Missouri Radio DJ Fired For Slip of Tongue

This is unfettered political correctness at it's worst....

A Missouri radio station sacked a newly-appointed talk show host for a racial slur as he talked about secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.

Dave Lenihan, only two weeks into what he said was his “dream job”, apologised on the air immediately after making what he said was a slip of the tongue yesterday.

St Louis-based KTRS radio station’s 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 said she aspires to run the National Football League one day but has more recently ruled out seeking to replace retiring NFL 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.

I love Condi and if I had the slightest inclination to believe that this was intentional or malicious, I likely would be on the other side of this issue. This however, was an obvious slip of the tongue, something that all of us do daily. From the context of the statement, it appears that he iadvertently mixed together two words "boon" and "coup" and ended up with "coon" Personally, I do it all the time. The mind can't decide in milliseconds which word is the most appropriate so it sends both signals to the mouth and you end up with a "hybrid".

Compare this to statements made by the left about Colin Powell and Condi. Uncle Tom, house ni%%er. plantation slave. Those statements were all intentional and malicious yet these slanderers were not even chastened let alone fired.

I hope someone steps up to the plate and hires this guy fast, he is guilty of nothing more than being human.