How do you feel about Kornheiser's comments, suspention?

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#1 hodges_3_5
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http://blog.timesunion.com/sportsmedia/espn-suspends-kornheiser-for-two-weeks-was-it-necessary/3717/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM9VqH7Jjo0

Well, do you think he has the right to say the things he did? Do you think he deserved the suspension?

I think he deserved the punishment. In any job you won't get away with saying negative comments about co-workers and not expect something to happen. And the comments were kind of mean. :?

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#2 SteveTabernacle
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In any properly run workplace environment, that would result in some punishment. Making such comments about co-workers is very disruptive, and hurt the efficiency of the company. I can confidently say that such public humiliation of one of my employees by another would have very similar results where I work. I take that sort of thing very seriously, as do the other members of management where I am employed.
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#3 monkeytoes61
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His comments were hilarious. "Sausage casing" was my personal favorite. He deserved the punishment though.
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#4 darth-pyschosis
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Are you serious? all he did was say he didn't like a persons outfit and he thought it was too revealing

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#5 dlionsfan09
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to be honest tc im appauled you think he deserved it

you think he deserves to probably be fierd to saying someone looked like a sausage casing and hideous

i guess you never talked junk about your co workers...it wasnt even that rude anyways.....it was funny thats how tony always is

plus that outfit was bad to

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#6 hodges_3_5
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to be honest tc im appauled you think he deserved it

you think he deserves to probably be fierd to saying someone looked like a sausage casing and hideous

i guess you never talked junk about your co workers...it wasnt even that rude anyways.....it was funny thats how tony always is

plus that outfit was bad to

dlionsfan09
I see what your saying, but he is saying this on national tv. I don't think it was right for him to bash her so openly on radio?...tv?
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#7 darth-pyschosis
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If Kornheiser had been working in short shorts and an ugly shirt no woman would've been suspended if they said his outfit was horrifying and too short.

What else did he say? The link only said a few things

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#8 hodges_3_5
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If Kornheiser had been working in short shorts and an ugly shirt no woman would've been suspended if they said his outfit was horrifying and too short.

What else did he say? The link only said a few things

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The youtube video is his whole conversation.
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#9 dlionsfan09
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[QUOTE="dlionsfan09"]

to be honest tc im appauled you think he deserved it

you think he deserves to probably be fierd to saying someone looked like a sausage casing and hideous

i guess you never talked junk about your co workers...it wasnt even that rude anyways.....it was funny thats how tony always is

plus that outfit was bad to

hodges_3_5

I see what your saying, but he is saying this on national tv. I don't think it was right for him to bash her so openly on radio?...tv?

it was on radio not tv......

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#10 hodges_3_5
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[QUOTE="hodges_3_5"][QUOTE="dlionsfan09"]

to be honest tc im appauled you think he deserved it

you think he deserves to probably be fierd to saying someone looked like a sausage casing and hideous

i guess you never talked junk about your co workers...it wasnt even that rude anyways.....it was funny thats how tony always is

plus that outfit was bad to

dlionsfan09

I see what your saying, but he is saying this on national tv. I don't think it was right for him to bash her so openly on radio?...tv?

it was on radio not tv......

Right. But when you insult people at work your not doing it to the nation. :?
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#11 XturnalS
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I think that just verbally reprimanding him would've been enough he apologized already. I didn't think that outfit was as ridiculous as he made it seem at first but I do agree that its bad for the work atmosphere to have fellow employees making fun of each other.

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#12 dlionsfan09
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[QUOTE="dlionsfan09"]

[QUOTE="hodges_3_5"] I see what your saying, but he is saying this on national tv. I don't think it was right for him to bash her so openly on radio?...tv?hodges_3_5

it was on radio not tv......

Right. But when you insult people at work your not doing it to the nation. :?

tc if you find what he said insulting i beg to differ it was nothing ive heard 100 times worse

come on....sensitive people

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[QUOTE="hodges_3_5"][QUOTE="dlionsfan09"]

it was on radio not tv......

dlionsfan09

Right. But when you insult people at work your not doing it to the nation. :?

tc if you find what he said insulting i beg to differ it was nothing ive heard 100 times worse

come on....sensitive people

No offense to women, but, shes a girl, don't you think she is gonna take that to heart? Im really not being "sensitive", but there is a line of making fun of people when they aren't around, and embarrassing someone to the nation.
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#14 peaceoutmedusa
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[QUOTE="dlionsfan09"]

[QUOTE="hodges_3_5"][QUOTE="dlionsfan09"]

it was on radio not tv......

Right. But when you insult people at work your not doing it to the nation. :?

tc if you find what he said insulting i beg to differ it was nothing ive heard 100 times worse

come on....sensitive people

exactly. ESPN is really ballsy to suspend him for 2 weeks.
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#15 muller39
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Im not saying the comments Tony said were warranted but if you see what she is wearing it is truely ridiculous.

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#16 dlionsfan09
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[QUOTE="dlionsfan09"]

[QUOTE="hodges_3_5"] Right. But when you insult people at work your not doing it to the nation. :?hodges_3_5

tc if you find what he said insulting i beg to differ it was nothing ive heard 100 times worse

come on....sensitive people

No offense to women, but, shes a girl, don't you think she is gonna take that to heart? Im really not being "sensitive", but there is a line of making fun of people when they aren't around, and embarrassing someone to the nation.

he didnt even say anything

have you ever watched john stewart

colbert

jay lenno

david letterman

joel mcale

daniel tosh

they make fun of people 1000 times worse

he said he didnt like her outfit give the guy a break its not like he said what don imus did

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#17 hodges_3_5
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[QUOTE="hodges_3_5"][QUOTE="dlionsfan09"]

tc if you find what he said insulting i beg to differ it was nothing ive heard 100 times worse

come on....sensitive people

dlionsfan09

No offense to women, but, shes a girl, don't you think she is gonna take that to heart? Im really not being "sensitive", but there is a line of making fun of people when they aren't around, and embarrassing someone to the nation.

he didnt even say anything

have you ever watched john stewart

colbert

jay lenno

david letterman

joel mcale

daniel tosh

they make fun of people 1000 times worse

he said he didnt like her outfit give the guy a break its not like he said what don imus did

very good point. but its not his job to criticize coworkers, he was supposed to be talking about sports.
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#18 SpaceMoose
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I'm pretty sure that if at any of the jobs I've had I publicly declared that something a coworker was wearing was a "horrifying outfit", management would at the very least have a discussion with me. In some places you might even get fired for something like that. Certainly most places would can you if you did it repeatedly. Why should it be any different at a radio show? Just because some comedy shows and political shows and such have basically no standards at all on what can and can't be said, that doesn't mean everything is like that or should be like that.

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#19 A_Mobile_Doll
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Yeah, I thought Kornheiser was out of line on this one. There was no need to slam a co-worker like that.

Tony is still cool though. PTI is always better with him.