Pgh Shock Jock Suspended for Ted Kennedy Assassination Remark

[RamboLiberal]

YES! Hope the slob is fired!

WTAE-TV is reporting that Mark Madden has been suspended from his 1250 ESPN talk show for comments he made about Sen. Edward Kennedy last week.

The length of the suspension is not known.

Commenting on Kennedy, who was diagnosed with brain cancer last week, Madden said, "I'm very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated."

At orders from the station, he apologized on the air about two hours later. Station general manager Mike Thompson said there would be no punishment for Madden.

Madden did his show on Thursday but has not appeared since his comments were printed in the Post-Gazette on Friday.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08148/885212-100.stm

This jerk's specialties are hockey and wrestling. Since right now the hometown team the Pittsburgh Penguins are in the Stanley Cup I hope this means the management are taking this seriously. He's skated on thin ice for awhile with the station. I really hope they can his lard ass!

Slob's photo:

[NightWatcher]

1. whenever I see "shock jock suspended" I start thinking, Weiner, Weiner (Savage)

[EFerrari]

2. When people like this have air time, we're in deep shit.

That this guy got on in the first place is a measure of how screwn we are.

[DS1]

3. Hockey AND wrasslin! Wow!

Fighting hidden as sport, and entertainment hidden as fighting.

Typical right-wing shitbag

[Junkdrawer]

12. "We play both kinds of music. Country AND Western."...

Blues Brothers

[TBF]

4. Delete

Delete - no offense intended. Did not realize I was in the wrong thread.

[RamboLiberal]

5. I think Madden would have got it for saying same thing about Obama

I think parent ESPN has about had its fill of this clown. He got reamed last year when a listener sent a tape of one of his rants in to parent ESPN.

[TBF]

19. I hope they fire the guy. Sorry, ramboliberal, I did not mean to make

inappropriate comments in your thread & I've deleted them. I forgot which forum I was in. My apologies.

[murielm99]

8. No one wished for that.

Twist words somewhere else.

[TBF]

13. Delete

[Donnachaidh]

16. and just what the heck has clinton to do with the original OP?

Take your rantings back to the muckfest in GD-P. Totally inapropriate to this thread.

[TBF]

17. I'd hardly say a rant, but I have deleted because I didn't realize I was in the

wrong forum. My apologies - I've deleted the comments.

[Virginia Dare]

6. Anybody who would find that even remotely humorous is a very sick person..

no place on the airwaves.

[MidwestTransplant]

7. Ad a little drug addiction/pedophilia proclivities and you have Rush Limbaugh.

[OwnedByFerrets]

11. No, not quite right.......

you have to add the anal cyst for him to be considered limpballs.:rofl:

[tularetom]

9. Do these guys do nothing but sit and stuff their face?

A lot of them are real lardasses.

[malaise]

10. He should be fired n/t

[devilgrrl]

14. Oooooh - he big and tough - I'm scared!

:sarcasm:

Typical doughy balding white asshole. Bet he makes fun of fat chicks too.

[devilgrrl]

15. A little frustrated with the Penguins getting swept in the Stanley Cup finals?

Go Red Wings Go!

[livetohike]

18. Finally. I'm amazed he's made it on air this long.

Where do I sign to get him fired?

[RamboLiberal]

20. Link to station contact page

http://stations.espn.go.com/stations/espnradio1250/story?id=contactus

[livetohike]

23. Thanks RamboLiberal

:hi:

[jedr]

21. Madden is a blow hard jock;

However he is good on sports.....best he leave politics alone.

[RamboLiberal]

24. I'd rather listen to Stan Savrin who is great on Pittsburgh Sports

And is a gentleman to callers and a staunch Democrat to boot!

BTW, another Pittsburgh sports talker John Steigerwald is now doing political talk on KDKA in the evening. And he's another mostly libertarian/RW know-it-all. His brother Bill is a columnist for Richard Mellon-Scaife's rag The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

I'm hoping Obama wins in 2008 cause I want to send John Steigerwald a toy drum the day after the election. He keeps claiming McCain will beat Obama like a rented drum.

[jedr]

28. It's a shame, seems sports was the last place you could go;

to get away from the political B.S. Good luck with the drum thing, sounds like a plan.

[politicasista]

22. Sick

:grr: :puke:

[lpbk2713]

25. " ... Thompson said there would be no punishment for Madden"

No worries. The BushCo FCC is in power. It's in the bag.

:sarcasm:

[RamboLiberal]

26. Maybe he got canned - they are not calling the show by his name

There was a significant change today when Eddie Crow moved over from his regular 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. spot on the "Junker and Crow Show" to fill in, along with Chris Mack. When the show came on the air it was not referred to as "The Mark Madden Show." No name for the show was used.

Calls placed to Thompson Tuesday were not returned.

From OP article. Usually when the drop the host's name they are a goner. I hope so.

[mitchum]

27. He looks like Greg Allman after he ate the rest of the band