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ESPN announcer slammed for calling Celtics’ Game 1 comeback vs. Warriors an ‘insurrection’
NJ.com ^ | June 4 2022 | Mike Rosenstein

Posted on 06/04/2022 5:26:23 AM PDT by Zman

However during a 14-0 run by the Celtics, Jones opened the door to criticism: “The Celtics have stormed ahead! This insurrection has them leading by 11.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: cancel; culture; signaling; virtue
Virtue signaling working overtime.
1 posted on 06/04/2022 5:26:23 AM PDT by Zman
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To: Zman

sorry; behind paywall.


2 posted on 06/04/2022 5:32:30 AM PDT by Zman (Liberals: denying reality since Day One.)
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To: Zman

It’s just as meaningful as calling Jan. 6 an insurrection.


3 posted on 06/04/2022 5:32:47 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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“They” don’t want the term watered down lest the use of it around the events of January 6 become more meaningless than it already is...


4 posted on 06/04/2022 5:41:15 AM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: grobdriver

Woke is the new mandatory religion. Cultural enforcement is the new imperative and therefore trumps every jot and tittle of the U.S. Constitution. Everywhere you look, there it is, the long arm of woke. Like Orwell’s Big Brother.


5 posted on 06/04/2022 5:49:52 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Zman

It was a bizarre use of the term.


6 posted on 06/04/2022 5:54:49 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: Zman

He’s just an inarticulate sports announcer.

My guess is he meant “resurrection”, which I suppose would have offended some folks as well.


7 posted on 06/04/2022 5:54:53 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Zman
Insurrection is now verboten?!
8 posted on 06/04/2022 6:04:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Zman
Good thing he didn't say the Celtics were playing Guerrilla basketball!
9 posted on 06/04/2022 6:04:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: bray
It was a bizarre use of the term.

When you talk for a living - whether politics, sports, or finance - it is inevitable that you make a mistake or utter a non-sequitur.

10 posted on 06/04/2022 6:06:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Rummyfan

woke feewings get hurt you know


11 posted on 06/04/2022 6:07:26 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: grobdriver
“They” don’t want the term watered down

Exactly. Just like BLM's reaction when someone says "All Lives Matter."

12 posted on 06/04/2022 6:26:48 AM PDT by JennysCool ("It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain)
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To: Zman

Remember the “nappy headed hos” controversy?
OR:
“Look at that little monkey run...”

Two past sports comments that didn’t go over too well.


13 posted on 06/04/2022 6:50:22 AM PDT by Wasichu
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I like it! Let’s call anything and everything an “insurrection”.

Mock those MFrs!


14 posted on 06/04/2022 7:25:02 AM PDT by Az Joe (Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
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To: 9YearLurker

These folks are just getting an “erection” from criticizing something, someone, anything they can.


15 posted on 06/04/2022 8:03:04 AM PDT by JoJo354 (Freedom first.)
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Just wondering did the Warriors (Capitol Hill Police) shot and killed any Celtics (insurrectionists) players?


16 posted on 06/04/2022 8:56:37 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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