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GLAAD Demands CNN Fire Roland Martin Over David Beckham Tweet

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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has called out columnist and CNN contributor Roland Martin for a Tweet he sent during last night’s Super Bowl.

Martin, who spent Sunday evening live-Tweeting the game and several commercials, made a remark about an H&M commercial for David Beckham‘s line of men’s underwear. The ad, for those who missed it, features close-ups of the soccer player clad only in a pair of briefs.

“If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad,” Martin Tweeted, “smack the ish out of him!”

Martin insisted he was taking a jab at soccer fans, not the gay community. For your reference, here’s his original comment, including the Tweets that came directly before and after:

RELATED: CNN’s Roland S. Martin Livetweets Dave Chappelle’s Strange Comedy Set

GLAAD called out the Tweet for encouraging violence against gay men:

Today, Martin published a statement on the matter on his website:

Fam, let me address the issue that some in the LGBT community have raised regarding some of my Super Bowl tweets yesterday.

I made several cracks about soccer as I do all the time. I was not referring to sexuality directly or indirectly regarding the David Beckham ad, and I’m sorry folks took it otherwise.

It was meant to be a deliberately over the top and sarcastic crack about soccer; I do not advocate violence of any kind against anyone gay, or not. As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, anytime soccer comes up during football season it’s another chance for me to take a playful shot at soccer, nothing more.

GLAAD, meanwhile, has published a report titled “Enough is Enough: Tell CNN to Fire Roland Martin,” in which the group says that, not only is Martin’s Tweet certainly homophobic, it is also part of a larger pattern of behavior:

Roland Martin has never compared being a soccer fan to being an alcoholic, the way he has compared being gay to being an alcoholic. Roland Martin has never bragged that his wife has led men and women away from the “soccer lifestyle,” the way he claims she has with gay people. Roland Martin has never defended jokes about parents stabbing soccer-playing children, the way he defended jokes about parents stabbing gay children.

Based on this history, this doesn’t seem like a playful jab at what Martin considers an inferior sport.

It seems like a jab at what Martin considers an inferior community of people.

One piece of evidence GLAAD offers is a Tweet Martin made earlier on Sunday: “Who the hell was that New England Patriot they just showed in a head to toe pink suit?” he’d written. “Oh, he needs a visit from #teamwhipdatass”

h/t GLAAD

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    Hard not to laugh when a lefty gets demagouged by other lefties over harmless statements.  I wonder if Roland thinks twice the next time he accuses a conservative of racism after some innocuous statements?

  • http://twitter.com/Rushlimbang Brian Skinner

    I think Glaad should shut up.  Free speech means just that.  FREE SPEECH.   I don’t see Glaad getting upset about any comments Bill Maher has made about Mormons.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CHU2T4PKPJ57D5NJPKPYEXVWIY Frank Rizzo

    For as much as I relish the fact that a CNN pinhead is being attacked by his own liberal constituency, once again the PC police are way too sensitive and need to get over themselves. Or at least get the semblance of a sense of humor. The underwear thing is pretty stupid.

  • Anonymous

     Brian-  I agree these were comments not to go crazy about, but as you say, free speech is free speech.  GLAAD can ask CNN to fire him, it is free speech.  CNN can decide not to do it, just like JC Penney & Elen-   The left never said anything about it not being free spreech in that case…..

  • Pablo

    It is hilarious when the OUTRAGE!!! machine eats it’s own.

  • Paul Doro

    Should this man really be criticizing the attire of others?

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2012/02/rolandmartin.jpg

  • Anonymous

     True-  what ‘real man’ wears an ASCOT?

  • Paul Doro

    Everyone is too easily offended. The right acts like they are never guilty of being PC or overly sensitive. Remember Sarah Palin freaking out over the use of retard?

  • Paul Doro

    Not the ascot so much as the comments about “real bruh.” Is he really the best barometer of real manhood?

  • Pablo

    Coming out of the White House is a little different than talking smack on Twitter.

  • Paul Doro

    Maybe, but that doesn’t mean only lefties are easily offended and PC. For example, is there anything the PTC is not offended by?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003105863276 Political Dookie

    I love watching liberals burn their own at the steak. Weeeee!

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    so only gay men would wear H&M underwear being hawked by David Beckham?  That’s kind of a stretch, wouldn’t you say?

    How does making fun of an underwear commercial = gay bashing?

  • ClarkFL

    As much as I think Roland Martin is a clown and what he says is stupid, his tweets are hardly a fireable  offense. GLAAD wants to shut down anyone that dares speak ill about the gay community, whether it is deserved or not. I hope CNN doesn’t cave to any pressure. They didn’t with the Loesch/marine urination thing. GLAAD need not interpret everything that anyone says is against gays. They need to grow thicker skin and fight against real anti-gay bigotry that happens. This is a waste of time.

  • Anonymous

    Go ahead Libs and eat your own….  Gotta luv it…  Maybe he should just tweet that he thought that the ad seemed appealing to republicans and there for he was doing nothing more than attacking the right…

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    Oh, another thing.  I see the gay establishment is going way of the civil rights establishment by making everything and anything “gay bashing”.  This means in a few years, being a “homophobe” will be a punch line, like being a “racist” is now.

    Ever heard 20-somethings, who have been told since stepping foot in a government school of education how racist they are, refer to racism?  It’s a joke…a punchline. 

    Millennial 1: “Dude, I don’t want to go eat at Chili’s.  I don’t like that place”.
    Millennial 2: “Ah man, that’s racist”.

    That’s what happens when you try and make everything racist.  Nothing is racist and it becomes a joke.  So if GLADD wants to make everything gay bashing, they too will become a punchline.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I doubt it. I thought it might give Juan Williams pause, after he was attacked for his comments and fired by NPR, but he’s back to calling Conservatives racist….

  • Paul Doro

    The civil rights establishment of today? Or the 50s and 60s?

  • Paul Doro

    He wasn’t fired by NPR for that comment. That’s a myth used to score political points when needed. A great, informative read: http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/01/The-Story-of-Juan

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    You know.. 

    I’m gay but I don’t really take offense to anything he said.

    You know why?  Because I’m not an idiot.

    Let people express themselves freely and we’ll have a more honest exchange of thoughts and ideas.

    Silencing homophobes is not the answer.

    Rather we need their thoughts out into the open so gay people can dispel them.

    It’s like when a parent forces their kids to apologize for something.

    It’s now very hard to get people’s honest thoughts on homosexuality

    Are people REALLY as accepting as they claim to be?  

    Or do they just feel like they have to be?

    This is why the new teen bullying suicides surprised so many.

    They honestly thought people had changed.

    Real change is sparked through the honest dialogue of individuals.

    Through debate and equal respect, not insults, boycotts and attacks.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    “My wife, an ordained Baptist minister for 20 years, has counseled many men and women to walk away from the gay lifestyle, and to live a chaste life…

    The church is called to love our fellow man, preach the good news and set the captives free – free from a life of sin. That isn’t being homophobic. It’s being a Christian. And no one should have to apologize for that.” - Roland Martin

    http://www.rolandsmartin.com/page/news.cfm?ArticleID=10

  • Gloves Jack Donahue

    Roland Martin always has his fishing show to fall back on.

    http://fishingwithrolandmartin.com/

  • Pablo

     Who said that only lefties get offended?

  • Paul Doro

    Oh, right, all the comments here gleefully discussing “liberals burning their own” and such, in no way are those people suggesting that only lefties are easily offended.

  • Pablo

    That’s so gay.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    NPR Ends Williams’ Contract After Muslim Remarks

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130712737

  • Paul Doro

    The classic “Christian” response. “We love gays and believe in equality. We just believe that they choose a sinful lifestyle that God hates and strongly encourage them to choose another lifestyle or live chaste. Or they will rot in hell. But yes, we’re just being Christian.”

  • Paul Doro

    Yes indeed the contract was ended after the remark. That does not mean the remark is solely responsible for what NPR did. Try reading sara. I provided the link and everything. You will learn something.

  • Anonymous

    Good post I think that your assessment is dead on.

  • Anonymous

    His should have to apologize then wear that ascot to the glaad awards :)

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I’m just wondering why Roland wasn’t attacked for having a spouse who is, and he himself, apparently, believes in, praying away the gay.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    I’m just wondering why Roland wasn’t attacked for having a spouse who is, and he himself, apparently, believes in, praying away the gay.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    no interest. NPR fired Juan after the comment. 

    NPR Ends Williams’ Contract After Muslim Remarks
    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130712737 

    My point was about Juan’s attitude and willingness to throw the race card, after he was dealt the card, still stands.

  • OSTL

     That’s the progressive double standard on full display.

  • Anonymous

     And is speculated that Roland was cured of being gay from this program.

  • Anonymous

    He is a left-wing negro so he is immune from charges of bigotry.
    Sorry but those are the rules.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Kirkland/100000195274498 Brian Kirkland

    The implication, of what to do to a man who was excited by the Beckham ad is clear: assault him. It’s also homophobic, ironically so, given Martin’s silly affinity for ascots. In any case, he’s a bore who road the Obama’s coattails onto CNN. Get rid of him.

  • sid_id

    I am gay too and I was not offended by his remarks either. What the hell do you expect in a room full of guys at a freekin Super Bowl game. The testerone levels rise with each quarter depending on whether your team is winning or losing.

    I was at a Super Bowl party last night (only gay guy there) and when that commercial came on, the jokes started–was I offended– HELL NO!  I laughed my ass off because that’s what friends do…duh. Believe me, I can dish it out just as well as I can take it, and trust me honey, I was dishing it out. I also say “That’s so gay” or That’s gay” all the time. So what! You have to own that remark as many other remarks and jokes that are slung on a  daily basis or end up crying like a bitch in the corner or be like GLAAD and try to create much ado about nothing. Leave Roland alone, he’s just saying what everybody else is already thinking.

  • Anonymous

    aw no son…… you did not just get the gays all riled up while working for ccn did you? Don’t make us Juan Williams you… Your big pumpkin head is on tweet lockdown until we figure this out.

  • Anonymous

    I did not see a frontal view of him.  What was the big deal?  Nothing to write home about.

  • Anonymous

    Full Forward Gay Shields!  Formation :Ascot!   Engage!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Probably not.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    See, I told you.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Perhaps because he’s not running for president, nor his is spouse? Duh!

  • http://conurls.com/ Chris Jones

    The gay Nazis really need to get a sense of humor. I’m no fan of ascot wearing tool Roland Martin, but to say he should be fired over those tweets is ridiculous. They are not the least bit offensive. Gay people who think Roland’s tweets were calling for violence should have the ish kicked out of them. Also, sanctimonious male TV hosts who wear ascots should have the ish kicked out of them.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Not exclusively, we European-Style Socialists do it too.

    Paula Deen.

    Jeff Merrill.

    Then there are all of those family value Republicans, the Newt!, Rudy!, Governor Happy Pants, the Ensign, and Vitter, let’s not forget Vitter, and the list goes on and on …. Full display, as you see.

  • Anonymous

     Free speech has nothing to do with this. Free speech protects you from government censorship, not from being fired by your employer.

  • Anonymous

    Lets just take Martin word for a second. His response to things he doesn’t like is for that subject to be beaten or hit. Who thinks like that? This is a man who should talk to a professional if thats the first thing that pops into your mind when dealing with stuff you don’t like.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Where were all of you smug libruls when marauding gangs of Lesbians were chasing Bill-o O’Reilly through the streets of D.C.?

  • Anonymous

    He’s said far more insulting things about the Tea Party and conservatives – where was their outrage to fire him then?  Should hate speech be repressed only when it offends those of a particular ideology?

  • Anonymous

    As a conservative, I’m calling bullshit on that. Over sensitivity is over sensitivity no matter the source. Palin was wrong. GLAAD is always wrong. Well now that I think of it Palin is always wrong, too. Everybody needs to quit being such pussies.

    Ron Paul 2012

  • huffnnoccupyn

    You’re seriously asking why GLAAD did not insist CNN fire Roland Martin after he said what you say are insulting things about the tea party movement and conservatives?

    Where is the tea party movement’s and conservatives’ outrage at the suicides of gay teens in Michele Bachmann’s district after evidence of bullying of homosexuals from evangelical Christians?
    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202

    *crickets*

  • huffnnoccupyn

    Do you get a tingle after you write a comment like that and hit “Post as NeoKong?”

    You must’ve been thrilled the day you were bigger than your parents so that they couldn’t hit you anymore.

  • huffnnoccupyn

     “That’s so gay.”

    Conservative humor on the edge, there.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    You can call me FULLY SICK of the GAY push to remove ANY use of the word GAY or any “slight” of which they feel from public discord. I have NO ISSUE with HOMOSEXUALS.. but I’m fully sick of GAY PEOPLE.. they can ALL go to hell. Homosexuals are COOL with me. GAY PEOPLE simply SUCK!

  • Anonymous

    I will, however, defend to the death Mr. Martin’s right to make fun of David Beckham.

  • Anonymous

    honestly, I don’t get it, Whats the issue? he didn’t even say gay? 

  • Anonymous

    you’re low budget dude. step your game up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Jones/100003248967001 Fred Jones

    You said it, chink!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Jones/100003248967001 Fred Jones

    “The sheriff’s a near” {Bong!}

  • Anonymous

    crickets indeed since what the heck does Roland Martin have to do with teen suicides?   As I recall, commenters of all stripes were appalled at stories of bullying when it was largely in the news some months ago.  There’s been numerous teen suicide stories in the news the past couple of years, I can only think of a couple involving gay teens.  The others were a girl (recently from Australia if I recall right) who was so abused by classmates she killed herself, and of course the case of the teen mom who pretended to be a friend to a neighbor’s daughter and bullied her until she killed herself.  In at least some of those cases I recall the political divide may not have felled the way you suggest.  I recall Fox News was being criticized because they kept after the story when other networks were ignoring it…

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Yep.

    In the real world friends of gay people say worse stuff than that all the time. It doesn’t mean they want gay people to be hung. It can actually be a way to bond with or relate to gay people through humor and sarcasm.

    Sometimes it’s as though the media is held outside reality.

  • Anonymous

    You live by the sword, you die by the sword Roland!

    For the record, I dont think Roland said anything that over the top, but of all people he should know the PC police are here to eliminate thoughts that arent in lockstep with what they consider acceptable, and that even applies to a liberal democrat operative.

    But this isnt all bad. Perhaps we can get another teachable moment out of this, such as why are black guys so homophobic?

  • expatpatriot

    You apparently didn’t notice. Being a homophobe is just as vile as being a racist.

    And for approximately the same reasons.

  • expatpatriot

    On the other hand, since you can’t really get into people’s heads to root out prejudice — and it would be evil and stupid to try — I’d settle for measures that mitigate homophobic behavior.

    Measures like ensuring that homophobic utterances are shunned socially, and genuinely homophobic acts and policies are not allowed. Which is the way I think most communities are going anyway.

    I can’t tell whether Martin’s remarks were homophobic or not. He seems to have this schtick about soccer being an inferior sport to football, which elicits a big ho-hum from me. Beckham is a big soccer star, so . . .

    Also, it’s next to impossible to discuss *anyone’s* underwear without triggering the snigger factor. It’s just the way human beings are. And maybe Martin is just a putz.

  • Pablo

    I could care less who you sleep with, but the Gay Mafia needs to put a sock in it.

  • expatpatriot

    I didn’t know that Martin was a nutcase on this subject. Thanks for the link.

  • expatpatriot

    Although, now that this particular controversy is gathering steam, perhaps it’s time to point out his wacky beliefs to people?

    I don’t follow the guy very closely, and have always thought of him as a kind of centrist apologist for “both sides.”

    Now I see that — on this one issue, at least — he’s as nutty as Bachmann.

  • david r

    Obvious, deplorable gay bashing.  He should be fired at once.

  • Anonymous

    OK but gay isn’t a derogatory term, nor is it one used only by culture warriors, so your whole ‘homosexuals/gay people’ bit falls flat.

  • david r

    Caught him without his umbrella, I understand, and he was helpless to defend himself.

  • expatpatriot

    Martin is a lefty? Oh, you mean, because he doesn’t foam at the mouth and run around in a tricorne hat, he must be some kind of leftist?

    Sorry, but all the evidence is that he’s a right-of-center moderate, except for holding a few nutty, wingnut ideas about “praying away the gay.”

    I guess it’s that “moderate” thing you can’t handle.

  • david r

     ”We’ll, looks like I’ve hooked an other one.” 

  • expatpatriot

    Liberal democratic operative? Lord love a duck!

  • expatpatriot

    We get it that you’re FULLY SICK. We got that without your using ALL CAPS.

  • expatpatriot

    And who, pray tell, is the “Gay Mafia?”

  • david r

     What the hell do you expect in a room full of guys at a freekin Super
    Bowl game. The testerone levels rise with each quarter depending on
    whether your team is winning or losing.

    Not at my house.  Super Bowl is the new Thanksgiving.  We were stuffed and asleep by the middle of the third quarter.  I woke up and asked my wife who won.  She told me the Yankees.

  • david r

     Pablo, it is obvious that Mr. Huffing Something has no teens around the house.

  • expatpatriot

    To be fair, that phrase has slipped into the popular lexicon of middle schoolers around the country (and is probably slipping out, since these things don’t last long).

    It drives me crazy, but it’s not intended to by homophobic by the users.

    In fact, that was the only successful ironic post by P’lo I’ve ever seen.

  • Anonymous

    It does come off as a questionable tweet.  I wonder if he was saying it in the context of gay bashing or in the context of, ‘ewww he’s too jock he’s too yuppy for my/our tastes’ ..  

    understand? his intent may have been different than the way it came off ..   who knows..  cnn will never fire him, they’ve become the network of black media … 

    honestly, i think this utter CRAP of ppl on the right, left, top corner, insideoutside etc, always demanding someone get fired over 1 or 2 off color comments is getting ridiculous..

  • 19 Delta

    This is purely ridiculous. 

  • lazzzlo

    Seems to me Mr. Martin’s rant is against David Beckham.  I’d say he being defamatory against the English.  Wouldn’t that make him an anglophobe instead?

  • http://www.madcharles.com/ MadCharles

    Rolland is also a racist besides a gay basher. Galdd can piss and moan all it wants but CNN won’t fire him. This is a resume enhancement.

  • Anonymous

    What is the problem…?

  • Anonymous

    Check out some real anti-gay activity not this cupcake article.

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/atlanta-video-beating-765912

  • Pablo

     He’s got his OUTRAGE!!! shoes on, though.

  • huffnnoccupyn

    Since when does GLAAD have to defend the tea party and conservatives from the acerbic tongue of Roland Martin?

    As I recall from your original comment, that is what you insist happen, and you divert the focus away from that onto tangential, barely-related stories that only marginally touch the example I gave showing the absurdity of your demand.

  • huffnnoccupyn

     I’m economical.

  • huffnnoccupyn

    Your comment, which I grabbed from the context portion of Disqus (because the comment has since been removed): “He is a left-wing negro so he is immune from charges of bigotry.
    Sorry but those are the rules”

    Embrace it. Defend it. Tell us the decision-making process behind your choice of words. And … go.

  • Tim Howe

    He should be fired for his anti mormon bigotry from the coverage of the nevada primary.

    this same fool went ballistic on bill clinton in 2008 for even suggesting that blacks were backing obama because he also was black – but the other night this clown said at least a dozen times that mitss nevada win didnt matter one bit because – ther were a lot of mormons in nevada and of course – theyd vote for Mitt..

    and no one else on the panel said a word but to agree.

  • Tim Howe

    an anti juan anti fox pice does not equal reality.

  • Tim Howe

    no hes a obamacrat cheerleader.

    100% race based political commentary.

    he sure bashed hillary in 2008

  • huffnnoccupyn

    You say, “Negro” superseded “colored” as the most polite terminology, at a time when “black” was more offensive.”

    Guess what? We don’t live in that time. You are not a government official administering the 2010 census. You are hardly qualified to stand equal as MLK, unless you are ready to walk picket lines with unions fighting for their rights like MLK actually did.

    You are merely a hornet’s-nest poker, looking to stir up animosity for attention because that is the only way you could get attention from your parents as a child. You are sad.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UALLI44VBKRW5UNMACA2NSH6TI grammabet

    “Get rid of him because he’s Black”say what you actually mean since some of you are so gung ho on freedom of speech.I don’t see any complaints about the derogatory attacks on Obama from the racist rethugs running for president.Faux fox,chanel exclusively for bigots.

  • http://twitter.com/mitrebox mitrebox

    Emoticon Question: How do I signify an eyeroll with a lisp?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RD7VI4JIGOLEZWXOF5UU5PE3II Juliet Abanike

    I wish CNN will fire Rowland “Penguin” Martin, I never liked him anyway. If you see him in real life, he looks like a penguin.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UALLI44VBKRW5UNMACA2NSH6TI grammabet

    It’s good enough for that dipstick Bachman and her whatever to “pray away the gay”it’s good enough for Martin.

  • LindaLeigh

    I’m not supporting Martin by any means….mainly because of his high five with Soledad type antics more than his tweets which were wrong as well. 

    People in the media need to be extra careful about what they tweet. They not only represent themselves but the people they work for.

    For his part, at least his doesn’t have CNN following his name like many on CNN do.

  • Anonymous

    This is the problem with America. It is the totalitarianism of “groups”. GLAAD, NAACP, and all the rest. They arrogantly assume they have a monopoly on an issue, and all speech that is not in line with theirs is subject to punishment. This is censorship in America by the chilling effect. It’s why we can no longer make even simple jokes, let alone have serious conversations.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    The people who SEE gay bashing in every “heterosexual” comment that refers to people acting in a manner that “they” find offensive.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    well dont be so gay about it.

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    You totally missed the point I was making.

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    That would be the one of today.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    I LOVE the men on this board bashing this neeegrow for his idiot tweet. Like people dont threaten each other or themselves ALL of the time: “if my girlfriend buys me a pair of those undies, I’m killing myself, after I kill her and burn the undies”.. I’ll bet anyone that this phrase was said by at least one GUY during the ad. I know I told my girlfriend.. “do you think I’d look good in those” to which she replied: “not as good as him”.. LOL.. I’m waiting for my pair.

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    so upsetting and disturbing. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    it’s the double standard, stoopid. 

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    To paraphrase the Rev. Wright “THE DEMOCRATIC RACISTS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST”!

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Watch the media coverage at ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the AP, the NY Times to see if they try to downplay or cover up this story.

    Ask yourself if the coverage would be the same witha Republican spewing these hateful, bigoted, anti-gay words.
    (heh-heh-heh)

    The Progressive Racists Have Come Home To Roost!
    (heh-heh-heh)

  • Anonymous

    Fire the Guy!!, not because of what he said…Free Speech.  But because he is  out of his depth , a true simpleton, Piss Pooor discourse and an obsession with Race. Four yrs ago in the Democratic Primaries, his Racism and Mysogeny shined bright!!.CNN should never have hired this guy in the first place!

  • Anonymous

    My point is its selective outrage. They are demanding he be fired not because he did something more wrong than whatever else he’s done but because what he said offends their special interest. Whether what he said was insensitive or not isn’t the issue. It’s them piling on and trying to ruin his career because he said something in jest that could be construed to be at the expense of those they advocate for. If every time someone somewhere could possibly be offended by something someone said and that resulted in the person being fired it’d be very hard for anyone to keep a job.

  • Anonymous

    Kind of silly to fire somebody over a bad joke on Twitter…

  • Truth Has No Agenda

    It’s funny how a liberal racist on CNN you say oh no problem. I don’t care what he said. But if there was a conservative commentator on Fox New that said the exact same thing you both would be calling for him to get fire & hung in the morning. You are both hypocrites & phony. The left’s agenda is well know now. We have all ready your leader’s book Saul Alinsky so we know how to do protest now too.

  • Truth Has No Agenda

    GLADD would say you hate being gay that is why you don’t have the outrage that GLADD has on this issue.

  • Truth Has No Agenda

    GLADD would say you hate being gay that is why you don’t have the outrage that GLADD has on this issue.

  • Dirk

    From the Hank Williams Jr. school of I-am-a-f#cking-moron, “FREE SPEECH”

  • Dirk

    Log. Cabin. Republicans.

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    lol.. I’m a Ron Paul libertarian who does not like Fox, CNN or MSNBC. But I know what you’re suggesting and it can be true. Just not in my case.  I’m a firm supporter in free speech.

    I am weird person – I prefer to honestly hear what people REALLY think and feel as opposed to people like GLAAD attempting to manufacture fake thoughts and apologies.  

    Dare I suggest that GLAAD, instead of trying to get Roland fired – instead explain how and why he’s wrong and welcome his thoughts.  Engage in an honest dialogue and real and honest change becomes possible.  Roland Martin could become an ally for them, instead now, that’s just not likely.

    It reminds me of when Elton John decided to do Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. Elton looked at it like an opportunity to REACH OUT in friendship to a supposed enemy.  But I’m not a leftist in any sense of the word, rather I’m a libertarian who prefers honest and frank dialogue about the most personal issues of today rather than pretending people aren’t entitled to thoughts outside GLAAD’s approved handbook.

  • sid_id

    It wouldn’t make any difference to me whether they were employed at FOX, CNN, MSNBC or any other news organization. I just call it like I see it when it comes to a gay issue. I don’t take my lead from GLAAD or anybody else, I am perfectly capable of thinking for myself and forming an opinion and then articulating that opinion and for you to assume to know what my political affiliation is because of a comment I made is just plain ludicrous. I made no comment as to what his political ideology was and could care less, it has no bearing on the matter. Why would it matter?

  • sid_id

    I don’t really care what GLAAD or anybody else “would say”.  I don’t live my life worrying about what other people would say, have said or will say. What is wrong with you?

    Furthermore, why would I be outraged at this issue? Did you not even read my post? Just because GLAAD is outraged doesn’t mean everybody else is, are you outraged at this issue or it is just me that you’re outraged with because I didn’t take GLAAD’s side? WTF dude.  

  • Ben

    yawn…

  • expatpatriot

    You do realize, I trust, that your statement makes no sense whatsoever?

    What on earth is a “heterosexual” comment?”

  • expatpatriot

    You mean the plot by the gay illuminati to make high schoolers say stupid things? That point?

    Yeah, I guess I did.

  • expatpatriot

    I accept that you are unable to engage in serious conversations.

    Just not for the reasons you think.

  • Anonymous

    We have the million mom demanding that JC Penny fire Ellen because she’s gay. Now we have the GLADD demanding CNN fire Martin for questionable tweets. Can we just stop this? This is a free country people and with that comes freedom of speech. If you don’t like what someone says, change the channel or shop elsewhere. I am in with Bernie Goldberg last night on O’Reilly. The conservatives have to drain the swamp of bigots. The left has to do the same thing. Neither can demand that someone be off the air because they don’t like what they say.

  • Anonymous

    It’s only free speech if liberals agree with what is being said. Otherwise it’s hate speech. Hypocrites.

  • Anonymous

    So who do you have to be to say “negro”…?

    Is it a word only to be spoken by sanctioned highly trained personnel. Do you need a license to say it?
    Did you know my favorite beer is Modela Negro?
    Sometimes I follow it with a nice Negro Chocolate biscuit.
    http://www.etietieti.com/en/products.aspx?mainId=1&subId=235

    May I quote Andy Rooney?

    “I object every time I hear the words ‘African-American,’ you know?” Rooney told radio host Don Imus this morning. “The word ‘Negro’ is a perfectly good word. It’s a strong word and a good word. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Mostly it’s not necessary to identify anyone by skin color. But I don’t care for ‘African-American.’”

    How about a L.A. Times article?
    http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story
    Obama the ‘Magic Negro’
    “But it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the “Magic Negro.”

    But finally I have a reference that is perfectly suited for you. Defender of all things black. High priest of racial code words.

    “The Magic Negro is a figure of postmodern folk culture, coined by snarky 20th century sociologists, to explain a cultural figure who emerged in the wake of Brown vs. Board of Education. “He has no past, he simply appears one day to help the white protagonist,” reads the description on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro .

    He’s there to assuage white “guilt” (i.e., the minimal discomfort they feel) over the role of slavery and racial segregation in American history, while replacing stereotypes of a dangerous, highly sexualized black man with a benign figure for whom interracial sexual congress holds no interest.”

    Sound familiar…?

    Finally you asked why I chose that word.
    It was a trap and you fell right into it.
    I took a perfectly legitimate and and acceptable word that is used in many contexts and I used to see which sanctimonious liberal Keeper of The Race Card I could catch I and it was you.

  • Anonymous

    How fitting that the man who often calls people racists is nailed for his bigotry.

  • Anonymous

    GLAAD, with its disastrous leadership problems and decline in funding (it just laid off a quarter of its staff), is struggling to prove it’s relevant. The Roland Martin outburst is not the way to do it. And by the way, I’m a gay man, and I don’t know another gay man who would buy David Beckham underwear. He’s sexy; the underwear is not!

  • Anonymous

    Looks like GLAAD deliberately took on the “wimpy” characterization Martin made about Beckham.  It appeas GLAAD thinks “wimpy” means “gay … What does that say about GLAAD?  It appears they are bigoted against themselves … that they think gay people are “wimpy”

  • Anonymous

    I actually think GLAAD scrwed up and linked “wimpy” with being gay. 

    We can call a hetero male wimpy without implying he’s gay … right?

    Did we really mean George HW Bush was gay by calling him a wimp ?  I don’t think so.

  • Anonymous

    OSTL DOOOSH … you are an IDIOT ….

    1 person at a group does not broaden out to all LIBERALS ….

  • Anonymous

    Charles DOOOSH … Excep the didn’t say anything about someone’s sexuality …

  • huffnnoccupyn

    I hope you’re enjoying life in your little bubble, cut off from the rest of society. Good luck in your future interactions and economic trading with people unlike yourself. You will need it.

  • Anonymous

    You are so friggin’ easy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/hehilljr Howard Hill Jr.

    I enjoy reading most of the Posts.  Most of you seem to be intelligent, but I wish everyone would Proof-Read their Post before Posting!  I’m just saying……O.K!

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PLFI5GJO225UK62JQONX727SMU MarkMyWords

     I agree with you – even some of my gay friends find that he said nothing wrong!! Folks need to chill! Oh and three of my gay friends want you folks to know that GLADD does NOT represent the entire Gay Community!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PLFI5GJO225UK62JQONX727SMU MarkMyWords

     Juan Williams is a pure confused ass!! Plain and simple!

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