Emmy-winning US news producer's career in tatters after racist online rants, bombing threat

[Judi Lynn]

Source: NZ Herald

Emmy-winning US news producer's career in tatters after racist online rants, bombing threat

5:52 PM Thursday Jul 14, 2016

An Emmy-winning CBS news producer and photojournalist has been fired after a series of social media postings threatening to bomb Black Lives Matter protesters in downtown Atlanta.

Charles Beau Menefee, of CBS46, posted screen shots on Facebook of BLM protesters marching in central Atlanta, saying: "BLM is blocking the street ... but I have a solution! How about we box everyone in and drop a f****** bomb on it?"

Menefee also made racially charged remarks about Baton Rouge police shooting victim Alton Sterling, blaming the BLM protest movement for the slaying of the Dallas police officers.

The two-times Emmy Award winner lashed out on Facebook, calling the black rights campaigners "unevolved, uncivilized turds".

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[dhill926]

1. yeah well...

too bad. Fuck 'im...

[sakabatou]

2. The woodwork. He came out of it.

[still_one]

3. now if they could only do the same thing with 75% of the staff at fox news........

[Akicita]

30. Don't climb down into this guy's cesspool.

[still_one]

38. I am referring to firing the staff at fox news, where they spew very similar racist and sexist

garbage

[Akicita]

39. My bad. I thought you were suggesting the bombing of the fox news staff like this idiot was

suggesting for BLM.

[still_one]

40. no way would I suggest that. I should have been more clear in my initial post so there was no

ambiguity


Thanks

[BumRushDaShow]

4. More

This one is a beauty to behold -

(http://www.mediaite.com/online/atlanta-news-producer-fired-for-posts-about-black-lives-matter-uncivilized-turds/)

And this -

Menefee had previously worked at 11Alive (WXIA-TV). He was nominated for a 2015 Emmy for Ferguson coverage in the category of “General Assignment Report Within 24 Hours” with Matthew Pearl but did not win. (One employee at 11Alive told me the station beefed up security today after the station heard he had lost his job at WGCL-TV. Interpret that as you will.)

In 2012, when Menefee worked at the CBS affiliate WTVR-TV in Richmond, VA, he won an Emmy for best investigative report with Catie Beck.

http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2016/07/12/cbs46-producer-fired-over-racist-rants-about-black-lives-matter-on-facebook/

Makes you wonder if there are others like him out in the crowds of protests who may actually be instigating stuff due to their own racist leanings.

[Judi Lynn]

8. He could never be acceptable as a journalist anywhere but Stormfront.

Maybe his station sent him since he was the most level-headed among them!

There is no doubt whatsoever whomever he would question would also be goaded, and provoked psychologically. He's pure scum.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Joe Madison is talking about this rigiht now on his SiriusXM show.

He also just mentioned this interesting thing that is apparently going on (unrelated to this guy but related to BLM) -

https://mic.com/articles/148449/black-lives-matter-starbucks-cup-names#.Ly8Y6ZVXV

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/black-lives-matter-starbucks-names

[Skittles]

5. there can be consequences for free speech

suck it up, Menefee

[bluestateguy]

6. Disgusting

I'm sure he'll show up to the welfare office first thing tomorrow morning.

[cstanleytech]

7. "whistles" Wow, just wow.

If I ever said something like what this guy did my mother if she was still alive today would wash my mouth out with soap.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. !!!

"would wash my mouth out with soap."



I don't know how many times I heard that one growing up.

[cstanleytech]

13. Oh she did it to us when we were little all right lol

[Johnyawl]

41. My Mom never actually did it...

...but it was one of her stock threats.

[brer cat]

44. I got that too

but only once. I learned that lesson well.

[cynzke]

9. Take Back His Emmy's!

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. They're local Emmys

They make nice bookends.

Meanwhile, check out that groovy haircut.

[Iggo]

37. Nice haircut. Looks like there's some kind of storm or something, right there in the front.

[Proud liberal 80]

11. Unfortunately, He will be hired

By Fox News or he get a hate radio hosting gig.

[Ford_Prefect]

14. I wonder how fast Trump will snap him up?

[glennward]

15. The great unveiling is upon us. There will be many more revelations of folks we "thought"

were decent human beings. I believe hate and racism is a part of some people's DNA. Sadly.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Not DNA, I don't think. I think it is taught by parents from the moment of birth in a million ways.

A million little and big ways, overt and covert. Explicit and implicit. By body language and speech.

"Don't play with Johnny. His family is dirty."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Actually, just like nobody is hindu or christian or muslim in their DNA.

All children are atheists until they are taught their parent's religion.

[Raster]

31. You must be taught to hate.

A large swath of the American education system is sub-par. HOWEVER, the curriculum at Hate University is multifaceted and dynamic. Current and projected enrollment exceeds all targets and projections.

HATE IS the ties that bind us.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. All his co-workers say "We never knew. He was such a quiet guy." Many surely knew & said nothing.

Such extreme racists who advocate violence like that are not completely hidden.

I'm sure his bosses knew he was a racist. They employed him anyway.

[craigmatic]

19. Now I see how when cops kill blacks the victim's whole criminal history gets on display

but the same can't be said to be true when the reverse happens.

[Akicita]

32. What???? If a cop has a criminal history he/she shouldn't be a cop.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Cue faux apology non-apology. "This is not me. I was drunk. Some of my best friends are black." . nt

[mdbl]

21. Just like GWB..

using Kindasleeza Rice to erase any sign of racism in the Repug party and his administration LOL

[Sienna86]

22. Could he be ill? Brain disorder?

Nonetheless, horrible behavior and statements.

[Locrian]

23. don't know

It's ***SO**** vile you'd could almost think he was ill or hacked. But also a possibly just racist, violent, and stupid = not a good combination to go thru life with.

[Person 2713]

24. Why do some have the need to come up with excuses for willful racism?

I think it is a form of denial . The deniers can then pretend hate is not real just a symptom of some supposed disease
I see this a lot with trump. Longtime racist big force on the birther movement for years but functioning fine in a successful TV show and business scams for profit going strong
Now that he is voicing it to large crowds, all of a sudden he must be ill or senile that's what's causing his racist remarks

[sinkingfeeling]

25. +100

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. Could be mini-stroke. But the racism is underlying.

A mini-stroke or stroke can be relatively undetected and can seem to change personality. But it would not introduce racism where there was none. It would only bring out what was there by reducing inhibitions that held it in check.

He's a racist and has been for a long time, undoubtedly.

[heaven05]

27. in regard to "turds"

there is only one before me and it needs to be flushed, it's smelling up the whole place. I would break his Emmy also.

[tonyt53]

28. Ignorant rants like this are the reason that there is support for Trump.

[Raster]

33. Seriously? An article in a New Zealand newspaper about a racist reporter in the US...

...that had no compunction about spewing his racist bullshit across social media --and being held accountable for it-- is the reason there is support for Trump?

[aikoaiko]

29. "...nominated for an Emmy for his general assignment coverage of the Ferguson protests, but did win"

Indeed/

[Akicita]

34. How did he think he could get away with posting crap like that? What a racist moron.

[puffy socks]

43. BLM

should start posting stuff like this.

&sns=em

[gopiscrap]

35. asshole

hope he never works in news again

[puffy socks]

42. Racist buffoon

[Bradical79]

45. So, future Fox News analyst?

He could cover media bias. It'd be a good follow up after Mark Fuhrman gives his policing analysis.

[vinny9698]

46. How stupid can you be, how many people have lost their jobs over

the same thing, putting up racist or threats on social media.
Like this is the first time this has happened.

[Wednesdays]

47. Interesting this is coming from a New Zealand source

No one is reporting this in the USA?