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05-20-2007, 08:55 AM
I've been on here like crazy and havn't seen this posted anywhere. They go on to print the whole conversation:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/16/gibson-joke/
Viewers Force Gibson To Apologize For Airing Joke About ‘Ejaculating In A Woman’s Eye’
Radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony were recently suspended from XM Satellite Radio “when they broadcast May 9 the rantings of a character they call Homeless Charlie, who fantasized about having violent sex with Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Queen Elizabeth II.”
On Monday, “stand-up comic” Patrice O’Neal appeared as a guest on John Gibson’s Fox News show, The Big Story, and defended Opie and Anthony. He said they were just “trying to be funny,” adding that he has a “couple” of “pretty good” **** jokes in his HBO special. As an example, he cited a “donkey punch” joke: “[I]t’s ejaculate in her eye and kick her in the shin and she walks around like arrgh, it’s the angry pirate.”
When Gibson argued that “you can’t say just anything on the air” (even though he aired the “joke”), O’Neal claimed, “You can say anything you want.” Watch it:
O’Neal also criticized Gibson’s other guest, Sonia Ossorio, and her organization, the National Organization of Women, for “not representing the nappy ho part, she’s representing just the ho. The nappy headed part, she has nothing to do with, just the ho.”
Viewers, understandably, were outraged that Gibson’s show, which is on at 5:00 PM ET, aired O’Neal’s remarks. One viewer wrote in and said that Gibson “blew it yesterday,” and that women need to “raise all sorts of heck against this man and others who degrade women of any race.” To his credit, Gibson apologized:
Patrice said something which should never have been aired and for those of you who heard it, I apologize. There are rules governing this business and what he said violated those rules. It’s my show and it’s my fault, and I apologize sincerely to all and any who were offended. And that is your word.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/16/gibson-joke/
Viewers Force Gibson To Apologize For Airing Joke About ‘Ejaculating In A Woman’s Eye’
Radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony were recently suspended from XM Satellite Radio “when they broadcast May 9 the rantings of a character they call Homeless Charlie, who fantasized about having violent sex with Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Queen Elizabeth II.”
On Monday, “stand-up comic” Patrice O’Neal appeared as a guest on John Gibson’s Fox News show, The Big Story, and defended Opie and Anthony. He said they were just “trying to be funny,” adding that he has a “couple” of “pretty good” **** jokes in his HBO special. As an example, he cited a “donkey punch” joke: “[I]t’s ejaculate in her eye and kick her in the shin and she walks around like arrgh, it’s the angry pirate.”
When Gibson argued that “you can’t say just anything on the air” (even though he aired the “joke”), O’Neal claimed, “You can say anything you want.” Watch it:
O’Neal also criticized Gibson’s other guest, Sonia Ossorio, and her organization, the National Organization of Women, for “not representing the nappy ho part, she’s representing just the ho. The nappy headed part, she has nothing to do with, just the ho.”
Viewers, understandably, were outraged that Gibson’s show, which is on at 5:00 PM ET, aired O’Neal’s remarks. One viewer wrote in and said that Gibson “blew it yesterday,” and that women need to “raise all sorts of heck against this man and others who degrade women of any race.” To his credit, Gibson apologized:
Patrice said something which should never have been aired and for those of you who heard it, I apologize. There are rules governing this business and what he said violated those rules. It’s my show and it’s my fault, and I apologize sincerely to all and any who were offended. And that is your word.