{"id":104,"date":"2006-11-21T05:58:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T11:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/11\/21\/kramergate\/"},"modified":"2006-11-21T05:58:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T11:58:44","slug":"kramergate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Kramergate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Richards&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/11\/20\/richards.epithets.ap\/index.html\">Krama&#8217; culpa trudges on<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Richards said Monday he spewed racial epithets during a stand-up comedy routine because he lost his cool while being heckled and not because he&#8217;s a bigot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I&#8217;m deeply, deeply sorry,&#8221; the former &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; co-star said during a satellite appearance for David Letterman&#8217;s &#8220;Late Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a racist. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s so insane about this,&#8221; Richards said, his tone becoming angry and frustrated as he defended himself in a clip from the show played on CBS before &#8220;Late Show&#8221; aired Monday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it closes the circle.\u00a0 Long before <em>Seinfeld, <\/em>Richards was desperately un-funny on the old ABC <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fridays\"><em>Fridays <\/em><\/a>SNL knockoff.\u00a0 He was the least funny part of <em>Seinfeld. <\/em>And he&#8217;s apparently a terrible standup.<\/p>\n<p>We can be done with this, now &#8211; right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Richards&#8217; Krama&#8217; culpa trudges on: Michael Richards said Monday he spewed racial epithets during a stand-up comedy routine because he lost his cool while being heckled and not because he&#8217;s a bigot. &#8220;For me to be at a comedy club and flip out and say this crap, I&#8217;m deeply, deeply sorry,&#8221; the former &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}