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CBS sitcom producer apologizes for Srebrenica reference

2016-05-11

[RFE/RL] A producer for an American television sitcom that appears to make a joke about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre has apologized, saying the show was not aware of the reference.

I almost believe that -- the producers and writers very likely went to the same fine schools as all those MSM foreign affairs journalists that Ben Rhodes mocked...

Bosnians reacted angrily after an episode of the sitcom, The Odd Couple, aired last month on CBS. In the episode, a male character invites a prospective date to a Serbian restaurant that appears to be called A Taste Of Srebrenica. He also mangles the pronunciation of the town where more than 8,000 young Bosnian men and boys were systematically rounded up and killed by the Bosnian Serb army in 1995.

In a statement, the show's executive producer, Bob Daily said, "We were unaware of any connection to the terrible tragedy in Srebrenica. We would never intentionally disrespect or make light of such an event and sincerely apologize to anyone we may have offended."

"Saying, 'Let's go visit that new Serbian restaurant, The Taste of Srebrenica,' is analogous to saying something as horrendous as: 'Let's go visit that new German restaurant, The Taste of Auschwitz,'" the Congress of North American Bosniaks, which represents migrants and refugees from the region, said in an open letter.

Posted by:ryuge

#10 "If you can remember the old Odd Couple you are not the target audience."

Gott sei dank.

Posted by: Barbara 2016-05-11 18:43

#9 I know. I'm not either.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-05-11 16:09

#8 If you can remember the old Odd Couple you are not the target audience.

Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-05-11 16:09

#7 Wait a minute. "The Odd Couple"?

Not the old rerun with Jack Klugman, but a "modern" version?

That's truly pathetic. Hollyweird has been officially out of ideas for a long time, and this proves it. >:-(

Posted by: Barbara 2016-05-11 15:20

#6 no worries. it was on CBS so very few saw it. and of those watching 75% had their head buried in their Ipad and missed.

Posted by: airandee 2016-05-11 11:58

#5 Did Hillary have a cameo?

"Run serpentine!"

Posted by: Frank G 2016-05-11 09:03

#4 " BECAUSE THEY KNEW EVERYBODY HAD HEARD OF IT. Otherwise, nobody would get the joke. Such as it is. Vile, miserable, inhuman lying scum."
Because they had. And because we had. And because leftists made it happen then before the soeviet left, and after too.

I cannot forgive myself of any of it so I killed me.

Posted by: newc 2016-05-11 08:13

#3 Ditto Richard. 'Hip and edgy' not unlike last week's West Point Black Power salute.

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-05-11 07:50

#2 Thing is, of the entire crew involved in that cock-up, nobody knew better. How many were able to look at the script and say, 'Hey, you know...." Nobody knew better.
Bullshit. Even Hollywood types and leftists can sometimes know something. I can't believe that nobody of the whole crew involved knew better.
Nope. They did it on purpose to be hip and edgy.
And why use that particular town, of which nobody west of Vienna had ever heard until the massacre? BECAUSE THEY KNEW EVERYBODY HAD HEARD OF IT. Otherwise, nobody would get the joke. Such as it is. Vile, miserable, inhuman lying scum.

Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2016-05-11 07:41

#1 Leftists.

I saw those graves. I saw all of that. He gets a Mulligan because all leftists are ignorant of history. Bosnian, Serb, Moslem, Croat. None of it acceptable. Making our nation the same is less acceptable.
Laughing at this is less acceptable.

Electing leftists to do anything, anywhere is NEVER acceptable.

Posted by: newc 2016-05-11 01:53

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