Carson Daly, in response to his very politically-incorrect joke made Tuesday regarding the JetBlue pilot meltdown, has apologized profusely for his comments to the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community.
If you reside beneath a rock and didn't hear the “joke,” the gist of it was that Carson commented with his luck, he would have been on a flight headed straight to a gay pride parade and that his on-board colleagues would have been florists headed to a convention in Vegas – delivered in a high-pitched, affected tone of voice.
Passengers aboard the JetBlue flight were on their way to a security conference when the pilot had his meltdown and the passengers manged to wrangle him to the floor and subdue him.
Carson apologized, saying he has always been a strong supporter of the LGBT community and would continue to fight with them. GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) said they looked forward to taking Carson up on his offer and left it to the people to decide the sincerity of Carson's apology.
I'm actually surprised Carson made the comments that he did and will give him the benefit of the doubt, especially considering that much of his work has him working with members of the LGBT community. His apology certainly felt sincere to me and I think he knew it was a sophomoric thing to say. It is difficult for anyone who spends the vast majority of their lives on camera or on-air in any capacity, to not slip up occasionally.
I do wonder, however, if the joke had been made by a gay comic, if it would have been received with as much animosity?
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