Washington editor for The Spectator magazine Amber Athey says she was fired from her co-hosting gig at WMAL-FM over a tweet she posted last month joking about Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; outfit.
Athey announced Monday on Twitter that her absence on &#8220;O’Connor &amp; Company&#8221; was not because she&#8217;s &#8220;sick or on vacation,&#8221; but because she was fired &#8220;for making a &#8216;racist&#8217; joke about Kamala Harris&#8217;s SOTU outfit.&#8221;
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Over the past two weeks, I have received a lot of questions about why I haven&#39;t been on <a href="https://twitter.com/WMALDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WMALDC</a>. 
I was not sick or on vacation. <a href="https://twitter.com/WMALDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WMALDC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CumulusMedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CumulusMedia</a> fired me for making a &quot;racist&quot; joke about Kamala Harris&#39;s SOTU outfit. <a href="https://t.co/kOV9mTLqIA">https://t.co/kOV9mTLqIA</a>
&mdash; Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ambermarieduke/status/1511022847124250624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
The Daily Wire reached out to Cumulus Media for comment.
&#8220;About a month ago today, I posted a tweet during the State of the Union address poking fun at Vice President Kamala Harris’s outfit,&#8221; Athey <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fired-joke-kamala-harris-outfit-wmal-cumulus-cancel-culture/">recalled</a> in an article for The Spectator. &#8220;Harris wore a chocolate brown business suit that was panned on social media — some users compared her to a Hershey’s chocolate bar, while others wondered why she wore the same color as her chair. I went for a UPS joke, featuring the company’s now retired slogan.&#8221;
&#8220;Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you? Nothing good, apparently,&#8221; the conservative cracked via Twitter.
<a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ups-retires-what-can-brown-do-for-you-slogan/">According</a> to The Seattle Times, UPS used the slogan &#8220;What can brown do for you&#8221; until it was changed in 2010.
https://twitter.com/amber_athey/status/1498850679477227528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1498850679477227528%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fconservative-journalist-says-she-was-fired-by-d-c-talk-radio-station-over-racist-joke-about-kamala-harris-sotu-outfit
Athey said her tweet began being reported by Left-wing activists after she &#8220;spoke critically of protests in favor of &#8216;trans kids&#8217; at the University of North Texas.&#8221;
&#8220;A group of maniacal left-wing activists who want to chemically castrate children in the name of &#8216;gender affirmation&#8217; came after me,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;All of a sudden, the Kamala tweet was being re-framed as racist and dozens of Twitter accounts were bragging about contacting my employers about my &#8216;bigotry.'&#8221;
Athey says she was contacted days later on March 9 by management and told her joke was &#8220;racist.&#8221;
&#8220;They told me that the tweet I sent about Kamala was &#8216;racist&#8217; and that subsequent follow-ups defending myself and making fun of the efforts to cancel me were unacceptable,&#8221; Athey wrote. &#8220;I had violated the company’s social media policy, they said, and I was terminated effective immediately.&#8221;
&#8220;They did not have the courtesy to offer me an opportunity to defend myself, nor did they speak to anyone at the program before handing down their decision,&#8221; she added.
Athey and others at the station said that they appealed to management to reverse course, but were unsuccessful. Co-host Larry O&#8217;Connor even publicly posted about the company making the wrong decision.
&#8220;I have been fighting all month to get [Amber Athey] back on O&#8217;Connor and Company and I will continue to do whatever I can,&#8221; he posted to Twitter on Monday. &#8220;We assembled a great broadcast team. I still have hope that [Cumulus Media] will do the right thing.&#8221;
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I have been fighting all month to get @amber_athey back on O&#39;Connor and Company and I will continue to do whatever I can. We assembled a great broadcast team.
I still have hope that <a href="https://twitter.com/CumulusMedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CumulusMedia</a> will do the right thing. <a href="https://t.co/X8POy2hswD">pic.twitter.com/X8POy2hswD</a>
&mdash; L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1511037510100652046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Conservatives are done playing nice with companies that continuously put their boots on our necks,&#8221; Athey told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Whether it’s Disney, Nike, Coca-Cola, or Cumulus Media, we can no longer stand idly by and give our hard-earned money to people who hate us.”
The only solution, she said, is to fight back.
&#8220;I am sick and tired of conservatives apologizing to the left, staying quiet because they’re afraid of burning bridges, or complaining incessantly without taking action,&#8221; she wrote at The Spectator. &#8220;We will only defeat the left’s bad faith attempts at censorship if we fight back.&#8221;
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