Forget about Saddam; it's Robbins and Sarandon we must fight

The Seattle Times ^ | 4/11/03 | Steve Kelly

[jim35]

The HOF is a private organization, not the government. They can do what they want, and their free speech is just as protected as Suzi Saranwrap and her live-in. It wasn't stupid, it was an act of self-preservation for a pro-American, private, institution. Why don't you get it? How can the HOF prevent free speech? Do they have their own police force? Get a grip!

[Dr.Deth]

Hey Steve Kelly... the rose goes on the right.

[jim35]

"It makes Petroskey and the HOF look like poilitcal bullies. This wasn't even about politics, it was about a baseball movie. The nation is going insane, I am afraid."


Sniff sniff. You are clueless. The country is coming to it's senses. If you don't like someone, you don't pay them to speak at your private event. Simple. And you think it wasn't about politics? With Sarandon and Robbins, believe it, it would have been about politics.

[jim35]

That ain't America there, pal. In Iraq, the regime really did steal from the poor, and forced them into slavery. I'd be looting too. Second best to stringing up Ba'ath party officials.

[Alberta's Child]

My Spanish teacher from Cuba would bristle to hear you say that ...her contention is that "Amercia" is all of North America, not just the USA, and that the USA has taken "over" the name "America" wrongly when it truely applies to Canada and Mexico as well...lol.

That's a good point. But I was simply using the term "American" in the same context as the post I was responding to. And he was clearly using "American" to describe people in the U.S.

Baseball is still American....even with players from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venequela, etc...its still American....its American ideals, and its American attitudes....

I would hope not. Baseball is a sport that is in serious decline right now, and for a number of reasons. If "American" means half a dozen work stoppages in the last couple of decades, and athletes getting paid millions of dollars to ply their trade in taxpayer-funded venues, then leave me out of it.

[Revolting cat!]

The country is coming to it's senses. If you don't like someone, you don't pay them to speak at your private event. Simple.

Well stated. The defenders of the calumnist's point of view are the same people who defend DeGenova's "right" to the taxpayer's money while he spews out his vomit and poisons impressionable minds at Columbia University. It's this milquetoast tolerance for treason and sedition that got us to where we are today. The author of the article is right in the title, though not the way he intended it!

[jim35]

"<>" Baseball isn't political. Sarandon and Robbins would certainly changed that! Credibility is what was perserved, not injured. The uproar that would have ensued had the dimwit duo made some idiotic anti-Bush speech would have seriously hurt the HOF. That's it. I'm done explaining to ineducable.

[F16Fighter]

Thanks for the link -- the author has been duly served with yet another email informing him that he is being laughed at across the country for his inane idiocy...

[jim35]

"<>" Are you today's plant from the DU?

[altura]

Every baseball movie ever made is better.

[oceanperch]

Saradan is promoting her made for tv movie so she is hitting all the talk shows and she came out and blasted Hellary Clinton and said something to the effect of Hill is on her poo poo list.

They are eating each other ya'll.

[sydbas]

If John Rocker still can pitch in the big leagues — I don't know if he can pitch anymore, but he certainly now has the right to try with Tampa Bay — then can't we celebrate the best baseball movie ever made, even if some find the politics of two of its stars offensive?

And what happened to John Rocker when he exercised his free speech rights?