Gayle King is a diversity hire.

Gayle’s career and notoriety are based on her being Black and being a woman.  Both of those attributes led her to befriend Oprah Winfrey, and that probably did more for her career than anything else.  She is dumb, and doesn’t know it.

Gayle’s show, CBS Mornings, averages a million viewers.  There are 41,000 Youtube channels with over a million subscribers, with videos getting two or three times that many views.  Gayle isn’t special.

The Blue Origin all-women flight was a trivial exercise that I addressed in a post about a month ago.  Now that the flight is over, the behavior of some of the participants is shockingly offensive.

Gayle King is the worst, because everything she says makes her sound stupid and out of touch with humans.

This interview with Gayle King on Entertainment Tonight is what set me off.

I wanted to get in there, get strapped in the seat and do everything properly.

All Gayle had to do is sit down and buckle a five-point harness that she’d trained on for two days.  See, she sounds dumb.

I did something that so terrified me, but I did it anyway.

Gayle gets credit for that.  She did overcome her fear to do something that has more risk than sitting at home.  Bungie jumping would have been scarier, but Gayle did it.

What’s different between me and my other crew mates?  I like saying ‘crew mates’.

Gayle, none of you were crew.  Crew have responsibilities and assigned tasks.  Passengers just ride.  You were a passenger.

I am a critic, not a hater.  There aren’t any haters, but Gayle has a response to the criticism.

What you are doing in space is trying to make things better on Earth.

According to one newspaper article, each passenger on the Blue Origin flight generated 75 tons of carbon dioxide.  That is approximately how much carbon dioxide an average American produces in five years.

Number 2, have you been?

Good Lord Gayle, check your privilege.  Most of us are not millionaires.  Even the $150,000 deposit would break the bank.

Number 3, please don’t call it a ride.

It’s a ride.  It’s a ride because little depends on the passenger and other people work to make it safe and routine.  Loosely speaking, bungie jumps and tandem parachute jumps are rides for the same reason.

Whenever a man goes up, you’ve never said to an astronaut, ‘boy, what a ride’.

Most of us have never spoken to an astronaut.  I bet astronauts say, ‘boy, what a ride’ to each other all the time.

You know we duplicated the same trajectory that Alan Shepard did back in the day.  No one called that a ride.

Gayle is a retard.  Shepard did that flight sixty years ago, and was the second person in the entire world and all of history to go into space.  The rocket Shepard was boarding had never completed a mission like his.  Gayle’s rocket design has successfully made that trip 30 times.

What it’s doing to inspire other women and young girls, please don’t ignore that.  I’ve had so many women and young girls reach out to me, and men too.

This is the part where Gayle does real damage.  She should respond to those women and young girls and men too, by saying, “Look, what I did was frivolous.  It was just a ride.  I don’t have the training, or take the risks of an astronaut.  If you just want to get into space, get a lot of money somehow, and buy a seat.  If you want to be a hero, and be someone held in high esteem, you have to work hard, show courage and take risks.  It won’t be as easy as it is for rich folks like me.”

I have no problem with celebrities and rich folks finding their entertainment where they can, just don’t hold yourself up as an inspirational figure.  Show some humility.

2 Comments

  1. David+H+Nestoff

    I agree with you there. To portray this adventure provided by skill people trained at a high level, to rich people who just bought a ticket; as an inspirational moment, is an insult to all those that really made it happen. And the media is complicit by asking them for this feedback,

    • Richard Nestoff

      A cynical person might think that the media asks those questions intentionally, to prompt the celebrity to say something provocative. The celebrity gets in trouble or looks dumb, and the media has something to talk about.

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