DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
It all started with one drama-tical slip.
DESPERATE PLEA
That half-slip didn't slip past the keen ears of Kevin Nadal who immediately summoned the Filipino-American community to petition ABC to issue an apology for what he called "an ignorant and racist remark."
DESPERATE FISHWIVES
Thirty-thousand signatures later, the Filipino-American community had managed to show the whole wide world what an ignorant race it was -- and a whiny one at that -- for failing to see television for what it was - an idiot box.
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES
God Bless her ignorancy(Teri Hatcher).
I hope when you get sick, the Filipino doctors who'll treat you doesn't remember what you said.
You Americans better apologize or we'll send Manny Pacquiao to beat you up one by one.
And plenty more where that came from.
BOOB TUBE BOOHOO
Realizing it had made a pun-quite-intended and perhaps hoping to not alienate the Filipino-American community, ABC, like those sluts on Wisteria Lane, buckled at the knee and issued an apology.
Damage controlled? Not quite.
BOOB TUBE BOOBOO
ABC's biggest mistake was that it sent its apology across the Pacific and over to the ex-Motherland for all the crazies to nitpick. The comedic issue instantaneously became a diplomatic issue.
HYSTERIA LANE
Philippine Senators said the apology was not enough, and urged their Foreign Affairs Department to lodge a formal protest with the US government.
It's funny that these pompous asses who couldn't manage their own domestic issues would even think it's their business to meddle in Filipino-American affairs.
"I am mortally offended by the statement because it betrayed the racial prejudice and denigrates the excellent performance of world-class Filipino doctors in the US," said Senator Miriam Santiago, whose sister is a doctor working in Los Angeles.
This from the same woman who said corruption was Made in China.