A disappointing update to problem at "The View". You'll recall on the June 22, 2010 broadcast of ABC's The View," host Sherri Shepherd and guest host D.L. Hughley perpetuated dangerous myths about HIV/AIDS and black gay/bisexual men. Hughley and Shepherd claimed black men "on the down low" were fueling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the black community. As reported many times on R20, the Centers for Disease Control has debunked this dangerous HIV/AIDS myth. Watch the video AFTER THE JUMP ...
Last week, GLAAD, the Black AIDS Institute and the National Black Justice Coalition published a full-page advertisement in Variety calling on The View and ABC to apologize and public correct the record. ABC has finally publicly responded. The network will not correct Hughley and Shepherd's damaging misinformation ... because this was their "interpretation" of the facts.
“On June 22, during a discussion about blood donation and the transmission of HIV/AIDS, a guest moderator on the show expressed his interpretation of data about one way the virus can be transmitted. The topic of HIV/AIDS has been raised many times over the show’s 13 years, with many voices and opinions contributing to a conversation that we expect to continue as long as The View is on the air.”
ABC's response is hypocritical, says GLAAD's. "Just because you're a commentator does not mean you entitled to your own facts," GLAAD's Senior Director of Media Programs Rashad Robinson tells Rod 2.0. "Barbara Walters and Whoopi Golberg hammered Glenn Beck on this point when he misstated an incident that happened on an Amtrak train. And Barbara [Walters] told Glenn Beck, 'You can be a commentator but you still have to have the facts'. What does Barbara Walters have to say about this now?"
That's a good question. Watch the original clip and Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg slamming Glenn Beck over "facts" AFTER THE JUMP ...
I mean seriously dude. you are talking about two of the dumbest black people on the planet. they are on the view because they dont have any depth. No substance what so ever. Its like Stephen A Smith talking sports when he never played any sports in his life
Posted by: MDS | 17 July 2010 at 20:30
Awful, simply awful! Worse is that people will believe this sh*t, when they can easily "get the facts" but refuse to do so 'cuz they'll believe ANYTHING NEGATIVE pertaining to LGBT.
Posted by: Kevin Perez | 17 July 2010 at 22:53
This decision by ABC simply means that not enough people were OUTRAGED by DL 'ghey' Hugley and Sherri 'dumbo' Shepperd's lies and propaganda. Sure, some of us fired off an email here or there, but after the dust settled, ABC and the View quietly returned to business as usual.
Someone commented on another blog that Shepperd is just a dumb bag of rocks who'll never give Gays the validation they seek, nor will she ever give Black Women anything to be proud of. So lets just see her for what she is; A DUMB FAT MISERABLE BISH who will always use others as a scapegoat for her own problems and misconceptions.
Having said that; Lets continue to CALL HER OUT when she says something Dangerous and Inflammatory.
Posted by: Black Pegasus | 18 July 2010 at 11:48
I agree with everything the posters above me have stated. Let me add one thing. As much as I dislike the opinions of DL and Sherri on this matter, I realize that most of Black America shares their views. It's a sad, but true reality. To be honest, white America agress with it too, especially considering the fact that her royal majesty Oprah was the one who really got these lies started (think about her shows discussing the topic as well as the interivew with JL King about his book). Let me take it one step further: white gay men believe this crap about black gay men as well.
Posted by: All the women love my pork rinds | 18 July 2010 at 13:02
"DUMB FAT MISERABLE BISH"
As a woman (and lesbian) I disagree w/ this statement here. We can disagree with her without resorting to using fat and the modified b*tch as epithets to get the damn point. Her weight's got jack crap to do with her idiotic and non-factual based rants on "The View" (a show I'm glad I never watched).
Posted by: laurynx | 19 July 2010 at 03:33
Ok I am a white gay man and I don't believe it.
Posted by: Michael | 19 July 2010 at 18:12
the lies promoted by these two airheads is more comforting to their female audience than dealing with the facts that African American women continue to not use condoms when having sex with men period.
Posted by: robert | 20 July 2010 at 10:07
I always thought that DL H was gay or bi just look it him lol.
Posted by: David Brown | 24 July 2010 at 23:13