Former WMAL radio host Amber Athey is talking with various media outlets regarding the station’s decision to fire her following a tweet where she joked about Vice President Kamala Harris’ brown suit referring to it as a UPS uniform.
“Kamala looks like a UPS employee — what can brown do for you?” Athey’s March 1 tweet read. “Nothing good, apparently.”
Athey spoke with Newsmax to share details of how her dismissal from WMAL went down during her appearance with “Greg Kelly Reports.” She stated that Cumulus Media executives didn’t fire her in person.
“[Cumulus Media executives] didn’t even have the decency to do it face to face,” Athey said.
“I received a phone call late in the afternoon from two corporate executives, Jeff Bowden and Kriston Fancellas, and they told me that they had been made aware of this tweet, that they had determined that it was racist and that I was going to be terminated immediately for violating the company’s social media policy.”
While her other job as Washington Editor at The Spectator dismissed people’s claims over the tweet, Cumulus didn’t and decided to part ways with Athey. Furthermore, she claims that the media company didn’t allow her to defend herself.
“I was not offered the opportunity to defend myself, and the only way that I knew how to make my voice heard, in that moment, was that I asked if I could make a parting comment for the record, which I think was probably like three or four minutes of me just being really angry and that was it,” she said.
“They said the last communication that I would have with the company was to get my final pay stub.”
Athey also spoke with Tucker Carlson, where she stated that the company chose to “appease the mob if they just fired me.”
“Their first mistake was that the woke mob is never satisfied,” Athey explained. “And the second mistake that they made is they thought that I was just going to roll over and shut up about this.”
“And so I intended as soon as I got fired to very loudly and proudly tell everybody about what happened to me.”
Eduardo Razo is the Assistant Content Editor for BNM, which includes writing daily news stories on the news media industry. He can be found on Twitter @eddierazo_ or you can reach him by email at eddie1991razo@gmail.com.
