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发帖数: 258 | 1 White House To Address ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Segment After Protest Petition
Logs 100,000 Signatures: Video
http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/white-house-to-address-jimmy-ki
The White House will weigh in on one of Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Kids Table
segments, after a petition protesting that broadcast logged the required 100
,000 signatures within 30 days. The petition was started after the October
16 broadcast of the ABC late night show featured Kimmel asking a group of
precocious well-dressed kids about this and that, including how to spell
Barack Obama. Kids Table segments routinely feature Kimmel getting
unscripted responses from kids to issues of the day. Big question of that
day: how to repay the $1.3 trillion the U.S. owes China. “Kill everyone in
China,” giggled a little boy named Braxton.
The White House says it will comment on 6-year-old Braxton’s comment and
the JKL broadcast in an online post. White House petition rules require a
petition to collect 100,000 signatures within 30 days – November 18 in this
case, in order to merit response. This petition hit that threshold this
morning. The White House raised the number of petition signatures required
last January, after a petition calling for the deportation of CNN’s British
primetime anchor Piers Morgan, and other petitions, very quickly hit the
previous 25,000 signature threshold.
“The kids might not know anything better. However, Jimmy Kimmel and ABC’s
management are adults. They had a choice not to air this racist program,
which promotes racial hatred,” the petition reads. “The program is totally
unacceptable and it must be cut. A sincere apology must be issued. It is
extremely distasteful and this is the same rhetoric used in Nazi Germany
against Jewish people.” ABC did, in fact, issue an apology, and did promise
to cut the Kids Table segment from all future plays of that episode of JKL
on all platforms. “We would never purposefully broadcast anything to upset
the Chinese community, Asian community, anyone of Chinese descent or any
community at large…our objective is to entertain,” ABC said in a statement
. And Kimmel went outside his Hollywood studio to personally apologize to
protesters, who carried signs featuring Kimmel’s face with an added Hitler-
esque mustache, and who numbered about 100 according to press accounts of
that encounter.
During the segment on which the White House will be weighing in, another
little boy, Braydon, suggested the United States should handle the $1.3
trillion debt by building a huge wall around China “so they can’t come to
us.”
“Should this country be forced to pay our own debts?” Kimmel asked the
table. “Yes!” the tots responded enthusiastically. Same response when
Kimmel asked them, “should we allow the Chinese people to live” –
excepting Braxton. “If we don’t allow them to live, then they will try to
kill us!” little Eva warned Braxton. “We’re going to all be killed,”
weighed in Allie. “Well, this has been an interesting edition of Kids Table
– the Lord of the Flies edition,” Kimmel concluded.
Last January, The White House responded to the petition that had been
created in December, seeking to have Piers Morgan deported for his views on
gun control: “Let’s not let arguments over the Constitution’s Second
Amendment violate the spirit of its First. President Obama believes that the
Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. However, the
Constitution not only guarantees an individual right to bear arms, but also
enshrines the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press — fundamental
principles that are essential to our democracy,” the White House said in
its repsonse. “Americans may disagree on matters of public policy and
express those disagreements vigorously, but no one should be punished by the
government simply because he or she expressed a view on the Second
Amendment — or any other matter of public concern.”
That petition had been created around the time Morgan called Gun Owners of
America executive director Larry Pratt an “incredibly stupid man” on his
CNN program.
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