{"id":17953,"date":"2014-08-29T09:50:15","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T15:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=17953"},"modified":"2014-08-29T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T15:50:15","slug":"football-broadcaster-suspended-for-jewish-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/football-broadcaster-suspended-for-jewish-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Football broadcaster suspended for Jewish joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2013 San Diego Chargers radio analyst Hank Bauer was suspended from announcing the team\u2019s final preseason game for invoking a Jewish stereotype in an exchange with his on-air colleague.<\/p>\n<p>In the waning moments of Aug. 24th\u2019s Chargers-49ers preseason football game, play-by-play man Josh Lewin said if he were paying to attend he would not have left early, as many fans did, because of the high price of the tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer responded, \u201cYou know how copper wire was invented? Somebody dropped a penny between Josh and his family member.\u201d  Lewin is Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer\u2019s suspension was imposed by ClearChannel, the owner of Rock 105.3 KIOZ, the radio station that airs the team\u2019s games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough we know Hank had no ill-will behind his remarks, we agree the comments were inappropriate. Per Clear Channel\u2019s decision, Hank will not be broadcasting Thursday night\u2019s game,\u201d the team said in a statement issued Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bauer has been the color commentator for the Chargers radio broadcasts in San Diego since 1998. He played for the Chargers between 1977 and 1982.<br \/>\nBauer apologized on Tuesday on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI made a hurtful insinuation that I regret and I would like to express how sorry I am. My poor choice of words were unfortunately open for negative interpretation, please know it was never my intention to offend any of my listeners. I hope you accept my apology,\u201d Bauer wrote.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Football%20broadcaster%20suspended%20for%20Jewish%20joke\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[5923,8790,8795,5924,8788,5925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17954,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17953\/revisions\/17954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}