Posted by Vincent at bg-tc-ppp719.monmouth.com on August 08, 2001 at 12:59:32:
In Reply to: Re: I do posted by Fucking Boner on August 08, 2001 at 12:52:37:
: Let's get this straight
: Kevin makes film with gay jokes
: GLADD gets MAD goes public
: Kevin defends his gay joke filed film, YET pays them money and/or his studio pays them money.
Kevin didn't pay "them" money. He donated money to the Matthew Sheppard Foundation, which has nothing to do with GLAAD. Get your facts straight.
: GLADD shuts up
GLAAD *DID NOT* shut up, nor did they ever say they would when Kevin *OFFERED* to make a donation to the Matthew Sheppard Foundation. Kevin *KNEW* that GLAAD was still going to go public with their concerns when he made the donation.
: Sounds like Extortion to me, not quite blackmail, but extortion to a lesser degree.
It sounds like extortion if you go by your warped and incorrect version of what happened. However, if you bothered to read about what *REALLY* happened (or listened to Kevin's interview on NPR where he went into this issue in detail), you'd have known it was not extortion.
But hey, it's easier to just scream, "GLAAD is extorting money!", like a good Kevin ass-kisser than find out what the true facts are.
Vincent