Scumbag Loser Reporter Pisses on War Dead
A member of our mainstream media was photographed pissing on the grave of the war dead. His TV station he worked for fired him for being a scumbag. Angered over the loss of his job, and without having the skills required to flip burgers, the idiot applied for unemployment. The unemployment office told him to get bent.
This unbelievable story comes from the DesMoinesRegister here with a hat tip to Drudge.
A photographer for a Cedar Rapids television station has been fired for urinating in a cemetery while covering the funeral of an Iowa soldier killed in Iraq. Gerry Edwards of Center Point was dismissed in December by KGAN-TV, where he was a photographer for 24 years.
In November, Edwards was at a cemetery to cover the funeral procession for Sgt. James Musack, 23, of Riverside. While waiting for the procession to arrive, Edwards urinated on the ground near a cemetery monument.
A journalist from a Kalona newspaper was nearby and photographed the incident. The editor sent the photo by e-mail to KGAN managers with a note that said, “Urinating behind a statue of Mary in a Catholic cemetery within clear view of a public road, not to mention the numerous members of the Army who were on hand for the funeral, is inexcusable.”
Within hours, KGAN officials escorted Edwards out of their building and gave him the choice of either resigning or being fired. When Edwards refused to resign, he was fired.
The administrative law judge who heard Edwards’ appeal for unemployment benefits denied the request, saying the act of urinating at the cemetery was disrespectful, unprofessional and offensive.
This was not the first time Edwards had gotten in trouble with station officials for his behavior in a cemetery.
State unemployment records indicate that last Memorial Day he was at a cemetery shooting video of a memorial service. At one point, he was standing outside a KGAN van, talking loudly on his cell phone. When people attending the service asked him to keep his voice down, he allegedly responded with an offensive comment and said, “I’ve got a fucking job to do here, man. I’ve been here five hours already.”
KGAN received 17 complaints about Edwards’ conduct that day. One caller reported seeing Edwards “get in the faces of people” who had asked him to quiet down.
Good luck getting a job now, Gerry. Your name didn’t show up on Google today. Tomorrow it will and every employer will ask the same question at your next job interview. Someone in Cedar Rapids should send this swine a pair of adult diapers and an application to Pizza Hut. They always need drivers.
