Happy Martin Luther King Day, Everyone!

A weekend television weatherman was fired after he made an on-air racial slur about Martin Luther King Jr., station officials said.

Rob Blair of KTNV-TV was delivering the extended forecast Saturday morning when he said: "For tomorrow, 60 degrees, Martin Luther Coon King Jr. Day, gonna see some temperatures in the mid-60s." ...

Blair apologized during the station's 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday newscasts.

"On a weather report earlier this morning, I made an accident slip of the tongue when talking about the Martin Luther King holiday, and what I said was interpreted by many viewers as highly offensive.

"Interpreted"?! Oh, I see: You were using Coon as an honorific, and we twisted it all around?

Well, that can happen. We PC thugs do overreact now and again. If that's the case, here, hey, our bad.