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Tony Bruno Show future?

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tomficker

I can't believe his comments on Friday's program have been reposted just about everywhere. I know we discussed his future not too long ago but I imagine he will have a difficult time surviving this week on air.
 
You're surprised it was posted everywhere and I'm surprised this is the first topic on it. Imus got canned for his comments and so did Mike Baczik for his comments about Mexicans in San Antonio. I think Bruno could face the same fate. Will this clear the way for a Nick and Artie show in the same slot?
 
tomficker said:
I can't believe his comments on Friday's program have been reposted just about everywhere. I know we discussed his future not too long ago but I imagine he will have a difficult time surviving this week on air.
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Why? Why would he not survive the week when about a minute after he said it and tweeted it and put it on Facebook he apologized.

Honestly, people have such thick heads when it comes to this stuff. He apologized for what he said and that should be it. I'm really sick of people in our society saying one dumb thing and then getting punished for it just because the person made a simple mistake.

How many people have said stupid things on the air and then had to deal with the consequences just because some person or group of people were listening or watching and said "Oh my word, why did he or she say that?" or something similar.

No disrespect to anyone at all, but this kind of thing drives me nuts. People who take the time to watch tv or listen to radio and complain about something probably have no lives to begin with. It's people like them who have created our current society where you can't even cough without someone being offended.

I really hope Tony doesn't lose his job over this because he is funny, entertaining and informative. He's a great talent and shouldn't be called a racist because of one dumb remark. I listen to his show regularly and he covers sports subjects that other hosts won't touch with a ten foot pole.

Like for example: he's the only host I know of who has a caller who does a weekly arena football report. Now seriously, what other sports radio show is going to let that sport be talked about besides him? No one that's who

Just let him alone and let Tony do his job. He made a mistake and owned up to it, just let him be and let him do his show.
 
Been a bad run for Bruno the last few weeks. He gets dumped after 16 years from his daily segment on KNBR 680 with Gary Radnich, and now this.

I can't imagine KNBR keeps him on the air with his night show on 1050. The Giants have had a host fired in the past for making comments like this, and I can't imagine this will stand.

Read this...

http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22297882/31175608

Yes, Tony apologized...but he did it in the first place. Twitter continues to be the place where a dump button can't protect someone.
 
Scoobyfan1 said:
tomficker said:
I can't believe his comments on Friday's program have been reposted just about everywhere. I know we discussed his future not too long ago but I imagine he will have a difficult time surviving this week on air.
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Why? Why would he not survive the week when about a minute after he said it and tweeted it and put it on Facebook he apologized.
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I agree with you but just looking at the track record of others who found themselves in similar situations mentioned above and also don't forget Larry Krueger in San Francisco, it seems to always end in a dismissal. This case is even more interesting becauseFox/Directv might have been going in a different direction anyway next month if you believe Artie Lange's initial comments.
 
Scoobyfan1 said:
Why? Why would he not survive the week when about a minute after he said it and tweeted it and put it on Facebook he apologized.

Honestly, people have such thick heads when it comes to this stuff. He apologized for what he said and that should be it. I'm really sick of people in our society saying one dumb thing and then getting punished for it just because the person made a simple mistake.

How many people have said stupid things on the air and then had to deal with the consequences just because some person or group of people were listening or watching and said "Oh my word, why did he or she say that?" or something similar.

No disrespect to anyone at all, but this kind of thing drives me nuts. People who take the time to watch tv or listen to radio and complain about something probably have no lives to begin with. It's people like them who have created our current society where you can't even cough without someone being offended.

I really hope Tony doesn't lose his job over this because he is funny, entertaining and informative. He's a great talent and shouldn't be called a racist because of one dumb remark. I listen to his show regularly and he covers sports subjects that other hosts won't touch with a ten foot pole.

Like for example: he's the only host I know of who has a caller who does a weekly arena football report. Now seriously, what other sports radio show is going to let that sport be talked about besides him? No one that's who

Just let him alone and let Tony do his job. He made a mistake and owned up to it, just let him be and let him do his show.
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Here's part of Bruno's written apology:
Saddened to see the vulture mentality and bad knowledge by the many who have joined the sheep on facebook,twitter and blogs who did not hear my radio show yet jump to conclusions about me without knowing a single thing about me or my 40 year career. My stupid and insensitive twitter post was up less than 1 minute before I realized it was caustic, it was removed immediately and I typed a quick apology on twitter and here.
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So many years in broadcasting to Bruno's credit, but he couldn't be bothered to think about how caustic and ill-received his words would be before he published them?

He knew better, he just didn't do better. Someone who's worked in front of hot microphones should be the very one to know the consequences of what they say--Twitter being just one more extension of published media.

Fire him--for his stupid, slur-dripping tweet, and for the stupid attempt to explain it away.
 
I heard some radio hosts bring up a good point: he had enough sense to call Bochy a coward but not enough sense to use words other than illegal alien. It can only be interpreted as racist.

It was funny how he called everyone else 'name-callers' when this whole thing began with his own name-calling.

I bet JT is quietly LOVING this controversy.
 
To me, the "illegal alien" comment was incredibly stupid, but it doesn't rise to the level of Imus's comments. While it doesn't have any place in sports talk, or any kind of talk, to end his show sounds like an overreaction. Let him apologize profusely and let the chips fall where they may.

His sparring with Bochy is another matter. It's not the first time a MLB manager and a sports commentator have gone at it.

I didn't realize he was taken off KNBR. I don't listen to Tony's regular show, but I've gotten a huge kick out of him and Radnich "doing their thing."
 
Bruno made a comment I find distasteful, but should it get him fired? NO.

He apologized. Does that make it OK? No. If he didn't apologize should he have been fired? NO!

Correct me if I'm wrong but he didn't call for violence against Ramon Ramirez or any other person, did he?

This politically correct BS is getting out of hand!!!

If Bruno's comments were offensive to you turn the channel & if his rating drop he will get fired; otherwise he should be able to say what he wants.

If Bruce Bochy & the PC thought police don't like it-- go pound salt.
 
You can't call someone an illegal alien, but you can members of a political party TERRORISTS and that's acceptable. This country is messed up.
 
zrl said:
This politically correct BS is getting out of hand!!!

If Bruno's comments were offensive to you turn the channel & if his rating drop he will get fired; otherwise he should be able to say what he wants.

If Bruce Bochy & the PC thought police don't like it-- go pound salt.
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I don't think I've seen a lazier defense of Bruno. Again, the pitcher he referred to wasn't an illegal alien at all--and Bruno brought said pitcher into a tweet that was supposedly a complaint about the baseball manager.

Political correctness didn't hurt Tony Bruno, decorum and factual accuracy did.
 
KevinLJ said:
You can't call someone an illegal alien, but you can members of a political party TERRORISTS and that's acceptable. This country is messed up.
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When Bruno gives further voice to the use of that term to slur Latin people as a whole, something many people on one side of the aisle seem to think is A-OK--yeah, I imagine there are a few thinking people who'd have a problem with that.

As for your complaint about the country being 'messed up', I completely agree: Lupe Fiasco should have never called the POTUS a terrorist. I assume that's precisely the non-Biden incident you were referring to...or not.

Stupidity holds no political exclusivity, don't even start with a posit that it does.
 
Sounds like Don Martin & Co. are in preemptive strike mode regarding any future Twitter scandals....Petros Papadakis tweeted the following about an hour ago:
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I'm tweeting during a Fox Sports seminar on twitter...I'm wacky in that way-p
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If only we had a rage-o-meter:

Is this an "Imus" (nappy headed hoes=fired)?
Is this an "Obermann" (I sent money to Dem. candidates=suspension)?
Is this a "Schultz" (I called Laura Ingram a slut=suspension)?
Is this a "Geraldo) (I called Casey Anthony a slut=nothing)?
 
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