Cincinnati Reds play-by-play announcer Thom Brennaman is off the air after he said a gay slur. |
Thom Brennaman, the longtime Cincinnati Reds announcer was yanked off the air after he was caught on a hot mic saying an anti-LGBTQ slur. I won't mention it due to the fact that Google will might our blog "restricted for sensitivity."
He was referring to an undisclosed location as "one of the --- capitals in the world."
I don't condone the remarks.
Brennaman is a sportscaster working for Fox News Ohio. He is the son of veteran Reds announcer, Marty Brennaman. The longtime sportscaster didn't make it through the Kansas City Royals and Reds game.
After the hot mic incident, the Reds and Fox Sports called him to tell him that his remarks hit social media and went viral.
The Reds pulled him off the are during the second game of the doubleheader with Jim Day taking over the play-by-play after the top of the fifth inning.
Before he was yanked off the air, Brennaman apologized saying that he was "deeply ashamed."
Shock jock called Kamala Harris the "colored" vice presidential candidate. |
Brennaman was put in the freezer with no thaw. That means he's in the process of a cannon firing.
Brennaman was also yanked from the NFL broadcast roster. He said that he will apologize to the LGBTQ community in some fashion. He went to The Cincinnati Enquirer to write an op-ed to apologize. He also said that he will reach out ot PFLAG and donate to the Trevor Project.
He would be doing broadcast from iHeartRadio's WLW 700 AM in Cincinnati.
Another shock jock was pulled off the dial. This asshole had the audacity to dismiss Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as that "colored vice presidential candidate."
It was a conservative agitator named Kyle Cornell and he worked for iHeartRadio's WTAM 1100 AM.
The asshole made the comments on the night of Harris' historical speech. In the audio clip he said that during Cleveland Indians broadcast.
"The U.S. officially has its first colored vice presidential candidate. More coming up after the game on Newsradio WTAM 1100 Cleveland."
Audio of the clip was made available online and many believed it was a racist dog whistle.
The radio station immediately yanked him off the dial and made a public statement condemning the remarks.
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Cornell apologized by saying this he was "making a judgement in error," and said he never intended to cause offense.
"I wasn't trying to be malicious or in any way decimate the character or anything like that," Cornell said to the local junk food media. "That was never the goal. And for that, I am truly sorry."
He added, "For the station of WTAM too, I feel awful for putting them through what they've had to go through over the past 24 hours. I just want them to understand it was a rough choice to make and that I accept my punishment and know that I still love and care about everyone at the station, wish them well and I hope that they can forgive me for making a judgement in error and something that I know is not me."
Harris is the first African American and Asian American woman to be on a national ticket. She is a biracial woman whose parents are from Jamaica and India. She is married with two step-children.
Reminder, iHeartRadio and Premiere Radio, Inc still has Rush Limbaugh on the radio. He recently called the California senator and vice presidential nominee a "used mattress."
Let's make this clear: Kamala Harris will experience racism, sexism, classism, conspiracies about her birthplace, her record as a prosecutor and state attorney general. They will question her looks, her marriage to a white man and her religion. They will attack her on sorority and days studying at Howard.
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