{"id":16270,"date":"2013-10-28T18:10:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:10:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-28T18:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:10:03","slug":"ABC-apologizes-to-Asian-Americans-over-tasteless-Jimmy-Kimmel-skit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=16270","title":{"rendered":"ABC apologizes to Asian Americans over tasteless Jimmy Kimmel skit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ABC is apologizing for a segment of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live\u201d in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiancemagazine.com\/news\/2013\/10\/25\/jimmy-kimmel-in-hot-water-over-racist-chinese-skit\">a child joked about killing Chinese people<\/a> to help erase the U.S. debt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s unscripted comment came during a comedy bit in which youngsters commented on news events. The skit, aimed at poking fun at childish politicians, aired last week on Kimmel\u2019s late-night talk show.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"player-element\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/static.movideo.com\/flash\/movideo_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"apiKey=movideoScmp&#038;alias=SCMPflash&#038;playerId=movideoScmp_SCMPflash_1383032693524&#038;mediaId=576491\"\/><embed src=\"https:\/\/static.movideo.com\/flash\/movideo_player.swf\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" name=\"player-element\" align=\"middle\" play=\"true\" loop=\"false\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"window\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashVars=\"apiKey=movideoScmp&#038;alias=SCMPflash&#038;playerId=movideoScmp_SCMPflash_1383032693524&#038;mediaId=576491\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>ABC\u2019s apology came in response to a complaint from a group called 80-20 that identifies itself as a pan-Asian-American political organization.<\/p>\n<p>In an Oct. 25 letter to the group, ABC said it would never purposefully do anything to upset the Chinese, Asian or other communities. 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