Last week, David Arquette was promoting his work with Feeding America, a wonderful organization that focuses on issues of hunger and poverty in America. To promote this great cause, David was pulled a David Blaine-esque stunt in Madison Square Garden by sitting in a Plexiglas “hot box” during Tuesday and Wednesday. David also made the network and cable news rounds. CB showed David’s interview with NBC’s Today Show, but unfortunately it was David’s interview with Fox & Friends that made some minor headlines.

Fox’s morning co-anchor Steve Doocy asked David for his opinion about Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court. David replied: “I think Latina women are, I mean, it depends on the woman, but I think they are very, they have great judgment, but there are some that are just nuts. I’m just saying.” Dude… forget the racial politics and stereotypes for a second, and just acknowledge the supreme idiocy of David “Really Nuts” Arquette/Pot calling the the Latinas/Kettle “nuts”. Well, controversy settled, because David apologized, and it’s a pretty good one:

Despite disparaging comments earlier in the week, David Arquette insists he has love for Latina women.

Chatting with Fox News earlier this week, Arquette, 37, remarked: “I think Latina women are, I mean, it depends on the woman, but I think they are very, they have great judgment, but there are some that are just nuts. I’m just saying.”

On Friday, the Scream star – who just signed of for a fourth installment of the horror series with wife Courteney Cox – issued the following apology:

“I would like to issue an apology for the comments I made on Fox and Friends. My intent was to be humorous and not offensive,” said Arquette, who has been in New York City this week raising awareness about U.S. hunger.

“I have nothing but love and respect for Latina women and women in general of all cultural backgrounds. What saddens me most is that it took away from the issue of Hunger in America, for which I was on the show to begin with,” he continued. “I work in a pantry in Venice California with a Hispanic women named Delpia (who has been feeding people at St. Joseph’s Center for 29 years) and she is my personal hero. Having been raised in Los Angeles I have grown up with a deep and profound love for the Latino culture.”

[From US Weekly]

I always love when someone is accused of racism against an entire ethnic group, they always point to a “friend” they have of that ethnic group. In David’s case, I actually believe it though. I really do think he was trying to make a half-hearted attempt at a joke, and it might have just come out wrong. Or maybe he just really thinks some Latinas are “nuts” and feels badly that he admitted it publicly. Nuts!

David Arquette is shown on 7/14/09. Credit: WENN.com