Gilbert Gottfried isn’t the only celeb “joking” about Japan’s unthinkable tragedy. Rapper 50 Cent:
“Wave will hit 8am them crazy white boys gonna try to go surfing,” the rapper wrote Friday morning, as the West Coast braced for a potential tsunami.He followed it up with, “Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my hoess from LA, Hawaii and Japan. I had to do it. Lol.”
“Family Guy” writer/Producer Alec Sulkin (who later apologized):
“If you wanna feel better about this earthquake in Japan, google ‘Pearl Harbor death toll’,” he tweeted over the weekend.
From The Street we learn comedian Gilbert Gottfried has been fired by Aflac for his “jokes”:
Gilbert Gottfried was fired by Aflac on Monday after the comedian made a number of distasteful jokes about the devastation in Japan.“Japan is really advanced,” Gottfried tweeted on Monday afternoon, “They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them.”
Aflac quickly cut ties with the comedian following a string of similar comments.
Hollywood Reporter has more:
Aflac, which does 75 percent of its business in Japan, also plans to donate $100 million to disaster relief.Gottfried has yet to apologize for the jokes, which included: “I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, ‘They’ll be another one floating by any minute now.'”
Free country. Free to mock. Free to terminate employment. Free to wonder how anyone could see or look for or attempt to mine humor and attention from the relentlessly heartbreaking images broadcast over the weekend.
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