Cari Champion
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Channel 46 weekend news anchor Cari Champion says she was fired last week following an off-color comment that made it on the air.
According to this report by Richard Prince, the station thinks Champion uttered the “MF” word as she and co-anchor Mike Moore bantered during a commercial break. What the anchors didn’t know was that their conversation was being broadcast over the air.
Champion has appealed her dismissal to the station’s corporate headquarters, saying she didn’t drop the “MF” bomb. Instead, she says, she used the word “Mothasucka.” Kind of like saying “heck” instead of “hell.”
It had to have been an absolutely fascinating conversation between Champion and her bosses the next day. Imagine them dancing around the distinctions between “Mothasucka” and “Motha-…” well, you know.
I’m reminded of what George Carlin once said about middle-class housewives who shriek out the word “Shoot!” when they drop the casserole dish: “You can’t fool me. Shoot is shit with two O’s.”
The nation has lost a dedicated public servant and the pro-life movement has lost one of its earliest and most dedicated heroes. Henry Hyde has passed away. Hyde served for 32 years as a Congressman from Illinois, and retired last year.