NBC’s Today Show Top Story: Making Fun of the Chinese
What the filth-flarn-filth?
So I guess NBC’s Today’s show finds racism against Asians to be funny.
Yeah. Hilarious. Can’t. Stop. Laughing. It’s right up there with the racist black jokes. Where’s Michael Richards? Maybe he can put it into his comedy routine.
I was watching E’s “The Soup” and caught a clip of Al Roker and some other woman (I couldn’t tell who it was) going into a store asking a chinese female clerk if she could help them find a gift for a person they believe to be the clerk’s cousin. Then they pull out a picture of Kathy Lee Gifford.
See, Kathy is supposed to be the clerks’s cousin because Kathy’s maiden name is Lee. And the clerk’s name is probably Lee because she’s Chinese. So they’re cousins. That’s comedy.
Get it? No?!
Well, they do. So much they revamped the joke from a few days ago when Kathy Lee recounted how Al called her up on her birthday with a fake Chinese accent.
The Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA) didn’t find the joke funny either and sent NBC a letter complaining about the behavior. I’m surprised that the AAJA even watches the NBC morning show; it’s not as if the Today show delivers the news.
I guess we should just lighten up because I’m sure if Al Roker saw anything that even broached making fun of African Americans that others would find offensive then he would just laugh it off, wouldn’t he?
