As I celebrate the Pistons taking a commanding (let me gloat a little, please) 2-1 lead over the evil Lakers, I hear that ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel's awful show for comments he made about Detroit?
Are we really that thin-skinned? Do we really not know that Detroit is a hellhole? Is ABC really that paranoid? Apparently so. Kimmel was forced to release this statement yesterday:
When you're 2,000 miles away from a city you've never lived in, it's hard to understand the sadness people feel from something that happened in their town - even if it happened many years ago. It was never my intention to cause anyone pain. I was trying to make a joke and I'm sorry it resulted in anything other than laughter.
The odd thing is that I thought he was referring to the 1984 Tigers celebration and not the 1968 riots. The bottom line, though, is that this reaction from Detroiters is flat-out embarrassing.
How in the world can he make such a remark like that, having never been to the city? That's terrible! That only instigates things, causes things to happen because of remarks like that.
I turned down a really good job in Southfield and opted instead to move here to the Tri-State. I couldn't move back to Wayne County. How 'bout it causing things to happen like, say, making your city liveable?
Posted by mikewolf at June 11, 2004 10:40 AM"They're going to burn the city of Detroit down if the Pistons win, and it's not worth it."
I don't get the 'it's not worth it' part. What's not worth what? He should be suspended for being inarticulate.
Posted by: deano on June 11, 2004 11:52 AM#1- Having spent the last week in Detroit, I have to say that every time I come back, I'm amazed at how much nicer the city is than the last time I was here.
#2- Thin Skinned??? Remember about fifteen years ago, the most popular TeeShirt sold in the area?
"Detroit... where the weak are killed and eaten."
C'mon! If that doesn't show what a great sense of humor we have about our city, then what does?
Posted by: Kirsten on June 13, 2004 01:28 AM3-1, and it looks like even Superman isn't enough to beat the Pistons by himself.
Posted by: Frankenstein on June 14, 2004 03:41 AM