America may have fallen for ABC's new "Bachelor" when the long-running reality show debuted with strong ratings this month, but I have a feeling the love affair will end swiftly after viewers get wind of what JuanPabs thinks about gay people.
Here's what went down. Juan Pablo Galavis attended an ABC party Friday evening and made the rounds talking to various members of the media. (He posted some pictures from the event on his Twitter account.) That's where he spoke with a reporter from the TV Page, Sean Daly, who asked JuanPabs if he thought a version of "The Bachelor" featuring gays would be a good idea.
"I don’t think it is a good example for kids to watch that on TV,” "The Bachelor" replied. An interesting opinion, one savvy Twitter user pointed out Saturday morning, given that the father of 4-year-old Camila is hooking up with more than two dozen chicks on national television.
"Now there is fathers having kids and all that," Juan Pablo continued, "and it is hard for me to understand that, too, in the sense of a household having peoples.… Two parents sleeping in the same bed and the kid going into bed…. It is confusing in a sense."
Oh, but it gets worse. Truly.
Juan thinks it would be too hard to watch a gay person on the show because "they're more 'pervert' in a sense. And to me the show would be too strong ... too hard to watch."
JuanPabs can't even try to say he was misquoted, because there's full audio of the interview online. ABC did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday morning, but it will be interesting to see how the networks responds to this in the wake of the recent "Duck Dynasty" controversy. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-et-st-bachelor-juan-pablo-gay-pervert-20140118,0,7428661.story
Well, personally, I don't think kids watching the Bachelor is a very good idea- it's a pretty immoral show, especially for kids.
But let's see if they cancel the show, put him on suspension or what they do.
Will ABC have the same moral outrage as A&E and then back down? Will they ignore this?
Or will the liberals give ABC a pass because ABC is nice liberal TV network?
My guess it will be the latter.
Here's what went down. Juan Pablo Galavis attended an ABC party Friday evening and made the rounds talking to various members of the media. (He posted some pictures from the event on his Twitter account.) That's where he spoke with a reporter from the TV Page, Sean Daly, who asked JuanPabs if he thought a version of "The Bachelor" featuring gays would be a good idea.
"I don’t think it is a good example for kids to watch that on TV,” "The Bachelor" replied. An interesting opinion, one savvy Twitter user pointed out Saturday morning, given that the father of 4-year-old Camila is hooking up with more than two dozen chicks on national television.
"Now there is fathers having kids and all that," Juan Pablo continued, "and it is hard for me to understand that, too, in the sense of a household having peoples.… Two parents sleeping in the same bed and the kid going into bed…. It is confusing in a sense."
Oh, but it gets worse. Truly.
Juan thinks it would be too hard to watch a gay person on the show because "they're more 'pervert' in a sense. And to me the show would be too strong ... too hard to watch."
JuanPabs can't even try to say he was misquoted, because there's full audio of the interview online. ABC did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday morning, but it will be interesting to see how the networks responds to this in the wake of the recent "Duck Dynasty" controversy. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-et-st-bachelor-juan-pablo-gay-pervert-20140118,0,7428661.story
Well, personally, I don't think kids watching the Bachelor is a very good idea- it's a pretty immoral show, especially for kids.
But let's see if they cancel the show, put him on suspension or what they do.
Will ABC have the same moral outrage as A&E and then back down? Will they ignore this?
Or will the liberals give ABC a pass because ABC is nice liberal TV network?
My guess it will be the latter.
Here's what happened with Duck Dynasty. Daddy Duck says some off-color things to an interviewer. GLAAD fires off a press release (which is what they do), and then A&E announced the suspension. There were some low-level buzzes from the liberal blogosphere about it, but it was that, pretty low-level. Then Right Wing World went bananas, and it was Chick-fil-A day all over again. Then outrage was met with outrage.
ReplyDeleteNow, in this Bachelor thing, you've got another reality "star" who said something objectionable (to GLAAD, to some others). But the people who watch the Bachelor are an entirely different demographic, one not likely to turn this into a hughe STAND WITH JUAN cause, at least I don't think so. So, since there will probably be no huge counterwave (to dwarf the original "outrage"), no I don't think this will turn into much.
For the record, I don't give a flip about what either man has to say about much of anything. MY issue was the crazed reaction, and the fundamental misunderstanding some Americans have about the first amendment and freedom of speech.