News Anchor Compares Black Co-Anchor to Gorilla: ‘He Kinda Looks Like You’

He looks like he's about to jump out of his seat

Well she actually looks like a baboon.

I'm sorry... this is so awful... but it's kinda hilarious. What a fucking idiot she is. What a terrible, stupid thing to say.

Bubble Headed Bleach Blonde comes on at 5....

Holy shit, she wasn't fired?!

Oklahoma is another fucking planet. 🤣

What the actual fuck? If she is this fucking stupid, she doesn't need to be in this line of business. Just goes to show she sucked the right dick cuz no way this dumb bitch got the job on the merits.

Anyone else think it's funnier that the station is called Koco?

White chicks can say anything.

AMATEUR!

[quote]What the actual fuck? If she is this fucking stupid, she doesn't need to be in this line of business.

I think she's in the exact line of business. It's local news.

Fox News has offered her more money and a prime time show.

They're fucking, so all is forgiven.

Trump has offered her VP.

Meanwhile, she looks like a cast double for White Chicks.

“He looks like he's about to jump out of his seat”

Because he’s thinking: ‘I’m about to become an 800 pound gorilla, bitch.’

[quote]White chicks can say anything.

Perhaps when they’re blonde, young and pretty because an older, overweight and highly powerful Hollywood comedienne lost her show and entire career to a tamer racist comment.

He pings.

As always, nothing like the good ol’ water works to soften up the hurt or offended party.

If you want to be a tough career person you need to step up to the plate and not resort to crying when you think it will benefit you.

There’s no crying in baseball!

If it truly was an off the cuff joke about his love of mugging for the camera or whatever, said without thinking then she should have immediately realized as it popped out of her mout and been mortified. She didn't so clearlyit was just racism disguised as friendly banter, or she's too stupid to live.

He sure doesn't look forgiving in that shot but he was probably forced to say it.

Strange to start a thread about someone being racist and then make repeated racist comments about the racist in the story. Typical LSA bullshit.

He did look like the gorilla and he agreed. Whatever.

I don’t know this woman but I know the type and she would have made the same remark to a white guy. Cutesy TV news banter, not a racially motivated attack on her coworker’s appearance. Sheesh.

R22, let me guess. You’re white.

r23, let me guess, you're a homophobic, jesus loving, racist, obese, flyover frau spreading her toxic braindead drivel from LSA.

Everyone was thinking it.

Anyone who thinks Roseanne didn't deserve to lose her show is fucking nuts. She Tweeted “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” That's not funny, and I Ioathe Jarret. Roseanne can fuck off.

Agreed. That’s why I think this woman should have also been fired.

I don't think it was intentionally racist. She failed to make the connection when she was goofing on his mugging for the camera.

Actually, in a weird way it's kind of anti-racist. She didn't automatically avoid the comment because it never even occurred to her that anyone would seriously equate an AA human with an ape.

Real racists, the truly dangerous ones, would never make that mistake.

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Bill Maher got sued because he called Trump an orangutan. And Trump lost. Then he took his birth certificate up to the judge and said: "see it doesn't say Orangutan" as if it would.

Lots of people admit to looking like animals.

Has anyone done a side-by-side comparison to determine definitively that the man DOES NOT look like the gorilla? Hmmm???

Where’s the lie?

Is anyone, I mean like ANY ONE allow to make mistakes anymore without Americans going into hysterics over racism? Honestly, something like that would pop into my own head as I like to kid and joke with my friends, although I would hope I'd catch myself before offending a black friend.

But is there anything anyone can say these days to an African American where it may be joking without insulting? I think people are so paranoid now that society is just going to begin speeding up at being cold, detached and disinterested in its fellow man because of things like this.

I look like an animal

[quote]Is anyone, I mean like ANY ONE allow to make mistakes anymore without Americans going into hysterics over racism?

Plenty of people are allowed to make mistakes when it's not actually a racist one.

The assumption you're making is that it was a honest mistake, rather than one driven by her underlying racism.

It's one thing to say that Benedict Cumberbatch looks like a sea otter. However, comparing black people to lower primates has been a staple of racism.

A new order is coming. None of this will matter soon.

You all have no idea what it’s like to have your entire race compared to gorillas...it’s fucking horrible.

I always see Asians as cats and White people as dogs. Is that resist?

R37 Gorillas aren't lower primates, they're upper primates!

Spare me the fucking apologists in this thread. "CANT ANYONE MAKE MISTAKES ANYMORE GEE WHIZ WALLY". Do FUCK OFF.

It SUURE seems like these people feel emboldened to make this kind of "MISTAKE" nowadays. No one and I mean no one with a fucking brain cell thinks it is mugging or banter to say a black person looks like a gorilla. THE FUCK are you conservative assholes smoking? Put down your fucking meth and opiates.

I'm from OKC. I can tell you that, based on my decades of observation, that the casting criteria for KOCO anchors would best be summed up as "the best spoken employee at any Hooters."

OKC is about the only blueish part of OK.

All 'TV anchors' are brainless blond bimbos.

You can't expect them to think, wear clothes AND speak.

How is that woman in the photograph NOT a drag queen?

R45 Pardon me?

Good luck to everyone in the public eye who tries to survive “cancel culture” because before too long you will probably lose your job at the very least.

Is it a Sinclair station?

Nothing good ever comes after "has anybody ever told you that you look like..?"

I hope she likes OKC. I don’t think she is going to get a job in a better market.

Ong, I love her. The black man should learn how to laugh about yourself.

Not surprised at all. These white devils haven’t even been trying to hide their hate ever since their king devil became president. They think they can just run wild and that their actions have no consequences.

*racist

This is kind of like when Roseanne Barr got in deep shit for saying Valerie Jarrett looks like she's from Planet of the Apes. But then you look at Valerie vs. Dr. Zira and she actually does have that simian look...sooo awkward.

[quote]I don't think it was intentionally racist. She failed to make the connection when she was goofing on his mugging for the camera.

Oh, ok, so when I tell you on stage during a debate to stop acting so faggy, its not meant as a homophobic way, it's just mugging for the camera. How was I to know it was homophobic? My hairdresser is gay and I tease him all the time telling him he acts so faggy and he seems to love it.

People like R55 should just fucking die.

Everything about this is hilarious. Except no one has the balls to be in on the joke.

R57 No. People like YOU need to die.

Darwin looked like an ape.

Gorillas are mostly white skinned, except for the face.

Oh, did you say that 'Gorillas are mostly white skinned'?

Valerie Jarrett looks more white than a black I saw her on The View and she and the white Joy Behar look like they could be sisters.

Mediaite no longer allows ad blockers; I no longer visit Mediaite.

Fuck you, Dan Abrams. You no longer get to count my site visit because you insist on counting my eyeballs.

Not sure what’s their relationship off cam but that joke truly came across as quite offensive to the guy. I mean, if one of my friend joked that about me, I would be offended myself. Being likened to one ugly gorilla?

She's an idiot at the very least. You should NEVER comment on someone's looks unless it's an overt compliment. And even then you have to be very careful. I once told a cute teenage girl she was the spitting image of her mother. She took offense because she didn't think her mom was attractive.

All of the LSA harpies need to simmer down. Trust me, a true racist would NEVER say what she did. This bitch is just dumb. Even if she held racist beliefs, she would not knowingly say something to jeopardize her livelihood. Anyone in the public eye who makes even the slightest blunder these days is committing career suicide.

I feel bad for the Male anchor. Housden was being an asshat. And he just took it, and agreed just to keep things professional:

"The zoo had shared a video to Instagram of an ape named Fin adorably getting up close and personal with the camera. Hackett and Housden were gushing over Fin and laughing when Housden ended the segment by remarking, “He kinda looks like you.”

It’s difficult to hear Hacketts’s response because of the traffic animation and music that followed. Hackett paused for a beat before answering, “He kind of does, actually, yeah.” "

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I look like an orangutan. But I don't make my living by selling my face so it doesn't frequently come up.

Bill Maher looks like an animal (one of those boneless, underwater, fishy things)

I look like an animal (a heron).

Some people do look like gorillas..........

Lot's o' racists on this thread.

These type of threads always bring them out.

She's too dumb to be on live TV. He's kind of cute.

[quote]That's not funny, and I Ioathe Jarret.

Why? What did she do to you?

Clueless white girl says something clueless. In other news, water is wet.

[quote]I don’t know this woman but I know the type and she would have made the same remark to a white guy. Cutesy TV news banter, not a racially motivated attack on her coworker’s appearance. Sheesh.

OF COURSE, she would. Probably doesn't have a racist bone in her body. But that's why we have cognitive function, right?

Some people see "racism" everywhere. Is there anything in this woman's background--anything that she has said or done--to indicate that she hates black people? No? Well, let's call her a racist and demand that she lose her job anyway becuz I AM TRIGGERED!!!!!!!!!

When you scream "racism!" at every little thing, people grow weary and won't listen to you when you are the victim of actual racism.

^Well, she should be fired for being stupid though. TPTB have to be nervous about what blunder she'll make next. Someone so clueless and lacking in self awareness shouldn't have a platform to blather on endlessly.

I agree R77. Again, I don't think she meant it as an insult but that's a pretty big mistake.

R76 There is NOTHING wearier than a white person whining about people complaining about racism. Talk about eye-rolling.

Well, that was certainly a dumb thing to say.

I love that she speaks her mind regardless of political correctness.

She doesn't speak her mind, it's a brain fart.

This bimbo doesn't worship The Goddess of Political Correctness.

She may not speak her mind, but you certainly did r80.

r80 is a bigot.

Ignore her gals!

Is the guy spamming the site with "the black ladies from LSA are racist against whites and invading our board" also the guy who occasionally spams with "MichFest radfems are taking over the board"?

Man, he is tiresome.

Had a white man made the dumb remark, he would have been fired on the spot. We don't allow men to give teary apologies on TV.

She should be fired for that dress.

You lost me at ‘a black’ R63.

[quote]When you scream "racism!" at every little thing, people grow weary and won't listen to you when you are the victim of actual racism.

This.

The man has more resemblance with a gorilla than her for sure.

This seems a thread primed for an LSA Gurl to call us all Faggots.

BTW, who says that being compared to a gorilla is bad? Thinking so is just an old victim‘s narrative. Gorillas are one of the most intelligent and capable animals. Wpuld he prefer to be compared to a pigeon, or what?

Omg, have you guys seen her teary-eyed apology? This white bitch is giving me life.

R57 I agree with R58. It would also benefit the average IQ.