RELATED: ViacomCBS cuts ties with Nick Cannon, cites 'hateful speech'AdvertisementRabbi Abraham Cooper, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s associate dean, told The Associated Press that Cannon reached out to him Wednesday and during a 30-minute telephone conversation he apologized to the Jewish community and Cooper asked him to post it on social media.“He started out the right way, he said the right things.
Half an hour is a long time, and we'll probably meet tomorrow in the LA area,” Cooper said.“He understood that the words and references that he thought were based on fact, turned out to be hateful propaganda and stereotypical rhetoric.”The TV host and producer wrote earlier a lengthy Facebook post defending himself and criticizing his firing.