(01-11-2010 11:19 AM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  Sounds like you are walking on egg shells, or expect others to walk on them to suit a imaginative, hugely subjective standard. I have no such proclivities. So in essence, it's just "keep your mouth shut" especially in mixed company? Yea, I'm sure everyone is doing that or is it just white people?

It's just white people. When was the last time a guy got fired for calling a white guy a cracker, honky or gringo? Come on Sum, you know that racial slurs against white are not really racial slurs, they're expressions of deeply held anxieties from people who are the descendants of oppressed grandparents.

(01-11-2010 11:19 AM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  It physically pains me to see the American Flag desecrated. The dead do not speak in it's defense. It is something I alone must carry the burden for, I cannot expect others to see it according to my expectations. Same holds for speech. Political correctness de jour, not my cup of tea, the expectation should not be yours either.

I'm just as offended as you are. People who burn the flag show no respect for the people who defend their right ( and I use the word "right" liberally) to burn that flag. Why is it the left frequently uses freedom of speech to purposely cause pain and anguish?

OHK remember what Biden said about Obama in 2007?

Something like "He is fresh, clean and articulate"..

Biden still has a job.

And remember that Don Imus was fired and crucified for saying less than Harry Reid did.

(01-12-2010 12:04 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  OHK remember what Biden said about Obama in 2007?

Something like "He is fresh, clean and articulate"..

Biden still has a job.

And remember that Don Imus was fired and crucified for saying less than Harry Reid did.

I thought Imus referred to Rutger's women's bball as "hos". That's pretty serious (if I remembered that right).

(01-12-2010 09:02 AM)DrTorch Wrote:  

(01-12-2010 12:04 AM)WMD Owl Wrote:  OHK remember what Biden said about Obama in 2007?

Something like "He is fresh, clean and articulate"..

Biden still has a job.

And remember that Don Imus was fired and crucified for saying less than Harry Reid did.

I thought Imus referred to Rutger's women's bball as "hos". That's pretty serious (if I remembered that right).

Nappy-headed hos.

Jon Stewart would have got laughs and kept his job.

Same people that were complaining are the same people who will sit through a black comedian's show and laugh their asses off while the comedian is berating "whitey".

(01-12-2010 10:12 AM)Rebel Wrote:  Same people that were complaining are the same people who will sit through a black comedian's show and laugh their asses off while the comedian is berating "whitey".

Black people dance like this...White people dance like this....Hahahaha!
Black eat like this....White people eat like this......hahahaha(cue laugh track).

Chris Rock did make a good joke about it. He said black people can make fun of white people, but the opposite is cruel. Just like fat girls can make fun of skinny girls. Short dudes can make fun of tall dudes.

I didn't think what Reid said was so offensive racially, as I thought it was so out of touch. He is the representational leader of a group that represents the people of the United States, and he's uses terms like Negro dialect? He is out of touch with 90+% of the people that he represents and must go. Don Imus wasn't racially offensive as it was sexually offensive. Those girls weren't hoes.

(01-12-2010 01:33 PM)Tbags4Dbags Wrote:  I didn't think what Reid said was so offensive racially,

I don't think they were either. But then again, I'm not the one living my life through political correctness, Reid is. That makes him a fake, a phony, a piece of crap.

(01-12-2010 01:33 PM)Tbags4Dbags Wrote:  Those girls weren't hoes.

How do you know that?

(01-12-2010 01:33 PM)Tbags4Dbags Wrote:  I didn't think what Reid said was so offensive racially, as I thought it was so out of touch.

I didn't think Lott's comments were offensive racially, unless you purposely chose to hear them that way. Lott was simply giving cliched praise to Thurmond, complimenting him at a retirement.

You could make a logical argument that Lott was supporting segragation (which curiously blacks do support at many levels, including HCBUs, Columbus Africentric school, fraternities, BET, etc) but I'd wager that was far from Lott's thoughts as he was just trying to say nice things at a man's retirement.

Lott's comment had no racial component period. The listener had to make that leap. And few listeners would make that leap before being told to by one commentator or another. Or hustler.

(01-12-2010 01:33 PM)Tbags4Dbags Wrote:  

(01-12-2010 10:12 AM)Rebel Wrote:  Same people that were complaining are the same people who will sit through a black comedian's show and laugh their asses off while the comedian is berating "whitey".

Black people dance like this...White people dance like this....Hahahaha!
Black eat like this....White people eat like this......hahahaha(cue laugh track).

Chris Rock did make a good joke about it. He said black people can make fun of white people, but the opposite is cruel. Just like fat girls can make fun of skinny girls. Short dudes can make fun of tall dudes.

I didn't think what Reid said was so offensive racially, as I thought it was so out of touch. He is the representational leader of a group that represents the people of the United States, and he's uses terms like Negro dialect? He is out of touch with 90+% of the people that he represents and must go. Don Imus wasn't racially offensive as it was sexually offensive. Those girls weren't hoes.

You are out of your mind.

Who was the sports commentator that was fired for saying that some African-American running back was "carrying the football like it was a water melon"?

(01-12-2010 10:00 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Who was the sports commentator that was fired for saying that some African-American running back was "carrying the football like it was a water melon"?

Howard Cossel got reamed for saying something like "look at that little monkey run"

Al Campanis got fired for saying something stupid about blacks.

Jimmy the Greek took it in the shorts for saying blacks are better athletes than whites because they were bred to hunt.

None of the above is exact, just as how I remember it......

....but....

Want to hire a coach in the NFL? Gots to interview at least one minority. Personally, if I owned an NFL team I'd hire the best person to coach, even if it was a woman. And I would tell the NFL to eat @@@@ about the required minority interview. It's useless since I can interview any minority knowing I won;t hire him, so what good is this stupid rule? The rule also implies that I'm a racist and amounts to Affirmative Action.

(01-12-2010 10:00 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Who was the sports commentator that was fired for saying that some African-American running back was "carrying the football like it was a water melon"?

This?

Quote:Don't forget Max McGee's blunder:

During a Packers-Vikings game in 1990, former Super Bowl MVP Max McGee said Minnesota running back Herschel Walker ran "like he's just stole a watermelon headin' south." McGee later apologized, saying he grew up in the South, where he was always told to "carry the ball like a watermelon."

(01-12-2010 10:18 PM)Paul M Wrote:  

(01-12-2010 10:00 PM)WMD Owl Wrote:  Who was the sports commentator that was fired for saying that some African-American running back was "carrying the football like it was a water melon"?

This?

Quote:Don't forget Max McGee's blunder:

During a Packers-Vikings game in 1990, former Super Bowl MVP Max McGee said Minnesota running back Herschel Walker ran "like he's just stole a watermelon headin' south." McGee later apologized, saying he grew up in the South, where he was always told to "carry the ball like a watermelon."

When I was in high school there were only two black kids out of a total of 1600 students. One guy on the football team looked black but wasn't and he'd get pissed if you called him black. The coaches thought he was black and one day told him that when he runs he needs to run like the Klan was chasing him. He actually laughed, crap, we all laughed.

Rob, does that make me and my senior squad a bunch of racists? Back then we made fun of everybody, that was before having fun was made illegal.....now you could only joke about white people, check that, white men. I took my share of Italian jokes. In fact there are probably more names for an Italian than anyone else: Wop, dago, guinea, goombah, greaseball....

Disastrous Announcer Comments

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/fitness/58_..._list.html

(01-12-2010 10:38 PM)Paul M Wrote:  Disastrous Announcer Comments

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/fitness/58_..._list.html

The only one I found to be controversial was the Campanis comment, the rest are all harmless, especially the one about Alpo. If anyone finds those comments offensive then they must have a real problem with Joe Biden.

I thought the same. No big deals.