Charlo Greene – Why She Quit, And Used ‘F-Bomb Heard Round The World’
The Alaskan news anchor who dropped the 'F-bomb' while quitting her job on LIVE TV is explaining her decision to quit, but says she doesn't know why she decided to swear while doing it (video below).
Charlo Greene quit so she could led the fight to legalize marijuana, but believed she was going to fired by the station anyway.
''I had no idea that I was going to use the F-word on television,'' Greene said, appearing on WIBX First News with Keeler in the Morning. ''If you watch the video, you'll see...I pause a little. I was taking it all in, just being present in the moment. I decided to just be honest and my truth in that moment was 'F-it.''
Greene also says quit because she knew the station would fire her for violating a golden rule of journalism.
''There's a certain line that you can never cross, it's journalistic ethics,'' she said. ''The fact that I had been reporting on other marijuana stories and I had a marijuana company that no one knew about. I had crossed that line. I knowingly did so and once you do something like that you don't get to go back. There was no choice, my station was going to let me go.''
Full interview with Keeler:
Greene also expressed her belief that marijuana laws are racist, saying ''..they target this socioeconomic group.''
''Take a simple google search to find out about Harry Anslinger and his statements. The things he used to say about, 'how it makes the darkies feel they are just as good as us.'''
Anslinger - who is tied to numerous racist remarks about pot and minorities, or the 'degenerate races' - was the first chief of the U.S. Treasury's Federal Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930's and the led the effort to federally outlaw marijuana in 1937.
Greene quits LIVE on air:
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