Oops, did THAT come out of me??? Why, I've never...

[Montauk6]

ST. LOUIS (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."

Read more on yet another example of the Tourette-ization of slurring: http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/headlines/radiohost323

[radwriter0555]

1. "If you're sayin' it, somewhere, deep in your mind, you're thinkin' it."

That's all there is to it...

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. A Freudian slip as he was trying to say 'boon'?

Hasn't it been postulated that the Freudian slip tells the speaker's truth?

[Drum]

3. Yikes!

Said it and repeated it? Double-yikes.

Meant to say "boon"?

[Montauk6]

4. No, "coup"

But I still think he's fulla the same crap that Dick Armey was when he claimed that "Barney Fag" was just a slip of the tongue.

[Drum]

5. ah true, true

But on the other hand, I remember my jaw hitting the table when Armey said that on-camera and subsequently backing off his slur of Frank.

[MercutioATC]

6. "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"

Yes, it was an unfortunate statement. Was it "unacceptable, reprehensible and unforgivable."? I don't know.

I think, maybe, some people are jumping on this PC wagon a little too hard.

Witness:

"Baa, Baa rainbow sheep:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1752155.html


Or:

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
Humpty Dumpty opened his eyes
Falling down was such a surprise
Humpty Dumpty counted to 10
Then Humpty Dumpty got up again."

http://asmallvictory.net/archives/004967.html



Maybe, just maybe, we've gone a little too far with the rabid PC stuff...

[intheflow]

7. Baa Baa Bizarre!

I can kinda see taking the words to Baa Baa Black Sheep as being some kind of racist code --

"Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? / Have you any wool? / Yes, Sir. Yes, Sir, three bags full / One for my master..." = slave labor for the master --

but then changing it to rainbow is completely stupid. If that's your interpretation of the song, then ditch it all together. I mean, to me rainbow = GLBTQ. So their rewriting of the words could be interpreted as equating gay people with animals. :eyes:

Besides being overly PC, this sort of baloney illustrates a complete lack of understanding of the context in which this song probably arose. The term "master" has only limited racist connotations, and many more meanings which are not in the least racist. I think coupled with "dame" in the song, it does reflect the feudal time in which it no doubt descends, but it may also reflect simple common idioms and usage of the period, in which an animal admits human dominance, much as common usage today allows me to say that I am my dog's master and no one thinks me the worse for it.