ESPN Tennis Analyst Sacked Over Bogus Charge of Racism

Townhall.com ^ | February 2, 2017 | Larry Elder

[safeasthebanks]

Didn’t even make an attempt to read the full article, huh?

[PLMerite]

[livius]

Many people pronounce guerrilla as “gorilla,” or something very close to that (geh-rilla). Saying “gue-rrrr-ee-yah” is pretty rare.

[Kaslin]

I don’t watch espn and I didn’t hear it, so I can’t comment.

[Sans-Culotte]

Didn’t even make an attempt to read the full article, huh?

I read the article, and then wrote why I don't buy his explanation that he used the word "guerrilla". I don't care how he pronounced it. An overwhelming force like Venus Williams is not a "guerrilla" (little war). If he meant guerrilla instead of gorilla, he should have added that he doesn't know what guerrilla means. I doubt you know the difference either, genius.

[piytar]

The leftists at ESPN are the real racists. Adler probably did not even think of the term being a homophobe to gorilla or care the Ms. Williams is black. “Guerilla” style play is a well-know sports term based on “guerilla warfare.”

Just more blatant leftist projection.

[piytar]

BTW, I could not care less that Venus Williams is black. She and her sister are the best female tennis players who have ever lived. Period. Enjoy watching them play.

[StoneWall Brigade]

ESPN has no problem with Jemele Hill and Micahel Smith ranting off Anti-Jew Anti-Christian and Anti-White remarks while wearing BLM shrits. And what`s worse is they get Sports Center to now say all this crap.

[steve8714]

Homophone.

[steve8714]

Serena is, Venus maybe top ten. Still damn good.

[piytar]

Fair enough. Good point.

PS I think guerilla and gorilla are homophones, not homonyms. Examples of homonyms are left (past tense of leave) and left (the idiotic side of the political spectrum). Or do I have it backwards?

[pgkdan]

Good thing he didn’t use ‘niggardly’.

[steve8714]

Serena plays a man’s game. I’d like to see her embarrass some of these trannies trying to corrupt the womens’ game.
She has a nice smile, too.

[piytar]

Yeah, that’s what I meant. Fat-fingered the “n” (it’s next to the “b”) on my iPhone and did not catch it until after posting.

[piytar]

Fair enough. Both are excellent.

[glasseye]

“Look at that monkey run”...

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

You shouldn’t be quite so niggardly in your financial dealings, either.

[Kickass Conservative]

You are correct.

A Gorilla charges to scare a threat into retreating.

Guerilla War tactics were a strategy used by the Patriots against the British, basically lying in wait to Ambush them which was thought to be uncivilized Warfare.

Williams did not lie in wait, she attacked head on.

That being said, this is just another example of Liberal selective outrage. They called this Man a Bigot without saying the word.

Remember Howard Cosell’s little Monkey comment?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Wow. Hard to make this stuff up. Sounds like satire. But sadly, it's just another case of severely uneducated people occupying places with power over others.

Is good to know to read;

guer·ril·la

Origin

early 19th century (introduced during the Peninsular War (1808–14)): from Spanish, diminutive of guerra ‘war.’

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

My only question is - whence came this ridiculous perspective at ESPN?

When they hired Steven A. Smith.