Jackson Jambalaya

I hope she wins this case. I think she did a great job.

Give 'em hell, tiger.

Stick it to the man. Go girl!

WLBT - "3 not on your side"

You've got to be a huge piece of crap human being to attempt to enforce a non-compete when you are who terminated the employment. A person has a right to use his or her experience to earn a living.

I believe it was local radio host Clay Edwards who asked at the time, "Will they just give us a list if the things we can't say?" - or something like that. Those who are perpetually offended want nothing more than to be offended by something, anything, it doesn't matter. They just want to make it up as they go.

Phone she cleans their clock. She deserves triple what she's asking for. All.local stations are race baiters, all to get clicks. Time to pay up.

If you fire me, I consider the non compete void. Sue me.

Gray's document is so badly written, I'm amazed. They don't know how to use quotation marks?

As for 'Grandmammy', I googled the term, back when this happened, including an image search. Most of the results were obituaries for very-old women in Appalachia - all of them WHITE. Some of the image results were for an old comic strip, called 'L'il Abner' - set, presumably, in Appalachia (mostly about an extremely-hot Hillbilly stud, and his equally-hot girlfriend - both sexualized to an unreal degree: presumably, this comic was used for prurient purposes, out in the barn...when the fellas tired of the underwear pages in the Sears catalog). One L'il Abner character was 'Grandmammy'. Not one single search result was about the Deep South, or about slavery or nonwhites.

So, yes, this is about PREDATORY OUTRAGE, aka FOR-PROFIT OUTRAGE.

WLBT finna find out why woke goes broke. Give em hell Barbie! Ain’t nuthin’ but ‘G’ thang baby!

I haven’t watched WLBT since.

Her 15 minutes was over 40 years ago!!!!!!

This lady has been a part of the fabric of Jackson for so long I assumed she was older than 51 years of age. The non compete should be void. She has to be able to work. She has a Talented lawyer too.

Fight, fight, fight.

Proving actual intent to discriminate based on race and age is going to be an uphill battle - there is a plausible non-discriminatory basis for firing here. My prediction: Judge Jordan dismisses on summary judgment.

Bad firing decisions do not equal Title VII decisions.

I hope she gets a verdict that drives that sorry station into bankruptcy. How ironic would it be if discrimination claims brought down WLBT given the history of the ownership of that broadcast license? Ha!

MACY HANSON: I'm surprised that, as an attorney, you don't know that intent is not required in order to prevail in a discrimination lawsuit.

I'm also surprised that you have no question regarding whether or not management discussed these issues with plaintiff in order to understand the basis of her comments and to conclude, on such (absent) discussions, whether termination was appropriate.

If you haven't practiced in, say, twenty years, I'll cut you some slack.

Good for her. That was such an overreaction by WLBT and I hope she wins. Its past time to stop playing this mental illness games with the snowflakes.

I expected them to get Wilson soon after. He made a comment about the heat being oppressive. His colleague at the desk gasped and responded that was such a strong word. Wilson laughed it off. She was moved off the desk shortly thereafter.

Did they discipline her after the first incident? The second incident? The third incident? Or, just terminate her. Interesting.

If the separated employee shows that her role with a different employer is in a non-competitive capacity, there is no way a non-compete in an employment contract will be upheld.

The only thing in consideration, here, is her personality and the employer has no right to that, unless she signed away her rights to image, likeness and work product, which is doubtful.

The employer has no expectation of protection of trade secrets since there are none. Whatever skills she takes with her are her own property, skills she cultivated over many years. An employer won't prevail since the information cannot be trade secrets if generally known to others in the profession.

I met and introduced myself to Barbie at the Post Office in Madison 15 years ago, and her smile is not owned by the previous employer.

MACY HANSON: I'm surprised that, as an attorney, you don't know that intent is not required in order to prevail in a discrimination lawsuit.

I'm also surprised that you have no question regarding whether or not management discussed these issues with plaintiff in order to understand the basis of her comments and to conclude, on such (absent) discussions, whether termination was appropriate.

If you haven't practiced in, say, twenty years, I'll cut you some slack.

I lived in Gulfport until Katrina, so I never knew the Pageant Barbie. After I moved to Jackson, I never cared for her. I always thought she was "fake". Like a pageant girl fake, even though I knew nothing about her background. In my opinion, she deserved to be fired. She seemed to me to be clueless about her audience.

@4:03. I practice in this and field and I post using my name.

A bad firing decision does not mean the decision was based upon age or race. She was fired for comments that she made. Whether a good or bad decision.

I've known Barbie Bassett on both a personal and professional level for 30 years, and I can state unequivocally that she doesn't have a racist bone in her body. Her only sin, if any, was a woefully inadequate knowledge of African-American patois.

My television will never see WLBT News ever again and I hope Barbie Bassett smokes WLBTs chicken s__t leftist Democrat a___s.

For too long this country has lacked enough people with the integrity to stand up and tell race baiting fake outrage leftist Democrats to F Off. But that all changed during this last presidential election. While rich s__t eaters like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mark “Favors” Cuban, et al only worry about making another billion, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, Peter Thiel and celebrities like Jillian Michaels and Dennis Quaid said enough, we’ve had it with your love of crime and chaos and anti-children and girls lying race hustling cry baby BS.

January 20th can’t get here fast enough. On day 1 they need to start the process of prosecuting the prosecutors that weaponized the government against those they disagreed with. Democrats proved they would stop at nothing to become rulers of this country so the Trump administration should roll heads, and big time.

Democrats have been a cancer on this country and its time to apply the chemo.

The second happiest day of my life will be when WLBT loses their FCC license for not serving the public interest. The happiest day of my life will be when the Clarion-Ledger ceases to exist.

After they fired her I blackballed that station - TV and web.

Barbie simply got too comfortable in her conversation with black women. In the present climate white women must be very careful when they are either critical or joking with black women in a public setting. There are open wounds that she must be aware of to avoid controversy. It's sad but very true.

I hope she wins and royally big.

Please don’t be another Trent Lott. Show them what good trouble really means.

I remember listening to Barbie The Chopper Chick doing traffic with Capt. Koit. They were close to the I55-I20 split and a big bold of lightning struck apparently close to them. Barbie exclaimed on live radio "Oh Lord!! Glad I have my velcro panties on!!!" I remember it well!

I hope she puts WLBT out of business.

I would have sworn she was well into her 60s.

Jim and Rachel Waide don't waste time on unwinnable cases.

WLBT (Woke Liberals Being Triggered) - 3 one your side, until we're not.