• Facing GLAAD’s wrath for his anti-gay slur during this weekend’s telethon, Jerry Lewis issued the following apology:
I obviously made a bad choice of words. Everyone who knows me understands that I hold no prejudices in this regard. The success of the (telethon) and all the good that will come from it shouldn’t be lost because of one unfortunate word. I accept responsibility for what I said. There are no excuses. I am sorry.
Well, when you put it that way…
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• 88-year old Loraine Barr comes out of the closet. Bitch is fierce!
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• Paris Hilton wants a baby by next year. Said baby will most likely be bastard, doomed.
• Small pipe bomb goes off in Chelsea, NYC. No injuries.
• Gay rights activist knocks John McCain on his ass.
• Bertrand Delanoe, Paris’ gay mayor, wants another go.
• As you can see, NYC’s still sinking in on itself, thus ruining fashion week kick-off parties, like Mao mag’s. Urban disasters are, like, so 2001!
Jack Jett
In his defense, I remember when he was doing Damned Yankees, he went of of his way to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids.
Let us not forget that Issiah Washington who is still getting work and booked on every freaking talk show in the world. Also, let’s not forget the gay basher/closet case Tucker Ann Carlson.
We have bigger phobes to fry.
jack jett
Dawster
I agree… plus… I still say we gave Isaiah Washington one chance… he said it in private, heat of the moment… blah blah blah.
and he came back and presented the word in public yet again.
so… there are slip-ups, and there are idiots. let the old people be old.
Charles Wilson
Jerry Lewis’s apology sounds forthright and sincere to me. I accept it, and hope other people will too.
Paul Raposo
I’m glad he apologized, but I still find it irksome that people who claim to not be anti-gay always seem to have anti-gay slurs on the tip of their tongue.
Graywolf48
Personally, I don’t like Jerry Lewis and never have. I never though he was funny and he always just grated on my nerves. That being said, I think he made a mistake after a long stretch of being “on”. He apologized, I think sincerely. I’m willing to move on.
I still haven’t heard an apology from Tucker Carlson, who bragged about his alleged gay bashing incident.
dizzyspins
the man is older than mud. Im amazed he can even form a cogent sentence, let alone let a anti-gay zinger slip. Nice lady!!
PS: Who among us hasnt made fun of Jerry’s Kids at some point? Let he who is without sin, yaddah yaddah yaddah…
ProfessorVP
Who among us hasn’t made fun of Jerry’s Kids? Of course, none of us. Also babies with spina bifida, Michael Vick’s pitbulls and those trapped miners in Utah. I just love gay humor. Delightful!
Bill Perdue
The story about the New Hampshire student who bashed back is much more imoportant than it appears to be.
Sleasters gutsy jabing at Republican/Democrat antigay politician McCain may seem like a minor incident in the campaign, but it’s indicative of a sea change in American politics. Our fight against the Democrat/Republican Party’s DADT and DOMA and for a tough EDNA are integrated into the politics of a new generation unburdened as never before by bigotry.
Sleaster’s linking that to “how to help the working class in America†represents the next big break for our movement – using the connectivity of our issues with those of our natural allies and working with them in independent political actions away from the treachery, corruption and ‘politics as usual’ of the Democrat/Republicans, the political organ of the billionaires.
Sleaster is light years ahead of the frauds masquerading as leaders who hustle and shill for the old politics that have kept us in chains for generations. Sleasters generation is ringing the death knell for sellouts like HRC, the Logheads and the Stoneheads.
I hope Sleaster can hook up with Pride at Work, the AFL-CIO’s GLBT organizing group, and the Youth for Socialist Action. Good job, bud.
http://www.prideatwork.org
http://www.socialistaction.org/ysa.htm
austinite
Agree with Dawster. There are slip-ups and there are idiots. The context of Lewis’ use of the word was almost affectionate in an off-key, comedic sense, and rather typical of his generation. (It took me years to get my poor mother to stop using the word ‘Negro’ which she never meant in a disrespectful way.)
And with all the talk of double-standards this past week, I’d like the staff at Queerty to please reconsider throwing around the word ‘fag’ themselves. (See above post about Australian “fag rag”.) Yes, it’s funny to US, when said by US, but doing so only makes the squawks from GLAAD ring a little hollow when they jump on an old, charitable (albeit cranky and annoying) man like Jerry Lewis.