Slip-Up? You be the judge: Mike Greenberg, best known to sports fans as host of ESPN’s “Mike & Mike In The Morning,” has come under fire after he referred to late civil rights legend Martin Luther King Jr. as “Martin Luther Coon” during the intro to yesterday’s MLK Day broadcast.
Greenberg issued the following statement of apology.
“I just came home from the Knicks game and found out about the mess that was created by my garbling a sentence on our show this morning; I apologize for not addressing it sooner,” he says. “And I’m sorry that my talking too fast – and slurring my words – might have given people who don’t know our show the wrong impression about us, and about me.”
“I feel horrible about that, because nothing could be further away from who I am and what our show is about,” Greenberg continued. “I would never say anything like that, not in public, or in private, or in the silence of my own mind, and neither would anyone associated with our show, and I’m very sorry that my stumble this morning gave so many people the opposite impression.”