{"id":16336,"date":"2013-11-15T00:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-15T00:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T00:11:15","slug":"ESPN-anchor-apologizes-for-Lin-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=16336","title":{"rendered":"ESPN anchor apologizes for Lin comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lin was back at the Garden on Thursday night and helped the Rockets hold off the Knicks.<\/strong> His return to site of Linsanity also provided an opportunity for another ESPN anchor to say something inappropriate about Lin\u2019s Asian heritage.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN\u2019s Jorge Andres was doing the highlights for Houston\u2019s win when he said Lin was \u201ccooking with some hot peanut oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andres apologized for his comments approximately 40 minutes later, according to Yahoo.<\/p>\n<p>He is not the first ESPNer to get in trouble for using racially charged language to describe Lin. Anchor Max Bretos was suspended a month in February 2012 for using a slur for Asians that is part of a common idiom and a website editor was fired for using the same phrase in a headline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peanut oil is often used in Asian dishes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1cDRibgFWtI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Source AP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lin was back at the Garden on Thursday night and helped the Rockets hold off the Knicks. 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