Local Fox anchor complains about Lady Gaga’s ‘jigaboo music’ during Oscars coverage

[derby378]

Kristi Capel, an anchor for Cleveland’s Fox 8, complained about “jigaboo music” during Monday morning coverage of the Academy Awards.

WJW New in the Morning anchor Wayne Dawson reported on Monday that singer Lady Gaga had performed a tribute for the 50th anniversary of the Sound of Music at Sunday night’s Oscars.

...

“It’s hard to really hear her voice with all the jigaboo music — whatever you want to call it — jigaboo!” Capel opined.

“She has a nice voice,” Dawson, who is black, said after a nervous laugh.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/local-fox-anchor-complains-about-lady-gagas-jigaboo-music-during-oscars-coverage/

[COLGATE4]

1. Fox anchor accidentally says

what all Fox is thinking. Charming.

[bravenak]

2. See how bold people are getting? Things never got better in America.

People try to say things have improved since the 60's but that is a bald faced lie if you are black. This shit never ends.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Her apology is what seals the deal for me.

It's the "not my fault that you're offended" nonapology apology. She said jigaboo twice, as if to make sure people heard what she said.

[salin]

11. "I didn't know what it meant, that it's even a word"

she says in her nonapology.

Right.

What she really means is 'everyone here says stuff like this all the time, so I didn't think it was a big deal to say it on-air.'

as you note - she says it.... twice.

[3catwoman3]

81. when you are not sure what a word means, the wise...

...choice would be to refrain from using it.

[Long Drive]

122. What a lame excuse

She is using words on TV and has no idea of the meaning, but she uses that word twice...fucking bullshit.

[3catwoman3]

123. And trying to claim she wasn't even sure if...

...it was a word. Did she just happen to string those syllables together purely by chance? Ri-i-i-i-i-i-i-ight!

[SwissTony]

126. I knew about that word and I'm an Australian living in Holland!! n/t

[calimary]

98. another one of those "mistakes were made" affairs.

I'm sorry IF anyone was offended.

Two words were left off: "MY ASS."

[awoke_in_2003]

116. They have been getting bolder and bolder

since 2008.

[bravenak]

117. I was not surprised.nt

[awoke_in_2003]

120. I hear you...

nothing these assholes says anymore surprises me.

[Purveyor]

3. OMG! I haven't heard 'that word' in ages.

[notadmblnd]

23. I know, it's a word my mother used to use when we were little

at least 50 years. The only other time I've heard that word used was in error. My nephew who had just graduated high school in the late 80's was trying to explain what he wanted to become. He meant to use the word gigolo but it came out jigaboo. We all had a good laugh at the time since he is very dark complexioned. He never did become a gigolo. He became quality expert helping companies implement their ISO standards.

[winter is coming]

24. I haven't missed it. At all. n/t

[winstars]

65. Yes, not for about 40 years from my Uncles... weird...

[phylny]

92. My grandfather, who fought in WWI, used that word

and died in 1976. I haven't heard it since. Thank God.

[tenderfoot]

5. I find it amusing that she thought the 'Sound of Music' was 'Porgy & Bess'

Fucking hell conservatives are dumber than a bag of mice.

[derby378]

9. I've got a lovely song for Kristi right here...

[KeepItReal]

27. I loved that commercial!!

Thanks for bringing it back!

[Jamastiene]

31. Actually, mice are quite intelligent.

I agree with your overall point though. Conservatives seem to be getting even dumber as time goes on too.

[spanone]

32. really, you can't get any whiter than the sound of music & julie andrews! FFS

[redstatebluegirl]

103. Don't Insult the Mice!

[Tom Ripley]

114. Nicely done!

[zappaman]

6. Wow.

Wow.
Just what the fuck???
And I thought the dolts on Fox couldn't shock me anymore...

[alp227]

7. Saying that to a black man's face. Good thing the co anchor kept his composure.

Sheesh. I wonder what that woman's handle on YouTube is?

[derby378]

8. I don't know, but if she gets fired, she can be the spokesperson for this company

http://www.jigaloo.ca/

I shit you not.

[tularetom]

17. I was buying some silicone lubricant for the slide on my RV and I saw that stuff

It's apparently a Canadian product made in Quebec, where French is widely spoken so it may mean something else.

Doesn't make it any less offensive of course. I'd be surprised to find out they haven't been criticized for it before now.

[Capt. Obvious]

64. I was expecing

[Lifelong Protester]

10. What the He**?

(Sorry, I'm at work...)

[gollygee]

12. Well people use the word "maroon" for people here

As in "what a maroon" when that's a racial word - it refers to escaped slaves.

I believe she didn't know what it means just like I believe the people here at DU who say "What a maroon!" don't know what that means. A good question to find out whether she had any understanding of the word would be, "What did you mean by 'jigaboo?'" She meant something, and she meant something negative.

And of course when she did learn she should have said, "I had no idea and I'm terribly sorry" or something, but as I understand it she did a non-apology instead.

[derby378]

14. Where did you hear that?

I always understood "maroon" to be a corruption of "moron" ever since it was used in Warner Brothers cartoons.

[gollygee]

15. I think it's more common knowledge than the etymology of "jigaboo"

Very quick tip-of-iceberg from Google

http://www.nps.gov/subjects/ugrr/discover_history/maroon-slave-societies.htm

http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/maroon/educational_guide/23.htm

http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/Slavery/articles/lockley.html

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroon_(people)




(And I heard about it because I went to a high school whose historic mascot was "The Maroons" but the name was changed for that reason.)

[derby378]

25. Wow...

Thanks for the links. I had no bloody idea at all.

Considering the context, however, I think it's easier to claim ignorance about "maroon" than it is to do the same for "jigaboo." There's just no defense for that.

[gollygee]

42. Maybe my knowledge comes from my specific situation

and I didn't know the specifics of "jigaboo" but it was firmily connected to "the n word" in my head so I had some understanding.

[deutsey]

48. Same here

That is really eye-opening. I always thought it was Bugs Bunny's funny way of saying "moron".

[ND-Dem]

56. it was.

[Enthusiast]

74. That's all it was. It was Bug Bunny's way of saying moron.

I quoted Bugs several times. I certainly wasn't using maroon in a racial context. Maroon is so seldom used in a racial context these days it has almost lost that meaning altogether. As a matter of fact I have never heard the word used in a racial context in my entire life and I am 62.

We were taught the racial meaning of maroon when I was in third grade geography. The only time I have heard it since is from Bugs Bunny.

So....BFD!

[hifiguy]

85. The characters Bugs referred to as maroons (a/k/a morons)

were inevitably the dumb as rocks Yosemite Sam type of villains whom he could outwit in his sleep. Only meaning I ever ascribed to the word is the one I learned from Bugs.

[Orrex]

52. No shit? Whoa!

I always thought that "maroon" was Bugs Bunny mispronouncing "moron."


I had no idea.

[TeeYiYi]

79. Same here...

...and I still believe that's what Bugs Bunny was saying. He used to use twisted words like "maroon" and "ignoramus" to refer to characters he considered to be idiots or extremely foolish.

The term "maroon" was also used by Warner Brothers in the Roger Rabbit movie from the late 80s. I don't believe the term was ever meant to have a "slave" connotation.

TYY

[DCBob]

104. Never heard that usage before..

I am sure the vast majority of people who use maroon as a slang use it like Bugs Bunny.. "what a maroon!".. or "what an idiot"... as others have mentioned earlier.

[LiberalArkie]

75. Thats what Bugs said "Whata moroon" But most of the comics back thin sometimes were not

very politically correct.

[ND-Dem]

89. and in this case, the political incorrectness had to do with the mentally retarded, not racial

minorities.

[hedda_foil]

88. NOT maroons, morans

As in "Get a brain, Morans.

[ND-Dem]

100. please don't further cloud the facts. "moron" = the dictionary word for a person of subnormal

IQ.

"moran" = some moron's misspelling of that word, and

"maroon" = bugs bunny's euphemism for that word.

[tularetom]

18. Of course they do! It's from Bugs Bunny cartoons

Not every word has a racial context.

[gollygee]

19. There is racism in cartoons of that era

including Bugs Bunny. Being in a Bugs Bunny cartoon doesn't dismiss the reality of what that word means.

[ND-Dem]

59. 'maroon' also means a reddish-brown color. does that have racist connotations too?

of course there was racism in the cartoons of that era. doesn't mean 'maroon' is an example of same.

[gollygee]

63. There are three uses of the word

The color is one

The second and third are related. When referring to people, it's about escaped slaves and their descendants. And then to be marooned originally comes from the fact that escaped slaves lived "marooned" on islands.

When referring to people, it's referring to escaped slaves.

[ND-Dem]

73. There's actually more than that, since regardless of its origins, "to maroon" used as a verb

now means to leave someone stranded. And a maroon is also a firecracker in the UK. and if I looked through some dictionaries I bet I'd find a few more.


↔maroon - an exploding firework used as a warning signal

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/firework


Ajax implies, Ulysses marooned him, although Philoctetes is at least still alive hecause he did not come to Troy with Ulysses (13.45-55; Bomer at 13.5-122, ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1558493999


Just because a word originated in a context of racism doesn't mean that's its current usage or connotation.

e.g. 'cimarron' (Spanish word from which maroon' was derived) is also another name for the drink 'mate'. Does that mean if we drink mate we're promoting racism?)

[Xithras]

26. "Maroon" is not a racist term.

"Maroon" is simply a corruption of the Spanish word cimarron, which means "runaway". In Jamaica, many of these escaped slaves ended up forming communities in the mountains, taking the name "Maroons" for themselves. After the British took over Jamaica, the Maroons fought and lost the Maroon wars while trying to establish their independence. Their descendants still live in Jamaica today, and still call themselves the Maroons. It's not an insult.

The use of Maroon in American English comes entirely from cartoons, and isn't related to the Maroons in the Carribbean. Censors wouldn't let Warner Brothers use the word "moron" in a cartoon, so they invented the use of "maroon" as a joke. In the 1940's, the word "moron" was pretty much synonymous with "stupid". The joke with Bugs Bunny was that he was really calling people "stupid", but didn't even know how to pronounce the word correctly, thereby demonstrating his own stupidity. The move satisfied the censors and was pretty funny at the time. "Moron" has different connotations today, so we don't really get that joke any longer.

[gollygee]

34. It isn't an insult, but it is racial

and I don't believe that they didn't know the meaning of "maroon" although I am aware they were making a joke based on a mispronounciation of "moron" also.

[Xithras]

77. It's not true because you don't believe it?

Can you name every ethnic group on the planet? I can't. There are tens of thousands of them.

And the fact that a word happens to coincide with the name of an ethnic group doesn't automatically make it an insult. It's the intention of the use of the word in relation to that group that determines whether or not it's an insult. A Dane can be a dog or a person from Denmark. Turkey is a country with over 70 million people, it's also an insult that means you're dumb and mean.

Nobody has ever come up with any realistic explanation as to why some comedy writers in 1940's Los Angeles would have decided to insult an obscure ethnic group that 99% of Americans had never even heard of. It's a coincidence, nothing more. There's plenty of real racism in the old cartoons to complain about, but this isn't it.

[gollygee]

80. It's not so obscure

There are plenty of high schools that use it as a mascot, just as "Redskins" is used as a mascot.

[Xithras]

82. I've always assumed that was based on the color.

The names of the athletic teams at Stanford are the Cardinals. That has nothing to do with the bird or the really awful baseball team back east, but is a reference to the schools official color...cardinal red. Back in the 1800's, and even into the 1900's, a lot of schools considered mascots to be a bit undignified. Schools without mascots were generally referred by by their school colors. Many of them adopted mascots as time went on, but not all did.

[ND-Dem]

99. plenty of highschools use the "maroon" as a mascot? none in the leagues my HS played in.

where are these "plenty of " high schools?

[gollygee]

101. The one I went to used it

but changed it in the late 60s for this reason. "Plenty" doesn't = "at least one in every high school league." And I imagine other schools have changed their mascot throughout the years.

[ND-Dem]

105. yours did. that's one. i did a search:

From 1881 to the 1930’s, we had no particular mascot. We were the "Maroons" because our athletic team "colors" became maroon and white somewhere around 1920...some Texas high schools decided they needed an animal mascot, but we resisted the trend until 1953 when two new high schools were formed in Austin.... Some began to ask "What’s a Maroon"? To answer that question, then and now, we just tell them that a "Maroon" is someone who wears maroon and boosts Austin High...The "Mister Maroo" Mascot was officially adopted by the Student Council in 1965-66...

http://www.austinhighmaroons.org/school-facts-and-history.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Austin_High_School_(Austin,_Texas)

Central's mascot is a maroon bear, Max Maroon,and the school colors are maroon and white.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champaign_Central_High_School

The school mascot is a pirate. The Maroons won their first Class 5A Football Championship in 2014 against Graves County by a score of 14-7....Colors: Maroon and white



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulaski_County_High_School_(Kentucky)

In 2003, Chief Maroon was removed as Elgin's mascot. Colors: maroon & cream.

(Chief maroon was a Native American chief)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_High_School_(Illinois)

Perry Jr. High School - Home of the Perry Maroons (colors maroon & white)

When I searched the site for "mascot," I got this story:

Johnny Skinner
Class of ‘48

John Skinner started life as any other young person in Perry, but when he was nine...he had polio. He suffered months of tests, isolation, hospitalization, surgeries, casts and braces.

Coach Hump Daniels...him to be the mascot of the Perry High Football team. Wrestling coach John Divine asked John to take on the same responsibilities for the wrestling team. These two activities gave John a new lease on life... He...was named "Most All Around Student" of his senior class.

John's participation in the national March of Dimes drive, to eradicate the new devastating disease of polio is notable! The first year, Noble County designated $150 as its goal, which John made his own personal goal. Through hours of personal contacts with community people, students, and going door-to-door--even meeting the buses that came through Perry--he attained that goal....Throughout high school he worked in the drive. His senior year he personally collected over $10,000--a remarkable sum for those times. John received a personal thank you letter from President Roosevelt.

http://perry.k12.ok.us/index.php/community/perry-alumni-association/alumni-honor-roll-2007/

Seems to me the commonality for all these schools is their school colors: maroon + white or cream.

None of their mascots (where they have one; some don't) have any commonalities.

[ND-Dem]

66. The name of the Florida Indian tribe ("Seminole") is supposedly derived from it. And I

agree with you, the slur was on the mentally retarded, not on black people.

[Jamastiene]

33. I honestly did not know that.

I use moran, because of that sign that Republican protestor had that time that said, "Get a brain, morans."

I always thought maroon was a verb and meant something like shipwrecked. I thought people were just still joking about the morans sign.

[gollygee]

37. The "shipwrecked" and other use of the word are related.

The original escaped slaves lived "marooned" on islands in the Caribbean.

[Arugula Latte]

44. I had no idea "maroon" had a racial subtext. I just hear Bugs Bunny's voice saying it.

In the future I will not write it (as I have a couple times to use what I thought was an old-timey mild insult).

Jigaboo, however -- that one is obviously on par with the worst racial slurs you can think of.

[KamaAina]

68. We usually say "moran"

[Phentex]

90. That's what I see more of here at DU...

maybe I haven't been paying attention.

[ND-Dem]

69. "Jigaboo" has no other denotation or connotation than as a highly negative slur on black people.

"Maroon" does. In fact, I've never heard it used as a slur referring to black people, though I'm aware of its origins and certainly may have missed something in 70 years of living.

[LanternWaste]

127. Seems rather likely.

"I've never heard it used as a slur referring to black people, though I'm aware of its origins and certainly may have missed something in 70 years of living..."

Seems rather likely.

[ND-Dem]

131. could be. but then i'd think i'd see it in print somewhere, & i've been unable to find any

such reference.

though it's easy to find same about the 'j' word.

[snooper2]

71. Somebody needs to tell this guy also...

Wait, wasn't this video a star OP here for another reason



anyway-

[awoke_in_2003]

119. As others have said...

I wasn't aware of the negative implications of "maroon". I thought it was a Bugs Bunny thing.

[Catherine Vincent]

121. I didn't know that

I've seen it plenty of times here and never used it but for some reason, I thought it was from a bugs bunny cartoon.

[lpbk2713]

13. One would expect a news reader to be educated.

But then we're talking about Faux, so ...

[ismnotwasm]

16. Sweet Jesus that's fucked up

[onenote]

20. Her apology is that she didn't know it was a word?

Whoever hired her should be looking for a new job too.

[Jamastiene]

39. Lol, yet she said the word.

If she didn't know it was a word, why did she use the word? Wow, it seems like almost all conservative apologies are non-apologies and full of lies.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. She might as well have called it N***** music

since both terms have been used interchangeably in the past.

[KeepItReal]

22. So she dogs out Lady Gaga's music, then says "she has a gorgeous voice"?

Last edited Mon Feb 23, 2015, 03:47 PM - Edit history (1)

If she had actually watched the Academy Awards, that Fox host would have heard the classy, non-"jigaboo", performance by Lady Gaga.

How her cohost can sit there with her everyday is beyond me.

[louis-t]

55. Her co-host said "she has a beautiful voice".

[KeepItReal]

62. Amended with "Gorgeous"

thanks

[LeftinOH]

28. It's very possible that Newsbunny Kristi doesn't know

what "jigaboo" means. She is a former beauty queen, after all... that is why she is doing the news now. Newsbunnies aren't chosen for their smarts. Here is a picture of her while she was training for a Newsbunny job:

[derby378]

35. Yikes! It's DROP DEAD GORGEOUS meets DUMB AND DUMBER!

I think I need to put my head down now.

[KeepItReal]

41. I don't know what a word means, but I'll use it on live TV to diss Lady Gaga's music?

So what term did miss Capel mean to use to describe the works of Lady Gaga?

[Sheepshank]

76. She's from Missouri and had never heard the word Jigaboo before?

not buy it one teeny tiny but.

[3catwoman3]

83. That is a tough...

...sell indeed.

[ProfessorGAC]

128. Nice Catch!

Although, maybe i'm more familiar with it because of age. I'm a heck of lot older than her. Maybe it has fallen into disuse even in MO.

But, i did hear it from my father in law up until the year he died.

[geomon666]

29. I haven't heard that word used since the early 80's

and that was in a movie.

[riversedge]

30. I vaguely recall the word.

But knew it was a term not to be used.

[MANative]

40. I'm in my fifties, and I've never heard it before. Had no idea what...

the fuss was, because the word was totally unknown to me.

[KeepItReal]

43. Yes and it was a insult in that movie (Spike Lee's "School Daze")

It was used in a musical number pitting light-skinned African-Americans vs darker-skinned African-Americans.

[Dawson Leery]

36. A good rural Pentecostal girl indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Capel

"Kristi Marie Capel (born 1983) is a beauty queen from Springfield, Missouri who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.

A native of Florence, Kentucky who later moved to Missouri, Capel won the Miss Missouri USA title in a state pageant held in late 2005. It was her first attempt at that title, however she had placed in the top fifteen of the Miss Kentucky USA pageant the year previously. As Miss Missouri USA Capel was a representative of the Vanbros organization.

Capel represented Missouri in the Miss USA 2006 pageant broadcast live from Baltimore, Maryland in April 2006. She did not place in the pageant, which was won by the delegate from her former home state, Tara Conner, Miss Kentucky USA.

Capel graduated from Heritage Academy (a parochial school affiliated with the Assemblies of God) in Kentucky in 2001. She won a sports scholarship to Evangel University, a religious school affiliated with the Assemblies of God, where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcasting and Public Relations with honors in 2005. She plans to continue her education with a Meteorology degree in order to become a meteorologist for a major network."

Capel was born and raised in Kentucky. Grimes had no chance of winning with a black in the Whitehouse.

[randys1]

38. Fox affiliates and the terrorist organization, Fox News, are very different.

I think the affiliates are completely independent of whatever network they affiliate with and are owned separately etc.

A great example is KTVU Channel 2 of the San Francisco Bay Area.

I recall as a kid loving that channel, before it was Fox affiliated, as it was a non network local channel with all my favorite dumb sitcoms on all day long ANd it also had ROLLER DERBY

When Fox became a network Channel 2 affiliated with them as did many others, long before anyone could have known, I assume, that they were to affiliate with such ignorance and hate that is Fox News.

Fox and FX and FXX programming are of course not reflective at all of Fox News, as well.


If I am wrong about any of this I will gladly be corrected, this is what I recall.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

78. Roller derby??

When I was a kid we watched roller derby in lively black and white instead of living color.

It was hilarious. The girls fought dirtier than the boys. We used the terms
"roller derby elbow" which was an elbow to the gut to keep the person behind you from getting ahead. Or there was the taking off of the helmet and beating hell out of an opposing team member on the track. Or making them go flying into the rail, hitting them in the gut, and going over the rail headfirst.

It was always the San Francisco Bay Area Bombers versus the Northwest Cardinals, and the big star was Joanie Weston.

We lived in Texas, so I am not sure which affiliate it came from. Probably the one you're talking about, KTVU.

[randys1]

86. My hero was Charlie O'Connell

Can this be 2011 ?


This is him, for sure

[Adsos Letter]

112. Ann Calvello and her hair!

Dyed her hair various colors (including purple, and platinum blonde iirc) for different matches.

And she was considered the mean one, iirc...

My mom was addicted to Roller Derby, so I grew up with it. Go Bay Area Bombers!

[tanyev]

45. Offensive in any case, but absolutely baffling for a medley of Rodgers & Hammerstein show tunes.

[derby378]

50. I think she used the slur to refer to Gaga's pre-Tony Bennett material

ChickMagic was a big fan of hers, made me call into the local Top 40 station to request Bad Romance on Thanksgiving Day, and turned the radio up to 11 in the car when it started playing, singing and dancing to the music. Needless to say, she got the CD for Christmas.

I think Ginny wanted to adopt Gaga if nobody else wanted her. Turns out she has a supportive if occasionally bemused family, which is terrific.

[tanyev]

58. Oh, that makes more sense. Still a horrible thing to say.

If you aren't sure what a word means, don't use it. Especially in a public forum.

[ND-Dem]

110. i think she was trying to say that she couldn't hear gaga's voice in gaga's 'typical' songs because

of the ('j-word' music/background) but in the rogers and Hammerstein, she could hear gaga's voice, so she just noticed gaga had a good voice.

I *think* that's what she meant.

Capel remarked that she had also been surprised by Lady Gaga’s performance.

“It’s hard to really hear her voice with all the jigaboo music — whatever you want to call it — jigaboo!” Capel opined.

“She has a nice voice,” Dawson, who is black, said after a nervous laugh.

“She has a gorgeous voice,” Capel agreed. “I never knew. Very nice.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/local-fox-anchor-complains-about-lady-gagas-jigaboo-music-during-oscars-coverage/

[yellowcanine]

46. “I apologize if I offended you, I had no idea it was a word or what it meant. Thank you

for watching." Oh well alrighty then!

[KeepItReal]

47. Apologies don't include the word "if"

Comment I saw on Twitter

[yellowcanine]

49. Well thank GAWD she did not call it jungle (fuzzy little rabbit) music!

Seriously, who hasn't made up random words and and blurted them out on teevee and they just HAPPENED to be outrageous racial epithets?

[deutsey]

51. Vapidity, thy name is Kristi Capel n/t

[louis-t]

53. Ohhhh, that one's gonna leave a mark.

I don't think she'll get away with it.

[ND-Dem]

54. wtf? he said that on TV? that is a no-holds barred racial slur. no way to disguise it as

anything else, he may as well say the n-word.

[derby378]

57. You mean "she," right?

I can't see Dawson ever pulling that stunt.

[ND-Dem]

61. yes. i read too quick because i was actually shocked that anyone would say that on tv. and

not be fired for it, and I hope she is.

she's not that dumb. fox anchors play dumb, but when you look up their backgrounds, they typically come from very prestigious schools and were in honor societies and the like.

they're not stupid, just out for themselves.

[alcibiades_mystery]

60. I swear, if some shithead called Obama a n*gger live on Meet the Press, there's be 20 DUers to offer

a defense.

This place has gone for real sideways.

[KamaAina]

72. That hasn't happened yet?

[MerryBlooms]

97. Just a matter of time.

[AC_Mem]

67. Racist is as racist does

And of COURSE it came from faux.

They don't even try to hide it anymore....

[KamaAina]

70. Has my grandpa come back to life?

He once chided Mom for listening to "fat-lipped n****r music". And he meant Elvis!

[rocktivity]

84. Did she confuse Gaga with Jennifer Hudson

Or confuse Jennifer's (taped) background vocals with the (taped) strings that accompanied Gaga?


rocktivity

P.S. I myself didn't realize it was Lady Gaga at first -- I was thrown off by both her over-enunciated singing AND her new nose!

[Bluenorthwest]

95. FYI, there is a live orchestra playing from a studio at Capitol Records nearby, saving room in the

theater. So Gaga's strings were live if she wanted them to be, just not present in the room.

[rocktivity]

96. Then it WAS piped in -- the orchestra behind Gaga clearly wasn't real

Their bowing was totally out of synch with the music!


rocktivity

[Liberal_in_LA]

87. her apology this morning

I deeply regret my insensitive comment. I didn't know the meaning and would never intentionally use hurtful language. I sincerely apologize

[Cha]

91. Rec to expose her stupidity. Gag!

[rhett o rick]

93. I don't buy for a minute that she didn't know what it meant. She used it in a pejorative manner.

I think that she was trying to complement (in a condescending manner) Lady Gaga's voice. In effect, that she has a nice voice if you hear her w/o the jigaboo music. Use of the word in that manner has a specific and clear meaning. She is on the air and was trying to make a point so she chose that word. No excuse.

She should have responded to the fervor, "I work for Fox so I don't have to worry about such things." She will be promoted to co-anchor on Fox and Friends.

[Throd]

94. Is this 1925?

[blue neen]

102. What a stupid, ignorant person.

It's time to contact Cleveland Fox 8.

[DCBob]

106. Aside from being a racist and stupid comment it doesn't even make sense.

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Lady Gaga was singing classic Sound of Music songs.

[rocktivity]

124. That's why I think she really meant Jennifer Hudson:

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rocktivity

[ND-Dem]

107. The FOX anchors on the national outlet are typically educated at elite schools. They just play dumb

This local anchor, however, was educated at fundamentalist religious schools.

Capel graduated from Heritage Academy (a parochial school affiliated with the Assemblies of God) in Kentucky in 2001. She won a sports scholarship to Evangel University, a religious school affiliated with the Assemblies of God, where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcasting and Public Relations with honors in 2005. She plans to continue her education with a Meteorology degree in order to become a meteorologist for a major network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristi_Capel

[woolldog]

108. LOL!

She's a former beauty queen. She didn't know what the word meant.

[VScott]

109. She and her co-anchor would make a great 'ooops, my mistake' comedy routine if they worked at it.

[Enrique]

111. She must have been referring to the violins

[Tom Ripley]

113. WTF?

[awoke_in_2003]

115. "Dawson, who is black, said after a nervous laugh"

Well, that is awkward.

[In_The_Wind]

125. IMO: Dawson's composure was commendable.

[NuttyFluffers]

118. aw mai gawd...

[KamaAina]

129. Maybe she thought it sounded like spooky Irish dance music.

(jig-a-boo )

[uponit7771]

130. Freakin WOW!!!

[PoliticAverse]

132. Ohio anchor taken off the air after using racial slur in live recap of Lady Gaga's Oscar performance

http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2015/02/ohio_anchor_taken_off_the_air_after_using_racial_slur_in_live_recap_of_lady_gaga.html