Comments on: Jerry Lewis apologizes for ‘illiterate faggot’ remark

By: anon

anon — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:50:05 +0000

Oh Man…is this what it’s come to??…One ‘edgy’ joke, by a few celebrities, sends people into an ‘I’m So Offended’ frenzy???, then they have to defend themselves like mad, from career suicide?! for pete’s sake…this ‘Politically Correct’ crap is out of control. I’m sure many Gay people, and others, are sleeping easy & not so distraught & preoccupied, over tiny jokes, by old has-beens, like Jerry Lewis & Don Imus. (can I say Gay?…or is it something else now?..like ‘Heterosexually Challenged’?)

By: Hussman

Hussman — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:06:50 +0000

I think you are all missing the point… The real point is that the Jerry Lewis Telethon is actually still on TV. Gone are the days of my youth when it used to actually be on for hours on end, with crazy acts and antics, and me trying and struggling to watch the whole thing, and failing utterly.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:30:11 +0000

I wouldn’t do this for any blog…but for the sake of TV finding the future, a link to the youtube clip of the incident is pasted in my URL section.

By: Howard Owens

Howard Owens — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:16:03 +0000

Sometimes you have to accept that people are human.

His apology is what matters most, and it wasn’t one of those, and he’s pretty contrite …

And if you watch the clip, it’s clear he regretted saying it as soon as it slipped out.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:25:29 +0000

Isaiah Washington screwed up by running his mouth and lost his job. Michael Richards screwed up by running his mouth and, well … he’d already lost his job.

Jerry Lewis screwed up by running his mouth while raising money for a charity that over his lifetime he has helped raise more than a billion dollars for.

So what do you do? Tell him he can’t raise money for charity anymore? Or accept that he understands that he made a mistake, forgive him and move on?

By: Mike Escutia

Mike Escutia — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:15:38 +0000

FYI, the link to the story seems to be bad. But if you remove the “www.” from the URL, it works.

By: Rico

Rico — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:15:23 +0000

Your embedded clip is already down for “terms of use” violation… The Muscular Dystrophy lobby is flexing its muscle! (sorry!)

By: Anony

Anony — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:58:08 +0000

C’mon WiggyWack… Hate speech deserves no “break”.

We should all act morally appalled by this tripe, talk about this incessantly on cable news channels for the next week, and follow it by demonizing Jerry Lewis for the rest of his life.

That’ll teach people to mess with American political correctness. How dare humanity be imperfect and make mistakes now and again?! Ladies and gentleman… it’s witch-hunt time again!

By: WiggyWack

WiggyWack — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:46:05 +0000

I was about to post the same thing as Paul. He’s not talking about the cameraman’s family, but the cameras themselves.

No, not very funny, but the guy’s been on the air for 18 hours raising money for charity. Give him a break…

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:04:16 +0000

I think it’s time to take away his microphone.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:05:41 +0000

I thought that he was referring to the other cameras as “family” and that specific camera was the “faggot” or “fatty”.

That’s just my way of seeing it. It’s still hard to know for sure what he was referring to, and I’m sure he’ll get in trouble either way.