"The success of the show and all the good that will come of it shouldn't be lost because of one unfortunate word."
Comedian JERRY LEWIS apologizing Tuesday in a written statement for using a gay slur during the 18th hour of his annual Labor Day Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy
[First, Jerry Lewis said that Merv Griffin "deserved" to die and now this?! During his famed telethon yesterday Jerry went on some kind of weird rant ending in calling someone an “illiterate faggot.”]
Jerry Lewis dropped an anti-gay slur — the same one that got Isaiah Washington of "Grey's Anatomy" in trouble — during the 18th hour of his annual Labor Day telethon.
He apologized Tuesday for a "bad choice of words."
Neil Giuliano, GLAAD president, called Lewis' use of the term "simply unacceptable." "It also feeds a climate of hatred and intolerance that contributes to putting our community in harm's way," Giuliano said.
"I apologize to anyone who was offended," he went on. "Everyone who knows me understands that I hold no prejudices in this regard. In the family atmosphere of the telethon, I forget that not everyone knows me that well. "That something like this would distract from the true purpose of the telethon pains me deeply. ... I accept responsibility for what I said. There are no excuses," he said.
[I called the MDA, who had no official statement on the incident, and told them I would give a donation once they publicly announced that Jerry would no longer appear on future telethons. 800-FIGHTMD]
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