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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: rocket surgeon on April 16, 2015, 07:27:07 PM
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apparently not so bright-she was told she was being recorded and continued to spew. ouchie! should espn allow her back? she does look like she has some talent(s) though-heyna heyna
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/04/16/espn-suspends-reporter-britt-mchenry/
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She's a Northwestern school of journalism grad student. Book smart, but that was stupid.
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She did the right thing.
Gotta go Hollywood on that attendant, she had no other choice.
Lesson learned. Never tow a hot blonde's car.
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It's beyond just being stupid. First of all the "I'm on the news" stuff is just ridiculous. You're not Walter Cronkite, you talk about RG3 on espn a couple times a week. The basic discussion was me smart, you dumb; me hot, you ugly with snaggle teeth and oh yea you're fat too. All this after being told you're being recorded and looking right into the camera. As they say, character revealed.
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Not gonna lie Britt really turned me on there.
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Had my car towed when I was a t MU. Not a pleasant experience and tow yard employees have to be the most abused employees of any occupation.
No one is in a good mood to begin with and the fees are outrageous because they can stick it to you.
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It's beyond just being stupid. First of all the "I'm on the news" stuff is just ridiculous. You're not Walter Cronkite, you talk about RG3 on espn a couple times a week. The basic discussion was me smart, you dumb; me hot, you ugly with snaggle teeth and oh yea you're fat too. All this after being told you're being recorded and looking right into the camera. As they say, character revealed.
Its not a big enough deal, so I doubt it comes out, but watching the video, it appears to be edited. Who knows what was said to start it off.
Apparently this towing company is well known in the DC area for potentially illegal towing practices. Her car was towed in a parking lot of a restaurant she was eating in. Other people responded to the story with reports of the company towing their cars out of their assigned parking spots in apartment lots they pay for, that the towing company operates.
I'm not excusing her behavior, but I'm saying there is likely more than meets the eye and this wasn't her berating some helpless secretary at a large company, but likely one of the parties responsible for predatory towing.
I once had my car towed in Chicago because snow covered a sticker, followed the truck to the towing facility, was told I had to wait 2 hours for it to be "processed" but if I paid $250, I could have it immediately. All cash of course.
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I can fully believe that a towing company is a bunch of predatory jagoffs.
I can also believe that the person behind the counter was giving it as good as she was getting it in the parts edited out.
However, McHenry set herself up for failure by acting like a spoiled brat. Her profession subjects her to risks that us nameless folks don't have to deal with and she needs to carry herself accordingly.
Also, I hope she has the self-awareness of why she has her job at ESPN and that she should not have expected a very long career there, even before this incident.
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I always side with ultra-hot women over douchebag towing companies. Always.
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I can fully believe that a towing company is a bunch of predatory jagoffs.
I can also believe that the person behind the counter was giving it as good as she was getting it in the parts edited out.
However, McHenry set herself up for failure by acting like a spoiled brat. Her profession subjects her to risks that us nameless folks don't have to deal with and she needs to carry herself accordingly.
Also, I hope she has the self-awareness of why she has her job at ESPN and that she should not have expected a very long career there, even before this incident.
As was noted above. Everyone sides with the hot babe.
Fact is she is a spoiled, self entitled piece of a sh!t. I hope ESPN fires her ASAP. Then she will do the only thing she can to revive her career ... Pose for playboy.
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As was noted above. Everyone sides with the hot babe.
Fact is she is a spoiled, self entitled piece of a sh!t. I hope ESPN fires her ASAP. Then she will do the only thing she can to revive her career ... Pose for playboy.
Wow lash out much? If only we all could have treated every single person we ever encountered with the utmost respect and kindness like you, even when wronged.
Glad that now a personal transgression in which no laws were broken and no moral boundaries were crossed, outside of being rude, is grounds for someone being completely written off and their job taken away. Good god.
Meanwhile, Stephen A Smith said that women should try harder not to be beaten by their spouses and he wasn't suspended at all. I await your similarly pithy take down of his life.
For me this has nothing to do with "siding with a hot girl" and everything to do with being sick of people grossly overreacting to a one sided story with ridiculous excess.
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Wow lash out much? If only we all could have treated every single person we ever encountered with the utmost respect and kindness like you, even when wronged.
Glad that now a personal transgression in which no laws were broken and no moral boundaries were crossed, outside of being rude, is grounds for someone being completely written off and their job taken away. Good god.
Meanwhile, Stephen A Smith said that women should try harder not to be beaten by their spouses and he wasn't suspended at all. I await your similarly pithy take down of his life.
For me this has nothing to do with "siding with a hot girl" and everything to do with being sick of people grossly overreacting to a one sided story with ridiculous excess.
I have a 20 year old daughter and is she went off on a tow truck company clerk, with that kind self entitled spoiled approach, I was tear into her just the same.
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I always side with ultra-hot women over douchebag towing companies. Always.
What if it was a good looking man sideline reporter caught doing this over douchebag towing company............. would the resulting punishment have been different?
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Wow lash out much? If only we all could have treated every single person we ever encountered with the utmost respect and kindness like you, even when wronged.
Glad that now a personal transgression in which no laws were broken and no moral boundaries were crossed, outside of being rude, is grounds for someone being completely written off and their job taken away. Good god.
Meanwhile, Stephen A Smith said that women should try harder not to be beaten by their spouses and he wasn't suspended at all. I await your similarly pithy take down of his life.
For me this has nothing to do with "siding with a hot girl" and everything to do with being sick of people grossly overreacting to a one sided story with ridiculous excess.
I can promise you that I have never spoken to anyone like that. Not even when I was drunk, or extremely angry, or both.
It's inexcusable.
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What if it was a good looking man sideline reporter caught doing this over douchebag towing company............. would the resulting punishment have been different?
We would be demanding blood.
Hot chicks get a pass. See this thread and how some are doing back flips to rationalize what happened.
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We would be demanding blood.
Hot chicks get a pass. See this thread and how some are doing back flips to rationalize what happened.
Lots of people get a pass....we've learned that here. Excuses, but but buts, history, progress....something.... Not what is said, but who says the what
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We would be demanding blood.
Hot chicks get a pass. See this thread and how some are doing back flips to rationalize what happened.
She's not getting a pass, people are burying her. And anyone who is not is accused on solely defending her because she's attractive. Backflips aren't being done, I'm not defending her, I'm defending the one sided nature of the story and the public overreaction.
Again, I've never defended her words. Most of what she said was cringeworthy, however, I feel uncomfortable when private words at a private business she's wasn't a willing patron of is used to suggest her job should be stripped.
And warriorchick, I'm not suggesting the same vitriol, but if you've never been rude at a bar, on the street, etc, well, you're a much better person than myself.
Heisenberg, would you suggest your daughter be fired?
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As was noted above. Everyone sides with the hot babe.
Fact is she is a spoiled, self entitled piece of a sh!t. I hope ESPN fires her ASAP. Then she will do the only thing she can to revive her career ... Pose for playboy.
Are you slut-shaming McHenry because she got loud in an edited video that the towing company released to generate publicity?
In Jersey, this interaction happens on a slow Sunday night in every township.
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what a difference between jordan spieth and britt. i know i know, what kind of comparison is this? just 2 famous young people with different perspectives on life. one is comfortable in their own skin, the other-not so much. remember, character-what one does when no one is looking, or so ya think
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She's not getting a pass, people are burying her. And anyone who is not is accused on solely defending her because she's attractive. Backflips aren't being done, I'm not defending her, I'm defending the one sided nature of the story and the public overreaction.
Again, I've never defended her words. Most of what she said was cringeworthy, however, I feel uncomfortable when private words at a private business she's wasn't a willing patron of is used to suggest her job should be stripped.
And warriorchick, I'm not suggesting the same vitriol, but if you've never been rude at a bar, on the street, etc, well, you're a much better person than myself.
Heisenberg, would you suggest your daughter be fired?
If she had a job in the public spotlight, and made those kind of statements ... maybe
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Looks like this wasn't exactly a one-off situation:
http://deadspin.com/espn-reporter-britt-mchenry-has-a-history-of-being-rude-1698483713
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Bet she's dirty in bed.
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Bet she's dirty in bed.
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funny !! after seeing that tape, how nasty could she be if things didn't go her way
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Are you slut-shaming McHenry because she got loud in an edited video that the towing company released to generate publicity?
In Jersey, this interaction happens on a slow Sunday night in every township.
I don't think you know what the term "slut-shaming" means.
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I can promise you that I have never spoken to anyone like that. Not even when I was drunk, or extremely angry, or both.
It's inexcusable.
yeah, but is it a hanging offense?
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I don't think you know what the term "slut-shaming" means.
For the sake of brevity, I do.
And in response to your inevitable and pretentiously high horse routine, I couldn't care less about what you think.
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yeah, but is it a hanging offense?
Didn't say it was.
However, I am pretty sure that "likability" is pretty high up on the list as to what ESPN wants in its on-air talent. If this incident causes viewers to no longer find her "likeable", I don't think anyone can fault them for taking her off the air.
Let's also not forget that the woman she is addressing, and many people like her, are ESPN's "customers". How often an employer allow its team members to talk to a customer like this without significant consequence?
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For the sake of brevity, I do.
Well then I guess I don't, because I don't understand how calling out a person for being unbelievably rude is "slut-shaming".
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yeah, but is it a hanging offense?
Depends who said it.....not what is said, but who says the what.
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Let's also not forget that the woman she is addressing, and many people like her, are ESPN's "customers". How often an employer allow its team members to talk to a customer like this without significant consequence?
If middle-aged women were ESPN's customers, Britt McHenry wouldn't have a job at ESPN.
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We would be demanding blood.
Hot chicks get a pass. See this thread and how some are doing back flips to rationalize what happened.
This must explain why ESPN keeps guys like Olbermann and Berman around despite their atrocious behavior toward others. Or why Stephen A. wasn't fired for blaming domestic violence victims for being abused.
They're hot chicks.
Either that or you're terribly wrong.
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I have a 20 year old daughter and is she went off on a tow truck company clerk, with that kind self entitled spoiled approach, I was tear into her just the same.
You would publicly call your daughter a piece of sh---?
Father of the Year material.
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I have a 20 year old daughter
pics?
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I can promise you that I have never spoken to anyone like that. Not even when I was drunk, or extremely angry, or both.
Glow?
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If middle-aged women were ESPN's customers, Britt McHenry wouldn't have a job at ESPN.
Maybe it's not their core audience, but any who are the least bit interested about sports watches ESPN at least once in awhile. And I am sure that woman has a father and brothers and sons.
And if women cared about the same things as men did regarding sports reporters, Chris Berman wouldn't have a job at ESPN.
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Maybe it's not their core audience, but any who are the least bit interested about sports watches ESPN at least once in awhile. And I am sure that woman has a father and brothers and sons.
Look, it's a silly argument. Nobody* is going to swear off ESPN because Britt McHenry was mean to someone.
* Don't be pedantic about this. You know what I mean.
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This thread needs some context.
(http://i61.tinypic.com/dq3vrn.jpg)
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And if women cared about the same things as men did regarding sports reporters, Chris Berman wouldn't have a job at ESPN.
If most of us had our way, he wouldn't.
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This thread needs some context.
(http://i61.tinypic.com/dq3vrn.jpg)
chris berman may have a pair, but not like this
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This thread needs some context.
(http://i61.tinypic.com/dq3vrn.jpg)
That's not Britt Mchenry. Not that it matters that much, given that it's always nice to see "context", but that's Lauren Thompson.
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I had my car towed twice during my years in Chicago. Obviously, I hated it both times. I got pissed and I whined to my wife about it. But by the time I got to the lot to pay the freight, I certainly didn't berate the person sitting at the desk. And I don't think I'm especially noble; I'm guessing that at least 99% of people don't even come close to going off on the person we hand our money to.
When the flight gets canceled, you stand in line to hear your fate -- do I get on a flight that day or the next or whatever. There's always that one jerk who blames the poor gate agent, as if she's the one who canceled the flight. Everybody else is unhappy but doesn't go off.
All you need to know is that, in her opening line, this spoiled little be-atch tried to claim she was important. And she didn't even do it by saying, "Hey, I'm important, can't we work something out?" She did it by saying, "I'm important and you are a piece of $hit."
It's reprehensible. And given that ESPN -- which is owned by Disney for crissakes -- does care very much about its public image, I'm not the least bit surprised it suspended her. Could have fired her, really.
And yes, I think if Stephen A. Smith or Chris Berman was caught on camera doing the exact same thing, either would have been suspended. For ESPN, it's a no-brainer.
As for her being "in the news," pretty much anybody with a third-grade education can be a sideline reporter.