Posted on 08/26/2003 9:05:33 AM PDT by Bob J
"Fear and Loathing at Sports Illustrated "
by Bob J
The Assistant Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated stumbles out of the gate and immediately places a charge on his race card by writing, “The bombastic, nationally syndicated radio show host has pummeled just about anyone who isn’t a card carrying citizen of his vision of good ol’ white-bread U.S. of A.” In the cultish world of militant liberalism where stereotyping is a bread and butter occupation, the word “white” is a code word for “racist” accompanied by a knowledgeable wink. However, even successful race hustlers are reticent to publicly haul that dead equine before Limbaugh, lest they be laughed off stage by anyone right of Louis Farrakhan. That didn’t stop the intemperate Assistant Editor for Sports Illustrated from shamelessly dragging it on stage and giving it a few whacks.
In a further attempt to prove the emptiness of his opinions, the Assistant Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated arrogantly suggests his viewpoints uniformly represent those of the roughly two thirds of professional football players who are African-Americans, including their families and friends. He seems to suggest they be allowed a vote on the issue, and he be declared their official proxy. In true liberal fashion he appoints himself king and representative of all he sees, dismissing potentially different viewpoints out of hand among not only those he references, but the other one third of NFL players and thousands of NFL and team employees, many of whom may not be registered democrats. For the Assistant Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated, they don’t count so they don’t exist. As with the Florida military ballots, incessant shouts to “count EVERY vote” actually means “count every DEMOCRAT vote” and to hell with the rest.
Having laid mud slinging racial groundwork, the Assistant Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated makes the claim that sport watching transcends, or should transcend, politics. He paints a utopian picture of conservatives and liberals sitting side by side, cheering on the home team while “leaving our political views at the turnstiles” (this seems to be a liberal “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t speak” policy). However, why is it that only conservatives are being asked to check their political inclinations at the door? The Assistant managing Editor for Sports Illustrated demonstrates his hypocrisy by threatening boycotts and demanding the ouster of Limbaugh because he MIGHT say something that he, as the unelected representative of two thirds of the NFL players, their families and friends, disagrees with. All this while actually exploiting his own position as the Assistant Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated, to do the same. Adding stazi to hypocrisy and lending contemporary meaning to the Hollywood concept of “pre-crime,” the Assistant Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated quite plainly threatens serious consequences for anyone suspected of violating his policy and engaging in such seditious acts as free speech…in the future. The Assistant Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated seems to prefer the time honored democrat practice of sliming your reputation and hounding you from your job. The Clinton’s Party may be over but the melody lingers.
In his own way, the Assistant Managing Editor for Sports Illustrated exposes the fascism of modern liberalism and it’s unholy strategy of class division. Having spent a good portion of their lives in the dank hubris of cult, adherents are incapable of recognizing, much less acknowledging, the inconsistencies, irrationality and intolerance of their own policies and actions. Founding principles are accepted as Gospel, and ensuing amendments are systematically built one upon the another until the very suggestion of decay in the least of them might bring the entire belief system crashing down like the proverbial House of Cards. Consequently, each and every one is viciously protected from the devastating effects by insurgents like Mr. Facts and Mrs. Logic.
The interesting observation in this episode is race baiting benefits only when confined to specific political targets and for defined political purposes. It is surprising to see it grace the pages of a mainstream non-political magazine like Sports Illustrated and one wonders if corporate executives will take appropriate action to clean their tarnished apolitical veneer. Or, like the New York Times, will they succumb to the paralyzing demands of political correctness only to find themselves in more critical reputation damaging episodes in the future?
©2003 Bob J. All rights Reserved.
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One friendly word of caution, however. I have just reviewed a leftist "academic" journal article that uses the word "fascist" in a perjorative, authoritarian sense. Fascism is an economic system, as defined in the dictionary. There may be a different meaning in psychological circles, but the word is never defined and the meaning is picked up by context.
We need to be careful about using that word in the same way.
Cheers, 'Pod
Why do you keep repeating the tiresome phrase above, instead of simply saying, "Johnson"? After the third or fourth time, I stopped reading.
I would be more direct in my description of the Left as it exists today. Rather than the "fascism" of modern liberalism, it is the tyranny of modern liberalism that presents such a threat.
I would be more direct in my description of the Left as it exists today. Rather than the "fascism" of modern liberalism, it is the tyranny of modern liberalism that presents such a threat.
Do you not see the humor in this?
I don't know what Bob J will answer, but I would say, "His name isn't worth repeating."
Why do you keep repeating the tiresome phrase above, instead of simply saying, "Johnson"?...
Do you not see the humor in this?
Not really.
I don't know what Bob J will answer, but I would say, "His name isn't worth repeating."
I thought that was just his way of drawing attention -- again and again and again -- to the fact that the offending piece appeared in SI.
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