{"id":14000,"date":"2022-04-06T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=14000"},"modified":"2022-04-06T08:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T08:13:03","slug":"radio-host-fired-for-mocking-vc-kamala-harris-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/04\/06\/radio-host-fired-for-mocking-vc-kamala-harris-clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio host fired for mocking VC Kamala Harris\u2019 clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A talk show presenter alleges she was fired from a Washington, D.C. radio station after mocking Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 clothing during the State of the Union address last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also contributes to the conservative publication The Spectator, where she detailed the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amber Athey, a conservative host at news station WMAL who works on a morning show, joked about the color of Harris\u2019 suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Kamala looks like a UPS employee \u2014 what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently,\u2019 Athey wrote in the March 1 tweet, referring to an old UPS tagline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala looks like a UPS employee \u2014 what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently.<\/p>&mdash; Amber Athey (@amber_athey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amber_athey\/status\/1498850679477227528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>She said there was no indication that the snarky remark had offended anyone until a few days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018I spoke critically of protests in favor of \u2018trans kids\u2019 at the University of North Texas. A group of maniacal left-wing activists who want to chemically castrate children in the name of \u2018gender affirmation\u2019 came after me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of a sudden, the Kamala tweet was being re-framed as racist and dozens of Twitter accounts were bragging about contacting my employers about my \u201cbigotry,\u201d\u2018 Athey explained in a column for the publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her superiors at the radio station and the magazine also received emails requesting that Athey be fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over the past two weeks, I have received a lot of questions about why I haven&#39;t been on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMALDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WMALDC<\/a>. <br><br>I was not sick or on vacation. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WMALDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WMALDC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CumulusMedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CumulusMedia<\/a> fired me for making a &quot;racist&quot; joke about Kamala Harris&#39;s SOTU outfit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kOV9mTLqIA\">https:\/\/t.co\/kOV9mTLqIA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Amber Athey (@amber_athey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amber_athey\/status\/1511022847124250624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A talk show presenter alleges she was fired from a Washington, D.C. radio station after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[172,173],"class_list":["post-14000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-kamala-harris","tag-radio-host"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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