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Conservative Amber Athey Fired From Radio Station After ‘Racist’ Joke About Kamala Harris Outfit
Washington editor for The Spectator magazine Amber Athey says she was fired from her co-hosting gig at WMAL-FM over a tweet she posted last month joking about Vice President Kamala Harris’ outfit.
Athey announced Monday on Twitter that her absence on “O’Connor & Company” was not because she’s “sick or on vacation,” but because she was fired “for making a ‘racist’ joke about Kamala Harris’s SOTU outfit.”
Over the past two weeks, I have received a lot of questions about why I haven’t been on @WMALDC.
I was not sick or on vacation. @WMALDC @CumulusMedia fired me for making a “racist” joke about Kamala Harris’s SOTU outfit. https://t.co/kOV9mTLqIA
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) April 4, 2022
The Daily Wire reached out to Cumulus Media for comment.
“About a month ago today, I posted a tweet during the State of the Union address poking fun at Vice President Kamala Harris’s outfit,” Athey recalled in an article for The Spectator. “Harris wore a chocolate brown business suit that was panned on social media — some users compared her to a Hershey’s chocolate bar, while others wondered why she wore the same color as her chair. I went for a UPS joke, featuring the company’s now retired slogan.”
“Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently,” the conservative cracked via Twitter.
According to The Seattle Times, UPS used the slogan “What can brown do for you” until it was changed in 2010.
Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently.
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) March 2, 2022
Athey said her tweet began being reported by Left-wing activists after she “spoke critically of protests in favor of ‘trans kids’ at the University of North Texas.”
“A group of maniacal left-wing activists who want to chemically castrate children in the name of ‘gender affirmation’ came after me,” she wrote. “All of a sudden, the Kamala tweet was being re-framed as racist and dozens of Twitter accounts were bragging about contacting my employers about my ‘bigotry.’”
Athey says she was contacted days later on March 9 by management and told her joke was “racist.”
“They told me that the tweet I sent about Kamala was ‘racist’ and that subsequent follow-ups defending myself and making fun of the efforts to cancel me were unacceptable,” Athey wrote. “I had violated the company’s social media policy, they said, and I was terminated effective immediately.”
“They did not have the courtesy to offer me an opportunity to defend myself, nor did they speak to anyone at the program before handing down their decision,” she added.
Athey and others at the station said that they appealed to management to reverse course, but were unsuccessful. Co-host Larry O’Connor even publicly posted about the company making the wrong decision.
“I have been fighting all month to get [Amber Athey] back on O’Connor and Company and I will continue to do whatever I can,” he posted to Twitter on Monday. “We assembled a great broadcast team. I still have hope that [Cumulus Media] will do the right thing.”
I have been fighting all month to get @amber_athey back on O’Connor and Company and I will continue to do whatever I can. We assembled a great broadcast team.
I still have hope that @CumulusMedia will do the right thing. pic.twitter.com/X8POy2hswD
— Larry O’Connor (@LarryOConnor) April 4, 2022
“Conservatives are done playing nice with companies that continuously put their boots on our necks,” Athey told The Daily Wire. “Whether it’s Disney, Nike, Coca-Cola, or Cumulus Media, we can no longer stand idly by and give our hard-earned money to people who hate us.”
The only solution, she said, is to fight back.
“I am sick and tired of conservatives apologizing to the left, staying quiet because they’re afraid of burning bridges, or complaining incessantly without taking action,” she wrote at The Spectator. “We will only defeat the left’s bad faith attempts at censorship if we fight back.”
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NFL Network Accidentally Airs Insensitive Joke About Russian Prisons In Wake Of Brittney Griner’s Sentencing – Daily Snark
On Thursday morning, WNBA star Brittney Griner was stanched to nine years in a Russian prison on drug possession charges.
A few hours later, James Palmer of NFL Network made an insensitive joke about Russian prisons, while standing with NFL insider Ian Rapport said, “If Ian think she can survive in a. Russian prison, which apparently he believes, a tackle from Nathaniel Hackett is the least of his problems, Palmer said.
The third member of the team, Andrew Siciliano appeared to be surprised by the comment from Palmer. Rapoport made it clear he and Palmer were having a conversation about Russian prisons off-air and looked very uncomfortable as Palmer was revealing the off-air conversation:
In light of Brittney Griner being sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison this was tacky, inappropriate and insensitive by @nflnetwork @JamesPalmerTV @RapSheet @AndrewSiciliano pic.twitter.com/y8q2JMQre2
— Doc Holliday (@The_DocHolliday)
Griner had been detained in the country since February for allegedly possessing cannabis oil at the Moscow airport. The offense can net her up to 10 years in a Russian federal prison.
Griner issued a guilty plea to a Russian court on July 7 and also included an ask for mercy from the judge. Griner claimed that, while she did commit the crime, she did so inadvertently.
She made another statement Thursday ahead of her verdict.
“I never meant to hurt anybody, I never meant to put in jeopardy the Russian population, I never meant to break any laws here,” Griner said, via CNN. “I made an honest mistake and I hope that in your ruling that it doesn’t end my life here. I know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but I hope that that is far from this courtroom.
“I want to say again that I had no intent on breaking any Russian laws,” she said. “I had no intent. I did not conspire or plan to commit this crime.”
More than 150 days into her Russian detention, the United States Government offered a deal with the Kremlin in exchange for Griner on July 27, as well as fellow American detainee Paul Whelan, per U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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Donnie Wahlberg shares a laugh with Vanessa Ray on the set of Blue Bloods in Hell’s Kitchen | Daily Mail Online
Donnie Wahlberg and Vanessa Ray were seen goofing around on the set of their series Blue Bloods in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan on Monday.
As the stars took a break from filming their hit cop drama, the dad-of-two, 52, was seen laughing as he spoke with his 40-year-old costar.
He was dressed in character as Detective Daniel ‘Danny’ Fitzgerald Reagan in a charcoal overcoat, a navy suit with a striped button-down shirt and matching tie.
Filming: Donnie Wahlberg and Vanessa Ray were seen sharing a chuckle while on the set of their hit CBS series Blue Bloods in NYC on Sunday
Meanwhile, Ray was dressed in a police uniform with a cross belt to portray Eddie Janko-Reagan, an officer working for the New York City Police Department.
Her blonde hair was pulled back in a sleek bun, and she sported a natural makeup look, consisting of a nude lipstick and blush for a youthful glow.
As she chatted to Wahlberg, the Pretty Little Liars actress leaned back on a grey sedan while the rain poured on them.
Giggling: As the stars took a break from filming their cop drama, the dad-of-two, 52, was seen laughing hysterically as he spoke with his 40-year-old costar
Handsome: He was dressed in character as Detective Daniel ‘Danny’ Fitzgerald Reagan in a charcoal overcoat, a navy suit with a striped button-down shirt and matching tie
Costumes: Meanwhile, Ray was dressed in a police uniform with a cross belt to portray Eddie Janko, an officer working for the New York City Police Department
To stay warm in the frigid 38-degree weather, the longtime husband of Jenny McCarthy put on a pair of black gloves at one point.
The show, which also stars Tom Selleck, Bridget Moynahan and Will Estes, follows the inner workings of a family and their lives in the New York Police Department.
The beloved show has captured a loyal fan base due to its focus on realism, as the show has a former NYPD detective review the scripts for accuracy.
Natural beauty: Her blonde hair was pulled back in a sleek bun and she sported a natural makeup look, consisting of a nude lipstick and blush for a youthful glow
In an interview with PopCulture.com in 2020, Wahlberg spoke about never wanting the show to end while championing its success.
‘I just know that we’re having more fun than we’ve ever had on the show. It’s still the number one show on Friday night for 10 years and it’s been a great run and I don’t see it stopping anytime soon,’ he said.
And Selleck, 75, told People he thinks the show is boundless. ‘I don’t think there is an endpoint. I think there is a lot of life in the show, as long as you let your characters grow and get older.’
Braving the cold: As she chatted to Wahlberg, the Pretty Little Liars actress leaned back on a grey sedan as the rain poured on them
It was reported that the Magnum P.I. star was suffering from health issues due to weight gain, but his rep fired back that nothing of the sorts was true.
Since the eleventh season began filming they have been following strict COVID-19 related protocol to ensure safety. Typically one episode can take up to two weeks to be filmed, and family dinner scenes — which have become an episodic ritual — can take up to eight hours.
Though many shows filming amid the pandemic have chosen to tackle those issues in their plot lines, the program has taken a more nuanced approach.
A hit: The beloved show has captured a loyal fan base due to its focus on realism as the show has an actual former NYPD detective review the scripts for accuracy
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