TMC
11-10-2013, 12:31 AM
http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/november/damon-bruce-digs-a-deeper-hole.html
KNBR host Damon Bruce (http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/search/label/Damon%20Bruce)'s terrible rant (http://deadspin.com/sports-radio-host-goes-on-moronic-misogynistic-rant-1460807807) about women in sports (http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/november/knbr-host-damon-bruce-tells-women-to-get-off-his-sports-lawn.html) didn't just occupy space on blogs (http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2013/11/damon-bruce-is-nothing-to-get-riled-up.html) and social media as one of the worst things to come out of sports talk radio in some time. It was covered as a mainstream news story by some national outlets (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC8QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Ftv%2Flisten-sports-radio-host-goes-on-shockingly-misogynistic-rant%2F&ei=A2V-UqTvIpHNsQTFqoL4AQ&usg=AFQjCNGRN-nN5lUjy6kSYvpv9MM6AY_R5w&bvm=bv.56146854,d.cWc) and local San Francisco networks (http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/KNBR-Host-Damon-Bruce-Goes-On-Sexist-Rant-World-Reacts-231190301.html). Perhaps that's why it's all the more surprising that KNBR has remained silent throughout this episode, not even offering a perfunctory statement that they don't endorse the position that women need to stay out of the sandbox Damon Bruce created in his own mind to encapsulate all of sports.
KNBR's silence has been deafening and the program director was even named Keith Olbermann's Worst Person (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAfb5viAIyI&feature=youtu.be) in sports on Friday night's Olbermann.
After defending himself on Twitter, Bruce returned to the air Friday and opened his show addressing his own comments. Bay Area Sports Guy (http://www.bayareasportsguy.com/damon-bruce-calling-me-a-misogynist-is-a-completely-ridiculous-thing-full-transcript/) took the time to transcribe the entire segment so if you don't want to listen to 9 more minutes of this (and who could blame you), check out the transcript and a couple excerpts below.
"Let me begin with a nobody-asked-me-for-it, not my program director, not one person … let me begin with an apology. The point that I was trying to make yesterday went astray when the focus became women. Women was not the point I was trying to make. It was the feminization of the way we now talk about and cover sports. And that applies to a lot of the guys that do it. I did get off track with the whole women … ladies, I love you. If you think differently, you’re out of your minds."
KNBR host Damon Bruce (http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/search/label/Damon%20Bruce)'s terrible rant (http://deadspin.com/sports-radio-host-goes-on-moronic-misogynistic-rant-1460807807) about women in sports (http://www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/november/knbr-host-damon-bruce-tells-women-to-get-off-his-sports-lawn.html) didn't just occupy space on blogs (http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2013/11/damon-bruce-is-nothing-to-get-riled-up.html) and social media as one of the worst things to come out of sports talk radio in some time. It was covered as a mainstream news story by some national outlets (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CC8QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Ftv%2Flisten-sports-radio-host-goes-on-shockingly-misogynistic-rant%2F&ei=A2V-UqTvIpHNsQTFqoL4AQ&usg=AFQjCNGRN-nN5lUjy6kSYvpv9MM6AY_R5w&bvm=bv.56146854,d.cWc) and local San Francisco networks (http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/KNBR-Host-Damon-Bruce-Goes-On-Sexist-Rant-World-Reacts-231190301.html). Perhaps that's why it's all the more surprising that KNBR has remained silent throughout this episode, not even offering a perfunctory statement that they don't endorse the position that women need to stay out of the sandbox Damon Bruce created in his own mind to encapsulate all of sports.
KNBR's silence has been deafening and the program director was even named Keith Olbermann's Worst Person (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAfb5viAIyI&feature=youtu.be) in sports on Friday night's Olbermann.
After defending himself on Twitter, Bruce returned to the air Friday and opened his show addressing his own comments. Bay Area Sports Guy (http://www.bayareasportsguy.com/damon-bruce-calling-me-a-misogynist-is-a-completely-ridiculous-thing-full-transcript/) took the time to transcribe the entire segment so if you don't want to listen to 9 more minutes of this (and who could blame you), check out the transcript and a couple excerpts below.
"Let me begin with a nobody-asked-me-for-it, not my program director, not one person … let me begin with an apology. The point that I was trying to make yesterday went astray when the focus became women. Women was not the point I was trying to make. It was the feminization of the way we now talk about and cover sports. And that applies to a lot of the guys that do it. I did get off track with the whole women … ladies, I love you. If you think differently, you’re out of your minds."