Dallas Radio Host Denies Miscarriage Comments

I tend to follow celebrities with local connections on Twitter, which means I follow Selena Gomez, the Grand Prairie-born singer-actress, whom I’ve interviewed a couple of times. I also follow Kidd Kraddick, whom I recently profiled. At some point Monday morning — it seems to have been deleted now — Gomez tweeted, “Kidd I used to look up to you.. Talk about me all you want but my mom or my family is crossing the line.” Apparently this involved a remark Kraddick made wishing that Gomez’s mom, who is pregnant, would have a miscarriage.

Except that Kraddick never said this.

According to Gather, the celebrity website that I just linked to, “It seems that people are linking back to an old interview with Kidd Kraddick and Selena Gomez. The interview says nothing about a miscarriage, in fact at that point no one knew Selena’s mom was expecting.” Gather also links to this, another site that seems to have bothered with the actual fact-checking that too many people on Twitter don’t bother with. And because Gomez is dating Justin Bieber, his fans are helping spread the rumor.

I sent an e-mail to Kraddick. Here’s a condensed version of his response:

“We were talking about the tabloids and Mariah Yeater’s baby-daddy coming forward. We talked about how the tabloids and gossip sites would spin that.That led to a mention of Selena’s mom being pregnant. Kellie went into ‘Supposition Kellie Mode’, where she becomes a tabloid writer and comes up with what the gossip writers will spin from the latest news.She said something like, ‘It’s actually Selena who’s pregnant and her mom is part of the cover-up! Nine months from now she’s going to pretend to pop out a baby and will raise it as her own!’We all gave our over-the-top disbelief reactions…as we ALWAYS do when ‘Supposition Kellie’ is making up a rumor. I said, ‘You left out one part! Justin is the father!!!’ “

“… Bieber and Selena fans started ‘”adding in facts’ about me saying she should have an abortion or I hope she has a miscarriage. Ridiculous.

“We are a comedy show and we talk about celebrities…sometimes we’re facetious (like in this case) but our listeners get it.No one listening to that would conclude that we were slamming Selena or her mother. Which is why we didn’t get a single phone call about it from our millions of listeners. Not one e-mail. Not one facebook message. Not one tweet about it.

“I hate that its been twisted into what it’s become. I really like and respect Selena and her family. I would never say anything to intentionally hurt them.”

Kraddick has been on Twitter trying to clear things up, and his sidekick/foil Kellie Rasberry has also been tweeting in the show’s defense, adding that the whole rumor has been completely made up.

It would be easy enough for Gomez and Bieber’s fans to to check to see what was said on Kraddick’s show, because it’s available via podcast and on a Web TV replay. But of course, that would take hours. Why spend time actually checking into the facts for yourself when you can trash-talk someone in less than 140 characters or less? Gomez may have deleted her tweet, but she’d do a lot more to defuse things if she’d tell her fans to chill out.

 

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