{"id":662110,"date":"2021-08-19T13:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662110"},"modified":"2021-08-19T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:22:31","slug":"new-jeopardy-host-mike-richards-apologizes-for-sexist-racist-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-jeopardy-host-mike-richards-apologizes-for-sexist-racist-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jeopardy Host Mike Richards Apologizes For Sexist, Racist Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-jeopardy-host-mike-richards-apologizes-for-sexist-racist-comments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662110&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1325495789-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Newly named \u201cJeopardy!\u201d host Mike Richards is under fire for resurfaced comments he made that some critics are calling sexist and racist.<\/p>\n<p>Pop culture outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/tv\/2021\/8\/18\/22631299\/mike-richards-jeopardy-host-search-process-past-comments\">The Ringer<\/a> first reported Thursday that between 2013 and 2014, as the host of the podcast \u201cRandumb,\u201d Richards referred to his female cohost as a \u201cbooth ho,\u201d \u201cboothstitute\u201d and \u201cbooth slut\u201d and said women in one-piece bathing suits look \u201creally frumpy and overweight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other episodes, Richards made disparaging racial remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Jewish people, he said of a woman\u2019s facial features, \u201cIxnay on the ose-nay. She\u2019s not an ew-Jay.\u201d In a separate incident, when his co-host described issues she was having with her apartment, he asked if she lived in Haiti, adding, \u201cDoesn\u2019t it sound like that? Like, the urine smell, the woman in the muumuu, the stray cats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hours after Ringer reporters\u2019 asked Richards\u2019 representatives about his podcast comments, all 41 episodes disappeared from hosting site mrichtv.podbean.com.<\/p>\n<p>Richards then issued this statement to the outlets:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p><em>It is humbling to confront a terribly embarrassing moment of misjudgment, thoughtlessness, and insensitivity from nearly a decade ago. Looking back now, there is no excuse, of course, for the comments I made on this podcast and I am deeply sorry. The podcast was intended to be a series of irreverent conversations between longtime friends who had a history of joking around. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Even with the passage of time, it\u2019s more than clear that my attempts to be funny and provocative were not acceptable, and I have removed the episodes. My responsibilities today as a father, husband, and a public personality who speaks to many people through my role on television means I have substantial and serious obligations as a role model, and I intend to live up to them.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sony, the company that produces \u201cJeopardy!,\u201d told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/jeopardy-mike-richards-podcast-1234999628\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> they were \u201cunaware of the podcast until yesterday and [have] no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richards has quickly become a controversial figure since he was named last week as Alex Trebek\u2019s permanent replacement. Along with his employer CBS, he was named in a 2010 lawsuit from a model who claimed that during his time as executive producer on \u201cThe Price is Right\u201d he discriminated against her over her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/jeopardy-mike-richards-host-search-lawsuits-1234994819\/\">THR<\/a>, Richards\u2019 denied the accusation in a memo to \u201cJeopardy\u2019s\u201d staff, saying \u201cThese were allegations made in employment disputes against the show. I want you all to know that the way in which my comments and actions have been characterized in these complaints does not reflect the reality of who I am or how we worked together on \u201cThe Price is Right.\u201d He added, \u201cI know firsthand how special it is to be a parent. It is the most important thing in the world to me. I would not say anything to disrespect anyone\u2019s pregnancy and have always supported my colleagues on their parenting journeys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly named \u201cJeopardy!\u201d host Mike Richards is under fire for resurfaced comments he made that some critics are calling sexist and racist.Pop culture outlet The Ringer first reported Thursday that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}