Posted on 06/24/2008 5:36:25 AM PDT by PurpleMan
I know where to begin. I just don't know how to explain.
The beginning is easy: I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for being thoughtless and insensitive.
I'm sorry for making a casual reference to something that should never be construed as casual.
Real apologies don't mix with rationalizations, so I won't insult your intelligence by offering you any.
This is about my living up to a standard I expect of everyone else -- respect, awareness, honesty and accountability.
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.espn.go.com ...
She "man's up" and take responsibility.
BTW: After over 3,300 views at the previous articles (below), it's appropriate to post her response to what she wrote.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032716/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032686/posts
She's right - it was moronic. As far as I'm concerned, nothing more need be said.
The moment I put "Hitler" and "victim" in the same sentence, I did the exact same thing.
Yeah I'm going to have to call BS on her "apology." But first, where and how did she reference "hitler" and the "victim," origianlly? Her writing is so sophomoric you can't tell what she's talking about if you don't already know.
At any rate, Jemelle is a hack and had a habit of placing her foot squarely in her mouth back when she was a columnist for the Orlando Slantinel. The last one I remember, before she was plucked out of the blue by ESPN for a try at being a minority-girl-sports-teleprompter-reader, was when she disparaged the fans of the Orlando Predators, comparing them to hooligans or something like that. She upset a lot of people on that one.
But it is kind of funny when leftists get PC-slammed.
She kept her job while people like Imus, Jimmy the Greek, Limbaugh (on the nfl show) and a host of other white folk lost theirs for saying stuff black people were offended by. Please enhance my perspective on that Ms Hill/espn.
This was nothing compared to Dana Jacobson and her F-— Jesus drunken rant. IMUS will be fired again before anything
ever happens to these women.
It appears that she’s trying to fill her role as a token minority/female, but she’s just not very smart or competent.
Im from pittsburgh and there is a nitely call in sports show on the tube, at 10:30 a.m. Good show and the host had a local sports writer on as his co-host.
The latest don imus comment was brought up and a caller wanted to know why all the hub-bub over imus when comments by charles barkely about ‘hating white people’ and Dionne “i never knew how to tackle” Sanders’ comment about Tony Romo being white, were not given the same scrutiny as Imus’ comments...and both the host, Jory Rand and the co-host, pittsburgh sports writer, bob smizik, both gave the lame-azz excuse how blacks and their terrible past with slavery and racism basically entitles them to pop off to us white folks for ‘keepin them down’ all those years..
i almost puked up my sandwich when i heard that...
what a freakin joke....
In my opinion, none of these people or their reportage means a thing. I only clicked this thread because I was curious about the latest manufactured “outrage.” If all the offended people just said, “What an idiot!” and went about their business, this dingbat wouldn’t have got all this extra attention.
I agree but its’ only white males who ever suffer consequences.
Affirmative action hire. Plain and simple.
Yes, that’s true. There’s a lesson, here, but I’m not sure what it is. Maybe that white males should stop supporting all these media outlets, sports leagues, and so on, and do something else with their time and money? As in other cases of media bias, such as TV programming and commercials, the economic power is there to be used.
Really. We spend far too much time apologizing to "victims."
I think both the “journalist” and the “victims” should apologize to the rest of us for wasting scarce oxygen. They’re in it together - the people who perpetrate these “outrages” and the ones whose lives are devastated by their hurt feelings ... and us, too, for even bothering to discuss them :-).
: )
Indeed!
What we have here one of the best-executed apologies I've seen in a long time (except it went on too long and got all preachy) absolutely wasted on a non-issue by someone I've never heard of.
Swine casting pearls in the slop.
Why do you say that? Because she’s a black woman? God knows ESPN (As ABC in general) is chock full of morons, white and black, male and female. Keith Olberman is a white man. She’s a commentator on basketball. Where do you ever think ESPN dug up a black basketball fan?
(wait... damn, this PC stuff is hard! How about we all just be a lot more forgiving about violating PC?)
All is not forgiven. This idiot should lose her job immediately. The only way to get rid of the PC-facist mindset is to punish those who use the PC card so often, when it is indeed their turn to make a slip (yeah, poor sentence structure).......
She has been suspended.
Play that race card Doc. Play that race card.
"...Dr. Richard Lapchick, who directs the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics..."
This guy probably has the whole deck...
ESPN occasionally skims cultural and political issues...having said that, it is a for profit entertainment business and as such it would be good business to dispose of anyone who offends any significant segment of their audience.
THe funny thing is, even Tiger Woods had the common sense to take the comments as “a non-issue”, but sports “journalists”, ever-eager to enter the idiot fray, won’t take his word for it, and can’t resist defending what doesn’t need to be defended. THEN , just to get a little extra mileage out of it, when they become aware they’ve gone too far, they issue a “make nice” statement, designed to make their readership stand back in awe of their fair-mindedness, even though none of it was necessary in the first place. Ask Tiger.
Why pick on white males in general? ESPN's target audience is the 18 to 39 year-old male.
The poster to whom I responded observed that white male journalists/broadcasters were the only people who lost their jobs for “offensive” speech. If that’s the case, and the white male demographic objects, then my point was that they have significant economic clout and could use it.
As you’ve pointed out, ESPN’s audience, and sports audiences in general, are not only white or only male. They choose to treat one faction of the audience differently from others, and apparently this is acceptable to most.
I understand. Wasn’t disagreeing with you, necessarily.
BINGO!!!
I just wanted to make my point clear, if I hadn’t already. I can get garbled in the summer.
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