From the AP:
A gay and lesbian advocacy group demanded an apology Wednesday from “Grey’s Anatomy” co-star Isaiah Washington for comments made following the Golden Globe Awards.
During a backstage interview Monday, Washington denied involvement in a heated on-set incident last year during which an anti-gay slur was reportedly uttered.
“No, I did not call (co-star) T.R. (Knight) a faggot,” Washington told reporters. “Never happened, never happened.”
On Wednesday, Neil Giuliano, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said he had contacted Washington’s representatives in hopes of meeting the actor to discuss “the destructive impact of these kinds of anti-gay slurs.”
“Washington’s repeated use of it on-set and in the media is simply inexcusable,” Giuliano said in a statement.
Washington’s publicist declined comment Wednesday.
Knight, who said soon after the October fracas that he is gay, appeared in Tuesday’s taping of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” to discuss the original incident and Washington’s recent comments.
“He referred to me as a faggot. Everyone heard it,” Knight said of the October incident.
Here’s an idea: Why doesn’t TR Knight demand an apology from Washington, and let Washington decide whether or not he thinks one is warranted? I mean, if what Washington said is truly “destructive,” why give it more attention by publicizing it? If you are concerned with his repeated use of the phrase in the media, stop asking him about the incident, because it should be clear by now he’s not going to replace “faggot” with the censor-approved “the f-word”.
If Washington gives off a homophobic vibe on the set, I’m certain his co-workers will form their own judgments of him. Do we really need to go through the spectacle of public outrage and demands for televised contrition each time some celebrity utters something that a particular identity group finds demeaning?
Because so long as we’re going that route, Mel Gibson needs to send me a gourmet fruit basket, like, pronto.
Quit oppressing the African-Americans, faggots!
Or why don’t they settle their issues with swords at dawn? It’d be so… real, man.
You can’t demand an apology. Since the signing of the Gloria Allred full employment act, all apologies must be legally negotiated (and paid in cash).
Well, it sure as hell would beat a pay-per-view duel, with the Gay &Lesbian Defamation Alliance president and Fred Phelps as guest referees…
Poor Dawn. So misunderstood.
Why would two gay men wield their swords at her?
Ok, ok, I have to get those kikes. . . um. . . I mean Jewish friends of mine fruit baskets. Go ahead and place your orders here and send me the bill.
[unwieldy link removed. sorry, couldn’t get it to work – ed]
But no fags are allowed to get fruit baskets. They are fruity enough already.
Can’t one of your “New York money people” friends just squash this stuff out of media anyway? You know, since you guys control it and all?
Jeff – the difference is that we expect it from those ignorant papists… I mean, crap, give me a break… with all that “on the third day He rose again” mumbo-jumbo. But from an actor with no known life philosophy? The hoopla is about pigeon-holing him (so-to-speak). And in this case, we can’t very well call him a hypocrite, now can we?
In a kosher fruit basket, do the bananas need any special preparation?
http://www.harryanddavid.com
Here’s that fruit basket link. As for your question on Kosher preparation–I am not sure because Jesus Christ, Lord to us all, gave us all permission to eat all the unclean stuff we want, just not on Fridays. But obviously the bananas in the baskets are another reason homos can’t get fruit baskets.
Are they circumsized?
Greetings from Brazil!
I condemn GLAAD for not having been more outraged sooner!
I would sooner condemn GLAAD for not outraging us more later than they did before I was greeted.
I will let by-gones be by-gones if I can do a love scene with Washington. I also want one of those Gibson fruit baskets.
When did everyone have to start saying they are sorry for everything. Jeff is right why doesn’t the guy go to Washington and ask for the apology himself.
I will bring the power of Ramtha to protect fellow traveler TR Knight. Do not mess with him and Gibson better send Ramtha a fruit basket too. The warrior spirit loves fruit.
http://www.ramtha.com/html/aboutus/about-jz.stm
Who the fuck cares if a faggot calls a faggot a faggot?
perhaps I should rephrase it –
I think a rap session may be in order.
OK, looks like I’m gonna have to fuck somebody up around here.
Geez, Jeff, for a Joo you just aren’t graspy enough. As your attorney, I advise you that Mel owes you an apology, tickets to the premiere of his new movie, a fruit basket and $25k quarterly.
I will never apologize for calling um like I see um in the faggot arena. But I would like to apologize to all my Jewish friends for sending them non-kosher fruit baskets. Because, you see, I just didn’t know any better. Which is no excuse!
Just don’t blame me. I am dead. Hey, does Harry and David deliver to hell?
I am with Bobby Knight on this. Someone is going to get a chair thrown at them. And where the fuck is my fruit basket.
Watch out Collins or my next movie will be Apacalypto II–Collins Gets Sacrificed, in ancient Mayan of course.
Hey Hasslehoff,
Make sure your faggot buddies wipe their asses before they sit on the leather.
Howzabout I just suck both of them off, and then we all be friends?
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Mell is going to send Jeff a basket of TR Knights.
If I had it in me to pity show people, I would pity the producer of Grey’s Anatomy. “Oh, great! My token gay is fighting with my token black! Which ribbon do I take off my tux for that?”
Is this what you came back for Jeff?
And are you surprised at how stealthily the guest-posters melted back into the mist?
Well, yeah! How else are we going to figure out how important we are, if we can’t turn other people into dancing bears when we hear something we don’t like.
Trivia: My own ethnic group is the last group in America with enough self-confidence to laugh at itself anymore.
Dying here! Can I get a witness?
Of course it is! Well, that and the $25k per quarter….
Welcome back, Jeff. Can’t wait till tomorrow, once the ‘dillo figures out you’ve returned.
Yes. Yes, we do.
By the way, here is a lovely Kosher fruit basket, don’t know if they deliver outside of NYC though.
Kosher Fruit and Gift Basket
Though Mel should be able to find something at Harry & David; Harry and David are members of the “tribe”, after all.
Harry and David are Jews? I thought they were queers.
Is it ok if I call Crystal Knight sugar tits? I just love the way it sounds.
Well, it’s clear that black people have arrived; if they can now be prejudiced.
I am not sure how much this is supposed to bother me. I wasn’t bothered by Gibson’s tirade either: it was basically, as I understand it, his drunken attempt to abuse a Jewish cop who was busting him for DUI. It’s not like he was onstage, or something. Nor do I pretend to know how anti-semitic Gibson is. And no, I would never see the “Passion”; not my type of flick. “Snakes on a Plane”—just got that on DVD.
I will say that the Michael Richards thing was hard to watch. But I think that had to do with (a) the number of times he said “Nigger”, and (b) the venom behind that use.
I think the fact is these epithets and stereotypes exist. Many of us, when in our cups, will let fly a stereotypical remark, or joke. To say that someone is a racist, homophobe, or anti-semite is the PC equivalent of saying that you are beyond the pale and have to engage in some kind of public contrition to be allowed back into society. Of course the entire dance also demands that no one can have any pride. There’s something of the Maoist circle jerk involved here. Does anyone else see that?
People say stupid shit all the time. It depends on how often, with how much heat, and with what kind of attitude. At the end of the day NO ONE is judged by one word, or one failure. It’s the whole piece.
Isaiah Washington is one surly bastard, or, maybe that’s just the character he plays. If he says, “I never called so and so a faggot” I really don’t understand what the problem is. It’s not going to change the fact that many people from many cultural milieus in America have contempt for gay people not because of “what they are” (whatever that means) but because of how they _act_. Men are supposed to act like men, in some vague way. There are plenty of homosexual men who do. And some who don’t. And for the latter there are various names that are apparently a crime to pronounce. Whatever.
So you can ban the word “faggot” and something else will take its place. Why do you think my kids use the term “that’s so gay” as a pejorative? Because they think “gay” is like, “good”?
I wonder if Isaiah is doing that Japanese broad.
No shit, Steve. Fuckin’ people. Sheesh.
You have been reading the comments, right?
Jeezuz TR Knight – pop that thumb out of his blowhole and right up his asshole, if/when he stops crying about his little Lost Closet. Washington had NOTHING to do with him being a closet case.
So there he is in all his whiteboy/puppydog “I didn’t want to be, but/t – I’m Out, I’m Gay” glory, in the socially acceptable confines of gaydom – the Ellen show – REPEATING the very word he alleges was so derogatory – only when spoken by a straight black man. At true moonbat at work.
And praise be to Allahpundit, lucky us get to see Roswhale bloviate about it on the View tomorrow.
As an overweight white guy, I demand an apology from Mat Millen for making the rest of us look like idiots.
As a Republican ditto from Fred Barnes.
As an American likewise from Ramsey Clarke, the Dixie Chicks, and Jimmah.
As an inhabitant of this planet equally from the entire population of the country of Nepal. Stupid triangular flag.
Classical liberals are self-regulating.
I’ll winess Dan. We all respect you here, and love you too!
HEY! HEY!! DON’T BE CALLING ME A FAGGOT!!
Christ, I’m laughing at this post in the morning. Welcome back.
In reality, she’s Canadian.
Guess they all look alike to you, eh?
I love my dead gay son!
What?
Well he is to me, the faggot!
In reality, she’s Canadian.
Guess they all look alike to you, eh?
Actually, the last line of my post was designed as a PC lure. Glad that I caught one.
I wasn’t pinging you for being politically incorrect; I was pinging you for being factually incorrect.
Times two, now that we’re counting.
Still, it’s good that you have dis-closeted yourself as a troll.
I’m just pissed because they cut that Dire Straits song from the air play list because the say “faggot” in it… well that and it’s old…and not really that good of a song…
Who are we kidding? I’m not pissed.
FOR THE SAKE OF THE MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE!!!!!!
Here is what I am wondering. Does anyone at GLAD ever watch MTV? Do they see any of the reality shows there, but especially “The Real World?” Do they ever listen the the most routine conversations between young people?
Every time I have watched that show I am appalled at the drunken namecalling and various “F-you” spouted at anyone. I mean pick your insult. The girls are called “whores and sluts.” The gay guy is called a “faggot.” The black guys are called “niggers.” It is a cornucopia of insults. And this seems to be the way most people of the younger generation of today comports itself. At least when drunk, which seems to be a great deal of the time.
Faggot is a commonly used term, even among kids in Jr. High, to describe anyone who is acting “stupid.” Do the GLAD people not hear the things I hear?
The idea that this is some unusual insult that only the worst of us would use is ridiculous.
I’m all for manners returning, but let’s not pretend this kind of namecalling isn’t common and accepted.
I came here to check out the Japanese gal, and she’s Canadian? Bait-and-switch lawsuit to follow. I’ve been had. No pie, armadillo, or Japanese gals around here. It’s Friday!
RWS, miss your site. No MTV watching here. Their vocabulary would make my DI blush.
I wasn’t pinging you for being politically incorrect; I was pinging you for being factually incorrect.
Bullshit. You were being a PC cop/troll.
If I say that Isaiah Washington is a “Black dude” I am not suggesting he is a citizen of the State of Black.
By the same token, when I refer to someone who looks like an ethnic Japanese as “Japanese”, I am not insinuating that she is a citizen of Nippon. (Although she could be a citizen of Latvia, for all I know or care.)
Yes, I’m sure the first word that comes to mind when thinking of a word to describe S.I. Hayakawa and that Japanese broad on Gray’s Anatomy is “Canadian.” Yeah, right.
The last line of my post was irreverent because it was a post about PC. I thought that someone would hassle me for calling her a broad. I never thought I’d get the self-important pedant to lecture me on her citizenship.
Well, now that you’re acting all butch and all, I have to say that…ok, you’re still full of shit. And a troll, too, but that’s pretty much a given.
Steve said “I wonder if Isaiah is doing that Japanese broad.”
She is not Japanese, she is Canadian. She is also of Korean back ground. As a woman–a very hot woman–I also take offense at the use of the term “broad.” What’s next? Are you going to ask what her bar fine is?
Calling her Japanese is like calling a Jew a German Nazi. So you are racist and an antisemite.
Anyway–I am much hotter than her. http://www.golfdigest.com/gfw/gfwcover/index.ssf?/gfw/gfwcover/gfw200609kim.html
Where is my fruit basket steve? And no, I will not do you.
Shit, Canadians do all look alike to me.
I am a Canadian-Korean. I am also quite hot myself and don’t mind the term broad. I am vain though. Here is my wikipedia entry that I created myself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Oh
I had to click the link to see for myself, of course. No arguments here.
That was very nice of you Cranky-D to say that. Here are some more photographs to enjoy. Canadians all look the same because they are covered up with ugly coats from Fields. Come on now, do all Koreans look the same?
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=images&imgsz=&imgc=&vf=&va=yunjin+kim&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8
Shit, Canadians do all look alike to me.
Believe me, Jim – I live in Edmonton – they really do. They’re impossible to tell apart in their toques and their “Roots” sweaters.
This is why we must keep those donut-gobbling, hockey-loving, government-teat-sucking hordes out of our beloved Republic!!!
Canadians all look the same because they are covered up with ugly coats from Fields.
That too. And oversized, misshapen hockey sweaters.
And beer goggles, eh?
Well, sure, McG – how do you think they make more Canadians?
Out of doughnuts?
Anyway, I saw Strange Brew, so I know all about Canada.
What matters is that they can tell the difference.
I’m not sure they can. they’re so schizo their road signs are in two languages.
Wrong, Lee – only francais in La Belle Province.
Quebec doesn’t have to have english on their signs?
Are you sure Meg?
Man I’d like to see that country split!
Adapting what we say in Texas –
“Quebec. It’s a whole other country.”
Naturally, whenever I hear the word homophobia uttered with anything but disdain for the manipulative concept, I know I need not waste any more time considering my interlocutor’s opinions are wishes, for he’s either a fool or a knave.
Many other intellectual non-entities give themselves away at first blush, using words such as progressive and phrases like social justice. It is very accomodating of tyrants and their toadies to save my energies this way. It’s probably the only consideration they ever show for others.