Newsweek has an interview with Isaiah Washington this week, and in it Isaiah of course addresses the "Greys Anatomy" controversy that led to his firing. While he says he regrets getting into an argument with Patrick Dempsey and then referring to cast mate T.R. Knight as a "faggot", he says the real reason he was fired is because he’s not some mush-mouthed negro. Instead he’s a 6-foot-1 black man with dark skin and who doesn’t go around saying "Yessah, massa sir" and "No sir, massa" to everyone. Newsweek says:

"Patrick and I had a philosophical disagreement that got out of hand and that I regret a great deal," Washington says.

"I said a lot of negative things that were never reported, but there was one word that caught everyone’s attention, particularly someone who wasn’t even in the room with us. It was a fight between two men that shouldn’t have happened. But someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me. I see that now, but I didn’t then."

"I apologized and showed my remorse for what I said and for the pain I caused anyone,’’ says Washington. "If a black man can’t get forgiveness in this country, when so many other people like Robert Downey Jr. and the governor of California get second and third chances … I think that says a lot about race and this country where we stand."

"Well, it didn’t help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn’t a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn’t speak like I’d just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime," he says. "I had a person in human resources tell me after this thing played out that ’some people’ were afraid of me around the studio. I asked her why, because I’m a 6-foot-1, black man with dark skin and who doesn’t go around saying ‘Yessah, massa sir’ and ‘No sir, massa’ to everyone? It’s nuts when your presence alone can just scare people, and that made me a prime candidate to take the heat in a dysfunctional family.’’

"My mistake was believing that I would get the support from my network and all of my cast mates across the board. My mistake was believing I could correct a wrong with honesty and sincerity. My mistake was thinking black people get second chances," he says. "I was wrong on all fronts."

Hey we white guys have it hard too. Just the other day I was beating my Mexican maid and she fell down and broke my DVD player. Of course I did what any gentleman would do, I called the cops and had her butt arrested for destroying my property. Long story short, she got off. A white man just can’t get justice in this society.

Hollywood is racist. Just because I m a 6’ 1" attraktive white male, everyone just asumes I m artickelet and can spel.

Isaiah got fired because he’s a jerk, and a butt hole. If he wants to play the blame game how about including the Jews and the Gay mafia while he’s at it? The creator of Grey’s Anatomy is a black woman, so Isaiah is peeing in the wind with his racism claim.

We’ve got video, folks.

Mika Brzezinski, egged on by Joe Scarborough, bumps opening Paris Hilton story on Morning Joe.

At first she attempts to burn the script. Damn childproof lighters!

Foiled, she tears the script up. Runs the the script for the next Paris segment through a shredder and objects on camera to her producer’s pressure to lead the newscast with the Paris Hilton story.

Go Mika!

Watch it here.

Thank goodness for freedom of speech in America. Here’s more:

Victoria Beckham accepted undisclosed damages Monday from a celebrity magazine that claimed the crew of her U.S. TV show considered her "picky, demanding and rude."

Victoria sued Star magazine over an April article that claimed staff working on the NBC show had also described her as "full of herself and not very nice."

Beckham’s lawyer, Gerrard Tyrrell, told Britain’s High Court that filming hadn’t started at the time the story was published.

"The story was therefore completely inaccurate and defamatory of Ms. Beckham," he said.

Northern & Shell PLC, which publishes the magazine, apologized and agreed to pay Beckham’s legal costs and "substantial" damages. The amount of damages wasn’t disclosed.

"Victoria Beckham: Coming to America" will air July 16.

Another case that hinged on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

As the hot potato that is the first post-pokey interview with Paris Hilton was tossed around, Barbara Walters deemed it unworthy, a potentially bad PR move and opted to decline the opportunity, allowing CNN to swoop in.

According to Cindy Adams, Walters had this to say about the jostling.

"Look, I’ve done prison interviews before, but people like the Menendez Brothers were really important news stories," said the First Lady of the Soundbites.

"This wasn’t. And even though I’d already written my questions, when all that pay-for-play stuff happened, I suddenly felt this was not up to my standard. It . . . felt . . . sort of . . .

Tawdry. The whole thing somehow was beneath me. Besides, it was a no-win. If I did a tough piece and her tears started to flow, it would be, ‘Oh, there’s Barbara Walters making people cry again.’ Too soft, and I’d be criticized."

Walters reports that ABC wanted the "get" for the ratings, but that they were "classy" about it and let her decision stand. Besides, she’d already interviewed the incarcerated socialite on the phone and been the first to report that Paris Hilton has "changed."

All this while Paris Hilton, the new voice for the disenfranchised, was (again) waxing altruistic and public-service minded in yet another phone interview, this time with Ryan Seacrest.

Beyond the thankful-for-her-pillow talk, Hilton let Seacrest in on her plans to build a facility to help end the recidivism cycle of female convicts.

E Online reports that Hilton said she hopes it will be "a place for them to go get food, clothes on their back, get them up on their feet. Especially the mothers. It’s just a really bad cycle. If we stop it now, we can make our community a better place."

All noble, but we’ll believe it when we see it.

Leopard. Spots. You know the drill.

Paris Hilton will make an appearance on Larry King Live Wednesday night after being released from jail on Tuesday. Get ready for the fake tears, the feel sorry for me story, and how she is going to change the world like Jesus did.

Rumor is Hilton will appear in studio for the entire hour of the show. Yesterday NBC was denying they made a $1 million dollar deal for Hilton to appear on their network.