The Wrong View: Talk Show Under Fire for HIV-Related Comments
This is a first: The View is facing controversy, and it's NOT over something Elisabeth Hasselbeck said.
In fact, that conservative commentator - whose most recent example of opinionated nonsense involved a shot at Erin Andrews - has nothing to do with why GLADD is taking aim at this ABC talk show.
Instead, the organization has its sights set on Sherri Shepherd and D.L. Hughley, the June 22 guest host. On that date, the pair talked about the influx of HIV among African-Americans and blamed it on gay black men that were in the closet, aka "on the down low."
"When you look at the prevalence of HIV in the African American community, it's primarily young women who are getting it from men who are on the down low," Hughley said.
Added Shepherd, offering no data to back up her assertion: "It's so big in the black community with women because they're having sex with men who have been having sex with men."
In response, GLADD has taken out a full-page ad in Variety that reads:
"The Centers for Disease Control has publicly disproven this myth. And since June 22, thousands of people have written to ABC, asking that The View provide correct information to viewers. Unfortunately, those requests have been greeted with silence from both ABC and The View."
Panelists on the show are known for expressing their opinions and have the right to speak their minds, of course. But when making grand claims such as the one above, it would nice if they relied on facts to support their statements.
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July 20th, 2010 12:24 AM
Joy Behar is not stupid. She's an ex school teacher!! Also, Whoopi is conservative..not really that radical! Phil Donahue was a radical!!
July 20th, 2010 12:19 AM
Dan, that's what's great about the show..Lisa Ling was on here..so the view tries to reach different people..it's just they want intelligent people on after Rosie O'Donnell and her rants and wierd 911 conspiracies..now that was a messed up person..makes Whoopi look like Saint Whoopi!! What's a little lower than a Saint for Sherie and Joy..and Elizabeth she's just wierd!!
July 20th, 2010 12:12 AM
Richard and Don that's why "The View" is for women with women on!! We don't expect for you a man to get it! I love Sheri Shepherd..she has a sweet spirit! Love you Shereeeeee!!!!
July 20th, 2010 12:06 AM
The view does not need to go! Somedays it's worth watching, somedays it's not!! I'm glad there's 2 blacks on the show!! Elizabeth could be replaced with a Jew!! Just needing some variety!!
July 18th, 2010 7:33 PM
And that low down, down low man was white! It is pervasive.
July 18th, 2010 7:31 PM
The View is a bunch of fools but as someone who almost was infected by a down low man who is now dying of HIV it is TRUE! GLAAD stop making excuses for bad behavior.
July 18th, 2010 12:03 PM
This isn't the first time the women from the VIEW let their mouths run about something they have no knowledge on. The original VIEW team seemed to share qualities such as intelligence, experience, and humor (excluding Joy). This team is a bunch of women who like to hear themselves talk. The show needs to go.
July 17th, 2010 3:09 PM
Since HIV doesn't seem to be infecting white women at the same rate as black women, I suppose that means there are no down low white men or down low black men who have sex with white women??? Bottom line is, if she cares about herself, no woman should be having unprotected sex with a man she's not married to. Using terms like "down low" and placing blame to somehow scare black men into not having sex with other men hasn't worked and is never going to work. Both men and women need to stand up and take responsibility and protect themselves, no matter who they are having sex with.
July 17th, 2010 1:01 PM
("get a room")..... you know Americans seem to like making sex a private matter, so why would someone have or want to advertise their sexuality or discuss it in public?
and is that any of your business? And their (The View's) discussion didn't get into the psychology of damaged homosexuals growing up with no government protection, a church and God that hates them, family who would otherwise discard them...and celebrities who want their money. And these moronic at times televised women know what they are talking about? Shut up girls, speak for yourselves and go shopping with Lady Gaga, your not male, black or "gay", incidentally has anybody seen the Roisin Murphy/Lady gaga fashion-ography timeline- where's one can actually see how many designs, styles and garment assemblages Lady Gaga stole from Roisin before schmoozing with Barbra Walters and collecting a check? Same thing for Grace Jones (there are video examples of just how unoriginal Miss Gaga is- showing Grace Jones in style)....t
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July 17th, 2010 12:39 PM
Hughley and Shepard are CORRECT! Bottom line. First of all the CDC is the last resource I would deem as reliable when they are also repsonsible for the inaccurate reporting of the deadly bird flu and syphillis rates throughout the US., Second, both Shepard and Hughley work in an industry where they know what happens behind closed doors, there is so much more information both of them could give and it would blow the general public's eye, and Third after working in corrections as a Nurse for more than 20 years, I can tell you that black men are absolutely playing games with their sexuality, they go in and whether it is experimenting or something that they regularly engage in homosexual conduct, THEY DO HAVE SEX IN PRISON, on a regular basis. My job was infectious disease, so I dealt with the inmates who HIV+ on a daily basis. If you could hear what some of them say in regards to how they came into contact with HIV, it would blow your mind. These men are aware of how their conduct affects