Posted on 07/26/2014 2:47:00 PM PDT by TigerClaws
An ESPN host has been taken to task by one of his own colleagues for comments he made during a discussion of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice's two-game suspension for allegedly knocking out his fiancee.
The punishment has been criticized as too lenient for such an act, but Stephen A. Smith made an ill-advised attempt to come at the issue from both sides during a First Take segment Friday.
Ray Rice was captured on camera knocking his then-fiancee (now wife) unconscious at an Atlantic City casino and dragging her limp body from the elevator.
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Don't know about that or this Rice character but Stephen A is getting a bad rap. He should, however, taken his own advice and kept his mouth shut.
Nothing wrong with that he said.
Nothing....
Well, that explains my previous post. I will never understand people being addicted to getting beat up. You cannot get any more pathetic than that.
It’s amazing how ESPN managed to get so many morons together in one place.
“Womans Be Thinkin’ Too Much.”
What do you say to a woman with two black eyes?
Nothing, you’ve already told her twice.
Nowadays, we have these "witch hunts" against anybody who says anything at all that might be controversial or considered "politically incorrect."
If I recall correctly, this nonsense started back in the 1980s when Howard Cosell made some innocent comment on Monday Night Football about a black football player breaking loose for a touchdown and all hell broke loose. Soon thereafter, you had others run out of the business for not being politically correct on TV (oddsmaker "Jimmy the Greek" comes to mind).
Are we a better society now than we were back then? I'm not so sure. Up until the mid 1980s, I saw race and sex relations improving and it seemed that racism was about to go away for good. Now I feel like I am on eggshells whenever I am around black people or women in the workplace because I don't want to inadvertently offend them and have my career ruined.
We are not as free as we used to be.
Women's Lib: what horse manure.
I agree.
A lot of women seem to be of the opinion they are beyond reproach simply becuase they are female. I personally know of situations where the female deliberately pushed the male (especially when they know which ‘buttons’ to push) to the breaking point for various reasons. Those reasons ranged from simple revenge to looking for a litigation payday.
Generally, hitting a nerve like he did usually means the truth was told, and some people can’t handle the truth, so they try to destroy you instead.
Ladies/women with a modicum of, certainly with a lot of, class know that a gentleman, especially a man with physical strength combined with strength of character, raised by a god woman of a mother, would never just not ever hit a woman, under any circumstances.
Those are the guys ‘who have luck’. Everyone else is a d
Ask any special ops guy
Let me say first, some guys have an insane hair trigger temper that is set off by, pretty much, Nothing. OTOH, an ex friend’s ex hub has said (she divorced two others for hitting her) “I never hit her myself, but i can see why some others would”.
the whole premise is that the women who are supposedly strong enough to be a police officer and take down bad guys,
or fight in combat roles, or go toe to toe in boardroom brawls, in actuality need special protections.
Domestic violence laws have nothing to do with domestic violence. They are about control. About women being in control of men and cops being in control of both.
What ever happened to assault and battery if a woman is beaten by her husband/boyfriend?
He was talking about how black women need their ass beat sometimes, or maybe just jacked up a little. What’s a black man to do? Show her the pimp hand that’s what!!
I was going to say...imagine if Skip Bayless had said it.
Skip Bayless? ESPN employs that hack fraud??
Yeah, he does point-counterpoint with Stephen A.
Today is my last day with Comcast. I won’t be tempted to watch ESPN anymore. I’ll be using an antenna. Anyone have any recommendations?
Sounds a bit hypocritical, that’s for sure. Or is it more like creating an environment where ‘heads I win; tails you lose’?
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