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Did Joan Rivers move too far (again) with gay Obama joke?
It's hard to tell whether Joan Rivers was joking when she said that President Obama is gay.
"Everybody knows," she said. And first lady Michelle Obama? "A tranny."
"A what!?" says a startled reporter.
Rivers turns to the camera with a straight face. "A transgender," she says clearly. "We all know."
Hoookay! What was that all about?
It happened Monday in New York as Rivers entered a bookstore to officiate at the queer wedding of two fans. When asked whether there would ever be a queer president, she said, "We already have it with Obama."
So, assuming she doesn't really believe this, does she think, as a professional comedian, that it's a successful comedy bit? She's in the midst of promoting her new book, Diary of Mad Diva, so maybe she thinks this will help?
Then again, it might just be par for the usual Rivers course: Offending is her comedic stock in trade, with a history of edginess too extensive to list here.
Just in the last few months she's feuded with Jennifer Lawrence, dissed Lena Dunham and made a joke at the expense of the victims in the infamous kidnapping/rape case in Cleveland.
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Joan Rivers Calls President Obama Gay, Says First Lady Is ‘Tranny’ (Video)
Joan Rivers, no stranger to controversy, told a reporter this week that President Barack Obama is homosexual and that first lady Michelle Obama is “a transgender.”
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Rivers was asked by a reporter on the street about her Monday appearance at a bookstore in New York City, where she officiated an impromptu gay wedding between two of her fans.
The reporter then asked her whether the U.S. will ever see a gay president, to which the 81-year-old Rivers responded, “We already have it with Obama, so let’s just quiet down.”
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Rivers started to amble away before adding, “You know Michelle is a tranny.” When the reporter asked her to assert what she had said, Rivers said, “A transgender. We all know.”
The comedian earned a rebuke from the Anti-Defamation League in 2012 after likening Costco to Nazi Germany when the sto
Legendary comedian Joan Rivers died Thursday at age 81, according to a statement released by her daughter Melissa. In addition to her legacy as an Emmy-award winning talk show host, Tony nominated actress, author, and jewelry designer, Rivers was one of Hollywood’s most vocal supporters of LGBT equality.
In one of her earliest roles, Rivers appeared reverse Barbra Streisand in a participate in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. The two played a same-sex couple and kissed. “This was before she was singing, before anything. I knew she was talented, but you never know what someone will be. She was a fabulous kisser, that’s what I knew,” Rivers recalled in 2010.
She talked a great deal about gay identity on her TV shows. When the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning came out, Rivers had the cast and director on The Joan Rivers Show.
Rivers was an enthusiastic backer of marriage equality. In 2012, prior to President Obama’s historic announcement she criticized him and other politicians for cowardice on the issue. “It is outrageous. The politicians are all such ass-kissers. No one is saying the correctness. They are saying what they think people want to hear,&r
Watch: Joan Rivers Storms Off During CNN Interview
Joan Rivers walked out in the middle of a CNN interview that aired on Saturday.
The comedienne first took offense when CNN Newsroom host Fredricka Whitfield described her hit E! demonstrate “Fashion Police” as “mean.” The situation escalated when Whitfield indirectly called Rivers a hypocrite for fighting to end animal cruelty while regularly donning fur.
“This whole interview is turning into a defensive interview,” she said. “Are you wearing leather shoes? Then shut up.”
She then hurled a final insult before storming off position less than three minutes into the questioning.
“You are not the one to interview a person who does humor, sorry,” Rivers said.
Whitfield later wondered whether this was nothing more than a stunt. “Off camera, [Rivers] kept her microphone on as she continued to chat and dropped some rather unflattering four-letter words,” she said.
This comes on the heels of another controversy. Rivers called First Lady Michelle Obama “transgender” and implied that President Barack Obama is gay.
When asked by a cameraman in New Y