

Dave Lenihan apologized on the air immediately after making what he said was a slip of the tongue. KTRS president and general manager Tim Dorsey agreed the remark was accidental but said it was nonetheless "unacceptable, reprehensible and unforgivable."

Lenihan had been heaping praise on Rice, who has frequently said she aspires to run the NFL one day but has more recently ruled out seeking to replace retiring Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.

"She's been chancellor of Stanford," Lenihan said on the air. "She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. 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." He said he had meant to say "coup" instead of the racial slur.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/23/djfired.rice.ap/index.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. oops. Guess Freud would have had a good time with that one.

I'm just waitng for * to have one of these slips on live tv

[shain from kane]

5. I wonder what her husband, oops, boss has to say

about this.

[BrklynLiberal]

9. ROTFLMAO!

[Dhalgren]

2. Jesus Christ! Sometimes these guys just can't help saying

what they actually mean - or what they are so used to actually saying. Mother of Zeus! It is too funny for words...

[shain from kane]

3. Lame brain, sorry, I meant Lenihan.n/t

[XNASA]

4. Oops. I found this on his website.

His math is as bad as his loquaciousness.

http://www.todays-solutions.org/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=56&z=11

Unless I'm missing something, it would appear that the Japanese pay almost twice what the US pays the UN in dues per citizen.

[Atman]

6. It's obvious he didn't intend to say "coon"

It just doesn't fit the context of the sentence.

What is equally obvious, though, is that the words were in the back of his mind while he was speaking about an African-American, and they oozed out of his racist pie-hole before he was able to stop himself.

A racist by any other name, Mr. Lenihan...

[derby378]

7. Reminds me of Bill Hicks' routine on the Rodney King beating...

"In court today, Officer Coon, Officer Nigger Hater, and Officer Keep Darkie Down have been cleared of all racist charges. Here's Tom with the weather!"

"Thank you, Suzy, it's around 500 degrees F here in South Central LA. Might be a good idea to get out of the fuckin' city, Suzy..."

[bluestateguy]

8. They're not used to actually liking a black woman for a change

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