Steve Harvey Tells Morning Show Caller From Flint Michigan To Enjoy Their Glass Of Brown Water
DEATH AND TAXES – Steve Harvey, who has made a career out of sticking his foot in his big mouth, did it again Wednesday morning, when he mocked a resident of Flint, Michigan, who called into his morning show to discuss the Cleveland Cavaliers’ loss to the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals.
Harvey, who is a Cleveland fan, took umbrage at the caller’s assertion that the Cavs didn’t “deserve jack” after their loss. According to one listener, Harvey used the Flint water crisis — the one that caused countless health issues for the city’s citizens and which one official has just been charged with manslaughter over — as a punchline for barbs directed at the caller.
“You from Flint? That’s why y’all ain’t even got clean water,” Harvey reportedly said, to the nervous laughter of his co-hosts. One listener started recording the exchange, which they later posted to YouTube.
“When was the last time you touched water and it didn’t have lead in it?” Harvey continued, while his hosts told him to call down and “reel it in” because he’d gone “over the edge.”
“I wasn’t talking about the city of Flint, I was talking about him,” Harvey said in response, adding, “He going to call in, say Cleveland don’t deserve jack, and he over there bathing in all that silver water.” Before the caller hangs up, Harvey makes sure to tell him “one more thing… Enjoy your nice brown glass of water.”
Yo, Steve Harvey – kind of sneaky one of the world’s biggest assholes huh? Who saw that coming? Seems like he’s kind of taken the leash off recently too. Like all those years of being so happy and lovable wore him down and he woke up one day, hopped out of bed and said fuckkkkkk this. Sick of smiling for these motherfuckers. I am 60 motherfucking years old.
First he sent the email basically telling his employees to drink bleach before they even considered making eye contact with him in the hallways.
That one was like, “kind of funny asshole.” I mean it’s definitely a dick thing to say out loud, but let’s face it, we all hate other people and don’t want to be bothered 99% of the time, especially by our co-workers (this is not a subtweet, ok maybe for like 1 or 2 people Francis). When you have the kind of pull Steve Harvey has and the right amount of DGAF attitude you can just go ahead actually say them.
But this one is just plain asshole. Like flat out mean spirited.
Suffice to say the people of Flint were not happy – especially Little Miss Flint, who promptly torched him on Twitter –
His apology?
Not great!
On Thursday, Harvey released a statement that contained no mea culpa but offered as explanation that is comments were “SIMPLY TRASH TALKING ABOUT SPORTS”:
This morning callers and I were cracking jokes about the Cleveland Cavaliers loss to the Golden State Warriors. I’m a huge Cavs fan. The caller and I were talking trash about our teams and cities. “SIMPLY TRASH TALKING ABOUT SPORTS”. I made a joke directed at him, as he is from Flint, a city for which I have great affection and respect. So much so that I devoted a full hour on my daytime talk show to raising awareness for the Flint water crisis. I also pressed then candidate, Hilary Clinton, to offer solutions to what I called one of the great catastrophes of modern times. The and the caller laughed as my joke was taken in the context it was offered.
Is “just trash talkin’ ’bout sports” the new Locker Room Talk? You tell me.
