Ohio Fox Anchor Calls Lady Gaga's Music 'Jigaboo' In Front Of Black Colleague

[ashling]

A news anchor for a Fox affiliate in Ohio described Lady Gaga's Academy Awards performance as "jigaboo music" live on the air Monday in front of her black colleague.

Kristi Capel, who co-hosts Cleveland-based WJW's "Fox 8 News In The Morning," was discussing the performance when she said: "It's hard to really hear her voice with all the jigaboo music."

"Whatever you want to call it, jigaboo," she added.


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Capel soon apologized on Twitter, saying she didn't know the meaning of the word

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kristi-capel-lady-gaga-jigaboo?utm_content=buffer49f14&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
This insensitive idiot should be given an unpaid suspension if not fired ....


unless, of course, it is
fox's policy to talk out of their asses without knowing what the are talking about.


oh yeah, that IS their policy policy

[dhol82]

1. Was that comment in reference to the Sound of Music bit that she did????

How could anybody get pissy over a collection of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs?

There are some very strange people over at Fox.

How did the co-host react?

[VScott]

5. The co-host has had his moments too.

[Bradical79]

22. No

That comment was in relation to Lady Gaga's normal music, and how she liked the sound of music performance more.

[glasshouses]

2. Well they didn't hire her exactly for her brain

[VScott]

3. She obviously had no idea what the word meant, or its racist background.

I think the last time I heard it was in the 70's and that was in 'All In The Family'.

[glasshouses]

6. I don't think she did either

reminds me of Clerks

[ohnoyoudidnt]

18. I might buy that she was ignorant of that fact, but producers should

really educate their TV personalities on such terms.

[titaniumsalute]

19. Most TV stations do discuss racial and religious sensitivity, etc.

But I doubt in the last three or four decades that a Program Director has had to get on an air talent about using the word jigaboo.

[joeybee12]

23. I remember Archie Bunker saying that, too...

That probably was the last time I'd heard it.

[Paladin]

4. Fire her. (nt)

[KamaAina]

7. We're all over it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026266694

[olddots]

8. is that really her ???????

Really ? how can we compete with fox ? STAY CLASSY FOX .

[edhopper]

9. Maybe she would have liked this number from Hair.

[DeSwiss]

10. ''...she didn't know the meaning of the word.''

And yet she makes her living with words. She may have no idea what they mean, but she's apparently learned her words phonetically, and she can repeat these sounds flawlessly -- just like a person would instead of a parrot or minor bird.

- They'll keep her on staff -- for now. But as soon as Monsanto comes up with a GMO blonde-parrot with 38D breasts, she outta there. They'll work for GMO bird seed.



K&R

[pacalo]

11. +1.

[niyad]

12. if you don't know what the word means, why in the HELL are you using it???

[Drahthaardogs]

13. Because she is stoooopid! LOL

Isn't that obvious? Professor Sagan she is not...

[PeteSelman]

14. It is quite an archaic term.

It's very possible that she had no idea what it meant. In fact, I think it's very likely.

[HeiressofBickworth]

15. DAAAYYYMMMMMM

The last time I heard that word was in the late 1950's when my father used it to describe the new "rock n'roll" music. I was merely a teenager yet I somehow knew that it was a word not to be used in any context.

I agree with the poster who said if you don't know the meaning of a word, don't use it.

[MisterP]

16. oh, lord

[PoliticAverse]

17. 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

[Judi Lynn]

20. Deeply ugly, hateful. It probably thrilled the hate-mongers who watch Fox. n/t

[Enrique]

21. is there any conceivable way that she was using it in a racial way?

is there any way any racist could perceive the Sound of Music as in any way black?