Reading between the Lines: Rosie O’Donnell versus Kelly Ripa
Reading between the Lines: Rosie O’Donnell versus Kelly Ripa by Roxanne McDonald
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Which interpretation do we go with? Was Ripa making an anti-gay jab or is Rosie misunderstanding her down-home humor? |
TMZ.com reports how Kelly Ripa and Clay Aiken were co-hosting her show; Aiken at one point put his hand over her mouth in jest; and Ripa sniped, “I don’t know where that hand has been.”
Rosie O’Donnell, queen of clean comedy, was on The View, chastising Ripa for making such a “homophobic” remark. Reportedly, O’Donnell continued by suggesting that if Kelly was co-hosting with a straight guy, a cute guy, or, even, Mario Lopez, the comment would not have been made.
But way before pc and homosexuality,
the peeps down on the farm were using this cutesy little comeback. “I don’t know where that hand has been” was right up there with, for example, “You kiss your mother with that mouth?” and “You don’t know your ass from your elbow.”
Maybe Ripa was implying something more “homophobic”. Then again, the typically ditsy persona she puts on, one who makes typically innocuous comments of less than intellectual substance, may have just been using an old—a very old—pejorative remark that Rosie took to have deeper implications….
Now, if you want to see a real catfight, wait and see what goes down between Erica (the coo-coo contestant booted from the Bachelor who thinks she’s all that) and Ripa (who let it rip about how snotty, snobby, and socially inane Erica is).
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