{"id":314,"date":"2012-06-04T02:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T06:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=314"},"modified":"2012-06-04T02:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T06:31:24","slug":"jason-alexander-apologizes-for-gay-cricket-comment-that-everyone-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/06\/04\/jason-alexander-apologizes-for-gay-cricket-comment-that-everyone-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Alexander Apologizes for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Cricket Comment That Everyone Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Friday, May 25,\u00c2\u00a0the man forever known as George Constanza stopped by Craig Ferguson’s Late, Late Show<\/i> on CBS and promptly questioned cricket’s sexual orientation. “It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like a manly baseball pitch,” he said. “It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a queer British gay pitch.” At the time, no one seemed to notice: Towleroad posted about it<\/a> six days later, and Queerty caught on only<\/a> when GLAAD directed them to Alexander’s remarkably lengthy apology<\/a>, issued today to all the fine gentlemen accused of not being “man enough.” Our excuse for not knowing? We were busy watching Lagaan<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n ,not cricket!<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

via Daily Intel http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2012\/06\/jason-alexander-sorry-for-gay-cricket-comment.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, May 25,\u00c2\u00a0the man forever known as George Constanza stopped by Craig Ferguson’s Late, Late Show on CBS and promptly questioned cricket’s sexual orientation. “It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like a manly baseball pitch,” he said. “It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a queer British gay pitch.” At the time, no one seemed to notice: Towleroad posted about it six days later, … <\/p>\n

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