Some are saying it's political correctness gone mad; Isaiah Washington hurling an abusive gay slur at a Grey's Anatomy cast member and then being forced to apologise for it – cuh, they'll be telling us we're not even allowed to shoot immigrants soon.
Having said that, when Isaiah Washington told the world that he was sorry for calling Grey's Anatomy co-star TR Knight a "faggot" in the middle of the epic Grey's Anatomy cast battle royale, he really meant it. Isaiah Washington seems determined to change his ways for good and has met with leaders of the gay community to try and come to terms with the wound in his soul that breeds such negativity and intolerance. Either that or he did it so he'd be allowed to keep playing that stupid jazz-loving doctor on that rubbish TV show of his. Either one's fine.
Grey's Anatomy is a TV phenomenon. It's watched by more people than actually live on this planet and it keeps winning award after award after award, but that's not because anybody is interested about a bunch of idiot doctors bumbling around a useless hospital – it's because people want to see Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington stray from the script, grab the nearest person to him by the throat and roar "You faggot! I'll kill you, you faggot!" at the sky like a wild-eyed priest in a thunderstorm.
Isaiah Washington can't do right for doing wrong at the moment. First Isaiah Washington instigated the great Grey's Anatomy actor fight, and then was forced to apologise for it. Then it transpired that in the midst of the fight Isaiah Washington had called co-star TR Knight a "faggot" – leading to TR Knight begrudgingly admitting his gayness to all and sundry. Then Isaiah Washington denied making the gay slur in the first place, leading to TR Knight and Katherine Heigl staging a multi-point 'Isaiah Washington Is A Gay Hating Bastard And We Want Him Sacked' campaign across the media.
But now everything seems to be evening itself out. Isaiah Washington has apologised for being such a gay-hater in a suspiciously Gibsonesque way and it looks like it's done the trick, with gay leaders praising Isaiah Washington on both the sincerity of his apology and the general buffness of his upper arms. USA Today reports:
The actor met with executives from GLAAD and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to discuss options. "He was not interested in explaining away what he did," says Kevin Jennings, executive director at GLSEN, who was "encouraged" by Washington's sincerity. "He is in it for the long haul, and not in it for the quick fix." … Although Washington has publicly apologized and ABC has reprimanded him, the star's future is being questioned. A petition calling for him to be fired is growing, with more than 17,000 signatures collected. A petition to keep Washington in his job has popped up, too.
So, despite the apology and the meeting with gay leaders, Isaiah Washington isn't quite out of the woods yet – and that won't be helped by the upcoming episode of Grey's Anatomy where Isaiah Washington's character Dr Preston Xavier Burke punches a Jew in the mouth for making up the Holocaust, sets fire to an Arab's trousers, shits the words 'I hate gays, me' on the American flag and then rapes a swan for 15 minutes.
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now THAT’S an episode I wanna see!