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Howard Gensler, Daily News Tattle Columnist
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WITH AN UNUSUAL MESSAGE for the Thanksgiving season, recently paroled rapper T.I. (a/k/a Clifford Harris Jr.) spoke with Vibe magazine in the December issue about the already-forgotten Tracy Morgan anti-gay-comments controversy.
"Man, I will say this, the funniest joke I ever heard Tracy say during a stand-up was, 'C'mon man, I think gay people are too sensitive,' " T.I. says in Vibe. " 'If you can take a d---, you can take a joke.' That s--- was funny to me. And it's kind of true."
Constitutional scholar T.I. added, "They're like, 'If you have an opinion against us, we're gonna shut you down."
"That's not American. If you're gay, you should have the right to be gay in peace, and if you're against it you should have the right to be against it in peace."
That's the way T.I. is defending Morgan? Tracy apologized. He said he wasn't anti-gay. But in T.I.'s world, it seems like if you want to be against a specific group, that's cool. People should let you be prejudiced in peace.
* Speaking of offensive, Earsucker.com reports that E! has canceled Kim Kardashian's holiday special, allegedly called "Kardashians Khristmas."
E! says the show was never on the schedule.
Maybe Kim should try: The Eight Days of Hanukkahrdashian."

Tattle biopic

Oscar winner Andrzej Wajda said last week that his new film on former Polish president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa will be his greatest challenge in 55 years as a director.
And not merely because Wajda is now 85.
"This will be the most difficult movie I have made in my life," Wajda said. "I don't want to, but I have to," he said, quoting a line Walesa coined and often used while president in the early 1990s.
Wajda begins shooting "Walesa" on Dec. 1 in the Baltic port city of Gdansk, where in 1980, then-unemployed electrician Walesa seized the reins of a shipyard wage protest and turned it into a nationwide Solidarity movement that helped lead to the downfall of communism a decade later.

TATTBITS

* Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has joined with two wrestling-promoter brothers to start Resistance Pro, a new independent wrestling company.
"Our vision is to try to grow talent," Corgan said in an interview from Europe, where the Pumpkins are on tour.
"This is a guy who is on the same page as we are as far as how wrestling should be," co-promoter Gabe Baron said, describing a show for fans that's similar to a rock concert. "They're going to feel the excitement of a rock concert but with the thrill and spectacle of wrestling."
He must mean one of those lip-synching rock concerts.
* Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has invited soldier-turned-actor-turned-"Dancing with the Stars" winner

J.R. Martinez to the Pentagon for a meeting.
In case Iran develops a nuclear samba.
* She's not a hockey player, but Stockard Channing has made a speedy return to her Broadway show, "Other Desert Cities."
Following arthroscopic surgery on her right knee, Channing, 67, missed one week.
* The New Zealand Herald reported that the Kiwi duo behind "Flight of the Conchords" plan to turn their HBO series into a movie.

Bret McKenzie reportedly told Totalfilm.com: "We're gonna try and do a movie. We just need a story."
A story? McKenzie clearly hasn't seen too many new movies.