Smallscreen News

Fox and Friends sees George Lopez not endorsing Herman Cain (VIDEO)

By April MacIntyre Oct 4, 2011, 16:43 GMT

09/10/2011 - Eva Longoria and George Lopez - 2011 NCLR ALMA Awards - Arrivals - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium - Santa Monica, CA, USA © Tina Gill / PR Photos

On the Monday edition of "Fox and Friends," comic George Lopez unleashed a joke at the expense of Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain for not being black enough.

He also jokingly referred to President Obama as the first Latino president.

Newsbusters.org transcribed the whole segment. 

"The Republicans do know that he's darker than Barack Obama...but whiter on the inside." Lopez remarked after F&F host Steve Doocy noted that Cain won a Tea Party straw poll.

Newsbusters.org Transcript:

LOPEZ: You're done for the year. Herman Cain ...and Herman Cain- it's funny, the Republicans do know that he's darker than Barack Obama- maybe- but whiter on the inside.

KILMEADE: And they embrace him.

LOPEZ: They do. He's doing very well-

KILMEADE: He's roaring up the charts-

Doocy brought up how Lopez mentioned Cain, and the comedian replied with his slight of the Tea Party:

DOOCY: You just mentioned- you mentioned Herman Cain and he was at a- they had a Tea Party straw poll in Illinois-

LOPEZ: (laughs) He wasn't serving the tea, 'cause that's crazy.

DOOCY: No, he was (unintelligible)-

KILMEADE: He was winning the poll.

DOOCY: A lot of conservatives love him because he is very conservative. He's not a moderate.

LOPEZ: He is very conservative- absolutely. So I think he will do well. You know, Barack Obama, you know how extreme he is. I think, you know, for him- it's funny, because in America, we love when we take somebody out. You know, when Barack Obama and Bin Laden- when that happened, when he was taken out, his approval rating soared. So I think it's time to kill someone else.

Newsbusters.org