Sunday, July 31, 2011

Conservative Chicago Radio Host Fired Over McDonald’s Boycott

from TheBlaze.com - Stories 

In a series of events involving one man’s personal family tragedy, conservative talk radio and McDonald’s, the Tea Party and Chicago Far South Suburban branch of the NAACP are banding together to protest against WVON-1690-AM, “The Talk of Chicago.”
Lenny McAllister is a former conservative talk-show host on WVON and mentor to 21-year-old Jentri Casaberry. Casaberry took time off from his McDonald’s night manager job to be at the bedside of his premature son during the final hours of his life before his death at just short of a week old. For not showing up to work during that time, Casaberry was fired from McDonald’s. When hearing the news Casaberry’s mentor McAllister used his talk-show to tell listeners to take a “holiday” from McDonald’s franchises owned by the operator who fired Casaberry. McAllister wrote this statement on his Facebook page:
“Lenny McAllister has called for a “holiday” from McDonald‘s here on the south side of Chicago until those restaurants’ leadership (and ownership) learn to mentor, support, and guide our young people more rather than simply abusing them while they are at their lowest points, only to complain about them once they’re all used up – until then, DO NOT FREQUENT MCDONALD’S on the south side of Chicago.”
For speaking out against McDonald’s, a long time advertiser with the radio station, McAllister lost his job.
The Root, an online news source “founded in 2008 under the leadership of Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr.” (beer summit), now reports that the Tea Party and NAACP is working together to take on the radio station:
“Now the Chicago Far South Suburban branch of the NAACP is planning to protest the station to help McAllister win his job back, said branch’s president, David L. Lowery Jr. And in a strange turn of events, the Tea Party — of which McAllister is a member — is offering its assistance, Lowery said. No date has been set for the protest.
Both Lowery and McAllister alleged that McAllister‘s firing was based on pressure from McDonald’s, a longtime advertiser with WVON.”
The Root reports that the NAACP has already helped Casaberry find employment, and now they want to help McAllister get his job back.
McAllister appeared on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show in November 2009.



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