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Isaiah Washington calls Martin Scorsese

Isaiah Washington: Hello, is this Martin Scorsese?

Martin Scorsese: Yes, what do you want?

Isaiah: It's me, Isaiah Washington, the actor from Grey's Anatomy.

Scorsese: How did you get this number?

Isaiah: Wait, don't hang up, I just wanted to congratulate you on your Oscar.  That was pretty impressive.  I just wanted to know how you pulled it off. 

Scorsese: What do you mean?

Isaiah: Well, you see, I was caught uttering a few homophobic slurs the other day, it was really like, only twice, in public, and my career was almost wiped out by a bunch of angry fags.  I even had to do time at a homophobe rehab to get out of the mess.  I almost lost my job (it was all kind of easy in the end though, I must admit).  But you, you get four Oscars for your movie, which is full of "faggots", "cocksuckers" and whatnot.  The academy even gave an Oscar to the guy who worked on the screenplay, William Monahan. How did you pull it off?

Scorsese: It was actually pretty simple, fool.  First you need to have some talent and be able to do a good, or at least decent, movie.  Then, all you need to do is have the characters slur and cuss, get it?  You can't say the words yourself, that would be too obvious.  What you should do is, you should just ask the writers to include whatever you want in the lines of the characters; with that trick, you can get away with anything and your cussing and hatred will actually be more effective.  Seriously, people might even say the dialog sounds more real with the macho-homophobic cussing. 

Isaiah: I see.

Scorsese: You might still get a few angry fags after you, like that damn Queer Beacon, but the fags will just be ignored, the criticism will die down, and you're on your way to some Oscars.  Got it, kiddo?

Isaiahgate - I still want him fired!

The issue continues to make its rounds on the blogosphere.  It was lately suggested that Isaiah Washington's character should be outed as a gay man.  People reacted to that saying that being gay should not be a punishment, and I can understand the reasoning behind that reaction; but that is not the problem I see with the "going gay solution." 

I think Isaiah needs to change his bigoted attitude, and playing gay won't do it.  KIT212 pointed to this piece from the L.A. Times, which informed me that Isaiah played gay before:

"A veteran Hollywood television and film actor, the 43-year-old Washington played a gay character in Spike Lee's 1996 movie 'Get on the Bus' who confronts vicious homophobia."

So,it seems he was already "sentenced" to being gay before and that didn't change his homophobia.  Why would it be different this time?  ABC must fire his ass now!  As long as he is fired, I wouldn't mind seeing him go after coming out as a gay doctor.  I queued "Get on the Bus" on Netflix -- so expect a review soon.

Isaiah Washington - The Bigot Must Be Fired!

We need to call this bigot on his homophobia.  The hypocrite should be fired ASAP.  I can't watch the show with him on...

[If you don't know what I am talking about, read about the whole brouhaha here and here.]

UPDATE: I'm all in with Perez on Isaiah's apologies.  Apologies, now, in a desperate attempt to save his job, are not enough.  I want to see Isaiah donating big bucks (like a year's salary) to GLAAD or a similar gay organization.  Then, maybe, we can talk...I'm still furious.