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Friday, August 31, 2007

Oh The Drama!

Is it just me or are things getting crazier in the Big Brother world by the minute?

Say what you will about Big Brother 8, but the one thing you can't say is that it's boring. Inside the house or outside the house. The drama surrounding the show has been building and building over the last couple of days and it finally reached its peak (perhaps?) this morning. But let's start at the beginning shall we?

Now remember if you will the controversy surrounding Amber's anti-semitic remarks back in early August. Remember the statement made by CBS to TMZ regarding why Amber's comments weren't shown on the show? Right. The stage is now set.

Then things began to really heat up back on August 16th - the night that Dustin was evicted. CBS had forbidden all media from asking Dustin "certain stuff" as noted by Derrik Lang, a blogger at The Slug who writes on behalf of asap and The Associated Press (AP), in his interview with Dustin that was posted on Friday, August 17th.

On Sunday, August 19th, editor Michael Jensen of AfterElton.com, a site that focuses primarily on gay and bisexual men in entertainment and media, posted an interview with Dustin that he had conducted. It's a great interview to read but went a little bit too far it seems. Towards the end of the interview, Dustin was asked about his calling his dog a "n***er bitch". Dustin's response?

"A female dog is a bitch. I'm not a racist and my actions speak louder than words. I've had just as many African-American friends and roommates as I have white. I apologize if I offended anyone. My words are not intended to hurt anyone and I think that was clear within the context of my conversation. How can a gay man be racist? Isn't that that most contradictory thing on the planet or what?"

Alrighty then.

On August 20th, Reality Blurred's Andy Dehnart made note of AfterElton's interview in this article writing,

"Considering the negative press the show got from the bigotry coming from the house, one would imagine that the media would be all over asking Dustin about that - and about his use of certain words. But pretty much all the interviews have seemed as if asking about bigotry was off the table, too. However, After Elton did actually ask Dustin about his racist name for his dog, which Dustin defended by essentially ignoring his use of the n-word, and saying that he has many black friends."

On August 29th, just a scant two days ago, Andy Dehnart of Reality Blurred wrote that Derrik Lang of The AP and The Slug revealed that the media's questions of the evicted houseguests would be restricted even further than they had been for Dustin. Mr. Dehnart writes,

"Selected "reporters granted access to houseguests-turned-jury members have been told by CBS they must agree not to ask [Amber] Siyavus or [Jameka] Cameron about the controversial remarks" that Amber made if she's evicted this week. Previously, "reporters interviewing the six sequestered evictees who will make up the show's jury and decide the $500,000 grand-prize winner usually agree to only ask houseguests about conversations that they were physically present for in the house," the story says (disclosure: I'm quoted in the story)."