Chinese-American protesters pound ABC studios across America, call for Jimmy Kimmel's firing

Jimmy Kimmel is in hot water!

On Saturday, hundreds of protesters targeted ABC Studios in Burbank, Houston, and Phoenix to protest the Oct. 16 segment of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" where one of the late night host's tiniest guests suggested that we should "kill everyone in China."

The comment was made by a young boy during an unscripted segment called "Kids' Table," after Kimmel asked a roundtable of children how the United States should repay its $1.3 trillion debt to China. Both ABC and Kimmel have since apologized for the comment, and are no longer airing "Kids' Table."

ABC said at the time, "We offer our sincere apology. 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." Kimmel added, "I just want to say I am sorry. I apologize. It was certainly not my intent to upset anyone."

However, Chinese-American groups and protesters refuse to accept the apology. ABC Studios has not responded to Yahoo TV's request for comment regarding the protests.

According to a Burbank Police Department spokesperson, crowds "swelled up to 1,500 protestors" at the 2300 block of Riverside Drive after some demonstrators went into a restricted area near ABC Studios at 9:30 a.m. By 11 a.m., Burbank police had responded to the scene, but no arrests were made. By 12:30 p.m., the crowds had dispersed.

Less than 400 miles away, one hundred protesters gathered outside the ABC 15 studios in Phoenix. In response to the controversial skit, they chanted, "Teach kids no hatred," "No fake apology," and "Shame on you ABC" for 20 minutes, before relocating to protest near 44th and Van Buren streets, reported ABC15 news.

In Houston, several hundred protesters reportedly flooded the intersection of Westheimer and Post Oak Blvd. and urged ABC to stop racism against the Chinese and fire Jimmy Kimmel.

Twitter was also peppered with tweets and videos from the protests.

Last month, protesters lined up outside of ABC studios in New York City and held signs that compared the late night host to Hitler and accused him of "manipulating children."

The backlash toward Kimmel's apology has even caught the attention of the White House. A petition requesting that ABC and Kimmel be held responsible for the comments was posted to the White House's website and nabbed more than 100,000 signatures, which requires an official statement from the White House.

Do you think ABC and Jimmy Kimmel deserve the nationwide backlash?

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Reader Comments

Jean Michel · 2013-11-11T13:04:54Z

I'm sorry but this is so stupid.

Whatever happened to the old saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me."?

These people have no understanding of what is really important in this day and age. In a world that is so full of death and destruction, the last thing that they should be wasting their energy on is what some goofy night show host does with his programming.

beau · 2013-11-11T14:48:01Z

The problem with that "old saying" is that it isn't true. Word do hurt, possibly more than sticks and stones. You can repeat that mantra all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of people in the world are hurt more and longer by what they've been told by others than any kind of physical pain incurred by others.

Honda · 2013-11-11T15:35:15Z

So very true beau.

And besides, if we killed everyone in China where else would we find suckers to do all the work this planet needs ?

NugaBurd · 2013-11-11T17:05:37Z

Does anyone else remember...

...Art Linkletter's House Party? I was on radio and TV from 1952 to 1969.

Art would have little kids as guests, and, from time to time, he would bait the kids by asking, "Is there anything that your mommy told you not to talk about?" The responses were often hilarious.

Art went on to author "Kids Say the Darnedest Things" -- a collection of what the kids said -- often to the horror of their parents -- when they (the kids) were on the show.

What I'm getting at is that a kid gave a spontaneous -- that is, not scripted -- response to an innocent question that he was asked.

One would get the idea that the protesters viewed "Kids' Table" as the equivalent of an Internet hate site!

A little kid said something stupid. That's all that happened.

Lisa Guliani · 2013-11-11T17:31:08Z

Honda said

"And besides, if we killed everyone in China where else would we find suckers to do all the work this planet needs ?"

What a thoroughly hateful comment.
This isn't Youtube, ya know.

Honda · 2013-11-11T17:35:20Z

Lisa I was joking. Ok, it was a bad joke, I plead guilty to that. Fair enough ?

gdpetti · 2013-11-11T19:56:13Z

Well...

JK Live? I don't know the show, but if this is a late night show (after prime time), then it's most likely taped in the afternoon around 5-7 or so and such 'live' events can be easily reconfigured in post production before airing that night. So is it really 'live' or just the usual 'live on tape' or whatever it's called now, hardly anything is really 'live', so you do have to wonder about the approval process.

As for what was allowed in the past, that's an obvious sign of the change in the culture of what's acceptable and what is not. Being 'PC' isn't talked about much anymore in our pro-empire society, but it is still a highly evaluated principle of what is considered 'good' or 'bad' for business, and in this case, it seems everyone was 'asleep at the wheel' to say the least. Perhaps a sign of how ponerized we've become in which our cultural 'leaders' think 'anything goes'. It seems they've made a mistake and are using the usual 'sorry' routine to escape the potential financial repercussions.

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