Howard Kurtz doesn’t think NBA-player Jason Collins is gay enough because he dated a woman for eight years and was even engaged to be married. No word on whether Jason Collins is black enough because we all know how slavemasters treated their negro women back in the day.
So, what is Kurtz’s point? Is this Graeme Frost all over again? You can’t be poor if you have granite concrete countertops? You can’t be gay if you’ve ever been with a woman?
Then I guess that Howard Kurtz can’t be a media analyst since he’s a dick.
Umm, hello, even Collins didn’t have a perfectly reasonable and honest answer for being engaged to a woman as a gay man, it is still the LGBT community.
Oops – “even IF Collins”
either way, the harassment and alienation is the same. The point is that he had all these incentives to stay in the closet.
Right, that was exactly my point. I was saying ‘umm, hello’ to Kurtz, not to you.
The Twitter machine is telling me Kurtz and The Daily Beast are getting a divorce. Now, tell me why this means ANYTHING at all?
An impressive — though unsurprising — show of cluelessness by Howie in just one short word dump.
Most GLBT people I know went through a period of figuring out that the generally-assumed sexual orientation didn’t apply to them and/or took a while to come to grips with that. For some reason, Howie thinks this is a big gotcha.
For some reason
How’s this for a reason: Howie Kurtz understand the idea of being a fake and manipulating people to further one’s professional success.
But he doesn’t understand the idea of being a vulnerable minority trying to deal.
What’s most delicious, is that this shamelss hack did what he always criticizes other shameless hacks from other networks, for doing.
AND YET ANOTHER WIN, FOR KARMA!!!
AND HE WAS FIRED, from Tina Browns latest failing vanity medium!!!
I LOVE YOU, KARMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Perhaps Howie would be more convinced if Collins showed an interest in show tunes. Or interior design.
I think I know what Kurtz’s point is.
“Collins really screwed over that women he cynically exploited as part of a deliberate PR strategy to string her along so he could get rich.”
I don’t think Howie Kurtz has ever really put himself in the shoes of a young man trying to deal – personally, socially, spiritually, and professionally – with a minority sexual identity.
I don’t think Howie Kurtz has ever really put himself in the shoes of a young man, or at least two sitting Senators, or multiple members of the U.S. House trying to deal – personally, socially, spiritually, and professionally – with a minority sexual identity.
Fixed!!
he wouldn’t be a real media analyst, since he wasn’t enough of a dick
Awesome.
Rest in Unemployment, Howie. R.I.U. You earned it fair and square.
He’ll find new work quickly enough. They always do.
Perhaps Howard Stern is looking for a media analyst?