PC out of control

A radio DJ has been fired for uttering a racial slur. This has become pretty common place in our society - someone says something racial and they get fired. The problem comes in that this particular DJ apologized right after saying the slur because it was an accident.

Lenihan had been heaping praise on Rice, who has frequently said she aspires to run the NFL one day but has more recently ruled out seeking to replace retiring Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.

"She's been chancellor of Stanford," Lenihan said on the air. "She's got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon. A big coon. Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that."

He said he had meant to say "coup" instead of the racial slur.

I can understand firing somebody when they are obviously bigoted - say Howard Stern - but this guy was praising Condi Rice saying all sorts of good things about her and the slur slipped out - it was obviously out of context for the statement he was making. Nonetheless the station fired him because heaven knows we wouldn't want humans hosting radio shows.