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Newsday is reporting Bob Lonsberry, a conservative talk-show host at WHAM, Rochester, has now been fired after more than a week of intense criticism over recent remarks.

It all began when Lonsberry made on-air comments that alluded to the black Mayor of Rochester, Mayor William Johnson Jr., as a monkey and orangutan.

Lonsberry, was first suspended by his employer for several days on September 22. At the time he also agreed to undergo diversity training. But, soon afterwards, Lonseberry angered critics again after publishing a web column that attacked his detractors.

- Corey Deitz

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