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Sports Announcer [NBC] Mike Milbury Canceled for Offhand Remark
https://moonbattery.com/ ^ | Jan 12 2021 | By Dave Blount

Posted on 01/12/2021 10:20:05 AM PST by Red Badger

Progressives relish the death of free speech because it allows them to silence opposing arguments that are difficult to refute and facts that undermine their narrative. However, the monster they have unleashed will devour all and sundry, them eventually included. We now live in a country where anyone can be destroyed at any time for saying anything deemed afterward to be politically incorrect. Since political correctness is a totalitarian ideology, this applies to every corner of society. For example, an offhand remark by a sports announcer can result in cancelation:

Nearly five months after drawing criticism for making a sexist comment while broadcasting a game, Mike Milbury is out at NBC Sports, the network confirmed.

Prior to his cancelation, Milbury announced hockey games.

Presenting the thought crime that wrecked his career:

After play-by-play man John Forslund said, “If you think about it, [the bubble is] a terrific environment with regard to — if you enjoy playing and enjoy being with your teammates for long periods of time, it’s a perfect place,” Milbury replied, “Not even any women here to disrupt your concentration.’’

That’s all it takes.

The next day, the NHL issued a statement criticizing Milbury’s remark, saying the league “condemns the insensitive and insulting comment that Mike Milbury made during last night’s broadcast and we have communicated our feelings to NBC. The comment did not reflect the NHL’s values and commitment to making our game more inclusive and welcoming to all.” …

As we learned while watching ballplayers kneel to Black Lives Matter rioters as they looted stores, set fire to police stations, and tore down statues of the Founding Fathers, no bastion of the liberal establishment is more militant than professional sports.

Milbury promptly issued an apology, but this was futile, as usual.

If you enjoy old movies, get them on DVD. Half the dialog in anything made early enough to be worth watching would now qualify as wrongthink. It is only a matter of time before everything from the unwoke past is erased.

Soon even liberals will realize that they don’t like living in a country where you constantly have to walk on eggshells and can never speak naturally. By then it will be too late — if it isn’t too late already. Repression has a mind of its own.

On a tip from Wiggins.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: freespeech; media
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To: jdsteel

bttt


21 posted on 01/12/2021 10:50:13 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Red Badger

New article on an old incident.

Never cared for the guy but this isn’t right.

But then none of this cancel culture BS is.


22 posted on 01/12/2021 11:19:43 AM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Red Badger

He wasn’t very good, politically incorrect is an excuse


23 posted on 01/12/2021 11:22:16 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: T.B. Yoits

Brian Williams was fired for a good reason; he was inserting himself into news stories. Making stuff up and pretending he had done things that never happened. He lost the trust of the viewers.

He is back on MSNBS already. I don’t have any idea of his numbers of viewers.


24 posted on 01/12/2021 11:45:55 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell.)
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To: Red Badger

No. He got fired for repeatedly and frequently making stupid statements. At some point you simply must acknowledge that this person doesn’t understand that times have changed.


25 posted on 01/12/2021 11:50:24 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: airborne

They just made if official yesterday that he’s not back for the studio either.


26 posted on 01/12/2021 11:55:55 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu

times have changed......AND WHY is that? For good or bad?


27 posted on 01/12/2021 11:57:23 AM PST by Safetgiver (Stupid man Bad.)
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To: Safetgiver

Times have changed because that’s what times do. And we hope it’s for the better, we try to steer them that way.


28 posted on 01/12/2021 12:00:13 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: cgbg

“Coming soon—the left will require all women dress like they did in Communist China—baggy mono-chrome clothes that prove their obedience to The Party.”


I can remember seeing articles when the Red Chinese started to let people have more personal freedom. After many years—decades, women could start to wear their hair they way they wished. Out from storage came beauty equipment from the 30s and 40s and there were pictures of women happily hooked up to machines that looked like they were having their hair milked.

Says something about human nature. It can be repressed for a lifetime, but it is still there. I guess the same thing holds with the church in Russia.


29 posted on 01/12/2021 12:20:14 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Red Badger

Blazing Saddles.


30 posted on 01/12/2021 12:29:11 PM PST by dynachrome ( “The people have spoken . . . and they must be punished.” Ed Koch. Sauve Qui Peut)
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To: originalbuckeye
Brian Williams was fired for a good reason; he was inserting himself into news stories. Making stuff up and pretending he had done things that never happened. He lost the trust of the viewers. He is back on MSNBS already. I don’t have any idea of his numbers of viewers.

They knew he was lying for years and were comfortable with it because they were telling him to lie. They only removed him when they needed it as an excuse because he was too expensive. He's working for a lot less on MSNBC, likely the bare minimum, regardless of what they advertise his salary as. It's an industry based on deception and non-disclosure agreements.

31 posted on 01/12/2021 12:46:05 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: discostu

“Times have changed because that’s what times do. And we hope it’s for the better, we try to steer them that way.”

Times do not always change for the better. Back in the day, if I said, ‘Damn, I just blew the Tranny”, that meant I had car trouble! It did not mean what it means now! Change isn’t always good, or wise....


32 posted on 01/12/2021 4:24:57 PM PST by Freeman1969 (The Republicans are the Washington Generals of Politics. They show up and play but never win.)
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To: Red Badger

From what I can see, if they want to make the NFL more inclusive, they need to get some more white players.


33 posted on 01/12/2021 4:31:49 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: Red Badger

Dear NBC Sports, that was not a sexist remark. You’re idiots.


34 posted on 01/12/2021 4:35:26 PM PST by Vision (Elections are one day. Voter Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer. Say No to Chicago Style Corruption.)
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To: Freeman1969

Well I think when it comes to not denigrating and marginalizing entire groups of people out hand that’s a good change. And a change Milbury has an extended history of not getting.


35 posted on 01/13/2021 6:25:16 AM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu

“Well I think when it comes to not denigrating and marginalizing entire groups of people out hand that’s a good change. And a change Milbury has an extended history of not getting.”

I won’t disagree with that at all. However, it seems to me that we have gone from “Non-Marginalizing” to bowing down and knuckling under to say 13% of the population, or whatever percentage the minority of the week is of the population. That is the problem that I have.


36 posted on 01/13/2021 11:36:10 AM PST by Freeman1969 (The Republicans are the Washington Generals of Politics. They show up and play but never win.)
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To: Freeman1969

It’s easy for white guys to see it as knuckling down, just because we’ve been in the upper position. In the long run most (not all to be sure, but most) is just treating them the way we’re used to being treated. Really, bringing it back, there’s just no good reason to call out women as a distraction on live national TV. That’s just lame. The “women weaken the legs” line in Rocky was partly to show he was a crusty old guy out of touch with the times. And that was 40 years ago. If you’re sounding like a character from 40 years ago that was specifically written to be behind the times, you probably need to update.


37 posted on 01/13/2021 12:03:20 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu

As far as the woman angle, once you figure out who you can’t make fun of or criticize, then you know who rules over you. So, this guy deserves to lose his job because he is not a beta, blue pill, vagina worshipper? And again, “behind the times”? So we can justify pretty much anything as long as it is new and “with the times?” Sorry, not buying it. Using that logic then, the Constitution is pretty much useless as it cannot be with the times as it is so old. So it must be a “living, breathing” document, right?

Rocky? lol so we are taking our intellectual cues from Hollywood now? So they think it is wrong so it must be? Sorry, not buying that BS.

And I don’t know about you, but I have yet to see this “upper position” you speak of. My whole life I have had to fight like I am the third monkey trying to get aboard Noah’s Ark, and brother, it has just started to rain.


38 posted on 01/13/2021 2:03:18 PM PST by Freeman1969 (The Republicans are the Washington Generals of Politics. They show up and play but never win.)
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To: Freeman1969

Not necessarily. George Carlin talked about you truly can only make fun of your own group. Once you start crossing into somebody else you need to be VERY clever to not cross a line into racism, misogyny or just being bad. And that was in the 70s George talked about that.

Wow that’s a bad piece of strawman there. Constitution comparing to misogyny.

Actually yes we do take our cues from Hollywood. Like it or not they are a major part of our culture. Both on the creating and understanding side.

Culturally we’re still in the upper position. Have you ever been called a boy after you hit adulthood? Anybody ever assume you went to school just to find a spouse? Ever had anybody say the job your doing is too technical just cause you’re a white guy? These are all things people who don’t look like us still run into. Sorry you want to pretend it ain’t so, but it is.


39 posted on 01/13/2021 2:14:29 PM PST by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu

Or as the South Park episode put it,

“I am making an example of you. To send a message out to people everywhere that if you want to hurt another human being, you better make damn sure they’re the same color as you are.”


40 posted on 01/13/2021 2:15:34 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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