Okay, so I’m watching “The View” this morning, as I do every morning. Hey, if I’m gonna be pinned down with a needy baby all morning long, I’m gonna watch some tube-age. Well, this show is a train wreck. I mean, I knew this going in. And before, I wouldn’t watch it because I neither enjoyed Meredith Viera or Star Jones (don’t really care for Joy Behar some of the times either) (now that we mention it, Elisabeth gets on my nerves with her extreme right-wing remarks). So yeah. WHY do I watch this again??
Anyhow, they always kvetch about celebrity gossip and whatnot and apparently this morning they wanted to talk about this incident that happened on “Regis and Kelly” on Friday where Clay Aiken was co-hosting with Kelly. Now, they were interviewing the “Dancing with the Stars” winners and as far as I can tell, Kelly was jabbering and Clay wanted a word in edgewise. So, what did he do? He put his hand over her mouth to shut her up. Now, Kelly took enormous offense to this and called him out on it right then and there, mentioning she didn’t “know where that hand had been.” Or whatever. Now, when I saw the clip, I just assumed it was because she didn’t know how dirty his hand was. I would have been upset because it was a pretty disrespectful gesture. Now ROSIE called it out as a homophobic slur.
WHAT?
I guess since Clay is of ambiguous sexual orientation, Rosie thought that Kelly didn’t want his hand on her mouth because he may be gay. This is where I got confused. I have no idea where she got that from, and I’m sorry, but I think her sensitivity was up way too high on this. Kelly called in to “The View” and rather indignantly explained that it was because he’d just been out at commercial break shaking everyone’s hands in the audience. She has three kids at home and it’s flu season and she was just sensitive to such things. I think, rightly so.
So what do YOU think? Is Rosie way off base on this one? I think she is. Normally, I love the gal but sometimes she gets a little nuts about things and this is definitely one of those times.
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