Today I was listening to Ramero and Pebbles on Jamn 945 and they were talking about Tracey Morgan and a comedy show that he had done on June 3rd. During his comedy show, Morgan went on a rant about gay people. It was not taped and there is no audio evidence but there was a gay person in the audience that felt very offended an tweeted about it. Apparently Morgan stepped over the boundary of comedy and into an inappropriate rant. It was tweeted that people got up and walked out of his show because it was THAT inappropriate. I don't even want to repeat what was said by Morgan because it is something that should have never been said. Morgan came out a few days later with an apology statement. The point that Ramero was trying to make that all celebrities have to do now-a-days is make a public apology and in a few days the issue will be forgotten. Sadly, it is true that all celebrities have to do is make an apology, whether it is sincere or not is another question (usually the statements are written for them). Ramero used the example that a few weeks ago the world found out that the govern of California and actor Schwarzenegger slept with the family's live-in maid and she had his child. The world then moved on to talking about Senator Weiner and his tweeting inappropriate pictures. The point is that the celebrity messes up, they apologize, and the next week the issue is forgotten by the media. But just because the social world has moved on doesn't mean that everyone has. Maria Shriver hasn't moved on. Weiner's children haven't forgotten. The gay man in the audience hasn't forgotten those slurs.
I think it is horrible that the media lets these celebrities get away scott-free with just an apology. As Ramero said "It's 2011, and that's all it takes"
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