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DOWNED: Protests have erupted over last Sunday’s episode of “Amazing Race” that showed contestants (below) competing around one of Hanoi’s B-52 “memorial” sites. (
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Cbs officials are refusing to comment on the outrage spurred by an episode of “The Amazing Race” — which used the wreckage of a downed US bomber in Vietnam as a reality-show prop.
Last Sunday’s episode of the globetrotting reality show, which was set in Hanoi, featured a segment in which the show’s contestants raced around the wreckage of a B-52 bomber shot down during the Vietnam War — and was then put on display in the Vietnamese capital as a “memorial.”
And that was after the contestants, under a portrait of communist leader Ho Chi Minh, sat through a musical concert by a group of young people sung a patriotic song with lyrics like “Vietnam Communist party is glorious . . . Socialism is growing more beautiful with time. Follow the party’s step. Be loyal. Be pure.”
The segment, while only a part of Sunday’s episode, stirred emotions — particularly from the American Legion, whose national commander fired off an angry letter to CBS demanding an apology.
“The show is called ‘The Amazing Race’ but I call it ‘The Amazing Gall,’” American Legon National Commander James E. Koutz said in the letter. He called the segment a “disgraceful slap-in-the face administered to American war heroes” and also scolded CBS for showing the Vietnamese singing group.
Some people also weighed in on Twitter.
“Their use of communist propaganda was disgusting,” @patrickxcoyle tweeted.
CBS officials declined to comment yesterday when contacted by The Post.