Radio host suspended for airing anti-Palin protesters' phone numbers

Radio host suspended for airing anti-Palin protesters' numbers

By Julia O'Malley | Anchorage Daily News

Anchorage AM radio host Eddie Burke has been suspended for a week for broadcasting the phone number of women involved in organizing a protest against Sarah Palin.

The women later received threatening phone calls.

In a statement, KBYR-AM 700 station manager Justin McDonald said broadcasting the numbers last week was "breaking station policy." Burke will be suspended for one week without pay, he said.

"Though I do not agree with some of the comments he made, as a licensee, we attempt to respect everyone's First Amendment rights, including Eddie Burke's, our listeners' and our nonlisteners'," McDonald's statement said. "That does not mean I condone inciting violence or harm in any way to people wanting to voice their opinions with peaceful protest."

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I have some extra time to kill!

should be held accountable and whadda know?!

There's first Amendment rights and then there's a man who took away other's amendments by probably causing threats against the lives of others. He deserves jail time.

with the Hate that crack head spews those ladies are lucky to still be alive

Complicity to Terrorist Threats comes readily to mind

And for every other radio station to make him the last person on earth they'd hire.