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About That Last Danavlog…

Dana Whites Fight Night 18 video blog - Watch more free videos

…it isn’t going away so easily, not even after the UFC took it off YouTube.  For one, it’s still up elsewhere, such as Break, and for another, word has spread.  The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (known commonly as GLAAD) has denounced White’s use of the word “faggots” to describe the anonymous sources in Loretta Hunt’s article, and they’re calling on him to apologize publicly.

In the MMA blogosphere, MMA Payout wonders aloud whether sponsors like Bud Light and Harley-Davidson really want to be associated with that rant, and Cage Writer’s Maggie Hendricks reminds everyone that women also watch (and cover) the UFC, and generally don’t really like to hear men calling other women bitches.

Obviously, DW crossed a line here.  The really baffling part is, it’s hard to see what he’s so mad about.  The article quotes anonymous sources (“pussies”) who accuse the UFC of trying to drive a wedge between fighters and their management in the hopes of taking advantage of fighters at a vulnerable time. 

It also quotes managers like Monte Cox who say it’s no big deal.  So what about that article made it necessary to go all Scarface on Loretta Hunt?  And why, oh why, didn’t someone involved with this whole video blog process realize that maybe it would be a bad idea for the president of a multi-million dollar organization to post a video of himself tossing around homophobic and misogynistic slurs on the internet?

No matter what you think of the language White used (we here at CP love and value our female and homosexual readers to the point where it's a little creepy), you have to admit that it’s just dumb.  There’s no reason to personally attack a respected member of the media like that.  It doesn’t serve any purpose other than to attract the exact wrong kind of attention, which is precisely what it's done.  Now the backlash begins.

Comments

This is why many people still discredit MMA. They see the proprietors of this sport as thugs and douchebags without common courtesy. Hard to say that's not true when Dana pull bullshit like this. He deserves a backlash personally, but hopefully the UFC doesn't see any kind of economic backlash.

First!

Dana needs to grow up and stop whining when he does not get his way.

Oh snap..

uh? i had my comment removed? what a bunch of tossers

If the UFC wishes to continue growing and becoming more popular, Dana White really needs to clean up his mouth. He should take some lessons from mainstream sports commissioners such as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NBA Commissioner David Stern. Every thing Dana says is public and he represents the UFC. He stepped out of line with his comments and behavior like this could very easily cost the UFC sponsorship revenue and have negative effects on the sport and fighters.

Dude what Dana did was awesome. He's keeping it real for crying out loud.

Loretta hunt is a troll faced cunt that needs to be shoved in a bag and buried alive.

Thank you Dana for saying what all men 19-34 are thinking. You speak for all of us.

Someone please tell me where all the people are that understand and can handle being called a name.?.? I hate to quote someone as childish as this but - "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

Seriously! We should offer these pussies the option of being called a name or being punched in the face.

Although our country preaches tolerance we are getting ridiculous...other people have opinions. Sometimes people dont get along. Sometimes people even hate each other, its a fact of life. Why do we validate this stupidity by getting angry?

I have been called names before...Crying about it doesnt help. Do gay people and women base their self image on Dana White's opinion?!? He is a fight promoter for fuck sake!

Ohhhhhhh shiiit, Dana gets put in TIME OUT!

Honestly its about time.

Commenting under the name "Anonymous".......you pussies.

If this were any company besides the UFC, DW would be looking for a job. Can you imagine the head of Microsoft, GM or any other large corporation going on that kind of a rant because of negative press?

What a juvenile retard (no offense intended to juveniles or the mentally impaired)

Dana needs to realize he is the President of the UFC. Not the most powerful, beloved, and sadly worshiped person in the world. Who does he think he is; Hussien Obama? Ha Ha

Maybe he's just flirting with her.

Dana will give himself a heart attack. It'd be HILARIOUS if he starts to tell Bud Light to go fuck themselves.

Hey Dana, Death doesn't give a fuck. He waits for no man.

Captain Bringdown Says:
Thu, 04/02/2009 - 10:54

Someone please tell me where all the people are that understand and can handle being called a name.?.? I hate to quote someone as childish as this but - "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me."

Seriously! We should offer these pussies the option of being called a name or being punched in the face.

Although our country preaches tolerance we are getting ridiculous...other people have opinions. Sometimes people dont get along. Sometimes people even hate each other, its a fact of life. Why do we validate this stupidity by getting angry?

I have been called names before...Crying about it doesnt help. Do gay people and women base their self image on Dana White's opinion?!? He is a fight promoter for fuck sake!

^ What he/she said.

Yeah im with dana white loretta hunt can go fuck herself and hype matt linland up some more
that bitch dont no shit bout traditional mixed martial arts ahhaha

People need to stop being so fucking sensitive. We're turning into a world of fucking pussies.

So much for that Subaru sponsorship.

Yea but this is a president/promoter of the biggest company in the sport. He is the face of the sport and also the voice. You don't expect this kind of behavior from someone whos not only 40 something years old but also has been in the entertainment business long enough. lol imagine if NFL players or coaches exploded and called reporters faggots and bitches any time an article came out with a critical opinion

@cpanger

Comment of the week. LMAO

Fucking stop fucking being fucking butt hurt fags and fucking get over it fuckers. It's fucking not even fucking that big of a fucking deal. Faggots.

I imagine that the National Association of Fuckers of Mothers is also pretty pissed at him.

Dana is the man. A bit of an outspoken hot-head, but he's the man.

As Eminem says..... The term Faggot, doesn't mean gay people in that sense. When you call someone you don't like a fag, you're not saying they literally like to suck dick or anything. This whole thing is ridiculous. Everyone reading this says the word Faggot at least once a day. The world is so P.C. right now it's sickening.

I'm glad Dana says stuff like that. He's the leader of a fight organization for gods sake. Who cares if he badmouths people.

GLAAD........ what a bunch of fags.

Dana is right about everything he says...

damnnn when he said fucking faggot. i was like uhm....were in for a world of shit

Michael Scott: I call everybody faggy. Why would anyone find that offensive?
Toby: I think Oscar would like it if you just used "lame" or something.
Michael Scott: But that's what faggy means!

Yea, it's unfortunate that we're getting a bit too sensitive to these types of outbursts that don't in and of themselves don't necessarily reflect a bias in regards to gender and sexual orientation.

While I find his remarks regrettable, what I find most problematic is the fact that his rant obscured what he was trying to say. Somewhere in that salty verbiage the man actually made a point. He strongly believes, and is in a position to know, that Loretta Hunt was speaking erroneously, and it pissed him off.

Am I shocked at his rant? no. Would I be shocked if he is a misanthropic homophobe? no. Would I be shocked if Dana didn't drop a few F-bombs? Hell yea. I'd shit my pants.

Twenty Seventh!!!!!!!!!

Do think Dana White cares what the **** a bunch of **** mutha ****** no good **** think of him using language like this. These **** advertisers need to ****** and then ***** and after that they can **** **** ***** ****. And you know what else those **** ***** can do they can **** **** up their **** **** and ****.

That is all.

faggot (2)

"male homosexual," 1914, Amer.Eng. slang (shortened form fag is from 1921), probably from earlier contemptuous term for "woman" (1591), especially an old and unpleasant one, in reference to faggot (1) "bundle of sticks," as something awkward that has to be carried (cf. baggage). It was used in this sense in 20c. by D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, among others. It may also be reinforced by Yiddish faygele "homosexual," lit. "little bird." It also may have roots in Brit. public school slang fag "a junior who does certain duties for a senior" (1785), with suggestions of "catamite," from fag (v.). This was also used as a verb.
"He [the prefect] used to fag me to blow the chapel organ for him." ["Boy's Own Paper," 1889]
Other obsolete senses of faggot were "man hired into military service simply to fill out the ranks at muster" (1700) and "vote manufactured for party purposes" (1817). The oft-heard statement that male homosexuals were called faggots in reference to their being burned at the stake is an etymological urban legend. Burning was sometimes a punishment meted out to homosexuals in Christian Europe (on the suggestion of the Biblical fate of Sodom and Gomorah), but in England, where parliament had made homosexuality a capital offense in 1533, hanging was the method prescribed. Any use of faggot in connection with public executions had long become an English historical obscurity by the time the word began to be used for "male homosexual" in 20th century American slang, whereas the contemptuous slang word for "woman" (and the other possible sources or influences listed here) was in active use.

Look, i dont even like Dana White (as i am a Fedor fan), but what has he done wrong here? He isn't allowed to call someone out on thier bullshit? He just has to sit back and let people lie about him and not defend himself? So he has vulgar grammar, What's the problem? Grow up you whinny douche-twatts. The only thing he has done wrong is possibly starting another gay parade where fags meet in the masses and leave the streets bedazzeled in glitter and frosted with joygasm juice. Dammit Dana. Dam you to Russia.

You go Dana, i dont care if you use every fucking slur in the book. its a free country.. say what you want..to whom you want ..and when you want. when the days over its dana thats going to have to face what dana does.. if the ufc gets hurt by it.. then im sure the fertittias (however you spell there name)
will do what it takes to keep there business running.

If fag is so offensive, can i call them pole smokers then? Queers has a nice ring to it as well maybe we can use that one.

Dana White may have overreacted, but now everyone else is...

Who gives a fuck what Dana Fuckin White said?

If this cunt would have kept her pussy faggot bitch-tit opinions to herself, none of this would have happened.

The world is too goddamn sensitive, especially this country. When somebody says what DW said, it's like a "DING" goes off above every asshole lawyer's head.

Oh my God, he used the term bitch when referring to a woman. Oh dear, he said faggot.

Who gives a fuck? If it weren't the truth, it wouldn't bother anyone. The truth is a motherfucker sometimes.

Kudos to DW for calling this BITCH out.

Fuck the world son, I'm with you Dana.

um, mikey, i'm pretty sure i don't say faggot at least once a day - did you mean to post your comment in the Sherdog forums?

i don't think this is about being PC or about people being too sensitive, it's about BUSINESS. dana white is a smart guy and a good businessman who probably shouldn't be alienating women and gays from his sport if he wants to see it expand further. what does he get out of that rant? nothing. but he stands to lose advertising, fans, and respect.

Faggot might be a bit much but what he said about the cunt Loretta Hunt was perfect. She should fired. Fuck her.

@WarpedAcorn: Nice. Where's that from?

Wow, if glaad is boycotting mma there goes seth petrazelli's following

CAGE POTATO <3 GLAAD

If Dana White apologizes for this he's a hypocrite because I'm sure he talks like this all the time.

Yeah Faggots! Use a fake name for fuck sakes.

everybody says faggot. it's not that big of a deal. the UFC is here to put on fights, GLAAD is here to get upset everytime someone says faggot? what a complete waste. where's the "Group for People Not Calling Micah Stupid" I'm starting the GPNCS so everytime someone makes fun of me, I can demand a public apology.

sensitive feelings are a joke. get over yourself

If he just would have used cocksuckers instead of faggots we wouldn't even be talking about this right now. By the way I can't believe he missed the most obvious burn, he could have called her Loretta Cunt instead of Loretta Hunt, damm Dana get your game tight.

DW is the president and public face of a prominent sporting organization and needs to act like it. If, say, Bud Selig or Roger Goodell ever went off like that you can bet your sweet ass they wouldn't have a job the next morning.

So there's nothing that irritates me more with this sort of thing when his defenders say "fuck u man he has a right to say whatever he wants 1st amendment wooo"--well, yeah, that's technically true, in the same way that I have a first amendment right to fart in your mother's face while she's asleep. I won't do that, because I'm not an asshole and I don't want to embarrass myself. DW embarrassed himself in the same way, but unfortunately, the responsibility he bears as UFC president means that his embarrassment is the company's embarrassment. If he can't deal with that (and clearly he can't) he should resign.

I agree. Dana shouldn't have used the word, "faggots"

From now on I suggest he refer to them as, "men who enjoy plundering one another's nether regions in a deeply disturbing and highly immoral fashion".

"Dana is right about everything he says..."

He didn't actually say ANYTHING substantial -- that's the problem. He didn't even definitively deny her claim. I have no issue with someone being called a cunt/bitch/whatever if the situation calls for it & they started the name-calling. But here, Hunt mounted a serious, thought-out, articulate argument (in favor of the fighters, no less) and his response was just to spaz-out nonsensically and call her names.

i don't appreciate Dana's language. But I gotta respect a man who is not afraid to speak his mind, even if it offends people!

Don't punk out now Dana. -holla

Gay men are not adverse to placing penises into their mouths.

"The term Faggot, doesn't mean gay people in that sense. When you call someone you don't like a fag, you're not saying they literally like to suck dick or anything."

Oh please. What does the word actually mean then?

A black person can reclaim & change the meaning of the word "nigger" because THEY have been called that.

Eminem and Dana White CANNOT reclaim & change the meaning word "FAGGOT" because they are not gay.

A bunch of brilliant collective thoughts by a swarm of half-heads. The fact that Dana acts as if he and the UFC single handedly pioneered the sport is annoying. Then to combine it with its continous labeling of MMA being barbaric, unapologetic and primative while being PIONEERED by a foul mouthed, unapologetic, primative turd who hides behind his arrogance gives you a media frenzy. See, you can't be both intelligent and a loud mouth. I'm glad Dana's blogs, which are simply a cry to rally idiots into appreciating the simplicity of one goon clubbing another (instead of what it should be credited for: talent, will, heart, intelligence) are under scrutiny.

@ SoCal

Remember Trump's outing of Rosie O'Donald on CNN??

Sure he didnt use as many expletives but he did the same thing, and on national TV live.