IS THAT MOUNT EVEREST?

Once again a group of misinformed people with too much time on their hands are attempting to make a mountain out of a mole hill. Or should I say make a Mount Everest out of an ant hill.

            The other night on the Jimmy Kimmel show in a segment called “Kids’ Table” something was said and of course this group of people got their panties in a bunch.  They are calling for Kimmel to be burned at the stake or fired by ABC Studios. In these days of multimedia overload, when any group is unhappy about something they come off as the biggest gorilla in the room.

If you don’t think that’s true just ask the Westboro Baptist Church. That little group of hatred spewing mouth breathers number only 40, but when it comes time for them to bash the gay community or the Jews you would think their numbers were in the millions.

The groups in question for the Kimmel attack are not as organized as Westbrook, but they are equally clueless. The only thing they have on their side is the ability to use Twitter and social media better.

The “Kids’ Table” segment on the Kimmel show takes a page out of the Art Linkletter/Bill Cosby notebook for “Kids Say The Darndest Things”. For those of you too young to remember, it was a television show where Cosby would ask the young guests a question and get impromptu outrageous responses. So the premise is certainly not a new one.

The question that was asked of the panel at the “Kids’ Table” was “How should America pay its $1.3 Trillion Dollar debt that we owe China?” One of the kids responded “kill everyone in China”. It was an outrageous thing to say, but it was an off the cuff joke made by a child who couldn’t be more than 8 years old tops.

Of course some small Rosemead based Chinese American group, who obviously doesn’t have a grip on reality or a sense of humor, has decided to spend its time trying to punish one of the funniest men in American for something he didn’t even say.

But ABC Studios folded like a cheap suit. They and Kimmel issued an apology almost immediately, which should have been the end of the matter, but no. The groups who started this witch hunt obviously saw a good way to get some free press for their organization and want to drag out their pointless little vendetta as long as they can. Not unlike Westboro Baptist does. Maybe you two should get together and share notes.

The apology was given. Sorry is as sorry does, so get over it!

The pure absurdity of the child’s words should have made this a non issue to begin with. The population of China is 1.3 billion people. That is 1/5 of the entire world’s population. So really? This is the fight you want to pick?

And excuse me for asking this, but aren’t your group and all of these protests taking place here in the United States? You would think that if a group was going to be protesting it would be people living in China.

So “Roundtable of Chinese American Organizations” whoever the hell you are, if you are looking for your pound of flesh or a better apology you will have to get it from young Braxton who spoke the words to begin with. That is if you are into punishing children, which indirectly is what you are doing to young Braxton through all of your media hype and press.

There are bigger fish to fry in today’s world. There are much larger events happening in our lives that you could devote your attention to and do more good than attempting to punish a television comedian.

I don’t know if you heard about it, but the Philippines was just hit by the largest typhoon in history, Typhoon Haiyan. It is estimated that as many as 10,000 people are going to be in need of assistance of all sorts. How about channeling your vindictive energy towards something positive?
You can do so by doing one of the following:

Donations can be made online or by texting RELIEF to 864233 to donate $10.00.
           To donate to the Salvation Army's Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts, visit its
website or text TYPHOON to 80888 to donate $10 and reply YES to confirm
your donation. The organization uses 100% of all disaster donations in
support of disaster relief.
          The U.N. World Food Programme is urging Americans to make donations to
support its emergency food relief after Typhoon Haiyan. You can donate
online or by texting the word AID to 27722 to donate $10.00.
          The American Red Cross has volunteers spread throughout the region and
accepts donations online. You can also mail a check to your local American
Red Cross chapter designating Philippines Typhoons and Flood in the memo
line.

These are just a few of the things you can do. There are many more that you can find online if you do a search.

Somehow I think you folks at RCAO won’t have a problem clearing that hurdle.

Bill Dunn has been a published opinion columnist for 15 years. Any comments can be sent to either our exalted editor at tmiller@beaconmedianews.com   or to Bill directly at dunnsinferno@casegod.com   You can also find Bill on Facebook at:   www.facebook.com/WhenAllisSaidandDunn