{"id":669213,"date":"2026-05-28T02:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669213\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T02:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:05:10","slug":"news-anchor-makes-bizarre-death-to-america-joke-over-bts-oreo-collab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/669213\/","title":{"rendered":"News Anchor Makes Bizarre ‘Death To America’ Joke Over BTS’ Oreo Collab"},"content":{"rendered":"

BTS X Oreo Collab
\n News Anchor Makes Twisted ‘Death To America’ Joke!!!\ud83e\udee2<\/p>\n

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\n May 27, 2026
\n 5:18 PM PDT\n <\/p>\n

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Talk about a broadcast going from sweet to stale real quick — a Texas news anchor is getting absolutely dragged online after making a bizarre comment about BTS-themed Oreos.<\/p>\n

Check out this wild FOX 34 segment featuring anchor James Eppler, where the crew was casually discussing BTS’ new limited-edition hotteok-flavored Oreo collab … before Eppler suddenly claimed the cookie designs somehow spelled out “death to America.”<\/p>\n

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Yeah … nobody knew where the hell that came from. The comment was completely false, deeply weird, and wildly out of place — especially since the segment itself was super lighthearted and centered around cookies and K-pop.<\/p>\n

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Even Eppler’s co-anchors sounded stunned in real time … clearly confused why he’d connect BTS and a sweet treat to such a harsh anti-American message.<\/p>\n

Eppler — a professor at Texas Tech — immediately tried walking the comment back and brushed it off as nothing … but BTS fans aren’t about to let that slide, with many now demanding an apology and even calling for him to be fired.<\/p>\n

Safe to say James bit off more than he could chew with that one!<\/p>\n

We’ve reached out to Eppler’s station and Texas Tech for comments … so far, no word back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTS X Oreo Collab News Anchor Makes Twisted ‘Death To America’ Joke!!!\ud83e\udee2 Published May 27, 2026 5:18 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-669213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}