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01/13/2008: "Wrong word gets news anchor fired"

Golf Channel Wednesday night announced that it suspended its lead anchor, Kelly Tilghman, for two weeks in the wake of comments she made last week that the channel deemed "hurtful and grossly inappropriate."

Tilghman was bantering with analyst Nick Faldo Friday after the second round of the Mercedes-Benz Championship when she suggested one way for young players to deal with the challenge posed by Tiger Woods would be to "lynch him in a back alley."

[ Is "lynching" copyright to black people? It was a common punishment for whites who were rapists or murderers as well, when the law moved too slowly. This person obvious did not intend a racial insult because, among whites, we can talk about lynching each other all day. The irony is that she probably was actually colorblind and applied this to T. Woods unintentionally, as she would've with a white person. ]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-kelly-tilghman-suspended,1,1744624.story?ctrack=2&cset=true