NBC Host Calls Leather Clad Bikers "Losers"

(see her retraction at the end of this story)

NBC’s Hoda Kotb pissed off a lot of leather-wearing motorcycle riding enthusiasts with an offhand comment about the time she and  Kathie Lee Gifford went to a biker bar,  called Alabama Jacks in 2013.  “We dressed in leather, like a couple of losers really, like at the biker bar,” Kotb said.    Alabama Jacks is located in Key Largo Florida and is a frequent hangout of locals and motorcycle riders.

Bikers took their anger to the Facebook page for the show writing, “Saw the comments made about dressing up like losers in leather and going to Alabama Jacks. You just lost a loser in leather for rating ladies…have fun in your plastic, fake Barbie world!”   Another wrote, "I am seriously offended at Hoda's reference to dressing in leather and going to a biker bar as "dressing as losers". Obviously, she needs to get her head out of her dressing room and look at the facts. We are lawyers, doctors, secretaries, mechanics, military, police, college graduates, mothers, and fathers."

 

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140 comments

Wow!!! What is she thinking? I don’t want her to give a fake apology!! She better stop drinking on the job apparently the booze is going to head. It just shows how ignorant people can be when they talk without knowing what they are talking about!! I’m so disgusted!! I will NEVER watch her show again!!

Nancy Roth

She was a loser before she put leathers on. To bad the leathers did not help.A lot of bikers would love to take her for a ride, maybe that would help.

Mike Wood

I always watch Hoda and I must say this comment is nothing I would expect from her. We could say she is a drunk loser but would is the point in that. Hoda you have lost your class.

Melissa

Again…… I’ve seen more biker a do more for the community. At Christmas. .. The bikers are the ones that supplied DAY and churches with all toy’s that they gave out to the communities. We hold more functions, events and rallies for diseases. They stick together in the name of brotherhood. You don’t here about them going out and shooting people, robbing banks , stores, or atms. What the public does see is the that bikers have bigger hearts than Joe Blo. They haven’t forgot to what trust, loyaty, or brotherhood meant. Their are even bikers against child abuse and bikers ministries. So the bitch evidently doesn’t watch TV or read the news paper. So….. I guess everyone is in titled to their own opinion. …… But… opinions very. I kno who I can count on…. and they too

Andy Holcomb
Same on you…… Hoda !!!! We people who wear leather … do more for the sick and people in need than , I am sure you do !!! I am very proud to wear my Chaps and Leather Coat ! I enjoyed the Todays Show each morning before your rude comment , I will never watch the show again!!!
Cathy Batton

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