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Reminds me of similar comments Shaq made about Yao Ming a few years ago.
Asian Leaders Angered by Rosie O'Donnell's 'Ching Chong' Comments
Monday, December 11, 2006
By Sara Bonisteel
NEW YORK — Note to Rosie O'Donnell: Stick to singsong.
"The View" co-host is in hot water for using the expression "ching chong" to describe Chinese people talking about Danny DeVito's drunken appearance on her show.
"The fact is that it's news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it's like: 'Ching chong … ching chong. Danny DeVito, ching chong, chong, chong, chong. Drunk. 'The View.' Ching chong," O'Donnell said on a Dec. 5 episode of "The View."
The statement didn't sit well with John C. Liu, a New York City councilman, who fired off a letter to "View" co-host Barbara Walters.
"The 'ching-chong' bit is not a trivial matter," Liu told FOXNews.com. "It really hits a raw nerve for many people in the community — many like myself, who grew up with these kinds of taunts. We all know that it never ends at the taunts."
The Asian American Journalists Association called O'Donnell's comments a "mockery" that gives "the impression that [Asian Americans] are a group that is substandard to English-speaking people."
Liu said his office has received complaints from around the New York area following the appearance. He directed his letter to Walters instead of O'Donnell because as producer of the show, he said, she ought to know better.
"It's just stupidity, and it's stupidity that justifies a response," Liu said of O'Donnell's behavior, adding the comments came "from someone who has been indignant herself when it comes to comments made by other people where she has perceived it as being negative against a particular community."
In November, O'Donnell made up with Kelly Ripa, co-host of "Live With Regis and Kelly," after accusing her of homophobia for pushing Clay Aiken's hand away from her mouth on the program.
O'Donnell remains unfazed.
"She's a comedian in addition to being a talk show co-host," Cindi Berger, O'Donnell's spokeswoman, said in a statement. "I certainly hope that one day they will be able to grasp her humor."
On Dec. 8, O'Donnell wrote in her blog "it was not my intent to mock." She clarified her position on Dec. 10, calling the bit "comedy."
"I do many accents and probably will continue to," she wrote. "My mom in law impression offends some southerners. What can u do? I come in peace."
O'Donnell is not the first comedian to raise the ire of the Asian-American community.
In 2001, Sarah Silverman told a joke on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" that had the punch line "I love Chinks."
The NBC program issued an apology to Guy Aoki, the president of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, following Silverman's appearance.
Liu is still waiting for an apology for O'Donnell's comments.
"I think an acknowledgement that it was a mistake would be very much appreciated by the community," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,235842,00.html
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Liu wants an apology. He'll have to want in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first.
It's fun to laugh at Chinamen.
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Does anyone even listen to that dyke?
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Does anyone even listen to that dyke?
Overweight, middle aged, obnoxious dyke's!
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what a lesbian ass girl.
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what a lesbian ass pussy.
Shut the fuck up, nip.
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That councilman guy is so pc he's a pussy... maybe rosie o wont seem so bad if he comes to getbig and we give him the DA treatment!
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I hope they chase her fat ass down and pummel her to death with fat jokes.
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Does anyone even listen to that dyke?
Yet, she will talk about Kelly Ripa being homphobic because she didn't want Clay Aiken covering her mouth.
Rosie, go munch on some carpet >:(
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Yet, she will talk about Kelly Ripa being homphobic because she didn't want Clay Aiken covering her mouth.
Rosie, go munch on some carpet >:(
Uh, wasn't it shown that Kelly Ripa did the exact same thing to Regis Philbin that Clay Aiken did to her?
Rosie's a loudmouth wacko but Kelly Ripa's a useless waste of oxygen as well. No one wins in that battle.
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Uh, wasn't it shown that Kelly Ripa did the exact same thing to Regis Philbin that Clay Aiken did to her?
I don't know, but if she did, she might know that Regis washes :-X his hands, whereas Clay.....
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I don't know, but if she did, she might know that Regis washes :-X his hands, whereas Clay.....
She did it to him. She put her hands over Regis's mouth to stop him from talking. The same exact thing Aiken did to her.
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A few years ago, I actually called the Chinese Embassy here in Sweden and asked if "Ching Chong" translates to something. ;D
It did. 8)
-Hedge