Rosie is a heterophobe
I don’t watch either Live with Regis and Kelly or The View. Ya know … I work for a living …So, anyway, since the issue made news I really felt I had to comment on it.
Apparently, last Friday, Clay Aiken co-hosted with Kelly Ripa, sitting in for Regis. At one point during an interview with two of the Dancing with the Stars winners, Aiken, feeling he could not get a word in, put his hand over Kelly’s mouth. [Read more here or watch the YouTube video...]
Kelly’s reply was “That’s a no-no. I don’t know where that hand has been, honey.”
Seems harmless enough, right? Not to Rosie O’Donnell, and she said so on The View. Apparently, it was an attack on Aiken’s alleged homosexuality (although it should be noted that prior to Rosie’s statement on The View, Aiken’s sexual orientation was still in question. Rosie cleared it up, though, by her accusations that Ripa was a “homophobe” and that “if [Aiken] was a straight man” such a comment would not have been made. Thanks at least for that, Rosie!)
O’Donnell is an openly gay woman, former comedienne, and co-host of The View. In her commentary on the incident, O’Donnell had to reiterate her perspective “as a gay person in the world”.
Kelly does call her out on that, though, stating that Rosie “needs to be more responsible. Not everything is homophobic.”
Yet, why am I even bothering with this? Because I think it represents an agenda to establish an atmosphere of fear and trepidation in saying or doing anything that might be offensive to homosexuals. Rosie, among others, is working daily to force her views on people, and perpetuate this environment.
[tags]rosie o’donnell, kelly ripa, clay aiken, the view, homophobia, homosexual, heterophobia, culture, tv[/tags]
If you look on you tube, and watch the following Monday show of the Live, it was kelly that made a big thing of the friday show with clay, instead of talking to clay privately after the friday show, she decided to attack him on television- and if you watch the friday show she did really mock his feminity by playing a video pretending to be him
rosie had all the facts and that is why she came to his defense-I thought exactly the same thing as rosie
take care
patrick said this on November 24th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Thanks for the comment, Patrick.
Before posting, I’d seen the YouTube of Monday’s Live. Really, the “Clay vs Kelly” thing … it seems to be much ado about nothing. Who really cares if Aiken didn’t get to talk as much, or if Ripa talked to much? Really … it’s Ripa’s show (well it’s Regis’ show even if both their names are on it, but he wasn’t there), so she can take it wherever she wants.
In my lifetime, I’ve made and have had people make such comments as Ripa made; to heterosexuals, male and female.
Honestly, until Rosie made it a “homophobic” remark, I don’t think most people, if any, would have made such an association. In commenting, O’Donnell could have just as easily reprimanded Ripa’s lack of manners/etiquette/etc, without giving her perspective “as a gay person in the world”. Regardless of “the facts” O’Donnell had, by taking it in that direction, she impugned the credibility of her perspective, and used her position on The View to further a personal agenda.
Matt said this on November 25th, 2006 at 11:59 am