Adam Carolla Apologizes to Manny Pacquiao through Twitter
The Italian-American DJ who hosts “The Adam Carolla Podcast Show” apologizes to Manny Pacquiao and to the Filipino people fans through his Twitter. On his tweet Carolla says:
“Read your comments. Sorry if I offended many of you. I don’t pre-plan my commentary. I try to be provocative, (and) funny but I crossed the line & I’m sorry.”
The tweet was posted after Adam Carolla makes harsh comments about Philippine boxing champ Manny Pacquiao and the boxer’s home country last April 1, on “The Adam Carolla Podcast Show.”
After the tweet, Carolla praised Pacquiao on another tweet entry, saying, “By the way, I think Manny is a great fighter.”
Filipinos all over the world expressed outrage at Carolla’s statements against Manny Pacquiao. Carolla called Pacquiao “illiterate” and someone who “prays to chicken bones” and among other things. The comments were made after a caller on the podcast asked what Carolla’s reaction was to Pacquiao’s refusal to Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s call for a drug test.
Here’s Carolla complete statement:
“All you…got is just an illiterate guy who won’t give up blood who happens to smash other guys in the head better than other people? That’s all you have as the Philippines? Oh they are so proud of their native son. They think the world of him. When he comes home, he comes home to a hero’s parade. He’s gonna run for congress in the Philippines and win handily.”
“Really, you want some guy with brain damage running your country? Why don’t you get your **** together?…Get your **** together Philippines. Jesus Christ. I mean, again, it’s fine to be proud of your countryman but that’s it, that’s all they got? What happens when he loses, what happens when Floyd Mayweather beats him? Then what? The whole country goes into depression? Jesus you got nothing going.”
Filipino-Americans had organized an online petition to demand a public apology from Carolla. The petition said Carolla’s comments were “unnecessary, hurtful, and erroneous.” The petitioners further stated that Carolla failed to recognize that Filipinos and Filipino-Americans have significantly contributed to the betterment of the United States and the world.
“We have worked hard to achieve our American Dream, and you have no right to denigrate us like this, merely to get attention.”
As of today, there are 2572 signatories supporting the petition, which also declared a boycott of Carolla’s program. Reaction to the statements has also appeared on Facebook. Fan account ‚ÄúFilipinos unite against Adam Corolla‚Äù has drawn in the most Facebook members at 850.
Word trashing seems to be Adam Carolla favorite hobby and he is no stranger to facing criticism. In January 2006, Carolla called the work of Asian Americans a “joke,” eliciting the ire of the Asian American Justice Center, while in 2003 he called Hawaiians the “world’s dumbest people”.
Adam Carolla is a popular figure in the word of stand-up comedy in the United States and was a contestant on the reality-television show “Dancing With The Stars.” He was the longtime comedy partner of Jimmy Kimmel who, ironically, has had Pacquiao as a guest on his talk show, “The Jimmy Kimmel Show” twice.
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Credit: Taken from Ringside With Manny
What a f_cking imbecile, this Adam Cholera, whoever he is. What I’d like him to do is face Pacquiao in the ring for maybe a couple of rounds and see who will have brain damage after that. Racist idiot!
… is this just all about Pacquiao?!! come-on fellow Filipinos… this guy discriminated against the “entire Filipino race”… this douchebag ranted foolishly not only a couple of phrases but sentences by sentences of racial arrogance… and it took him 3 days to say a lame “sorry”… Demanding public Apology? tsk! damage is extremely done… it will happen and happen again–remember Clair Danes? Disparate Housewives?… it’s so easy to say sorry… but not even Vicky Belo can remove scars. Here is my suggestion, demand to oust this fool from publicly broadcasting his media. Like a doctor who is found guilty of malpractice, they lose their license don’t they?
Pea-brained Adam C. is hopeless. I laughed at his stupidity….but, hey…he’s a comedian! Right! He makes people laugh by making a fool out of himself! What a stupid joke!
adam carolla: tomato eating, unwashed, fell-off-the-zucchini-truck dago, wop, and guinea. capisce ???!!!
by the way… both my maids and my dumb driver are italians!
adam carolla: jimmy kimmel got a tv show! what’you got????
you called your s**t THE MAN SHOW? Shoulda been SHOW WITH THE HOMO!
@logohikas
“Like a doctor who is found guilty of malpractice, they lose their license don‚Äôt they?” >> in the philippines, no they don’t!
Clare Danes
Desperate Housewives
Alex Baldwin
that yellow monkey journalist from hong kong
now, adam carolla
are these people reincarnated nazis who killed the jews in auschwitz ???? wtf ????
Hey Adam,what are your accomplishments? Did you made your country(italy) proud? I think no, you should be ashamed of your self, Fuckaroodies
hi it’s me Adam Corolla! I’m sorry for saying these things. I hope you understand that I’m a douchebag, and can’t think of more sensible things to say than racial insults. I’m dumb. Errr.
why demand for an apology???! We don’t need..you better watch out carolla!!!!!!when news spread about your violent death,don’t blame uneducated Filipinos..
yeah it was wrong what he said, but he wasnt being serious when he said those comments. if you listen to the entire show you will know he was just trying to be funny. adam carolla rips on everybody, mexicans, blacks, jews, and yes even whitety. what is really making the fillipino people mad is that, they know adam carolla has a point about how messed up things are in the philippines.come on people have a sense of humor and stop being so sensible about everything. focus on the real issues and not on some dumb comments from a comedian.
Dude I aint Filipino and shit and barely know any..but your a fucking dick for saying all those crap u don’t know shit about the shit your talking about!! fucker….
I think Adam Corolla needs a chill pill. Don’t forget what we did to Magellan serve him right trying to put his dick on the islands. This is an affect of having to much cheese and pasta in your system COROLLA and I just had some and I am ranting away. DON’T worry Filipino’s! He will die early eating too many tomato sauce-pasta are one of the cause for prostate cancer. YES, we are all racist but if you wanna play dirty, play me! Talk about sex dolls in the Philippines his co-host had to even correct his ass, “Tai land?” New flash WE got whores every where! Adam Cuntrolla! When he said, “Manny is all Philippines got?” You practically dissed Phoebe Kates, Vanessa Hudgens, the guy from Black Eye Peas, Nichole Scherzinger, Enrique Englisia, Rob Schnieder, Lou Diamond etc.. You have hairy ass n you need to circumcised your sausage dick. Need to WAX on WAX OFF. You wanna play dirty! This is for a fact your skinny tall ass will dye early from kidney disease and you old FAST. By the time you turn 60 you would look like Moses with cataract. Soon you’ll have wound infection. How do I know this I am an educated person. By the time you get to a hospital and release to care home guess who is taking care of you. Thats right the Filipino’s. You better shut your mouth before Batista sits on your ass. Your pod cast is overrated and Jimmy Kimmel needs to stop saving your ass. For those who are Nazi’s cunt suckers! Einstein hates your fucking cuts! Brilliant man and hope he could of spread more on his intelligence to these NAZI’s killers. Get a coconut and bash it over your head.