Dana White responds to Griffin’s tweet about rape

Yesterday at the UFC on FOX press conference, Dana White spoke with many media outlets, including Mario Ranallo of the Score, in which he discussed a variety of topics, including the growth of the UFC, it’s partnership with FOX, and the recent intense criticism directed at Forrest Griffin for an misinterpreted tweet:

“It wasn’t a joke … I contacted Forrest and Forrest is a mess now about this whole thing. Believe me, take it from a guy who has been in this situation. What happened was, Forrest Griffin said he woke up that morning and turned on his television and the whole thing about (Joe) Paterno and what’s going on over there at Penn State, he said he literally switched the channel to another channel and they were talking about a woman who had been raped. The third channel he went to was another story about rape. His thing was that ‘rape is the new missionary,’ like it’s vanilla, like it’s normal, when you change the channel it’s on every channel … you don’t go out on Twitter where you can only do so many characters and say something like that. Then once everyone started attacking him, he started attacking back on Twitter. It’s one of those situations. Let me tell you what man, I’m the first guy who always says ‘people will make mistakes’ and this and that will happen. Forrest Griffin is a very, very good human being.”