Rosie's Racist Rant Targets Chinese
Last Thursday, attention-starved host of "The View," Rosie O'Donell got herself in a bit of trouble when she did an impression of Chinese people speaking Chinese.  Rosie was discussing Danny DeVito's drunken visit to the show days earlier.  DeVito, who starred in the Flumesday favorite "Throw Momma From the Train", showed up to the set of "The View" completely sloshed after a night of drinking with fellow actor George Clooney.  In describing the surprising level of international news coverage of DeVito's drunken interview, O'Donnell said, "The fact is that it's news all over the world.  You know you could imagine in China it's like 'Ching chong, ching ching chong, Danny DeVito ching chong chong, ching chong drunk, The View, ching chong'"  The gossip hounds in the audience then applauded wildly.  Here is the video, care of Gawker.com:

 

The Asian American Journalists Association fired back at Rosie saying:

We consider this a mockery of the Chinese language and, in effect, a perpetration of stereotypes of Asian-Americans as foreigners or second-class citizens. The use of the distorted phrases is insulting to the Chinese and Chinese-Americans, and gives the impression that they are a group that is substandard to English-speaking people.

Unbeknownst to Rosie, here at Flumesday, I've been learning some Chinese.  And what Rosie said, with the proper tones, translates to this: "I'm fat, I'm fat, not even Danny DeVito would consider having sex with me, even if he was drunk on 'The View'.  This is the sort of Chinese analysis you can't get anywhere else on the web.  Rosie's publicist said unapologetically, "She's a comedian in addition to being a talk show co-host. I certainly hope that one day they will be able to grasp her humor."  Uh, they, being the Chinese, are probably the last people on Earth that would find Rosie O'Donnell's humor funny.  Although, they do find fat people pretty amusing.

•New York Post: Rosie To Asians: Loosen Up

 

 

 

 

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