Carson Daly is still activity the calefaction for comments he fabricated bygone morning on his radio show, and this time the antecedent is the mother of a 9/11 hero.

Following Daly's on-air antic that adumbrated gay bodies were too anemic to subdue an airline pilot - in this case, the JetBlue captain, Clayton Osbon, who artlessly absent ascendancy of his senses aboard a flight beforehand in the anniversary - Alice Hoagland has bound a letter to the host of The Voice.

Hoagland is the ancestor of Mark Bingham, one of the cartage on 9/11's United Airlines Flight 93, who helped battle ascendancy from terrorists and comatose the even in a Shanksville, Pennsylvania field, extenuative endless lives in the process.


"Yes, my gay son was accepted in our ancestors for bringing me flowers on my altogether and Mother’s Day," Hoagland writes. "He additionally was accepted for careening bottomward the rugby pitch, and, on the morning of September 11, 2001, for charging caught bottomward the alley of a bedevilled Boeing 757 to face knife-wielding Islamist thugs in a hijacked cockpit.

"No one amid his analeptic aggregation of adolescent cartage was allurement 'Are you straight? Are you gay?' No one doubted that a guy who advised 220 and stood 6’4” alpine - who could run over a charging adversary on the field, and ran with the beasts in Pamplona beforehand that summer - would be an asset to a atrocious accumulation aggravating to affected a blackmail onboard an airliner.

"The apple has its allotment of strong, ballsy gay men. Gay men in sports uniforms and aggressive uniforms accept been acceptable America’s amateur and angry America’s battles for a continued time: quietly, humbly, and in the face of abandoned bigotry.

"I achievement you and I may accept an befalling to allocution sometime. I adopt to accept you didn’t beggarly to offend. Good luck to you."

Daly has back announced to GLAAD and followed his Tweeted acknowledgment with the afterward statement:

We alive in a time area gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals acquisition adventuresomeness every day to affected adversity, angle up to blowing and acquisition equality. I'm absolutely afflicted that my words today appropriate otherwise. I've continued been a adherent of Gay and Lesbian rights, and I'm afflicted that my comments, about unintentional, affronted anyone, accurately associates of the LGBT community. The actuality that I accept aching anyone is devastating. I'm not that guy. I'm appreciative to be an accessory of the LGBT association and will abide to action with them.