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[Gossip] GLAAD Wants CNN To FIre Roland Martin
Posted by Joseph Lee on 02.06.2012

They're not happy over his David Beckham tweets...

GLAAD wants CNN to fire Roland Martin after a series of tweets about David Beckham that they consider homophobic.

Martin commented on David Beckham's H&M ads during the Super Bowl.

He tweeted: "Ain't no real bruhs going to H&M to buy some damn David Beckham underwear!...If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him!...I bet soccer fan Piers Morgan will be in line at H&M in the morning to get his hands on David Bechman's (sic) underwear line!"

He was accused of being homophobic by those on Twitter, and GLAAD commented: "Advocates of gay bashing have no place at CNN."

Martin replied: "Well you're clearly out of touch and clueless with what I tweeted. Way to assume, but you're way off base."

GLAAD now has a petition to get him fired, which currently has almost 2,000 signatures. CNN has yet to comment.

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Anti-bullying at its finest!

Posted By: DC (Guest) on February 06, 2012 at 02:25 PM

In glad someone is standing up to these bullies. Crying foul at everything they see

Posted By: Guest#1863 (Guest) on February 06, 2012 at 02:25 PM

I don't even understand what GLAAD is angry about? there was nothing anti-gay in anything he wrote.

Those folks need to relax some.

Posted By: Guest#0705 (Guest) on February 06, 2012 at 02:28 PM

Perhaps Roland Martin is just unimpressed with Beckham's design choices. Is GLAAD insinuating that only gay men shop at H&M?

Posted By: Guest#1210 (Guest) on February 06, 2012 at 02:34 PM

Watched game with a friend who is gay and he said the exact same thing that this guy said, "that commercial isn't gonna drive straight men to their store, but I'm going."

Posted By: EricG (Guest) on February 06, 2012 at 02:51 PM

I sure am GLAAD I'm not a fuckin' homo!

Posted By: swoltz (Guest) on February 06, 2012 at 05:21 PM

Perhaps it was when he said "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him!"

I can see how that could be perceived as a little off.

Posted By: Guest#4176 (Guest) on February 06, 2012 at 07:13 PM