Seems to me like her initial comments on the R&K show were not outright homophobic.
Many of Kelly's comments to Rosie on The View were.
Ripa didn't score any points in my book either way though, that's for sure.

Rosie wasn't just referring to the one-off Ripa comment the day of the "hand" incident. There was also Ripa's 5 minute anti-Clay diatribe the following Monday when Kelly talked about her friend Howard Stern and how they had discussed it, etc, etc. Why does that always get left out of these discussions? Look at all of Ripa's comments together , not just Friday's little quip, and you'll get what Rosie was talking about. Clearly, and without a doubt. homophobic.

Despite Kelly Ripa's homophobic comment, I don't think that she is atually homophobic. she was just pissed that Clay had upstaged her and, like a tru diva, sensed a weak spot in Aiken and decided to dig her nails in it. There have been many, many blogs written about that aspect of the controversy.

I guess you missed them.

Okay, Ripa is a homophobe, or at least a homo-disliker...

Ripa's primary defense to her kniption (and HELLO, YES it was a KNIPTION) was that the whole hand-face thing was a germ thing, and she has spawn to protect don't ya know.

I call uber-provable-BULLSHIT. There are *videos* of Ripa sticking her WHOLE HAND (well most of it) in her mouth, and smearing it ALL over Regis's face. This isn't the *only* hand-face manuever that has been caught. This shoots HUGE holes in her defense.

Also, LDC (who commented above) has it right. Look at Ripa's behavior from a 100 feet view... Condsider her behavior in other instances, you start to see the picture.

Now, after all of this, take a look at ourselves? Should we even bother talking about this? God, we are such media pirhanna's slavering over every piece of stupid gossip about people we care nothing about and shows we don't even care to watch. Sorry buddies, but I am at *work* when these shows air, and I bet you are too.

BTW, I blogged about this story too (shame on me... wait, I have no shame.) I won't post a link, but you can find it on my site if intersted but it basically says the same stuff I said above, however it has links to video and pictures making my case.

It's a shame that Blogerista's haven't done their homework.

-dr

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Superb! (I wrote something else and then I read below that I aint supposed ter. So I deleted it.)

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