Cee Lo Green Channels His Inner Tracy Morgan, Clarifies Homophobic Remarks

Artist Cee Lo Green recently made some controversial and homophobic remarks via Twitter. On Thursday, after being critiqued on his performance (with Rihanna) by music editor Andrea Swensson, Green tweeted: “I respect your criticism, but be fair! People enjoyed last night! I’m guessing you’re gay? And my masculinity offended you? Well f*** you!” He later removed the tweet and clarified his comments to US Weekly.

“She was very critical of me. At the time I didn’t even know what gender the person was. I was being a little outspoken that night, a little outrageous,” I always expect people to assume that everything I do is part of my character and sense of humor. I assumed that whoever it was would assume it was all in good fun. It wasn’t taken so well, apparently. I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don’t have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I’m one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that. Two of the remaining members that I have on my team on The Voice are proud and outspokenly gay. We just did a team performance of ‘Everyday People,’ and I picked that song for us to do specifically to highlight how we can get along even though we’re so different. If I could take it all back, I would. I was not being serious. I just wanted to defend our performance. It was only our third show with a whole new crew and we were all really proud about the progress that we had made.”

Is everyone being HIGHLY sensitive about politically incorrect remarks or should celebrities be responsible for every word and tweet that is shared in the universe?