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YOU CONTEMPTIBLE THUG
Townhall.com ^ | 18 September 2008 | Andrew Roman

Posted on 09/18/2008 9:44:50 AM PDT by andrew roman

Disgusting anti-American comments from ungrateful, unappreciative millionaires who have reaped the benefits of living in this country enrage me. Especially infuriating are remarks from now rolling-in-it street thugs who became rich by having extraordinary athletic ability – like, for instance, being able to bounce a ball and dunk it through a hoop. These gutter punks who openly, defiantly, blatantly, and without a shred of humility, disrespect the very country that afforded them the opportunity to be this repulsive are a complete disgrace.

Dallas Mavericks forward Josh Howard, a man whose judgment has come into question before, has once again shown why I am firing my arrows of utter contempt at him - this time for refusing to respect the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. In an article posted yesterday at the website of the Dallas Morning News, Eddie Sefko writes:

The swingman (Howard) is shown at Allen Iverson's charity flag football game in July. When the national anthem is being sung, various participants are shown mugging for the camera. When the camera gets to Howard, he says: " 'The Star-Spangled Banner' is going on. I don't celebrate this [expletive]. I'm black."

Read the entire story here.

How nauseating.

Contrast Howard’s appalling words to those of Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who felt immeasurable pride at representing the United States of America during the Beijing Olympics earlier this summer. Bryant said that when he first received his USA uniform, he had goosebumps:

I actually just looked at it for awhile. I just held it there and I laid it across my bed and I just stared at it for a few minutes; just because as a kid growing up this is the ultimate, ultimate in basketball. Well, you know … we believe is the greatest country in the world. It has given us so many great opportunities, and it’s just a sense of pride that you have; that you say “You know what? Our country is the best!”… I feel great about it, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I mean, this is a tremendous honor.

Just let some whiny, shameful race-obsessed liberal tell me that it is today’s conservative who fixates on skin color. At every turn, liberals find the slightest openings, like subway litter rats slithering through cracks in the tunnel walls looking for food, to inject divisiveness - whether it's race, class, religion, it doesn't matter. No one hurls the "-isms" and "-phobes" like lefties can.

It’s unbelievable.

Mr. Howard’s knee-jerk, lock-step, hate-filled anti-American commentary continues to be nourished by today’s leftists, who depend on the myth of rampant racism continuing to exist so that they can too.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: joshhoward; patriotism; race; starspangledbanner
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1 posted on 09/18/2008 9:44:51 AM PDT by andrew roman
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It seems the Dallas Mavericks are making excuses for this gang banger, saying he needs to work on his “communications.” Disgusting. But no doubt an Obama supporter.


3 posted on 09/18/2008 9:47:46 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: F15Eagle

You heard right. With friends and supporters like this guy, who needs Lindsay Lohan, eh?


4 posted on 09/18/2008 9:48:13 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: F15Eagle

You may be correct. I was thinking the same thing as you, but didn’t have the documentation to include it in the article.

I agree it was hard to tell.


5 posted on 09/18/2008 9:48:40 AM PDT by andrew roman
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To: andrew roman

Whew! Nothing like an unvarnished opinion for clarity.

I thought Howard’s remarks were quite sad. Lord only knows how the Civil War is portrayed in bog-standard public schools (assuming Howard attended history class) but I doubt he would have wanted to grow up in a place where ‘Dixie’ was the national folk song.


6 posted on 09/18/2008 9:48:54 AM PDT by relictele
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To: andrew roman

Why anyone supports NBA thugball escapes me.


7 posted on 09/18/2008 9:49:25 AM PDT by xDGx
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To: andrew roman
Related link....

Howard's dismissive words not at home among the brave stands

From the link...

If you click on the YouTube links, you'll find that the worst part isn't what Howard said. It's in the comments that follow, a free-flowing cesspool of n-words and orders to go back to Africa, far too much evidence of this country's ever-present racial divide.

The YouTube links are available at the article.

8 posted on 09/18/2008 9:51:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: xDGx

At one time I was a huge Maverick’s fan. Then Cuban turned liberal and brought politics in it. Now this. I boycotted all games last year. I guess I can now permanently scratch them off my list and consider them as one of my enjoyments of the past.


9 posted on 09/18/2008 9:53:33 AM PDT by publana (Go McCain/Palin 2008)
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To: andrew roman

“Just let some whiny, shameful race-obsessed liberal tell me that it is today’s conservative who fixates on skin color. At every turn, liberals find the slightest openings, like subway litter rats slithering through cracks in the tunnel walls looking for food, to inject divisiveness - whether it’s race, class, religion, it doesn’t matter.”

YES! And what is more … THIS is the same rabidly Liberal element of a rabidly Liberal party which spews its sham indignation when we challenge their patriotism!!! These people would not know patriotism if it fell on them from the 10th story!


10 posted on 09/18/2008 9:55:29 AM PDT by SMARTY ('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
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” you’ll find that the worst part isn’t what Howard said. It’s in the comments that follow”

How is that worse?


11 posted on 09/18/2008 9:56:45 AM PDT by dsc
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To: F15Eagle

Re: “I’m pulling an ‘Obama’”

I cannot wait to hear what Chris Matthews and Brian Williams have to say about this!


12 posted on 09/18/2008 9:57:59 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Now you know why the needles on compasses point north - Sarah Palin.)
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To: F15Eagle

COrrectamudo he also said Obama 08


13 posted on 09/18/2008 10:00:50 AM PDT by stockpirate (United Socialist States of America - Welcome to the New Marxist revolution! Nationalizing Companies)
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To: andrew roman

Well now, anyone boycotting these games?


16 posted on 09/18/2008 10:03:22 AM PDT by GVnana ("I once dressed as Tina Fey for Halloween." - Sarah Palin)
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To: andrew roman

Can’t buy class.


17 posted on 09/18/2008 10:06:47 AM PDT by cyborg
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It probably is a missing father thing. Excerpt from one of Howard's Biographies:
“Nancy( his mother) was a single parent who raised her son with ample assistance from two of Josh's grandparents, Helen Howard and Johnny Jay, and plenty of other relatives. Josh's father, Kevin Robinson, walked out on the family when the boy was an infant. It wasn't until after his 11th birthday that Josh had his first conversation with his dad. By then the youngster wanted nothing to do with him.”

You "got" no Daddy, you "give" no respect.

18 posted on 09/18/2008 10:10:59 AM PDT by BilLies
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To: andrew roman

“Video removed by owner”

Hope someone grabbed it.


19 posted on 09/18/2008 10:11:15 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Right Wing Assault

From youtube, that is.

This link to it still good.


20 posted on 09/18/2008 10:13:19 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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