nobody seemed to bat an eye when the Dykeball players beat up their lesbolovers... hell one of them even shot the window out of a car but no harm no foul i guess
Posted on 09/10/2014 4:40:58 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
Ray Rice has been fired from the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the NFL. Why? That’s the million dollar question at this point. It seems to be more about political correctness and caving to political lobby’s than anything else. We’ve known for months that Rice beat up his then fiancee and knocked her unconscious. This fact resulted in a minor criminal case and a two game suspension from the NFL. Earlier this week gossip site TMZ got hold of the closed circuit video of the attack and now ESPN’s hoard of commentators is completely outraged, Rice has been fired and suspended.
There is no doubt that what he did was evil. It’s an outrage whenever a man hits a woman. Having said that though, we learned absolutely nothing new about this incident this week. Everyone knew he popped his fiancee one and knocked her out. The video doesn’t change that, it only confirms what we imagine likely happened. Honestly, did you imagine the attack would be less gruesome than the video depicts? All the outrage from the Baltimore Ravens and the NFL is absurd, they had a pretty good idea what it would take for one of their players to knock a woman out cold.
There is another side to this story. This woman married Ray Rice after the incident. Why should the public, sports media, Baltimore Ravens and NFL be more outraged about the attack than she is? This is an important point. Rice’s fiancee, who he beat up into an unconscious state married him after the incident. If she was truly afraid of Rice, she had every opportunity to get away. After domestic violence incidents the courts always issue a protective order forbidding contact with the victim. This was a public incident, she could have easily escaped. Instead not only did she choose to marry Ray Rice, she lobbied NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for a lenient punishment. How exactly does video of the incident change her actions?
The answer of course is that ESPN is fueling the “I’m more outraged than you are” environment that has come to dominate sports commentary these days. Sports used to represent an escape from politics and the drudgery of daily life. The leftists at ESPN have turned it into another vehicle to push what one Sportscenter talking head last night called “social consciousness.” Thus there is a racial element to almost every interaction between races on ESPN, feminism is pushed hard, homosexuals are exulted and everyone tries to be the most outraged.
Make no mistake, what Ray Rice did was absolutely evil. The issue here isn’t so much what Ray Rice did but the reaction of the sports media and NFL. Everything we knew about the incident was known shortly after it happened. There is nothing in the recently leaked video that’s particularly shocking in light of what we already knew. The reaction by the sports media, Baltimore Ravens and NFL is over the top and so full of phony outrage. We learned absolutely nothing new. At the end of the day, if the woman who got beat up isn’t bothered enough to not marry Ray Rice, why should any of us care about what happened? If she’s forgiven him, why shouldn’t we accept that and move on video or no video? We’ve reached the point in society where thinking is no longer required. Feeling and emotional reactions are all that count. We’ve seen that on full display this week.
Its kind of like sausage. Once you see how its made, its just not the same. The NFL’s message is clear...beat them if you must, just don’t embarass us with the reality of the beating.
In the 60's and before, professional athletes were expected, nay demanded to serve as proper role models for everyone, especially the youth of this country. Sure, they fooled around, but discretely and not "in your face, mama!"!
I think it started with Daryl Strawberry, but now, "Peck's Bad Boy" has become "Boyz in da hood" and everyone is afraid to be called a racist if they object.
If this country doesn't clean up its act, I do not see any future for it. Professional sports is dead to me...and I was a loyal Packer Backer all of my life!
Spot on.
I agree with your point about the phony outrage. It’s a pretty good assumption that the NFL had access to that video back in Feb. when the incident was first reported. Yet it wasn’t until now, when the video was released, that Rice was held fully accountable and everybody got their panties in a big bunch.
Why the lapse in time when everyone knew what happened - video or no?
But the banning of Rice from the NFL was perfectly in keeping with enforcement of the morality clause in the players’ contracts.
I imagine Rice will play football somewhere with another football organization (Canada, e.g.).
I wonder if Obama had a son, would he look like Ray Rice?
BS it could have been far worse in terms of intent, force, action, aggravation and consequence.
BS it could have been far worse in terms of intent, force, action, aggravation and consequence.
TO KEEP EVERYONE FROM TALKING ABOUT REPEALING OBAMACARE!!!!!!!!
Exactly. Here in Baltimore, there was a lot of thought that Janay’s unconsciousness was largely alcohol-related, not the result of an injury. The video showed us two things:
She was perfectly mobile when she got into that elevator, and
He showed absolutely no concern for her after she was hurt.
nobody seemed to bat an eye when the Dykeball players beat up their lesbolovers... hell one of them even shot the window out of a car but no harm no foul i guess
What concerns me more than what Ray did was the social media. The outrage sparked by twitter, etc. has now extended to the commissioner’s office. Much like Ferguson, social media has moved the masses to reaction without due thought. Is this the new America, where social media will dictate how we respond?
As a Marine battalion commander I had to deal with a Staff Sergeant who punched his girlfriend several times in the face. I had him court-martialed and he got six months in prison, a reduction in rank and a fine.
There is no excuse at all for slugging women and he deserves to lose his career over it.
You’re missing the underlying liberal plan here. Liberals hate team sports. They primarily like individual ones like kayaking, or swimming, skiing and the like. But a “brute” team sport like foothall has got to go. Not politically correct. So they are undermining it in any way they can. It is a constant attack now.
ESPN is full of liberal bias, as is most of the MSM. They are helping to ruin the very sport that helps to give them their paycheck. And the rest of the liberal MSM chimes in with their faux outrage over any incident that arises where they can instantly attack the sport of football by associating it with violent behavior by the men that participate in it on and off the field. And then tag the sport itself as the causs of such violence.
Don’t let them ruin the sport by turning against it that is the exact outcome they want. It is not the sport itself but the portrayal of it by the MSM and liberals. Do not let them accomplish their end by fslling into their trap. It isn’t football, it’s how the libs color it to achieve their own ends. Stick with the sport to save it, otherwise the enemy wins.
Would it have been an outrage if a man had beat hell out of Irma the Bitch of Buchenwald?
What if a woman's holding a gun on one of your children? You're just going to stand there?
This is not a defense of Rice; I don't know anything about him, his wife, or the incident. It's a contradiction of the above statement.
"This woman married Ray Rice after the incident. Why should the public, sports media, Baltimore Ravens and NFL be more outraged about the attack than she is?"
Why indeed? Do they presume to know better than she what's best for her?
Furthermore, Rice's loss of income was a loss of income for his wife.
causs = cause above. Typo.
What if she's attempting to kidnap one of your children at gunpoint?
I too disagree. There's a big difference between a guy my size (under 6 feet, wigh about 180) hitting a woman and a guy who is athletically toned and doing strength training on a daily basis hitting a woman. He got what he deserved, it's just that neither the NFL nor the Ravens had the cojones to dump him right after the incident, as they should have. That is no way for ANY man to act, NFL or any other career.
The danger here is not Ray Rice...the danger is the emergence of yet another “police force” fully sanctioned and promoted by the media. The NFL should have NO JURISDICTION over life OFF THE FIELD...that is why we have a police force and justice system. The penalty in this case should have been jail time...that would eliminate the need for the NFL to impose “suspensions et al”. Where are the real cops, where is the real justice system? If they don’t step up, then private organizations, accountable to no one but their stockholders will fill the power vacuum.
Nothing has changed in the behavior of athletes. The only thing that has changed is the way media covers athletes.
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