Jericho Asks Facebook Following: "Did Blunt Gun Me?"
Vincent David Jericho is asking his own questions about Springfield insiders' speculation that he no longer works for KSGF because of "his constant barrage of attacks on Congressman Roy Blunt and Mavis Busiek."
On his Facebook page, he writes: "Dave Cantanese saying Blunt had something to do with my firing. Go here and fast forward to 24:30. I did not want to believe this... Go listen. Am I naive. Did Blunt gun me?"
Last week, former KY3 reporter Dave Catanese said the following about Jericho's departure from KSGF in an online interview:
I talked to some political people yesterday, and they, you know, they're hinting that this definitely had to do with his constant barrage of attacks on Congressman Roy Blunt and Mavis Busiek, the 7th District [Congressional Republican Committee] Executive Director. They're not saying that Roy Blunt got somebody fired, but they're saying that there was a build up there and that had to do something with him leaving.
Now, we don't know if he left, or if he was fired, or how that went down -- that's why, you know, we'd like to hear from him about it to know more.
Details are still fuzzy, but it's interesting timing, at least. I mean, he'd been there about five years, and was pretty controversial with a lot of the stuff he said, but he did have a following. So it it's going to be interesting to see where those people, his listeners, go and what they say about this and who they blame.
Jericho is not a fan of Blunt's. In August, he made national news with this exchange with RNC Chairman Michael Steele:
JERICHO: “But I’ve also made my career here by challenging Baby Blunt [former Gov. Matt Blunt] and how he just absolutely, ah, betrayed every single Missourian that worked so hard to get him elected on the ridiculous stand he took where he redefined what cloning is. And this is supposed to be a Republican governor. He’s not governor anymore for good reason.
“His [Matt Blunt’s] daddy [Roy] screwed around with a tobacco lobbyist. Then slips language into the homeland security bill favorable to the tobacco lobbyist. I mean here is a guy that has committed adultery multiple times. Yet he had a senior position, and still does, in the Republican Party. Guys like Papa Blunt make us sick to our stomach. They aren’t conservatives, and they sure don’t reflect moral absolutes the way that we expect the Republican Party to stand up. You had the page boy scandal, you had all of that crap, and nobody stands up to it and says, ‘This is crap! What are you doing? [Steele tries to cut in; unintelligible] Behave like a man – not like, not like little boys who are running around with their little toy and can’t behave themselves.”
STEELE: Look, now don’t, don’t – I mean, I agree with you. And when stuff gets in the crapper, you gotta clean it out."
