Steve Lyons fired from FOX

[Andy]

Funny - isn't FOX the network that airs "Family Guy?" I'd love to know how supposedly intelligent people can justify racial, sexual, and about every other possible slur in one case, but not in another.

 

Yeah, I'm amused that the company that canned Lyons for his comments is the same company that has "Family Guy" and "American Dad" on Saturday nights, and regularly has on folks like Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter on its news station.

Kinda counteracting each other there, eh? :wink:

[TruffleShuffle]

Funny - isn't FOX the network that airs "Family Guy?" I'd love to know how supposedly intelligent people can justify racial, sexual, and about every other possible slur in one case, but not in another.

 

Yeah, I'm amused that the company that canned Lyons for his comments is the same company that has "Family Guy" and "American Dad" on Saturday nights, and regularly has on folks like Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter on its news station.

Kinda counteracting each other there, eh? :wink:

 

I guess Fox can make the excuse that "American Dad" and "Family Guy" are comedies, so everyone knows they're joking... but Ann Coulter especially has said things that are so flagrantly racist, and were said in all seriousness. Oh well, at least they canned the crappy baseball announcer. Now if only we could get Joe Buck and Tim McCarver to have a segment in which they repeatedly slur Martin Luther King, we'll really be getting somewhere.

[Geech]

Looks like Piniella disapproved of Lyons' dismissal.

 

"There isn't a racist bone in his body. Not one," Piniella said Tuesday. "I've known the guy personally. He was kidding with me, nothing more and nothing less. It was an unfortunate thing."

[ConstableRabbit]

Looks like Piniella disapproved of Lyons' dismissal.

 

"There isn't a racist bone in his body. Not one," Piniella said Tuesday. "I've known the guy personally. He was kidding with me, nothing more and nothing less. It was an unfortunate thing."

 

Yeah, I read that. Maybe Lou didn't want to comment on it while he was still broadcasting for Fox?

 

I dont know.

[goonys evil twin]

Why does every media outlet include that BS line in the AP report about Lyons "butchering the conjugation"? If a media member were to report that a hispanic player butchered the english language, they'd be chastised as cruel to the poor player who isn't a native speaker. One reporter was actually ripped for quoting Sosa word for word, instead of cleaning it up with a quickie translation. It doesn't matter that he "butchered the conjugation", it's just a loaed phrase to help justify an unjustifiable dismissal.