like when Dick Armey referred to Barney Frank as "Barney Fag".

He must have called him that pretty often when referring to him in private.

Santorum has two "slips" on his resume.

Some people will only get the message once you start fucking with their livelihoods

And it slips out. People who do not use bigoted language do not "slip" and "flub" bigoted language. Ever.

Racist POS. Why are you excusing his racism?

This happens almost every year, because these guys can't not be racist dicks.

He might be a straight-up klan guy that forgot to control himself. He might be a racist that normally knows not to say stuff like that out loud, and thought it would be funny to slip that in there. Or, he might have just got tongue-tied.....after all, people make mistakes (like typing 'sopmething' instead of 'something')

I can't call it for sure, because I don't know the guy. I'd be interested to hear what the people that actually know him have to say.

In any case, I don't have a problem with them firing the guy. Appearances do matter.

Otherwise it’s very unlikely he would have made that slip. I don’t think he meant to say it on the air, but it’s not like “coon” is a common word. Most likely he’s a racist behind the camera, and forgot for a second that he was in front of the camera.

I hear this a lot in Florida by people who think they're being "clever".

Growing up in Texas I heard people say that all the time and I still hear it today from the same sort of racists. If you aren't saying this shit in private it isn't going to "slip" at the wrong time.

His facebook apology is pathetic as he never takes responsibility for his obvious racism, and his wife should goddam well know better because I guarantee she's seen it if not enthusiastically participates. It makes it even more pathetic he would include her and that she would join in.

So yeah, this guy finally makes it to that chief meteorologist position and gets fired a year later because he's a fucking racist. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on. Fuck his wife too and her fake demeanor and fuck all the racists online who are cheering him on. Turn in your resume to Faux, shitstain, because that's the only place that's going to have you and probably not even them. So I'm sure it sucks to flush a college education and 20 years down the toilet for a 1 second fuckup, but thems the breaks when you're a fucking racist.