In a world where people are super-ultra sensitive towards joking about someone else’s hang nail, it amazes me that a commentator on a major news network could go down the road of making joke about another nationality. Whether there is truth or not to it, you know that a) there will be an outcry for you to be fired b) you will be forced to acknowledge your bad judgement and apologize and c) you may in fact actually get fired.
So it amazes me that Joe Kernen, as long as he has been on air couldn’t keep his mouth shut when he needed to the most. Even Becky, and whoever the other dude is at the table (I don’t watch CNBC much) advised him against doing so, and you could see that he thought whether he should or not, and vocally tries to talk himself out of making the joke, before he finally did.
Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against the guy, I just think he was a moron for saying what he did.
Here’s the video – take a look for yourself:
