Conan O’Brien Shows Us MSG’s Most Offensive Jeremy Lin Graphics

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by Jon Bershad | 11:04 am, February 17th, 2012

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By now, you’ve probably heard that the New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin is some kind of basketball phenom. But, did you know that he’s also Asian? ASIAN! Isn’t that incredible?! It’s so incredible that some in the media have decided to continuously point out that fact in ways that are slightly questionable. For example, there’s the New York Post‘s “Amasian!” headline (I seriously still can’t believe that was a real thing) and the graphic that MSG Network showed during the Knicks’ last game which features an image of Lin arising out of a fortune cookie. Now, MSG has defended themselves, saying that it was only a fan’s sign that they had nothing to do with, but the image still caused controversy. To make matters worse, last night on Conan, Conan O’Brien showed some examples of the other signs MSG tried to air…

The whole thing is pretty funny. However, the fact that it’s only about a half a notch away from reality kind of dampers the fun.

Watch the clip from TBS below:

Conan, Conan O'Brien, Jeremy Lin, TBS

Anonymous

It’s about stupid, stupid(er) and stupid(est)…not necessarily funny, but the people are laughing anyway…which means that either they don’t get the satire or need an excuse to laugh. A moment of levity or a bit of ‘comic relief’, perhaps, but it demonstrates the level of intelligence of the masses…
Anonymous

I think Jeremy Lin is overhyped (although a great story) but these racist jokes are uncalled for. He is an Asian AMERICAN & it’s really disappointing to see so many jokes about his race.
Anonymous

Ok …let me get this straight.
The Pete Hoekstra ad was blatant racism but Conan O’Brien is just making a few jokes….?
Anonymous

Yes.
Anonymous

What are you trying to say?
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

MSG needs to apologize for what they did.
http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

Why are people still surprised that a large percentage of Americans believe in stereotypical discriminations? Have you not heard of the Republican Party?
Anonymous

What do you think?
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Interesting that MSG is also the main ingredient in Chinese food.
Anonymous

You mean the party of Lincoln and MLK, that Republican party? I think you meant to say the Democrat party who has by far the richest tradition of racism, discrimination, bigotry and slavery.
Anonymous

Nah, the 1915 republican party of the pointy white hats. Who weren’t real big on MLK.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003251471721 Rock Lancaster

I wanted to watch that video clip again only 30 minutes after watching it the first time.
http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

Wow, something you actually said is correct. But where did those racist discriminating biggots go when they were kicked out of the Democratic party?? They went to the Republican party. They are represented in Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney.

Even their names make me think of watching roots. They are a misfit bunch of degenerates and the mirror of what the Democratic party was 100 years ago.