It’s your lucky day, readers, because we’ve got another tabloid-ready story! (Yeah, we just pissed our pants a little, too. That’s okay, right?)
You may remember The National Enquirer‘s earth-shattering story last week about the throw down between Grey’s Anatomy stars, Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey. No? Well, there was some sort of row in which Washington grabbed Dempsey by the throat and stormed off. Not pretty.
This week, The National Enquirer‘s team of spot-on journalists delve a litte deeper into the story. And with some pretty ugly results. Read for yourself:
Hot-head Isaiah Washington hurled a vicious gay slur at one of his co-stars during an on-set brawl – and the ugly explosion of hate is ripping apart TV’s number one show.
Last week, The Enquirer broke the blockbuster news that Isaiah, 43, choked Patrick Dempsey, 40, in an Oct. 9 fight on the set of Grey’s Anatomy. And now we can reveal the secret behind the outrage.
“The melee has set off World War III on the show and may cost Isaiah his job,” an insider told The Enquirer.
“The cast is divided over the shameful event.”
As The Enquirer exclusively revealed last week, Patrick and Isaiah clashed over cast members being late to the set, right before shooting a scene at Prospect Studios in Los Angeles.
A heated discussion quickly escalated to violence when Isaiah snapped, revealed an eyewitness.
At one point, Isaiah yelled, “I’m not your little faggot like (name deleted),” according to the source. Those who heard him were stunned.
Because of the extreme nature of the slur, The Enquirer is withholding the name of the co-star targeted by Washington.
During the brawl, an enraged Isaiah grabbed Patrick by the throat and shoved him a few feet.
Hmmm, “extreme slur”? Who knew The Enquirer was so quaint? We’ve been called way worse. But, we digress…
How about we take this to the next level?
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We’re not Grey’s watchers, so we don’t know the actors well enough to venture an educated guess as to whom is, in fact Dempsey’s so-called “little faggot.” Judging from photographic evidence, however, we guess TR Knight (picture). He just seems a little faggy (and cute), but that’s just us.
As always, any conjecture, speculation, and straight up guesses are welcome.
(The story hits LA and NYC stands today. Rest of America, you’ll just have to wait until Friday. Sorry.)
solomon grundy
I’ve seen TR at upscale Manhattan gay bars. In person he’s tiny and cute.
Jo Jo
Why don’t we just perpetuate some of the sterotypes for which we often criticize the straight community.
Sals Rosenberg
And here we come back to one of the most ironic phenomenons to grace the face of America: Hompophobic African Americans. Honestly, it makes me sick.
The idiot who wrote this made a jab about the slur being only “quaint”, and unworthy of the adjective “extreme”.
Considering the idiotic sense most people have about these things, I’m positive the term “Nigger” coming from Patrick would’ve warranted the title “extreme”.
Sean
You go Sals!!
Gadhafy
If T.R. Knight is a faggot, then IW is a FUKING CLOSEMINDED NIGGER!!!
Gadhafy
How is THAT for X-treme!
JUSTIN
Scientific polls have shown that Whites are the most tolerant of gays, followed by Latinos, Asians, and lastly, Blacks.
Many Blacks feel that it is egregious to call them a ‘nigger’ after they have called you a ‘faggot’. This is because the scientific knowledge that Homosexuality is genetic has not filtered down into the common knowledge of their hip hop culture.
If someone thinks that it is worse to call a Black person a ‘nigger’ then they think one of two things. First, they are believing that same sex attraction is a choice. And secondly, they are valuing the life of the Black person over the life of the Homosexual.
If a Black person calls me a ‘faggot’ I will call them a ‘nigger.’ Justice is as justice does.
Shanae
I don’t see why homophobic African-Americans are an anomaly. The fact they have been marginalised in the past doesn’t mean all of a sudden they have lost the innate human tendency to discriminate against others. Are you saying gays have no prejudices? PLEASE!
Oh and Justin, your comments about blacks not knowing about the genetic basis of homosexuality (which I think is still inconclusive btw) because its not in hiphop culture reflects your own unfortunate biases. There are blacks in the Ivy League, in medicine,engineering and even in janitor jobs who gather information from somewhere other than rap! Shame on you!
James
I am black and gay and asian actually. I think any slur is extreme, but I do not understand the ignorance perpetuated for a gay person, obviously of white stature, who thinks people of other minorities, ethnic or what-not, cannot have a prejudice or a phobia of their own. Why is it such a surprise to anyone and why would that be subject to lambasting an entire race of people when it is really the prejudice of a single person? I am offended by the comments in reaction to Mr Washington’s slur. I don’t think those people have black friends. Should I be wrong in my assessment, then my next observation would be that should they have black friends, maybe they should think about their ability to hurl the term nigger around so freely each time they need an example of an extreme racial slur. In the end, if you are going to speak on behalf of ALL gay people, then please remember the all inclusive, are also black gay people.
Clarknt67
Justin: I’d contend regardless of whether homosexual tendencies are a choice or an unchangable inherited characteristic, everyone deserves to be treated with respect and courtesy.
If I chose to be gay, screw that Dr. McBigot or anyone else that tells me I can’t make such a choice. Are we not still in America?
Gina - Atlanta
Ignorance begets ignorance…..
Just as IW allowed his prejudices to be torn from is internal secret hiding place for all to see (the place we all hide our prejudices).
It appears a lot of you on this board have and will use this as an excuse to expose your dirty little prejudices as well.
So I repeat…ignorance (IW) begets ignorance (all of you on this board who used the “N” word)
The sad part is the whole world will know IW punishment for his stupid remark, but we will never know who KARMA punishes you for your!!
cindy
White, married, female here…
The whole incident is just shameful on so many levels! Think about. Mr. Washington should be, and I’m sure he is, terribly ashamed of his behavior…all around…!
Gadhafy
OMG.,,.I.Washington,.,I’mSOOOOOO Happy to know that your nigger ass is gonna get fired,.,.,.,.I mean.,.it’s not an ‘official’ report,.,. but,., you know how this things go.,.,.or don’t ya????.,.,….,
PD: IW.,.is a nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER !!!!,.,.,., Digest that.-.-.-.-biatches!!!
Shanae
Gadhafy….why am I not surprised. I hope you feel better now that you have proven your stupidity. You are the type of person that makes all gay people look bad. And you wonder why America won’t accept you!
Gadhafy
Shanae is a nigger, and a drama queen, a nigga drama queen MOFO,
Take it bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shanae
Awww Gadhafy. You’re soooo pathetic. Here you are screaming insults while I inch closer to my ivy league bachelor’s degree in economics. Keep yelling Gadhafy, keep screaming…its music to my ears. Keep being a loser, call me whatever you want, especially if it makes you feel better. It makes me feel awesome knowing I’m so much better than you!
Love,
Shanae
Touche
What an “upscale” conversation here. Shananae with your affected elitist posturing and Gadhafy with your childish racism should start your own television show–you can outdo each other–see who can become the most exemplary stereotype yet!
Mr. Washington wasted his time
Real black men don’t waste their time with fags.
FanGirlHater
Gee, this site attracts the best of the best, huh? Maybe if gays stop acting like black people are somehow more obligated to be more tolerant of you, they would be. Um, Justin, honey, somebody calls u a f@ggot and you call them a n*gger? That makes you better than them, right? Plus, I know black people well(cuz I am one) and if you were really so stupid as to do that….you would get severely fucked up and/killed. It’s easy to say what you would do Justin, but you know as well as I if some thugged out, gangsta ass black dude called you “fag” you would keep your mouth shut til you were well out of each. Punk. Gadhafy? Gadfly is more like it. Nobody likes a troll, sweetie. You idiots are only suceeding in further alienating black people like me. I’m a big supporter of gay rights, but the petty racism I’m seeing is making me wonder if I should waste my time worrying about the rights of white people who see me me as a “n*gger” when something goes wrong. If you think you are gonna win equality in this country with a majority of black people against you(and hispanics and maybe asians) you are SADLY mistaken. So you gays better start kissing up to minorities instead of expecting something out of us. We don’t owe you shit.
realist
Statistically speaking, blacks are the most homophobic race. Just look at the exit polls in the last election. They opposed gay marriage at a higher percentage than any other race. Now here is my perspective on this matter. African-americans didnt have the right to marry at one point in this country. And even after they recieved that right, they still couldn’t marry someone of another race. Yet here we are less than fifty years after the civil rights movement in which blacks gained their legal acceptance into society, and here is a black man throwing around the term “faggot”. This has nothing to do with race, its just the nature of humans to be foolish and selfish. Blacks have their freedom, so fuck everyone else, right?. The same way when whites had their freedom and blacks didn’t, most whites didn’t give a shit because they weren’t affected. See, we’re all pretty much the same… self-serving, ignorant, and violent. There are always exceptions however, and just because a higher percentage of white people are advanced in their thinking than blacks, doesnt mean we should offend all the black people who are advanced in their thought proccesses by making ignorance a racial issue. I, like many others who read this I’m sure, immediately wanted to call Isaiah Washington a DUMB FUCKING NIGGER. however, this kind of bullshit is exactly what enrages people and spreads discrimination of all types. In reality, Isaiah Washington is just a dumb fucking idiot, and this has nothing to do with the color of his skin. He is just uneducated and ignorant, and I hope he never finds work again. I also hope that the black people who aren’t ignorant fucking idiots would make an effort to eduate the rest of their race (clearly a lot of work needs to be done). Since ignorant people are racist, it will take people of the same race to change them. I’ll do the same and try to change the ignorant fucking idiot white people. Fortunately in terms of percentages I have a lot less work to do.
Johnson
Aw, poor T.R. was called a “faggot”…by a violent asshole that no one really likes.
Grow the fuck up dude, Isaiah Washington is just a dick and you can’t have Katherine Heigl running around defending you like she is your mommy. This isn’t fucking grade school. In the real world, people of all races and persuasions can be bigoted assholes.
Be a man and stand up for yourself.
Mr. Unite Us
Sals Rosenberg says:
“And here we come back to one of the most ironic phenomenons to grace the face of America: Hompophobic African Americans. Honestly, it makes me sick.”
Sals Rosenberg display his racism, in his attempt to brand millions African Americans based on one African American denying the use of one word at a press conference.
Should we therefore brand all Jews because of this racist version of the story Noah conjured up around 600 A.D.
Midrash Rabbah – Genesis XXXVI:7
7. AND NOAH AWOKE FROM HIS WINE (IX, 24): he was sobered from his wine. AND KNEW WHAT HIS YOUNGEST SON HAD DONE UNTO HIM. Here it means, his worthless son, as you read, Because the brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to recelve the burnt- offering, etc. (I Kings VIII, 64).(1). AND HE SAID: CURSED BE CANAAN (IX, 25): Ham sinned and Canaan is cursed! R. Judah and R. Nehemiah disagreed. R. Judah said: Since it is written, And God blessed Noah and his sons (Gen. IX, 1), while there cannot be a curse where a blessing has been given, consequently, HE SAID: CURSED BE CANAAN. R. Nehemiah explained: It was Canaan who saw it [in the first place] and informed them, therefore the curse is attached to him who did wrong. R. Berekiah said: Noah grieved very much in the Ark that he had no young son to wait on him, and declared, ‘ When I go out I will beget a young son to do this for me.’ But when Ham acted thus to him, he exclaimed, ‘ You have prevented me from begetting a young son to serve me,(2) therefore that man [your son] will be a servant to his brethren!’ R. Huna said in R. Joseph’s name: [Noah declared], ‘You have prevented me from begetting a fourth son, therefore I curse your fourth son.’(3) R. Huna also said in R. Joseph’s name: You have prevented me from doing something in the dark [sc. cohabitation], therefore your seed will be ugly and dark-skinned. R. Hiyya said: Ham and the dog copulated in the Ark, therefore Ham came forth black-skinned while the dog publicly exposes its copulation. R. Levi said: This may be compared to one who minted his own coinage(4) in the very palace of the king, whereupon the king ordered: I decree that his effigy be defaced and his coinage cancelled. Similarly, Ham and the dog copulated in the Ark and were punished.(5)
(1) Katon is used in both verses, in the second in the sense that it was too small and consequently unfit; v. Zeb. 59b. Ham was actually not the youngest son, as appears from the order, Shem, Ham. and Japheth.
(2) According to the Rabbis he castrated him.
[or had sex with Noah]
(3) Sc. Canaan; V. X, 6.
(4) Coins bearing his own effigy.
(5) Copulating in the Ark is compared to minting one’s coinage (producing offspring in one’s own image) in the King’s (i.e. God’s) own house.
This extract is from the Soncino Classics Collection, Judaic Classics Library CD-ROM, 1995, Davka Corporation, Chicago, USA.
Shelley
Washington will likely not be fired.
After all was said and done Disney STILL distributed “Apocalypto ”
You know what god Disney answers to.
Emily, Holland
Just think about it: this is an article about someone, who accidentally turns out to be a black man, who said some awfull insulting things about gay-people. ALL of a suddon, the whole discussion is about being black and “niggers”. Why do you people have to involve racial differences and black/white people? It’s just unbelievable! This isn’t about skin color, it’s about the discrimination of homosexuals!
Think about it, please.
Realist
don’t be ridiculous Emily. you have to see the forest beyond the tree. this country has a history of discrimination against minorities of all types. its outrageous when one minority gains acceptance and then contributes to the oppression of another. but read my post above though because I dont think this is a racial issue either. i certainly understand though why race has come up
Morgan
I makes me sad to think this is the level of intelligence on our planet. IW opened his mouth and regardless of what color he is he made a mistake. Don’t fire him, make him work and have the network donate all his pay for the remainder of the season to a gay education foundation and an african american foundation that both teach tolerance and inclusion.
Italian Stallion
Gay doesn’t mean female. You all sound like a whiney bunch of little faggots to me. Bone up!!
Juanita
I. W. forgot that he is in Hollyweird. In Hollyweird Jews, gays and mafia control what’s on TV. They love to depict African Americans in a negative light. People have disagreement at work all the time. Some people even have affairs. We all know someone at work we can’t stand. I hear people use profanity in the work place and no one is fire for that. I can only assume I. W. was telling Dempsey that he is not a sissy (f-word). I. W. had to put Dempsey’s ass in check. T. R. said I. W. referred to him as a faggot. I. W. didn’t directly call him a fag. If T. R. has a problem with that, he should have dealt with I. W. right then and there. Yes, I. W. could have used a different word but I. W. is a grown ass man. I. W. has apologized. If ABC was going to fire him, they should have in October. ABC has a double standard didn’t Rosie make racist slur or comments against Asians? Wouldn’t Rosie fall in the same guidelines under the anti-discrimination policy of ABC and parent company Disney. We all have said and done things we are not proud of. We have all made mistakes. Hopefully we will learn from them. So stop being hypocrisy. Sorry people you can just simply replace one black actor for another. He is a major part of the show. I think he is very attractive and an excellent actor. I. W. has a right to make a living. I don’t think he should be fire. If they do, the show will not be the same. We don’t know what really happen only the people who were there knows. Someone on the set leak the story that’s how T. R. was outted Maybe it was Katherine Heigel. What is ABC going to do about Katherine. She was talking about kicking I. W. ass. Now she is demonstrating violence in the workplace. Will she be fire? No. I also feel T. R. needs to man up and fight his own battles. Don’t go on Ellen and Rosie’s show and whined that someone said faggot. Be a man. No matter where you go. You are gonna hear or see a slur or cussing of some sort. Everyone has prejudices and stereotypes. I don’t want my son to hear profanity but when we walk out our door. People use it. What they are doing to I. W. is a modern day lynching. Just for the record, I am not a fan a Grey Anatomy fan. I try to watch it once but it’s not my cup of tea. I don’t think it’s right he is receiving all this blacklash. We need to learn how to be more tolerance. Show the same compassion you have for Michael Richards AKA Kramer to I. W. Let differences create respects not conflict. Do the right thing people. Get over it and let it go.
http://www.petitiononline.com/weluviw/petition.html Keep Isaiah Washington on Grey’s Anatomy
Chris
People, people…all this hate and bigotry generated by an anger-fueled rant from a frustrated actor? Come on! Not to excuse Isaiah from his alleged comments or actions towards Patrick and T.R., but I personally think this whole thing was blown way out of proportion. And I agree with Juanita, T.R. Knight was not the one who got choked on set, but he goes on Ellen and Rosie to whine about discrimination? Come on! Patrick wasn’t setting up interviews with Diane Sawyer because of the violence he suffered at the hands of a black man! This incident should never have been made out to be about “faggots” or “niggers”. TR was offended by being called a fag? Please. I’m sure it wasn’t the first time, and it won’t be the last, especially after his little whine fest on daytime TV. You think Isaiah has never been called a nigger? Of course he has, and will again. If this posting page proves anything, it’s that we all discirminate by what separates us, whether it be race, orientation, education level, what shows we like to watch. There will always be a dividing line. Does that give us the right to step all over that line, in disrespect? Never. Does it happen? Every day. Get a guy who’s angry, exhausted, frustrated because you’re ready to work, but everyone else is holding you up because they’re late, and tell me he won’t snap and say something rude. Hell, I snap at my own girlfriend if she talks to me while I’m reading! Let’s all stop calling each other names like grade schoolers and get back to our separate lives, and keep the hate at home, where it belongs.
Matin Luther King jr chris
“realist” get real blacks never had to come out of a closet
Martin Luther King jr MORONS
morons being homosexual has not ever will not ever have anything to do with race what happens to homosexuals beacuse they’re homosexuals they bring it on themselves
Martin Luther King Jr
i dont care if you say you were born homosexual cant change it didnt choose it living a lie and or hiding if you dont tell anyone youre homosexual or say youre being truthful about yourselves if you do fact is not unlike being racist what happends toy because youre homosexual you bring it on yourselves
Martn Luther King Jr
just as racists people can stay closeted about being racist and no one would know they’re racist homosexuals can stay closeted about being homosexual and nobody knows they’re homosexual prove me wrong faggot is no more eqivalent to the word nigger than it is to the word honkie or to the word beaner or chink those are all racial slurs faggot is not so untill faggot has only one meaning not the same as a racial slur
Martin Luther King Jr
not unlike being racist homosexuals are in every race no more of “minority group” tthan racicst people are as we say here when it comes to being homosexual or racist IF YOU DONT TELL IT OR SHOW IT WONT NOBODY KNOW IT PROVE ME WRONG.
relaist
what you have said is absolutely ridiculous. thats like saying jews brought the holocaust on themselves because they didnt hide from the nazis well enough.
head shaker
What I wonder is where are the same groups that went after Michael Richards (kramer) for his rant and using the n word? To me, this would have been a great opportunity to show they are really for equality if they would have banded with the gay community when one of their “own” as they put it acts out in ways they condemn. I believe that is the point realist was trying to make.
Mr. Unite Us
Whites and Arabs, not Blacks have the long history of killing homosexuals.
The number one killer of homosexuals was White guy named Adolph Hiter.
Garylong4u
How can you be a FAGGOT calling someone a nigger….A WHITE MAN WOULD CALL YOU A FAGGOT IN A MINUTE….RACE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT….IF YOU (Gadhafy) HAVE HATRED IN YOUR HEART YOU ARE NO BETTER THAN THE PERSON THAT CALLS YOU A FAGGOT AND THEREFORE YOU ARE A FAGGOT, BECAUSE YOU BELITTLE YOURSELF BY STOOPING SO LOW AS TO CALL SOMEONE A NIGGER. BOTH WORDS HAVE STRONG MEANING BEHIND THEM AND SHOULD NOT BE USED TO HURT A CULTURE. ANYONE WHO HAS EVER HAD TO GO THROUGH LIFE FEELING THE HATRED THAT EITHER WORD CAUSED SHOULD NO BETTER….YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!!!! HATRED LEADS TO MORE HATRED….THE CYCLE MUST STOP!!! HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT IF THE MEN IN WHITE SHEETS CAME TO GET YOU FAGGOT YELLING HANG THE FAGGOT…Gadhafy…..HANG THE FAGGOT!!!! I HOPE YOU FEEL REAL GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF FAGGOT…OH YEA YOU CAN KISS MY LOVELY, ROUND, FUCKIN BLACK ASSSSSSSSSSS……..FAGGOT FAGGOT……I BET YA ASS WOULD SICK A BLACK DICK AND SWALLOW TOO :)….IS IT GOOD TO YA FAGGOT IS IT GOOD TO YA!!!