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Don Cherry fired by Sportsnet over 'you people' rant
The London Free Press ^ | 11/11/19 | National Post Staff & The Canadian Press

Posted on 11/11/2019 12:38:58 PM PST by airborne

Sportsnet has confirmed that Don Cherry has been fired from Hockey Night in Canada over recent remarks that caused uproar.

Cherry, 85, had singled out new immigrants in Toronto and Mississauga, Ont., where he lives, for not honouring Canada’s veterans and dead soldiers.

“You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that,” Cherry said Saturday night. “These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price.”

In a statement issued on Twitter Monday afternoon, Sportsnet said that after discussions with Cherry, it had been decided that it was “the right time” for him to step down immediately. Sportsnet said Cherry had made divisive remarks that do not fit with its values.

“Sports brings people together — it unites us, not divides us,” the statement from Bart Yabsley, Sportsnet president, said. “Following further discussions with Don Cherry after Saturday night’s broadcast, it has been decided it is the right time for him to immediately step down.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: aliens; canada; cherry; doncherry; freedomofspeech; hockey; illegals; mississauga; politicalcorrectness; socialism; toronto; totalitarianism; trudeau
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Sportsnet had apologized Sunday for Cherry’s comments on “Coach’s Corner.” The outburst sparked a swift backlash from the public, politicians and the National Hockey League.

The Toronto Sun’s Joe Warmington was the first to report the news on Monday, indicating he had been told by Cherry that he had been fired. Cherry is reported to have told Warmington that he was hurt to be fired today of all days, given it is Remembrance Day.

1 posted on 11/11/2019 12:38:58 PM PST by airborne
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To: airborne; shove_it; Hat-Trick; SZonian; retrokitten; hollywood; Alberta's Child; Betis70; ...

Hockey Ping!

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(let me know if you want on or off the ping list)

2 posted on 11/11/2019 12:39:44 PM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: airborne

Grapes still has his fastball.


3 posted on 11/11/2019 12:43:02 PM PST by AU72
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To: airborne

Cherry will be fine but it sucks all the same.


4 posted on 11/11/2019 12:43:11 PM PST by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal (NorthernSentinel))
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To: airborne

Cherry, 85.

Fired? How will he ever survive?


5 posted on 11/11/2019 12:43:35 PM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: airborne

So in Canada, a guy gets to keep his job for wearing black face and another loses his job for standing up for Veterans?


6 posted on 11/11/2019 12:44:44 PM PST by hotsteppa
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To: cuban leaf

Cherry is pretty much Too Old To Give a ____, but now.


7 posted on 11/11/2019 12:45:04 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: airborne
“You people … you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that,” Cherry said Saturday night.

Telling the truth ... we can't have that.

8 posted on 11/11/2019 12:45:11 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: airborne

After the Raptors won the NBA title, I suspect you’ll start hearing more and more derision of Hockey in Canada as the sport of “White, Rednecks”.


9 posted on 11/11/2019 12:46:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: airborne

Canada and its sports media are drowning in the PC toilet.

Gertzky for Prime Minister.
Make Hockey Great Again.


10 posted on 11/11/2019 12:47:04 PM PST by rfp1234 (Obscured by Clods)
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To: dfwgator

I’m eligible for full SS early next year. I can live on it alone - comfortably.

I’m remembering high school. I have senior-itis as well.


11 posted on 11/11/2019 12:47:12 PM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: airborne

Cherry has a valid point on “his” immigrants, In Canada, most are from the turd islamic world. We are the crusaders with a crusader history of which they have no part of, no understanding, only animosity of the crusader/ infidel. They are not here to integrate nor learn about our culture.


12 posted on 11/11/2019 12:47:56 PM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: rfp1234
Somebody needs to send Oglethorpe over to the offices of Sportsnet....


13 posted on 11/11/2019 12:48:22 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cuban leaf

December 14.... In full. Bang.
I’ll double dip a while.


14 posted on 11/11/2019 12:48:41 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: airborne

Heaven forbid you actually expect basic CIVICS from immigrants...


15 posted on 11/11/2019 12:49:40 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: airborne
I have fond memories of Don Cherry leading the Bruins back in the 1970s. I was actually shocked to learn he was still in the business after all these years.

I watched a lot of hockey in the 1970s.


16 posted on 11/11/2019 12:52:59 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: airborne
What a crock of sh!t.

Hockey was much better when it divided people, not united them!


17 posted on 11/11/2019 12:53:19 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: cuban leaf

December 14.... In full. Bang.
I’ll double dip a while.


18 posted on 11/11/2019 12:53:51 PM PST by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: kanawa

And Saturday night hockey will suck even more.

They tried this once before few years back.

Guess who was Back? However, this time it is different, it’s the poor emigrants...
Sick, just sick.


19 posted on 11/11/2019 12:54:27 PM PST by NachOsten
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To: Alberta's Child

The best was when the Broad Street Bullies played the Red Army team.

The Soviets left the ice, because the Bullies were too physical. The Philly Crowd started chanting...”They’re Going Home!”


20 posted on 11/11/2019 12:58:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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