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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMother of 9/11 Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham responds to Carson Daly's Jet Blue gay "joke."
9/11 hero's mom offended by Daly joke
According to Entertainment Weekly, Alice Hoagland, the mother of Flight 93 passenger Mark Bingham, released a statement saying, "Gay men and women come in every shape and size: short, tall, slender, stout, delicate and powerful. They do not deserve to be stereotyped, nor categorized."
Bingham was one of the passengers who charged the cockpit of his hijacked flight on the morning of 9/11.
"Yes, my gay son was known in our family for bringing me flowers on my birthday and Mothers Day," Hoagland said. "He also was known for careening down the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging unarmed down the aisle of a doomed Boeing 757 to face knife-wielding Islamist thugs in a hijacked cockpit."
Daly apologized via Twitter as well as in a statement given to GLAAD. "The fact that I have hurt anyone is devastating," Daly's statement said. "Im not that guy. Im proud to be an ally of the LGBT community and will continue to fight with them."
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/30/911-heros-mom-offended-by-daly-joke/
According to Entertainment Weekly, Alice Hoagland, the mother of Flight 93 passenger Mark Bingham, released a statement saying, "Gay men and women come in every shape and size: short, tall, slender, stout, delicate and powerful. They do not deserve to be stereotyped, nor categorized."
Bingham was one of the passengers who charged the cockpit of his hijacked flight on the morning of 9/11.
"Yes, my gay son was known in our family for bringing me flowers on my birthday and Mothers Day," Hoagland said. "He also was known for careening down the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging unarmed down the aisle of a doomed Boeing 757 to face knife-wielding Islamist thugs in a hijacked cockpit."
Daly apologized via Twitter as well as in a statement given to GLAAD. "The fact that I have hurt anyone is devastating," Daly's statement said. "Im not that guy. Im proud to be an ally of the LGBT community and will continue to fight with them."
http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/30/911-heros-mom-offended-by-daly-joke/
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Mother of 9/11 Flight 93 hero Mark Bingham responds to Carson Daly's Jet Blue gay "joke." (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
Mar 2012
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Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)1. Context is here for anyone who didn't read the original story:
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)3. Thanks for that link (nt)
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)2. I had to think for a moment who Carson Daly was
Surprised he still has a show. Never thought he was very talented.
Is the joke at the linK?
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)4. Yes
It's not a "why did the chicken cross the road" joke...he basically makes homophobic "comic observations" about what might have happened if the passengers who took down the Jet Blue captain were gay.