Going Short on Long
/Yesterday, FTVLive told you that KPSP Anchor Kris Long was in hot water after making a post to Facebook that was wrong on many levels.
First, Long came out in support of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. He calls the claims of Kavanaugh’s sexual assault in high school as “misbehaving.”
Bot it got worse, in the post Long went on to say, “One thing for certain, I will never be nominated for the Supreme Court! Were that to happen, I have to admit thay might have to enlarge the Senate hearing room to accommodate all the young woman from the mid to late 1960’s who felt I had tried to go a bit too far!”
A News Director that knows the Palm Springs market well, sent along this email to FTVLive, “Absolutely nothing could derail the (KSPD) Channel 2 locomotive. Except maybe the Channel 2 anchor admitting he “went too far” with a bunch of girls in the 60s. No more social media for this blockhead.”
Sources tell FTVLive that the station has received a number emails demanding that Long be fired from the station for “basically admitting to sexual assault.”
One insider tells FTVLive that the station is also getting emails in support of Long, “but it seems more are critical.”
Long deleted the post and kind of sort of said he was sorry.
He was taken off the air and the station is making no comments other than to say they did not agree with his initial post.