北京奥运圣火在旧金山安全传递后，又在阿根廷首都布宜诺斯艾利斯圆满完成传递。就在此时，CNN主持人卡佛提辱骂华人是“呆子和暴徒”以及旧金山市议员戴利“中国政府出钱雇人”的不实言论，激起了旧金山华人社区的愤怒。
(原文如下："They (Chinese) are basically the same bunch goons and thugs they have been in the past fifty years."(transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/09/sitroom.03.html)。
(原文如下："They (Chinese) are basically the same bunch goons and thugs they have been in the past fifty years."(transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/09/sitroom.03.html)。
