Greenberg's Slip II

In response to the outcry over referring to Martin Luther King, Jr. as "Martin Luther Coon", radio host Mike Greenberg issued the lamest of statements in explaining the gaffe:

I just came home from the Knicks game and found out about the mess that was created by my garbling a sentence on our show this morning; I apologize for not addressing it sooner.
And I'm sorry that my talking too fast - and slurring my words - might have given people who don't know our show the wrong impression about us, and about me.

I feel horrible about that, because nothing could be further away from who I am and what our show is about.

I would never say anything like that, not in public, or in private, or in the silence of my own mind, and neither would anyone associated with our show, and I'm very sorry that my stumble this morning gave so many people the opposite impression.

Greenberg's Slip

The usually articulate Mike Greenberg of ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning, apparently has difficulty in pronouncing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s name as he initially uttered "coon" then caught himself and said "King." Greenberg's explanation should be interesting because it is impossible to view this as anything other than a Freudian slip. The slip suggests that Greenberg has used the term before in reference to Dr. King.