Carson Daly Offends Mother of Slain Gay Hero

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Published on Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:29

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Carson Daly offended a mother of a slain gay hero with his insensitive remarks about gay courage.

TMZ broke the story that Daly joked on his radio show that gay people would not have been able to take down the crazed pilot who freaked out on a recent JetBlue flight. Instead, Daly joked, they would have been more interested in going to a "floral convention."

Apparently Daly isn’t aware of Mark Bingham, one of the people aboard doomed flight 93, who gave his life thwarting hijackers on 911. Mark's mother Alice Hoagland now has a message for the Daly saying, "Yes, my gay son was known in our family for bringing me flowers on my birthday and Mother’s Day.  He also was known for careening down the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging unarmed down the aisle of a doomed Boeing 757 to face knife-wielding Islamist thugs in a hijacked cockpit."

She adds, "No one among his pick-up team of fellow passengers was asking 'Are you straight? Are you gay?' No one doubted that a guy who weighed 220 and stood 6’4” tall -- who could run over a charging opponent on the field, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona earlier that summer -- would be an asset to a desperate group trying to overcome a threat onboard an airliner."

"The world has its share of strong, heroic gay men. Gay men in sports uniforms and military uniforms have been winning America’s games and fighting America’s battles for a long time: quietly, humbly, and in the face of vicious bigotry."
 

"I hope you and I may have an opportunity to talk sometime. I prefer to believe you didn’t mean to offend. Good luck to you."

Daly has since apologized.