Breaking news from The Philippine Onion:
Producers of the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart have apologized to Filipinos who took offense at the segment starring Samantha Bee titled "Are we ready for a woman president?" In that segment, the word 'slut!' was scrawled on a tv picture of former President Corazon Aquino.
The alleged slur came on the heels of the outrage sparked by the season opener of Desperate Housewives, which had the character played by Teri Hatcher wanting to verify whether her doctor came from a med school in the Philippines. ABC, show producer, has already clarified that it did not mean to disparage Filipino health professionals.
In the public apology, Jon Stewart explained that they had the wrong Philippine woman president. But in a further insult, Samantha (won't let it) Bee asked Philippine journalists to check the word 'satire,' used to refer to the program.
Anonymous sources told the Philippine Onion that in a forthcoming episode, Bee is shown further taunting Filipinos (she called them Flips). "Supercallifragilisticexpialidocious! I totally misunderestimated your low self-esteem. You get piqued by such petty issues. "Get a life!" she said. The segment is titled "Are you ready to impeach your woman president?"
If you lose your sense of hunor, Bee said, I will stop eating Filipinos. (A brand of delectable Spanish cookies).
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Jon Stewart Apologizes to Filipinos
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Am very familiar with American comedy and satire. I don't have any problem with it at all personally because we are all able to do it with so much aplomb. But the unsaid issue is still political because who IS Jon Stewart anyway? Well he's just about the most liberal of the moonbats on tv. So when folks who like his politics suddenly discvover that he can be just a wee bit too flippant and ignorant, they begin to suspect that the rest of his politics maybe just as flawed and tainted, even if he is often very funny.
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