Gutfeld! panel discusses outrage narratives surrounding television shows and media
As you know I m not a doctor. But I don t let that stop me from giving medical advice. Or doing exams in my van. So I can safely diagnose: that many Americans are experiencing a mass delusion.
First, the Jeopardy contestant accused of sending bat signals to bigots. It s like it was only last week..
Greg Gutfeld, April 29: A Jeopardy winner is getting harassed on social media for allegedly flashing a white power hand sign on a recent show. Some very lonely former contestants posted an open letter demanding an apology and shaming producers for allowing this to happen. // He was just holding up the number 3 to mark his 3rd victory. The same way that after his second win he held up the number 2 and before that the number 1.
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Kelly Donohue, a 35-year-old state bank examiner from Massachusetts, fulfilled a dream to appear on the most challenging game show of them all
Jeopardy! But that dream has become a nightmare.
Donohue, a three-time winner of the competition, celebrated his third victory by showing the camera the symbol for “OK.” He put his thumb and forefinger together and raised the other three fingers in the air, indicating his three wins, he says. The mob sneered that it was a “white power” symbol.
But that wasn’t Donohue’s only transgression against political correctness that drew the rage of the mob. Giving an answer to a question, Donahue used the word “gypsy” which has now been determined to be a slur against the Romani people. The poor guy just an average Joe with a talent for trivia found himself a target of the internet hate mob.
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Anderson Cooper (above) was guest hosting Jeopardy! during Tuesday night s airing of the quiz show, when a Massachusetts contestant flashed what appeared to some to be a white supremacist sign. (Jason Mendez/Invision/AP)
WINTHROP, MA More than 550 former Jeopardy! contestants have signed a letter asking the program s producers to explain the use of a white supremacist hand gesture by a contestant from Massachusetts.
Kelly Donohue, a bank examiner from Winthrop, won $79,601 during his three days on the show. When he was introduced before his third and final game, Donohue held up three fingers then tapped them against his chest while holding his thumb and index finger together. The Anti-Defamation League says the sideways OK sign is a recognized hate symbol meaning white power.
Apr 29, 2021
There s a group of 467 alleged former Jeopardy contestants who issued an open letter on the Medium platform this week. They are demanding an apology from the show producers for not catching a “Jeopardy” winner allegedly flashing a white power hand gesture! On Tuesday, the contestant Kelly Donohue held his thumb and forefinger together with his other three fingers extended and palm facing inward, and he tapped his chest. Donohue claims he was showing that he’d won three games, and had gestured with one finger and two fingers to indicate previous wins. But what s the real truth?
I am a nightly Jeopardy watcher, and I have to say, there was something about this contestant that hit me the wrong way. I thought Kelly Donahue was very smug about his winnings over a few days, and good for him, I guess, because he won a lot of money. But did he also make this ugly gesture? Contestants sign morals and ethics agreements when they appear on the show, so did thi