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Newsjock

(11,733 posts) Wed May 22, 2013, 05:43 PM May 2013

St. Louis TV station fires anchor who claimed he was targeted by IRS

http://jimromenesko.com/2013/05/22/st-louis-tv-station-fires-anchor-who-claimed-he-was-targeted-by-irs/

KMOV-TV president Mark Pimentel says dismissed anchorman Larry Conners “is certainly entitled to his opinion, but taking a personal political position on one of the Station’s Facebook pages creates an appearance of bias that is inconsistent with important journalistic standards.”

Conners was taken off the air last week after claiming on Facebook that the IRS “started hammering me” after he asked President Obama some “hard questions” during an interview. Conners later admitted that his dealings with the IRS began years earlier.

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KMOV reporter Larry Conners had told Obama that some of the station's viewers "are complaining, they get frustrated, even angered, when they see the first family jetting around, different vacations and so forth, sometimes maybe, they think, under color of state business and that you're out of touch, that you don't really know what they're experiencing right now."

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St. Louis TV station fires anchor who claimed he was targeted by IRS (Original Post) Newsjock May 2013 OP

He probably already has a job waiting at the local AM radio screechfest Blue_Tires May 2013 #1

The guy is really, really old. I'm not sure if numbers go that high. randome May 2013 #5

Good! He's a liar. Cha May 2013 #2

A photo of the specimen in question Cirque du So-What May 2013 #3

Poooooor Larry, Sherman A1 May 2013 #4

Ha Ha SaintLouisBlues May 2013 #6

Bet Larry Conners was all up in the air over junior's incessant trips to the ranch, numerous trips indepat May 2013 #7

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)

1. He probably already has a job waiting at the local AM radio screechfest

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 05:58 PM

May 2013

randome

(34,845 posts)

5. The guy is really, really old. I'm not sure if numbers go that high.

Reply to Blue_Tires (Reply #1)

Wed May 22, 2013, 06:06 PM

May 2013

Okay, that's hyperbole. But he was reading the news when I was a child. I suspect he should have retired long ago.

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Cha

(297,532 posts)

2. Good! He's a liar.

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 05:59 PM

May 2013

Cirque du So-What

(25,965 posts)

3. A photo of the specimen in question

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 06:00 PM

May 2013

Actually, he looks more like a full loaf than a mere specimen.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

4. Poooooor Larry,

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 06:02 PM

May 2013

Met him once years ago when I was at the station during a friends interview. I understand from reading a previous article on his "situation" that he had some outstanding irregularities in his finances which may have been the actual cause of things.

SaintLouisBlues

(1,244 posts)

6. Ha Ha

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 06:41 PM

May 2013

Couldn't have happened to a bigger D-Bag.

His wingnut leanings have been obvious for decades.

indepat

(20,899 posts)

7. Bet Larry Conners was all up in the air over junior's incessant trips to the ranch, numerous trips

Reply to Newsjock (Original post)

Wed May 22, 2013, 07:47 PM

May 2013

to Maine, and an inordinate number of trips to raise money. Gee, bet Larry gave junior un-shirted hell over those trips.

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