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CNN: The Homophobia Network?

Posted on | May 23, 2014 | 43 Comments

Layers and layers of irony here:

A former CNN employee claims he was fired because he’s gay and wore bright colors and mariachi outfits to work that were deemed “too flamboyant,” according to a $60 million discrimination lawsuit.
William Kane, who started working at CNN in 2002, claims nobody at the news network ever informed him of a dress code or complained about the hot pink designer shirt he wore in his employee ID photo. Nor did he get any guff for the bright red track jacket, neon green soccer jersey or yellow track suit, with matching shoes and hat, that he wore at other times.
“It really saddens me,” the 33-year-old Kane said of losing his job as a microphone tech.

(Via Memeorandum.) In their defense, we can expect CNN to assert that they have never discriminated against sissies, fairies, queens, limp-wristed swishes or mincing nellies. Exhibit A, Anderson Cooper.

Case dismissed!

 

Category: CNN, Gays

Comments

43 Responses to “CNN: The Homophobia Network?”

  1. Quartermaster
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 12:53 pm

    CNN would never, NEVER, engage in homophobic behavior. They’re much too busy trying to cut conservative throats to engage in such things.
    Not that I think firing a kweer is homophobic, mind you.

  2. rsmccain
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 12:53 pm

    CNN: The Homophobia Network? http://t.co/Sps9q6hFkL

  3. gntlman
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 12:57 pm

    RT @smitty_one_each: TOM CNN: The Homophobia Network? http://t.co/baIgkw40kv #TCOT

  4. WrightShumate
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 12:58 pm

    He was fired for being tacky. RT @rsmccain CNN: The Homophobia Network? http://t.co/BGEMWY2JZr …

  5. CrustyB
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:01 pm

    CNN doesn’t discriminate against homosexuals. The termination of Piers Morgan not withstanding, of course.

  6. commonpatriot
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:05 pm

    via @rsmccain: CNN: The Homophobia Network? http://t.co/BvXsiJuocu #tcot

  7. MrEvilMatt
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:05 pm

    CNN: The Homophobia Network?: Layers and layers of irony here: A former CNN employee claims he was fired becau… http://t.co/f8yhSV2n3p

  8. CHideout
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:05 pm

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  9. WeRResistance
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:05 pm

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  10. Citzcom
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:05 pm

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  11. Lockestep1776
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:05 pm

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  12. Kirby McCain
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:06 pm

    “This is Anderson Cooper reporting live from Damascus Syria. ” One can always dream.

  13. chiquitaz529
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:07 pm

    Maybe he just sucked at his job? ? RT “@rsmccain: CNN: The Homophobia Network? http://t.co/bKg6fjfTDh“

  14. Mal
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:11 pm

    Or big girls’ blouses!

  15. AmPowerBlog
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 1:31 pm

    RT @rsmccain: CNN: The Homophobia Network? http://t.co/Sps9q6hFkL

  16. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 2:02 pm

    http://batshitcrazynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/CNN.png

    Ole’

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  18. rsmccain
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 2:40 pm

    RT @WrightShumate: He was fired for being tacky. RT @rsmccain CNN: The Homophobia Network? http://t.co/BGEMWY2JZr …

  19. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:02 pm

    http://batshitcrazynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/diamuertos02.png

    Okay, not an official Anderson Cooper website, but from November 2010! Too flamboyant for CNN?

  20. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:04 pm

    I got to say, Anderson Cooper at least occasionally tries to be fair. Now Candy Crowley could use an assignment to Middle East war zones.

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  22. Dana
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:11 pm

    [lol] The twink complained that he had been weating all of these flamboyant outfits to work, but never had any trouble until a supervisor learned that he was homosexual? As though he couldn’t tell before?

    The truth is almost certainly that Mr Kane was terminated for some perfectly ordinary cause, but, because he is homosexual, he is claiming that he was fired due to that. And he expects CNN to settle.

    T’would be better if CNN fought it, and made public, in a trial, why Mr Kane was fired, which would not only keep Mr Kane from collecting, but would end his prospects of being hired by anyone else.

    Then again, simply by making this public, he’s probably already foreclosed any normal future employment opportunities.

  23. Kirby McCain
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:12 pm

    In the case of Candy Cowley, I think you have to be able to take cover behind a SUV to be assigned to a middle eastern war zone.

  24. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:24 pm

    But think of how many could take cover behind Candy Crowley? Shouldn’t she sacrifice herself for the greater good?

  25. Zohydro
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:27 pm

    Y’know, if you hold down the ALT key and type ‘0233’, you get “é”…

    See the whole extended character set!

    ¡Olé!

  26. Zohydro
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:30 pm

    One could probably cover two or three SUV’s behind Crowley…

  27. Cactus Ed
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:30 pm

    The greater good? Only if they get to eat the beef brisket.

  28. Cactus Ed
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:59 pm

    And a tank, or two.

  29. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 4:09 pm

    Monster!

  30. Paul H. Lemmen
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 5:21 pm

    Heh. perhaps he needs a pacifier to soothe his ‘gay rage’ at being fired …

  31. RichFader
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:03 pm

    Exhibit B: Don Lemon.

  32. richard mcenroe
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:08 pm

    “Queers for thee but not for me.”

    I’ve had markedly less sympathy for gays since watching Cooper and his, er, band of brothers grinning and laughing when they thought the prosecution had a bad day in the Sandusky trial.

  33. richard mcenroe
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 6:09 pm

    Or you could hide the SUV behind her instead. Which do you need more?

  34. Guest
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 7:27 pm

    he wore a fucking mariachi uniform to work?

    lol

  35. Zohydro
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 9:24 pm

    It’s got so bad these days a bloke can’t even wear a festive sombrero and a colourful serape to work anymore! What’s next—Crocs®?

  36. Zohydro
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 9:28 pm

    That’s very creepy in retrospect, nicht wahr?

  37. Jim Bond
    May 23rd, 2014 @ 9:32 pm

    Why someone decided that it was a good idea to attempt to cure AIDS is certainly beyond me.

    At least HIV is already adapting:
    http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/drugresistant-hiv-pandemic-is-a-real-possibility-expert-claims-9420833.html

  38. Adjoran
    May 24th, 2014 @ 2:08 am

    Why? Haven’t they been flattened enough?

  39. Adjoran
    May 24th, 2014 @ 2:08 am

    Who has the brisket?

  40. Adjoran
    May 24th, 2014 @ 2:10 am

    Hey, maybe it was Cinco de Mayo. Or Tuesday.

    Don’t be a h8r.

  41. Adjoran
    May 24th, 2014 @ 2:10 am

    F’shizzle, m’nizzle!

  42. Guest
    May 24th, 2014 @ 5:26 am

    Tuesday… I see what you did there 😛

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