Kelly Ripa got called “homophobic” by Rosie O’Donnell, and she refused to sit back and take it.
Some background: Clay Aiken co-hosted with Kelly Ripa on Friday and during the course of an interview he put his hand over her mouth to shut her up. To which she responded by telling him she “didn’t know where that hand had been.” It was an attempt to humorously handle what was clearly an outrageously rude thing that Aiken did on live television.
So how did Rosie O’Donnell react? By criticizing Ripa for being homophobic, of course! After outing Clay Aiken as a homosexual (hardly a well-kept secret to be sure), she went on to say that Kelly Ripa wouldn’t have said that to a heterosexual man.
Kelly was watching, and to her credit, called in immediately to slam O’Donnell for what was clearly an attempt to slander her rather than call Aiken on the carpet for his crass behavior.
Rosie O’Donnell is flat out wrong, and she needs to apologize for her attempted slander. Just because she interprets every thought, word and deed through the prism of her perceived victimology because she’s a lesbian doesn’t mean the rest of the world gives a damn about it. Just because she “felt” that it was homophobic doesn’t mean it was. And when you level an accusation, you have the obligation of proof - not the other way around. She tried to cover up for Aiken, and now she’s the one who has egg on her face instead.
The plain fact is that, as one of her co-hosts pointed out, Aiken was being sexist: there is no way he would have ever put his hand over the mouth of a male co-host. It was only because Ripa is female that he felt it was OK. Where was Rosie’s outrage about that?
But in Rosie’s mind evidently, being a homosexual gives you immunity from the rules of decent conduct: both for herself and Clay Aiken. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that O’Donnell can’t get past her sexual identity to understand the rules of common decency, but I’m glad that Kelly Ripa called in to set her straight.
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