8 February 2012, 2:14 pm
"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman." -Barack Obama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A CNN anchor was benched after sending homophobic tweets during the Super Bowl. Roland Martin shocked viewers when he tweeted that any male fans of David Beckham’s underwear commercial for H&M were not “real bruhs.” “If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him! #superbowl” he added. He also made fun of a New England Patriots player earlier in the day who arrived wearing a pink jump suit. “He needs a visit from #teamwhipdata-” he quipped. At first, he tried to justify his tweets saying that he was just making fun of soccer. But many people weren’t buying it. In addition to taking flak from many of his Twitter followers, GLAAD called for Martin to be fired — immediately. “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.” Last year, Martin defended Tracy Morgan when Morgan said that if his son were gay he would "take out a knife and stab him." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/roland-martin-suspended-cnn-homophobic-tweets-article-1.1019302#ixzz1lpadc2Oe Why do you call me Lesbian Slander?? More homophobic name calling from the oh-so tolerant Left???? :)... Read More »
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