Fil-Ams ask Carolla show advertisers to pull out -- ABS-CBN News

By Rodney J. Jaleco, ABS-CBN North America Bureau

WASHINGTON DC - A group that caters to the needs of Filipino immigrants in the Metro DC region is getting back at radio shock jock Adam Carolla where they think it’s going to sting the most – at his radio show’s advertisers.

“Mr. Carolla, these whole racist remarks from a supposedly intelligent person like you, being part of the media, is all bout you and not us,” wrote lawyer Arnedo Valera, executive director of the Migrant Heritage Commission (MHC), in a letter sent through the local CBS radio affiliate here.

The letter was also signed by other MHC officers Grace Valera-Jaramillo and Jesse Gatchalian.

Carolla, who has insulted Native Hawaiians (he called them the “world’s dumbest people” in 2003), women and Asian Americans, among others, called Filipino sports idol Manny Pacquiao “an idiot”, “illiterate” and “brain-damaged” for refusing to undergo blood tests for a planned bout with former champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. that eventually fell through.

“Why don’t you get your (expletive) together? They got this (Pacquiao) and sex tours. That’s all they have over there,” Carolla ranted about the Philippines.

Philippine presidential spokesman Gary Olivar said Carolla was “an ignorant fool who belongs to a sick minority in the US”.

“Your recent pronouncements against us Filipinos are an act of ignorance…Behind that feeling of superiority of being a White American is actually a failure of your human faculty to think and feel for the diversity of the cultures which America is made of,” the MHC statement read.

“You don’t deserve to be in media,” the Fil-Am group declared.

They accused Carolla of fanning racist tensions in America by “using your position to sweepingly belittle people in the US”.

In addition to demanding a “genuine and real public apology”, Valera said they will mount a letter-writing campaign to Carolla’s show sponsors to ask them to withdraw their support.

“We will not take your racial tirade sitting down,” the statement stressed.

Valera recalled that disparaging remarks by radio commentator Don Imus against members of a college women’s basketball team in 2007 caused such a firestorm that he was suspended and MSNBC yanked out his program from the air.

But after a long hiatus, Imus was allowed to go back on air (on Fox) but only after he vowed to be more sensitive to women and African-Americans.

Source: abs-cbnnews.com