ABC fires Jeremy Kappell Fired for Slipping up on air

Started by Surtur10 pages

ESPN Radio Host Mike Greenberg Apologizes for ‘Martin Luther Coon’ Slipup

^From 2010

That's a pretty bad slip up, though.

If you say "kun, or coon", they sound the exact same. I just don't see why he would throw his life away for a 1/2 like that. Makes no sense. The guy seemed to be with the station for 10 years? I don't think he woke up that morning saying 'Im going to throw it all away today by saying coon instead of king."

Also the guy if he takes it to court, 10 out of 10 says he wins in court.

Originally posted by BackFire
That's a pretty bad slip up, though.

I wonder if this applies:

Spoonerism

Originally posted by Surtur
B-b-but this is after he's been fired and had morons like you calling him racist lol.

Post the quote(s) where I called this man a "racist"? If you can't, you owe me an apology for calling me a moron.

Originally posted by Robtard
Post the quote(s) where I called this man a "racist"? If you can't, you owe me an apology for calling me a moron.

You implied it and you know it. There is no other reason for you to be incredulous over people "defending" it.

Yeah, I hate that when my Tourettes get the best of me and I call racist ****ing *****, racist ****ing *****. Sorry Surt you ****ing ****. Apologies for all the * I posted.

7 pages... wow

sad honestly it seemed like a slip up but i dont have coon floating around the tip of my tongue waiting to jump out either. makes me think he didn't mean to say it then but probably says it plenty other times. the station gotta save face somehow... i do think he can bounce back and work for a different station if he has a decent track record.

Originally posted by Surtur
I wonder if this applies:

Spoonerism

Just in case people missed this.

Originally posted by Surtur
You implied it and you know it. There is no other reason for you to be incredulous over people "defending" it.

Where did I imply it? Keep in mind that acknowledging that calling a Black man a "coon" is a racist comment isn't calling someone a racist.

So either prove your libel against me or apologize.

Originally posted by Robtard
Where did I imply it? Keep in mind that acknowledging that calling a Black man a "coon" is a racist comment isn't calling someone a racist.

So either prove your libel against me or apologize.

You implied it when you acted incredulous that people were "defending" this. It's your very first response to this thread.

https://www.change.org/p/nbc-i-stand-behind-jeremy-kappell

I'm gonna sign the petition. It's goal is 15,000 signatures and right now it has 14,537

Originally posted by BrolyBlack
If you say "kun, or coon", they sound the exact same. I just don't see why he would throw his life away for a 1/2 like that. Makes no sense. The guy seemed to be with the station for 10 years? I don't think he woke up that morning saying 'Im going to throw it all away today by saying coon instead of king."

Also the guy if he takes it to court, 10 out of 10 says he wins in court.

Well it definitely didn't sound like he did it intentionally. Still, that's probably the worst slip up you could make when talking about Martin Luther King Jr. It's unfortunate he was fired for it, but I can see the network's POV for sure.

Originally posted by Surtur
I wonder if this applies:

Spoonerism

I think it was more like in his head he was going Okay, don't say 'coon', don't say 'coon', don't say 'coon', don't say 'coon' "COON"....DAMN IT

Originally posted by Surtur
https://www.change.org/p/nbc-i-stand-behind-jeremy-kappell

I'm gonna sign the petition. It's goal is 15,000 signatures and right now it has 14,537

Signing petitions like these is 1 point more effective than sending thoughts and prayers.

That scale's range?

0-1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 with thoughts are prayers being a 2.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Signing petitions like these is 1 point more effective than sending thoughts and prayers.

That scale's range?

0-1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 with thoughts are prayers being a 2.

That's fine, it didn't take me long to sign nor do I expect it to actually get him his job back.

If worse comes to worse he'll just get a job at Fox News.

Originally posted by Surtur
That's fine, it didn't take me long to sign nor do I expect it to actually get him his job back.

Yes you did.

You implied it when you posted the petition that people were "signing". It's your very first time posting about it in this thread.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Yes you did.

You implied it when you posted the petition that people were "signing". It's your very first time posting about it in this thread.

I noted that people were signing and the goal was 15,000. I don't expect it to get him his job back.

DDM thinks you did, though.

Originally posted by Surtur
I noted that people were signing and the goal was 15,000. I don't expect it to get him his job back.

I am super super duper trolling you by quoting your words back to you that you made to Robtard.

😐

"You implied it when you acted incredulous that people were "defending" this. It's your very first response to this thread."

How dare you be this stupid, Surtur. I had much higher expectations out of you considering your achievements in smarassery. How dare you!