quote="doug - evergreen park"]I heard North this morning say someone was acting "like a little gay boy."
Not sure who he was talking about though.
Doesn't matter.

then I heard Dahl doing gay Lincoln jokes.

What Chet said was stupid, but there's been worse things said and done without reprimand

What Chet said wasn't the smartest thing to say but when does a guy get a break for saying stupid stuff these days? We all grew up with Dahl, Howard Stern , Mancow, Johnny B. and North and Mac and Terry in the early days of sports radio and the stuff that came thru my speakers was as raw and cutting edge as ever.

On the "racist scale" I'd give this a 1 out of 10.

Since when is having money a bad thing?

How do you spell Irish? W.H.I.S.K.E.Y.
It's harmless...and people that overreact to this garbage are simply idiots.

You forget the Dana Jacobson angle...You suspend her, you need to suspend him.

I think Chet did get a break..he was not fired (as he should have been simply because he sucks). He is an alleged professional broadcaster, he knows better regardless of whether he was speaking "off the cuff" or not.

I grew up with Dahl or Johnny B. and I do not recall either of them making an anti-Semitic comment in a manner like Chet apparently did. (I never heard them make directly racist remarks either.) Did they do bits that were edgy concerning race and religion? Sure. As David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls said, there is a fine line between stupid and clever.

Do you honestly think that what Chet said was "raw and cutting edgy"?

Given that it was not a "racist" comment, but a religious one, I do not see how you can even give it a 1.

I'd love to have any company that employs you as a manager as a client. I would be cleaning up your mishandling of such workplace issues and the resulting employment discrimination claims on a daily basis. Add in the anti-harassment training and I could make enough to pay for my kids' college.

What the hell are you talking about?

The "harmless...and people that overreact to this garbage are simply idiots" line. Businesses whose managers take that attitude in the workplace concerning this stuff usually end up needing lawyers to clean up the resulting mess.

Without seeing the CBA, I give AM1000 management an 8, on a scale of 1 to 10, on their handling of the matter as it sounds like Finji had his wings clipped too for his part in this. I give only an 8 because Chet could have been axed given his alleged prior workplace misconduct. I am guessing this is Strike 2 and if there is one more, HE GAWN.

quote="Peter Puck"][I grew up with Dahl or Johnny B. and I do not recall either of them making an anti-Semitic comment in a manner like Chet apparently did. (I never heard them make directly racist remarks either.) Did they do bits that were edgy concerning race and religion? Sure. As David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls said, there is a fine line between stupid and clever.

Do you honestly think that what Chet said was "raw and cutting edgy"?

Secondly , Dahl had a character called "Anthony" (which I loved) and it was a blatant type of satire on Italian men in general.He used the word Wap and diego quite often and the character was quite funny but a lot of Italian guys had a problem with it.

It's the unwritten rule of broadcasting, you can make fun of any ethnic, racial, or sexual group except for The One. And even then, you have to be a part of that group to make jokes. Marlon Brando once tried to point this out before being relegated to obscurity, the last place an entertainer/public figure wishes to be banished.