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Ellen is sweet and funny and a caring person. Even Bill O'Reilly loves Ellen.
LOS ANGELES | Wed Feb 8, 2012 12:33pm EST
(Reuters) - Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres said she was "proud and happy" that retail store J.C. Penney had stood by her in the face of a conservative anti-gay campaign, and said there was no such thing as a "pro-gay bandwagon."
Breaking her silence on the furor, DeGeneres, one of America's best known gay celebrities, also poked fun at the One Million Moms group who had urged J.C. Penney to drop her as a spokeswoman because she is a lesbian and said they would boycott the store.
"For those of you are just tuning in for the first time, it's true. I'm gay. I hope you were sitting down," DeGeneres told viewers of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
"They (One Million Moms) wanted to get me fired and I am proud and happy to say that J.C. Penney stuck by their decision to make me their spokesperson," she said.
The group, a division of the socially conservative American Family Association, claimed that J.C. Penney was trying to gain a new target market by "jumping on the pro-gay bandwagon" with its hiring of DeGeneres to revamp their clothing and household brand.
"Being gay or pro-gay isn't a bandwagon. You don't get a free ride anywhere. There's no music. And occasionally we'll sing 'We Are Family' but that's about it," she said.
She also noted that the One Million Moms group "only have 40,000 members on their (Facebook) page. So they're rounding up to the nearest million and I get that."
DeGeneres, who has some 9 million followers on Twitter, said she preferred to avoid talking about such matters on her show "and normally I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it because my haters are my motivators."
Ellen rules!!!
I don't suppose JC Penney's hiring of Ellen had anything whatsoever to do with the facts that (a) she has great name recognition; (b) she's already a successful spokesperson for other products; (c) she's funny as hell; and (d) she's a popular, relatable figure.
Nope, can't be any of that. It's gotta be the gay thing.
Bigots.
Whenever I feel like throwing tomatoes at my rude neighbor's house, I think of Ellen (purposely) and how she ends her show -- "be nice to each other". This immediately puts me in a better place and then I say a prayer that my neighbor find some happiness in her life so she can stop being such a witch.
Simple kindergarden rules she seems to live by, that work!! They picked on the wrong lady.
Everybody dance!
Nicky
Ellen is perhaps the most likeable and least mean-spirited person on television. I think OMM picked the wrong target with this. Hell, even Bill O'Reilly stood up for her and called OMM's efforts "a witch hunt".
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