Jeopardy and Trebek defaming the Irish
Posted by Jim on October 19, 2016
Tim Myles Past NY State Chair FFAI reports.
On today’s(10/18/16) Jeopardy game show the host, Alex Trebek defamed the Irish. At the point in the show where he interviews the contestants, he said to the reigning champion whose name is “Shannon”, Alex said with a name like that you must have a connection to Ireland. I’m sure these questions are somewhat rehearsed. Shannon stated that he has hill walked all of the highest points in each of the 26 counties of the republic and he also said that he could say he’s seen every inch of those counties. That was nice, but Alex T brought it down when he asked Shannon if he was sober when he did all that. That was certainly a defaming comment and I would suggest that the AOH should ask for an on air apology for that terrible comment by Alex Trebek. The show airs daily nationally on the ABC network.
Neil Cosgrave Natl. AOH Chair Anti- Irish Defamation Committee responds.
I have a call into Jeopardy productions 310-244-8855. What would help is if we can get multiple call in to them tomorrow expressing our outrage
Neil