Junior hockey commentator fired after using antisemitic slur during broadcast
"The Okotoks Oilers and Alberta Junior Hockey League apologize to all those who heard the comment and will not tolerate this type of behaviour."
"The Okotoks Oilers and Alberta Junior Hockey League apologize to all those who heard the comment and will not tolerate this type of behaviour."
"Did the media know that beforehand when they called me that word ‘antisemitic?’ No. Did they know anything about me family? No."
"Isn’t that video for sale on Amazon? That’s the craziest thing ever. Kyrie is getting in trouble and Amazon’s not?"
"You’re just providing validation to the level of frustration Black people in America feel time and time again."
“They cancel us, no questions asked!”
The idea that anyone could seriously believe that the Earth was flat was seen as so preposterous that, if anything, people found it amusing that he was actually saying it.
"He’s a f*cking moron."
"It is a very small step to becoming a Holocaust or slavery denier."
"Words do matter. Especially coming from highly visible people."
"You guys asked me the same questions over and over again, but this is not gonna turn into a spin around cycle, questions upon questions."
"While doing live TV, I was thinking fast on my feet. Regrettably I made some offensive inferences which were not my intent at all."
"He put me in the same sentence as Herschel Walker, who's running for the Senate seat in Georgia, and Kyrie Irving. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not gonna disrespect anybody. Let me just say to you, that couldn’t be further from the truth."
"I don’t hear any of that talk around Jeff Bezos and Amazon. I hear everybody skewing their anger towards Kyrie for taking a picture of it and tweeting about it."