#MARY MAYS METEOROLOGIST TV#
Maybe even wind up owning a certain TV station where she could fire its current management while vacuuming up the contents of their bank accounts and collecting the keys to their houses.ĭo these people not run these segments by each other before airing? Improv is not a strong suit of most meteorologists & news anchors. If she does, she will be a very wealthy lady before long. I encourage Molly to find a good attorney and then sue the bejezus out of her former employer. So what about Molly’s joke implied the extrajudicial “Strange Fruit” context of hanging? Anyone? You can hardly watch a Western or a show about pre-1900 Britain without hanging being discussed… or shown! I don’t recall anyone complaining about those things, or about when Iraq used a noose to hang Saddam Hussein “by his neck until dead.” Hanging and nooses exist in a lot more contexts than the once popular rituals, attended by enthusiastic crowds, of lynching in the American South to keep “uppity” African-Americans terrorized and “in their place.” Hanging as a form of execution is mentioned as far back as The Odyssey, has been similarly used all over the world, and was used as a form of state-sponsored execution right here in America well into the 20th Century. That said, this treatment of Molly is beyond stupid. Mostly I believe that “political correctness” is nothing more than treating others with respect and that those who, out of sheer orneriness, fail to treat others with respect deserve the shaming that they get from the “PC” crowd. Now let’s go to Mike with this morning’s Hangman Puzzle, brought to you by our friend Robert Brown with Farmers Insurance.” We apologize for this mistake, and regret it happened. “On yesterday’s Mind Mixer segment, we inadvertently showed a puzzle that upset many viewers. But did she really deserve to lose her job? Wouldn’t an on-air apology have sufficed? You know, something like… Granted, maybe Mandy was already on thin ice or perhaps there’s something going on behind the scenes that we don’t know about. That being said, it does feel like KSWO overreacted a bit. Just ask that weatherman from Philly about it. In today’s day and age, you can’t be that tone-deaf and oblivious to the world and still expect to work in mainstream broadcast news. That whole field is developing a zero tolerance policy to anything that might even slightly resemble racism, regardless of context or intent. I’m sure they’d love to have her.Īnyway, I have conflicting feelings about this whole thing….Īlthough I can’t stand political correctness and doubt there was any ill intent on Mandy’s part, she has to accept some responsibility for the gaffe.
Maybe Gateway Pundit will open a weather forecasting department. My advice would be for her to hang in there. Things got so bad that even the local Farmers Insurance agent threatened to pull all his advertising! They quickly rallied to Mandy’s defense, creating a “Boycott KSWO” Facebook group, flooding the station with angry comments, and calling for Mandy to get her job back. Yep, they fired Mandy for the “offensive and unacceptable” image. This sent the Lawton community into an outrage that hasn’t been seen since KSWO fired David Bradley about a year ago. I guess a few viewers complained to KSWO about the mind mixer mix up, and by 9pm last night, the station’s management issued the following statement on Facebook: This, of course, is thanks to thousands and thousands of lynchings that have terrorized black Americans throughout this country’s history, and the continued use of the noose as a symbol of hate by white supremacists. Naturally, the “mind mixer” got the attention of those who instantly associate any reference to a noose, regardless of context or intent, with bigotry and racism. Here’s what Meteorologist Mandy Bailey – the Emily Sutton of Oklahoma’s armpit – came up with in the year 2019, an overly sensitive time that’s defined by outrage and overreaction.įor the easily stumped – or those who are thrown off by the well-known symbol of racism hanging from the T – the answer is “Hang In There.” Get it.
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