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For a Trump Tweet....

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ABC 7 suspends Mark Giangreco for ‘lunatic’ Trump tweet

WLS-Channel 7 has slapped sports anchor Mark Giangreco with a multi-week suspension for a tweet in which he called President Donald Trump a “cartoon lunatic” and referred to Trump voters as “simpletons.”

Management of the top-rated ABC-owned station released the following statement Thursday: “Mark Giangreco’s Twitter comments are not in line with ABC 7 Chicago’s non-partisan editorial standards. We’ve reviewed the matter and are taking the appropriate action.”

An ABC 7 spokeswoman would not elaborate on the action. Sources said Giangreco would be suspended without pay for “multiple weeks,” starting Monday.

Reached Thursday, Giangreco declined to comment. His agent, Joel Weisman, did not respond to a request for comment.

The controversy began last Sunday when Giangreco reacted to a tweet by Bruce Arthur, sports columnist for the Toronto Star, who wrote: “Donald Trump: a hateful ignorant corrupt simpleton supported by 87% of Republicans.”

In reply, Giangreco tweeted: “So obvious, so disturbing. America exposed as a country full of simpletons who allowed this cartoon lunatic to be ‘elected.’”

Giangreco later deleted the post, but not before it was picked up by Chicago City Wire, a website associated with conservative talk show host Dan Proft, morning personality on Salem Media news/talk WIND AM 560. (The headline: “ABC 7 Chicago Sports Anchor Giangreco derides America as ‘country full of simpletons,’ questions legitimacy of presidential election.”) The industry website TVSpy also reported on it.

Known as much for his sarcasm as for his sharp suits, Giangreco, 64, has been one of Chicago’s highest paid and most popular sportscasters for 35 years. He joined ABC 7 in 1994 after 12 years at NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5.

In 2004, Giangreco was suspended one week without pay for joking about Detroit going up in flames after the Pistons won the NBA Championship. Over a black-and-white movie clip of a city burning, he called it a “typical night for Detroit.”

In 2014 he apologized for a airing a graphic over his shoulder that offended some viewers for its allusion to suicide. A photo of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler was captioned: “Cut him or cut your wrists.” Later Giangreco said: “My remarks were inappropriate, and I deeply regret and apologize for this incident.”

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How does this happen but Mitch lets Julie tweet stuff that's 10x worse everyday ?

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anyone in the history of the world made more money with less talent?

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How does this happen but Mitch lets Julie tweet stuff that's 10x worse everyday ?

because WLS-TV has a policy that forbids partisan hackery. Mitch should adopt such a policy

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Is this the first time that being on #TheRightSideOfHistory has backfired??

Seriously, this is a slippery slope here... If we start implying that [Trump Supporters] have feelings then we're dangerously close to admitting that they're people, which means that we're gonna start hearing the [qualifier] word/s "stupid" "ignorant" "moronic" and "the r-word" waaaayyy more than we heard them during election season! #DangerWillRobinson!

...And then just imagine if we all have to pretend that these "people" matter? Oh my god we might end up undoing 50+ years of work that the term/sentiment "flyover country" put in!

Things were so much easier/better when we could just call everyone Nazi Frogs and be done with it! #TheBoardWasBetterTwoYearsAgo!

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anyone in the history of the world made more money with less talent?


Maybe our current President.

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denisdman wrote:
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anyone in the history of the world made more money with less talent?


Maybe our current President.


Damn, that's 100% correct.

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I bet Giangreco has a higher net worth.

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Fuck Giangreco. Somebody should have kicked his ass when he ripped Walter Payton when he was sick without investigating the facts.


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I bet Giangreco has a higher net worth.


Ill take that bet. Let me know the amount you want to bet.

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$3.00 though I'm not sure how we'll ever find out.

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$3.00 though I'm not sure how we'll ever find out.


I'll pull Mark's last loan application for a mortgage from the interbank document center, and we'll use Trump's campaign disclosure forms to get his net worth. You'll see Mark is worth seven figures and Trump is worth ten.

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How does this happen but Mitch lets Julie tweet stuff that's 10x worse everyday ?


We rip on her for her making everything about Julie... Yet it's so easy to make everything about Julie


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This is just cover to allow giangreco to de-orange his face ala what chuck goudy has recently done


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That was something pretty benign to get suspended for. Is ABC still affiliated with ESPN? How did Keith Law not got suspended for calling Arrieta an Anti-Semite?


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billypootons wrote:
badrogue17 wrote:
How does this happen but Mitch lets Julie tweet stuff that's 10x worse everyday ?


We rip on her for her making everything about Julie... Yet it's so easy to make everything about Julie

:lol: True enough but the point still stands . She disparages and insults large groups of people almost daily ( who almost all make up the stations target demographic ) and its crickets from management . I just don't get it .

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damn he's still on the air there? Sure miss Tim Weigal.


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anyone in the history of the world made more money with less talent?




Kevin James
Dane Cook
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Brendan Frasier
John Wayne

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damn he's still on the air there? Sure miss Tim Weigal.

He's also a regular on Waddle and Silverman

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newper wrote:
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damn he's still on the air there? Sure miss Tim Weigal.

He's also a regular on Waddle and Silverman


His hour or so segments are a boring interlude to an even more boring show.

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newper wrote:
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damn he's still on the air there? Sure miss Tim Weigal.

He's also a regular on Waddle and Silverman
Lot of dead air when Wiegel is on.

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$3.00 though I'm not sure how we'll ever find out.


I'll pull Mark's last loan application for a mortgage from the interbank document center, and we'll use Trump's campaign disclosure forms to get his net worth. You'll see Mark is worth seven figures and Trump is worth ten.


you're going to have to send me a copy of course.

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good dolphin wrote:
newper wrote:
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damn he's still on the air there? Sure miss Tim Weigal.

He's also a regular on Waddle and Silverman


His hour or so segments are a boring interlude to an even more boring show.

There was that one time he made that joke about Waddle. Hilarious....

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anyone in the history of the world made more money with less talent?


if jackson pollock woulda survived to make the $140 mil one of his "paintings" got, then we'd have to go with him...

...but i like to think that since "the jackson pollock meme" was started by life magazine simply asking "is he the greatest painter alive today?" (possible psychological/media operation?) he knew he was a charlatan and that's why he became a raging alcoholic that ended up wrecking the roadster with his mistress in tow #HeHadASoul! aka #RIP!

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Hatchetman wrote:
denisdman wrote:
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$3.00 though I'm not sure how we'll ever find out.


I'll pull Mark's last loan application for a mortgage from the interbank document center, and we'll use Trump's campaign disclosure forms to get his net worth. You'll see Mark is worth seven figures and Trump is worth ten.


you're going to have to send me a copy of course.

Just post them here.

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Giangreco's joke about Payton wasn't meant to be harmful. It turned out that way, but it was just him being a wise ass, which Mark has done pretty well over the years. That said, I am not a Giangreco fan. He's a phony... will NEVER say on the air what he truly thinks of his peers. He also cares less than anybody I know about ANYTHING Chicago sports.


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Based on how much he talks about his beloved Buffalo teams it doesn't surprise me he's not much of a local fan.


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