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When the so-called \u2018SoHo Karen,\u2019 Miya Ponsetto appeared on CBS This Morning <\/em>for an interview with Gayle King<\/a> earlier this week, she wore a crop top, a black biker jacket, a pair of tortoiseshell glasses, and a $16 cap from Urban Outfitters emblazoned with the word Daddy<\/em>. What was meant to be a public atonement for assaulting a 14-year-old Black teenager she wrongly accused of stealing her phone (the incident went viral after the boy\u2019s father, Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter, Kayon Harrold Sr., shared footage of the attack<\/a> online) quickly descended into the most disastrous attempt at a reputation-salvaging interview since Prince Andrew welcomed the BBC behind the walls of Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n Ponsetto was churlish, petulant, and unrepentant, pulling off the remarkable feat of leaving the interview even more disliked than she had been beforehand. She even had the gall to raise her hand to King and cut her off mid-sentence, \u2018Alright, Gayle. Enough,\u2019 she drawled. The \u2018Daddy\u2019 hat was a mere cherry on top of an uncomfortable and embarrassing nine minutes of television.<\/p>\n Obviously, Ponsetto was immediately memefied, her performance being, as it was, the embodiment of the kind of gross entitlement we\u2019ve come more accustomed to associating with middle-aged white people (Ponsetto is 22 and part Puerto Rican). Dazed<\/a> <\/em>called her ensemble \u2018the antithesis of an apology outfit,’ PAPER <\/em><\/a>declared the \u2018Daddy\u2019 hat \u2018officially over,\u2019 and NYLON <\/em><\/a>reported that Urban Outfitters had removed the product from their shelves. Even Ponsetto\u2019s own lawyer<\/a> distanced herself, calling her client \u201cchallenging\u201d and clarifying that both she and the CBS<\/em> crew had repeatedly asked Miya to remove the hat before the taping started.<\/p>\n The daddy hat stays ON while I excuse my racism and try to shut down a journalist pic.twitter.com\/7RQUK7j7zE<\/a><\/p>\n — Tijuana Maxx (@byalexzaragoza) January 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n