Monday, October 16, 2006
Baseball Racism, Grim Cartoons, George Allen, Justin Timbergay and Affleck The Idiot
- Racist Remarks. Except, Not.
Steve Lyons, sports announcer for Fox broadcasting, has been fired for making racist remarks during a baseball broadcast. Fine, except that Lyons didn't make any racist remarks.
Lyons was broadcasting with Lou Piniella during game 3 of the American League series, and Piniella remarked that the Oakland A's needed to get "en fuego," which means "on fire" in Spanish. Lyons commented that Piniella was "hablaing Espanol," intentionally mispronouncing the Spanish word for "to speak" as though it were beyond him to pronounce the word.
At another point during the broadcast, Piniella remarked that it had been his good luck to find someone's wallet.Lyons also said, "I still can't find my wallet" and "I don't understand him, and I don't want to sit too close to him now" in regards to Piniella.
Racist? Certainly not. Not funny, either. A lame attempt at humor… but not racist.
The thing that bugs me is that Lyons made the remark about having lost his wallet after Piniella remarked that he'd found a wallet. Race only became an issue regarding the exchange about the wallet when someone claimed that the remark was racist. In other words, it was the person who made the accusation of racism who actually connected Piniella's ethnicity with the idea of wallet theft. See the double standard?
Lyons seems to be as shocked about the accusations of racism as anyone:"My joke was about a wallet. It had nothing to do with race. We were all laughing at the time. I'm being painted as a victimizer of Lou. At dinner later (with Fox announcers and production staffers), we all thought it was one of our better exchanges."
Racism, as always, is in the eye of the beholder ... or in the ear of the listener. If you are bound n' by-god determined to find it, you will.
Some of what I've read indicates that Lyons (who was nicknamed "Psycho" by his teammates when he played baseball) may have been a difficult co-worker. His firing probably has more to do with behind the scenes goings-on than with his actual on-air remarks. If that's the case, Fox should have had the kah-joe-nays to say so. Then, I'd not have lost so much respect for them. - Daily George Allen Check
How desperate is the mainstream media to sink George Allen's campaign for re-election to the Senate in Virginia? To find out, just enter George Allen's name in the Google News search bar and read the tone of the headlines that pop up. For every instance of objective reporting you see, you'll see ten instances of flagrant libel.
Boy how the liberals will be in a snit when we send Allen back to the Senate in November. I predict now that you'll see a bunch of stories about how the backwoods racist inbred rednecks in Virginia have, once again, shown how backwards and stupid they are. I'm already snickering.
- The Nietzsche Family Circus
I'm not a fan of the saccharine single-panel newspaper cartoon Family Circus. Nor am I a fan of the nihilistic ramblings of syphilitic pseudo-philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. And yet, when you put them together, they turn into something so wonderfully perverse that I just gotta love it. The Nietzsche Family Circus was one of MCF's Phantasmic Links today. To see the next strip, click the "refresh" link. After a while the images and phrases will begin to repeat. Until that happens, it's simply a wonderful experience. There's nothing that compares to seeing a father chastise a toddler on a stick-horse with the observation that mankind invented laughter because mankind, unique among all living things, experiences pain acutely enough to need laughter. WHOOO HOOO! - Justin Timberlake's Music Is Kinda Gay…
...at least according to Timberlake's producer, Timbaland. According to the rap/pop producer, Justin's new album is quite likely to awaken the homosexual impulse in male listeners:"Some people listen to a song like 'SexyBack' and think, 'am I queer? Am I funny?' If you are that way, you're just that way. But if you're a masculine man, embrace it. Have a glass of wine, put the record on and invite your girl over to get sexy"
Embrace your homosexual feelings by inviting your girlfriend over. Right. And after he gets there, you and he can argue about who gets to wear the teddy this time.
Justin Timberlake, by the way, is dating Cameron Diaz for the media.
I've just learned that Timbaland is from Virginia. On behalf of all Virginians, I'd like to extend to the world a heartfelt apology. - Ben Affleck: "Uhhh..."
I don't watch Bill Maher's program on HBO because, one, I don't have HBO… and, two, the site of Bill Maher makes me want to buy a gun, and I hate guns.
Nonetheless, I stumbled across this clip this morning at Newsbusters, and I really enjoyed watching conservative pundit Danielle Pletka take Maher and that moron Ben Affleck to school on Iraq, North Korea, Saddam, and objective reality in general:
And just in case you're one of the two or three people on the planet who isn't yet convinced that Ben Affleck is, in fact, an absolute and complete waste of carbon, I offer this next clip as well.
But first, a few observations about the clip at the bottom.
One, Lou Dobbs makes a couple of good points about multiculturalism and the fallacy that those who advocate English as a national language in the US are racist. It bugs me to agree with Dobbs, but he actually makes a good call on this.
It bugs me far more to agree with that scumbag Maher, but he's correct that the burka (or Burqa) is a symbol and tool of sexism. In middle east countries where women are forced to wear them, hiding their face and entire body, there can be little doubt among reasonable people that the burka is sexism and oppression personified.
Among reasonable people, I said.
That leaves out that moron, Affleck.
And if you need any proof that the average TV addict and the average Los Angeles liberal are complete and total morons, just listen to the way the audience applauds and cheers wildly when Affleck makes one stupid and incorrect "point" after another.
Listen to Affleck say that this country was "founded on multiculturalism." Wrong, you idiot. This country was founded on the motto "E Pluribus Unum." Out of many, ONE. From many cultures, ONE CULTURE will be formed. ONE. Teddy Roosevelt may have been a bit of a loose canon in some ways, but he was dead on correct when he said that "The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities … each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy (with others) of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic."
Affleck also equates the burka with the crucifix and the yarmulke. Wrong again, and obviously so. Neither the crucifix nor the yarmulke have ever been used as a tool with which to suppress women. You moron.
Affleck goes on to say that those who disapprove of religions which force women to hide behind the burka are racist and that people should be able to wear what they want as an essential freedom. Honestly, who's bright idea was it to put this moron on television and allow him to spout off such ill-informed, thoughtless, baseless, clearly inaccurate garbage?
Actually, I guess it is a good idea to have a dolt like Affleck on the show, considering how the crowd goes wild every time he says something ponderously idiotic. I suppose Affleck and his ilk are exactly what the Bill Maher Program's target audience are all about.
And the sad thing is, with those monkeys in the crowd hooting and hollering for each of Affleck's careless pronouncements, I'm sure he went home thinking he'd really come off like a brilliant political thinker. He's probably contemplating a run for public office somewhere.
But enough of my yackin'. Watch the goofball for yourself:
Oh wait, I'm a conservative Christian. I think my psyche will survive.
On the Aflack thing, two leftists, one liberal, and one conservative. Yeah, that's "fair(tm)" according to leftist standards. And the IDIOTS in the audience!!! GEEZ!!!
Yes, Aflack is a waste of carbon who lives in a world of fantasy populated with pixies and faeries. AFLACK, YOU ARE A PERFORMING MONKEY!!! WE DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK!!! YOU DON'T LIVE IN REALITY ENOUGH TO HAVE AN OPINION!!! DANCE, MONKEY, DANCE FOR ME!!!
LOL, exactly.
The people cheering in the audience were lefties who already shared Afflacted's "nuanced" affectations. I guarantee you that NOBODY has ever said "You know, I really had to rethink my position on issue X after I heard what Ben Affleck had to say about it."
Plus, the complete lack of yellow and light-brown points to your total disregard for both Asians and Latinos.
Oh, and I have Steve Lyons wallet. But it was empty except for a note:
"I took all the money. - Lou"
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