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Jerry Lewis: Old and Offensive

October 25, 2008
Wendie
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Jerry Lewis has uttered yet another anti-gay slur on TV.  Yesterday, while appearing on Australian TV, he called Cricket “a fag game” and did some prancing pantomime thing.  I need video of this!  Last September, he did something similar on his Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon. 

You know, he’s old.  And I want to make excuses for him because of that.  But there is no excuse.  Being 82 doesn’t mean mean you get to be an ignorant, hate-spreading fuck.  He still doesn’t get that calling people “fag” isn’t acceptable?  So Jerry Lewis needs to die or at least have a stroke that renders him unable to speak.

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  • Jerry’s done a lot of good over the years for MDA, but is part of that “rat pack” generation. Outliving the rest of the gang has its advantages—except falling on your face in an era of political correctness. I don’t even think he meant what he said in a “mean” way, but he just can’t stop himself. Most of us have older relatives who still at least occasionallly say something offensive—you can either fire back when they do—or just let it go—knowing that that ignorance in the family ends with THAT generation. I don’t wish him a stroke, just enough sanity to realize that he made ANOTHER gaffe which he should apologize for.

  • I’m sick of this satanic world defending homosexuality as a “right” or a “choice”. The bible calls homosexuality an “Abomination”. To love the sinner and hate the sin. Just because you’re borderline lesbian doesn’t mean you get to bash anyone else with opinions about it. “Fag”, “Homo”, “Faggit” maybe unacceptable words now to this satanic worshipping world but I’ll simply call them what they are, “Sodomites”. Just as the bible says.

    Jesus IS returning soon.

  • While I don’t agree with his statement AT ALL, I find it interesting that others basically say the same shit and get a pass..comedians dogging on gay people for their sex lives, using the word fag as well and if it’s in a roast like Lauer’s yesterday, Gilbert Gottfried (ugh!), used the word explicitly, it’s shined on as “comedy”. Nope. Same thing. You can’t be all PC only when you want some points…I don’t know how they look friends and family who are gay in the face and then use that kind of garbage for humor. It’s as bad as what Jerry did. They all need to shut the fuck up or try living a day in the life of those they mock and see if they can handle it. Not likely….

  • please get a grip wendie
    you and I don’t know if we are going to reach the age of 82,
    but I really hope so
    as long as I am healthy enough to enjoy it

  • How is he different then most comedians? Or your average 20-something male? I put my kids in soccer and they were called “lawn Fairies” and mocked with a “fairy dance”

  • SMH, yep, and when Jesus returns, I’ll have a front row seat at the Book of Life reading, and I’m fairly certain that yours will be quite the entertainment, leading up to the weinie roast to beat them all….hope you don’t mind a bit of a stick up yo ass.Be sure you pack your million SPF heat block…y’all gon’ need it.

  • wtf is with you? not only do you just cross way too many lines, but you also have no writing skills.

    beet, seriously, get a better weekend blogger.

  • No where in the Bible does the Bible an “Abomination”.
    That’s just the way the the “editors” of the latest, and most accept version of the Bible.
    To call anyone who does not agree with your idea of Christianity a satanist is so middle ages…
    Some times the comments on this blog make me shake my head in shock at the complete tunnel vision of some people.

  • As someone whose dad recently had a major stroke, I find your comment inexcusably offensive. Yes, he can speak just fine, but that’s not my point.

    Beet’s hilarious; and I get that you’re trying, but being offensive makes your attempt at humor ineffective.

    Just because no one close to you has had a stroke that renders him or her unable to speak does not justify your ignorance. Beet and many other bloggers would never go there to begin with because they have tact.

  • Wow Wendie, that was so wrong! He’s an old fashioned guy, most of his era are like that, give the man a break and try to understand him a bit… Not that I suppourt his ideas of homosexuality, but is not fair you’re wishing an old dude (or ANY dude) his dead… Just think about it :(

  • @SMH

    I find it interesting that the atheists I know are more compassionate and less judgemental than the Christians I know. How would Jesus feel about your anger and hatred?

    Since you quote the bible, do you also believe, as the bible says, that people should be killed for: worshiping other gods, taking god’s name in vain, cursing their parent, not being a virgin on their wedding night (only females, of course), etc.? I don’t think you should use the bible to justify your beliefs unless you believe all of it.

    As far as Jerry Lewis goes, maybe people should just stop letting him talk on tv. I think the word he used is as bad as racial epithets like the “n word”. Someone else can take over the telethon.

  • SMH go suck a dick. Honestly, jesus died over 2000 years ago, he’s not going anywhere. Ever. You’re just a homophobic asshole, who is so unchristian that you judge, condemn, teach your children fear and hatred towards your fellow man. IF your were truly religious in the eyes of God you would not judge lest you be judged. And you will in 3’s.

  • i think its a little rude to tell jerry lewis to go die or have a stroke. he is the greatest comedian in the entire world, and people should just leave him alone.

  • Coral–you can discuss the bible only after you learn one of its major tenants-though shall not kill. I’m just curious what part of the bible says people should be killed for all that. I thought it said condemn.

    Wendie this day is slow. No contraceptive wearing models?? Nothing remotely architectural? Maybe music? Got opinions on those. I’m feeling Kanye’s Heartless right now. This is now two posts on old people off their rocker. One more and Ima fall asleep. BTW I like when you comment with us.

  • your wishing a stroke or death on a person just because he may have said something stupid, its a bit extreme dont you think

  • Being old doesn’t excuse rudeness. He was rude and should expect criticism of all kinds in return. I agree with wendie.

    And he’s not such a Savior of Souls with his telethons. Get real, people. There is a major network of people that accomplishes those telethons, of which he is a very small portion. I’d bet his portion is very closely monitored so that he does not show what a complete idiot he is. He has always said rude things in public. His keeper must have been m.i.a. yesterday.

  • Homophobia is bad, let’s take that as a given.
    What really angers me is how the prick Lewis has insulted cricket. What the fuck does he know about cricket? Elite level cricket requires an intelligence, endurance, patience and skill that the likes of that loser can scarely comprehend. Lewis obviously didn’t watch Dean Jones make a double century while suffering dystentry after 5 days in the cauldron of heat and humidity that is Madras… not for ‘fags’ (and I’m sure there’s plenty of gay cricketers out there who are just as good as anyone else).
    Fuck off Lewis go watch some 2 hour game with plenty of commercial breaks and pop music when the players names are announced. That’s more suited to your levels of intelligence.

  • Regardless of what time it is now, he isn’t from this time, so if he says fag like its not a bad term, just something descriptive then fine, my grandparents said a lot of things that would be deemed, derogatory nowdays, but i would not condemn them for it, I am not saying its’ right saying such things, but for me, i think its understandable given the time they were brought up, different values. like I don’t think you can judge someone by todays standards, if they were raised by the standards of 50 years ago, especially if they are not really harming anyone.

  • And there is no reason to wish a stroke or anyhting of the sort on anyone, just because they have strong, albeit outdated, beliefs, doesn’t mean they deserve some kind of life-threatening dishabilitation

  • @Coral- No need. I skimmed. I looked at the extended list too. I really wouldn’t know if it did. I do know that the bible is interpreted in contextual and literal form. So one doesn’t have to follow it’s recorded historical punishment, to use the bible to justify their beliefs. Something interesting I found out from another site from some guy James Patrick Holding in his The Bible and Capital Punishment on tectonics.org– that the OT prescribed these laws to be exercised and through that sinners punishment, blood, the wrongs were “amended” but with the NT and Jayzuz the laws don’t have to be exercised as they were before because Jayzuz payed for the transgression in his blood–he takes on the punishment. Interesting stuff.

    @mcbiscuit
    it’s unlikely Lewis meant it this way but fag is also another word for exhaustive .

  • Even if Jesus was a real man the scripture has been revised for hundreds of years by gay pedophile European male priests to fit their agenda. Do you really believe Jesus would discriminate against gays yet defends a whore in the new testament?

  • Mary Magdelene wasn’t a whore. Yet another old white dude twist on the Bible. Jesus is love. Peace dudes.
    And my grandmother actually wrote a letter to our local parliament to tell them if they legalized gay marriage, they would lose her vote.
    Do I still love her? Of course I do. They are afraid of what they don’t understand, just like the rest of us. Fear and ignorance have created a generation of people who are not ready for the way we live our lives today.
    They lived through a damn world war. Give them a break. We are the future anyway. And we know better!

  • @ simmy

    In the NKJV Mary Magdelene was a whore, she was a prostitute who was being stoned in public for her sins.
    Jesus stop the crowd and defended her by saying that not one of us are free of sin, and until we are we shouldn’t be throwing stones at each other. Or in other words, judge not, least ye be judged…or something like that.

  • guys, relax! we all know that cricket is not a game for faggots, either as players or observers. football is a fags game. always has been. always will be. football is for guys that like to shower together and wrestle and shit. closet homosexuals, actually. the worst kind. and while we’re on subject, it’s a well known fact that the only people that ever really liked jerry lewis were the french, and they’re all fags too. well, i think i’ll go start my dying jerry lewis fag dance right now. thanks for such a happy, good natured post wendie! cheers.

  • So why again is fag so “bad”? Maybe it’s just a guy thing, but this whole PC thing is getting irritating. You know a buddy of mine (a black guy) was called out by another black man for calling one our other friends “brutha”.

    Faggot might be a term linked to homosexuals, but you cannot have fag, that one stays because there is nothing even remotely gay about the term. It’s like not being able to say retarded anymore. and before the flaming starts, no this is not a joke or someone trying to get a rise. People just need to chill.

    to the christian dude, people like you make me sick. I know (and have known) plenty or christians, but this need for hate is unbelieveable. It’s true (according to the bible) homosexuality is a sin, and that homosexuals will not inherit god’s kingdom, but who the fu¢k are you to judge? but then again if you read the bible you would know that jesus is not coming the way you think. silly fundamentalists.

  • @beefy

    Thanks for the info on the New Testament. Pretty clever of the later writers to say the old laws don’t have to be enforced anymore because of Jesus’ sacrifice. Great loophole.

    It’s only my opinion that people shouldn’t use the Bible to justify hating homosexuals and calling them an abomination and Sodomites unless they believe all of the Bible teachings should be followed.

    As far as Jerry Lewis goes, it seems more than a little out there for Wendie to say he needs to die, but I do think we should call people on it if they use unacceptable words and they should apologize for it. Just imagine the furor if he’d said the n word. I consider what he said just as bad.

  • SMH, I totally agree with you, Thank You for being bold enough to speak up.

    Donkey Punch, Yes Jesus defened her, but he also told her “To go and SIN no more” He will defend the sinner to the end, if they change their ways, He loves all sinners and gave his life for them, but he hates our sin. You still sound like a very sad person.

  • Just b/c Christ came and died for us, and we have the NT does not mean we are no longer bound to the OT, and yes Homosexuality is an abomination, and a sodimites, You can’t throw out any sin in either testament, We can’t say we will follow this chapter and vrs and neglect this one, the bible says not to change a thing in his word , even to a crossing of a “T” or the “dotting of an I”

  • Cool, Missy…guess you would enjoy being someone’s property, then? Hmmmm…..won’t be doing any marching to preserve that little bit of history, now will ya?

    Didn’t think so….

    Live and let live….if you turn out to be right in the end…well, here’s a cookie.

    If you don’t, then a lot of others got to live without your self-righteous ass all up in their face.

    Seems like a reasonable exchange….

    Sheesh.

  • I think this POST CROSSED THE LINE

    I am not, nor have I ever been, a Jerry Lewis fan (tho, sidebar here, I love his former comedy-act partner, Dean Martin). I never thought his slapstick type comedy was funny. I find him, personally NOT FUNNY, and listening to him is nauseating.

    This man (as someone above said far more eloquently) is the sole survivor of a different generation/rat pack, who is more out of touch (I believe) than malicious. And he is, in fact, a comedian who, like many othErs, makes failed attempts at humor. LIKE THIS.

    THAT SAID. This guy has personally done more for Musculor Dystropy than any other individual. Is there an army of people responsblie for making that telethon happen? OF COURSE. But Jerry Lewis practically INVENTED telethons. Back in the day, this guy wagged his finger and everyone showed up for the MD Telethon. HUGE, MEGA-STARS came. You had to practically lobby to get on and perform…..all due to Jerry Lewis using his celebrity to do an enormous amont of good in this world. ALL YEAR LONG, not just Labor Day Weekend, while on-air at the telethon.

    I don’t like Jerry Lewis, and Thank God, no one in my family suffers from the horrible disease of MD (or any like it) but this man is owed an enormous thank you for all the good he has done for people suffering. HE ALSO DESERVES MORE FUCKING RESPECT THAN WISHING A STROKE ON HIM.

    WAY WAY WAY OVER THE FUCKING LINE WENDIE. NOT FUNNY AT ALL – JUST LIKE JERRY LEWIS.

  • I don’t believe speech ought to be censored for any reason. This is just an attempt to control thought, which I find far more dangerous as a bad idea than simple bigotry or even outright hate. Those who would control what people say, think, or believe had better be able to demonstrate some sort of awesome moral authority to do so–but of course, they never do. Nor will they ever.

  • > You still sound like a very sad person.

    Nope, not sad at all. I don’t need an imaginary friend’s placebo affect to keep me happy.

  • you mean “placebo effect”
    (i correct other people’s spelling, therefore i am…)

    and i also liked what tigerlille said

  • Actually, beefy, the bible did condone the stoning a woman until she died if she wasn’t a virgin. It was because she had dishonored Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. And the other’s were also punishable by death in the OT. But Missy, I think you’re wrong about being bound to the OT. Saying this is not changing His word. It says in John that the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. In the OT there was no atonement, no grace. When Jesus died for us he fulfilled the law. Now, it doesn’t mean that we need to ignore the OT, we still need to do our best to follow its main tenants (in context with our modern society of course), but we are not bound to it.

    So, Coral, it isn’t a “loophole”. It means that rather than being condemned to death for our sins, we now have Jesus to repent and ask forgiveness from because he has already paid the price of all of our past, present, and future sins.

    It’s simple, really.

  • i know quiye a few gay people and they all use the word fag all the time! are they then spreading….self-hatred? i don’t think so. words are just words. who cares!

  • I am friends with people who are gay and I like them, but that does not mean I support being gay. I think it is totally wrong and God does not like it but he still loves them. All I can do is be their friend and hope they make a better choice later on. SMH- yeah, I have a feeling Jesus is coming back soon, but we don’t exactly know when.

  • Priss and SMH

    If Jesus does come back, don’t you think God , the Holy Spirit, Jesus and all of the heavens would be a little upset at the both of you for not loving your fellow man?
    You both speak of what the Bible has taught you, but you both missed the most important part of the message, Acceptance, and Love.
    Before you continue to preach, and judge, maybe you should take a page out of the Bible and learn to love your fellow man, instead of judging and trying to belittle them.

  • This message is clear through out the Bible, whether it was love for God, For your wife, husband, brother, and even in the OT it mentions loving your enemies.
    I know it’s more exciting to believe that God was a Wrathful and Omnipotent, but if you actually read the Bible, you’ll understand that God is us, and We are God. He cannot be without us, and we cannot be without Him.

  • @ PurpleMonkeyPaws and everyone else,

    I thought my email clearly quoted the bible when I said: God says
    “Love the sinner but hate the sin”. Don’t pick and choose what you want to read and acknowledge.

    And just so everyone knows — I BELIEVE EVERY SINGLE WORD IN THE BIBLE! Not just the Homosexuality part. God bless you all.

  • @That Lisa

    Dinosaurs lived with Man. It’s in the book of Job. They were called “Behemoths”. (I think that’s how you spell it!). And evolution is just propaganda by anti-christians to discredit the word of God.

    God Bless.

    • AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA. I’d woken up today feeling a bit sad but oh boy you just made my day. Are you fucking serious? AHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh thank God (yay) for you and your humour. If you excuse me now I’m going to call com T-Rex Behemoth before going to University. Beware, a woman receiving superior education!!

  • ummm, did I ever say I did not love my friends? Just because I don’t like something they do does not mean I don’t like them. Sheesh people, stop putting words in my mouth.

  • Bravo, Lynn. Jerry Lewis NOT FUNNY ! I know a lot of people are pissed at Wendie for writing what she did but I think we are over looking some thing far more interesting / silly…. Smh, priss and these other homophobic, all about the bible people are actually on this site. Not just reading about all these hollywood “sodomites” with their loose morals but they are taking time out of their busy Jesus praising schedule to post here.

    Oh wait, I guess that is what those people do all the time – butt in where they are not wanted and tell us we are living our lives incorrectly.

  • wow, you must be really stupid Jean, I never said I was afraid of gay people, I have gay friends. Read the post before you post your small minded comment. No, Christians have lives too, we don’t spend every single waking moment praying and worshiping. This is a place for opinions, so I am allowed to post my own thanks. Get a brain.

  • u know ,we all say things about people we regret ,but we all have an oppinion and he has his since 82 yrs ago when they were really hard on gays because it disgusted them,maybe he is delusional in his older age and on meds to where he belted it out like that Idk!God Bless you all!!!