Posted on 04/13/2011 6:31:58 PM PDT by Racehorse
Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was fined $100,000 by the NBA on Wednesday and criticized by numerous gay-rights groups for directing an anti-gay slur at referee Bennie Adams during a game Tuesday against San Antonio.
Bryant was irritated after he was called for an offensive foul and received his 15th technical of the season during the game. He punched a chair on the Lakers' bench before he sat, threw down a towel and yelled "Bennie!" before muttering a curse word followed by the word "faggot."
His outburst was captured on TV and prompted TNT analyst Steve Kerr to immediately say, "You might want to take the camera off him right now, for the children watching from home."
Wednesday became a day of statements and more statements, followed by the NBA's fine and Bryant's radio interview on "Mason & Ireland" on 710 ESPN.
Bryant said he planned on talking to the gay-rights groups and also wanted to "own up" to his comments. However, he also said he would appeal the fine, one of the heaviest levied by the NBA this season. Bryant makes $302,515 per regular-season game.
NBA Commissioner David Stern called Bryant's outburst "offensive and inexcusable."
"While I'm fully aware that basketball is an emotional game, such a distasteful term should never be tolerated," Stern said in a statement. "Kobe and everyone associated with the NBA know that insensitive or derogatory comments are not acceptable and have no place in our game or society."
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I say fine the guy for disrespect to the referee, but the NBA's admonition seems to extend the incident way beyond basketball.
Yep, that’s how it is.
Blacks are allowed to use the N word, but no one else is.
There is a lesbian group called “dykes on bikes” who ride their motorcycles. It’s ok for them to use that otherwise insulting term, but not for anyone else.
And some homosexual groups have been trying to reclaim the word “queer” as being a sign of pride. But again, it can only be used by certain people. If anyone else uses that term, they will have to answer to the PC police.
The “gay” Gestapo rides again! Paging Mr. Mel Brooks!
Kobe should man up and Refuse to Pay, or he could of apologized for offending the fudge packing sodomite crowd.
“Bennie”??? Sounds like a fag to me. Gotta call ‘em as you see ‘em. (Kobe!!!)
Get used to it. All of us conservative whities do nothing but bitch about this slavery to us. My question is what phyically/activly are you gonna do about it? The answer is nothing but bitch’in on a web site. Salves to the NWO is on it’s way.
They are all homosexuals to me. I refuse to use the term gay when referring to someone who demands to be called gay. I use to call them fags or faggots and lesbos or dikes, but I now prefer using homosexual and if this crap keeps up, I may change that noun to hetrophobics.
I frequently hear the word f#ck on TV during sporting events. I guess that is ok, but the word faggot is a problem. What a world we live in.
Did Bennie holler back - rapist!
The Bone Smugglers are becoming the new “African Americans
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I heard they prefer “PICKLE SNIFFER” as a PC term for themselves.
The only way to defeat this PC insanity is for people to stop apologizing about stuff like this, and to double down and start saying it louder and louder, and more often. I mean, if Kobe Bryant started saying this publicly and regularly, it would become boring very quickly and people would stop caring about it. What would they do to him? Kick him out of the league?
I like the way Cartman on “South Park” calls rump riders “Gay Homosexuals”.
I thought that’s what Cartman called Stan’s dog Sparky, “That dog is a gay homosexual.”
He should have called him a “Tea-bagger”... that’s perfectly okay on the left.
When fascism comes to America it will be carrying a pink swastika wrapped in a rainbow flag. (And it has) The people who brought us the Nazi “Brown Shirts” are back but this time wearing pink boas.
Read the new “Pink Swastika” by Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams to learn who is behind so called, “gay” politics.
Whenever a miniscule minority wields the power to intimidate and punish an individual over the speaking of a word, however objectionable there must be fascism involved. Beware the “pink mafia”.
PS: The true definition of HOMOPHOBIA is: The fear of the truth about the self-destructive, addictive nature of homosexuality getting out.
I bet he says it was worth it!
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