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ESPN has finally jumped the shark
ESPN has been on a long and slow, steady decline as they try to morph sports highlites and news into social and political commentary. While it's never been a secret most of them are left leaning failed journalism school rejects along with ex jocks who need to feel relevant, it was always tolerable since it was still primarily a sports network with the occasional silly diatribe. But now, it's gotten so embarrassingly bad that you can not even visit their website for basic scores, news, and highlite clips without getting inundated with obnoxious progressive propaganda and completely irrelevant subject matter dominating the "sports news" headlines, clips, and tweets.
The Kapernick soap opera is the last straw for this viewer. So the kid decides to kneel during the National Anthem. OK, silly, but no big deal. Not much of a "statement" in my book, but I didn't really care one way or the other. Lord knows I've had my share of beefs with the US Government. A 2cnd rate QB on the downside of his career looks to bask in the spotlight one last time while trying to impress his new lefty girlfriend. Fine. With the attention and endless round table discussions about this, you would of thought he immolated himself like Norman Morrison or Thich Quang Duc did in protesting the Vietnam War. One ridiculous "journalist" compared it to Muhammad Ali refusing service into the draft on religious grounds. I'm sure we all agree how ridiculous that comparison is.
So, here it is, a rather quaint "story" that's 4 days old, and yet, even now there are "news" headlines , links, and tweets of how so and so tweets his support, and some gay "star" womans soccer player (that nobody's ever heard of before yesterday) knelt during the anthem during her game to show her support. Mind you, there was less than 100 people in the stands of US pro womans soccer game (Funny, she's lauded as such a big star, but yet, ESPN has never even flashed a score or a highlite, or written one sentence from any of her previous pro games). Now we get hourly updates on how Kapernicks jersey is now the 3rd biggest seller this week, and then, as if we needed to know, we got the big news later in the day how it passed Odell Beckham to become the 2cnd best selling jersey this week. Wow, when is the jersey counter coming that will update jersey sales every 10 minutes? I'm on the edge of my chair as it rockets to the top of the charts. If someone in a Mexican League baseball game or a semi-pro badminton match clenches his fist during an anthem, I'm sure that will get blasted as a headline too.
I remember when Curt Schilling got canned for his common sense tweet regarding trannies and bathrooms. Of course, this was the hot topic at that time, and since he went against the holy grail of progressivism, he was canned as ESPN groveled for forgiveness for their "shame". While I thought that was somewhat irresponsible, it didn't surprise me much, and it certainly shouldn't of surprised Schilling. What happened afterwords was somewhat hilarious and shockingly scary. Apparantly, ESPN did a bit segment including highlites of the Red Sox comeback from down 0-3 in the series vs the Yankees in 2004, and even though Schilling was a major part of that with his game 6 performance, bloody sock and all, he was magically erased from the highlites. Reminded me of Josef Stalin and how he erased Soviet members who had fallen out of favor with the Soviet head from all official photo's and documents like they never existed. Thankfully, Schilling didn't meet the same fate of those who "vanished" during the Stalin regime. When they were erased, they were gone for good, cause they were never coming back. I'm well aware that 30 for 30 was edited for time constraints in that incident. Still seems an odd choice to "vanish" game 6 and Curt all together for the sake of time considering it's relevance to the subject matter.
While I didn't watch this when it aired, apparently, ESPN did some sort of round table thingamajig about black violence and injustice and blah, blah, blah recently. In the clip below, go to the 10:25 mark to see a clip of these social warriors discussing this. The uber liberal Max Kellerman (how could a Greenwich Village raised Jew be anything else?) is talking about the "white man" athlete and his responsibilities in helping his black teammates in their social justice quests or some type of nonsense like that ( he seems to be rambling a bit) and none other than Isiah Thomas explains to us all (with a catchy ryhme he probably spent all night coming up with) that "White silence is violence" to which the white woman panel member nods in affirmation as if he was delivering a sermon from on high. White silence is violence? Are you fcking kidding me? Good Lord. Then, Isiah tells us how if Max or any white man went into his neighborhood (as If the multi-millionaire still lived in a trashy ghetto), how the hood brothers wouldn't beat him or or kill him, just cause he was white. Then he adds "They might rob you and take all your money, but they won't beat you up". This is not met with gasps or silence, but rather, laughter and smiles from the mostly black audience. As if someone getting robbed is funny. I'm curious Isiah, how do you rob someone without beating them up or threatening violence? He says "they won't shoot you". Really Isiah? What happens if you decide you don't want to give them your money? You really think these upstanding cadets aren't going to use their guns? I was appalled. This is the gutter that ESPN has crawled so low to get into? This charming exchange starts around 10:25 and ends around 12:55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5G443GeY98
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