For what it's worth, the joke was along the lines of "If she wasn't in a wheelchair, she'd be hot!"
As John Scalzi noted over on his Twitter feed, in his opinion the problem was that Jennings never deleted the tweet, which made it sound like Jennings never withdrew the comment. https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1344352428104310785?s=20 On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 10:14:29 PM UTC-6 Brad Beam wrote: > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Joe Hass > > *>*No, I don't think we did. > > > > > >I think it flew under the radar, but I do know that amongst those it > offended, it was never forgotten and was frequently brought up as "Oh, you > may think Ken Jennings is awesome, but he's really an ablist!!!" > > > > So now I can’t joke about Dad’s Parkinson’s and my brother’s spina > bifida? Well then, remove me from the host search…. > > > > _ _ > > |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV > > |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/8504284d-ae63-42ba-a359-0e0cdeb17fadn%40googlegroups.com.
