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10-15-2009, 07:35 PM | #101 |
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Interesting wiki about the race card. I'm thinking that the second definition is what Rush was doing but I can see maybe if you squint real hard and power up your rose colored glasses that he was simply bringing up an issue for no racial reasons. I dunno though, I don't buy it for a second. Not from the guy who opined that slavery wasn't all bad. Kinda doesn't ring true, know what I mean?
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An interesting ( hopefully ) tangent. I didn't want Rush to buy into the NFL. I wouldn't support Sharpton either or anybody who would be bigger than the sport. I want sunday to be a day of rest not a day of fighting each other which would happen. I found myself wondering though if I'd have felt AS BAD if Sharpton had gotten the team as opposed to Rush and I realized I wouldn't.
Hmm, maybe there's something there. There is but it's not what I thought. It's because in all my days I've never ran into a Sharpton fan. Hell, I lived in Greenville SC and never found a Jesse Jackson fan. I found people who liked some of their ideas, maybe even most of them, but there were no worshippers and most really wished that they'd tone it down a little. You know, rational folks. I HAVE met several Rush Limbaugh supporters who really are just as or more over the top in their adolation of him than the supposed Obama worshippers I also have never met. With Rush though, these people do exist. I talk to them. I deal with them. They truly don't come off as rational in this belief. It's creepy. The only person I can think of that I'd compare it to is Howard Stern fans. Now, I'm not saying this is gospel or anything but that's been my experience with people. Makes me wonder though just how deep the white angst is in this country when otherwise sane people can shed off their normal personas and put that much faith in anything. ( yeah, yeah, just like religion I know and there IMHO fear of death and the afterlife is the catalyst. ) I'm wondering if things are getting that much better like was suggested or if social civility forces people to act a certain way and they're bottling up their fears, hatreds ect and one day the lid is going to come off the pot. Scary, but I could see it happening.
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I can see where your coming from, but does that mean anyone who takes advantage of affirmative action policies is playing the race card? And his argument was with the media, not McNabb. In light of the other quotes by him, yeah, I'm changing my views on what he meant by the comments, I just thought the statement was on the mild side for playing the race card compared to other plays I've seen. I think I've said it elsewhere, but it's been used heavily around here a lot to attack folks who dislike the school board policies in an effort to squash all the facts being presented against it, and I've seen it used in a similar manner around the country, so my definition is spun a bit more towards the "shut down intelligent debate" definition I presented earlier. But yes, he brought race into the discussion, no doubt. If you guys want to call that "playing the race card", fine, I just felt like what he said could have been debated / discussed and no one wanted to.
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Yeah, I was just looking at that myself. I honestly was going off my own feelings, had never really seen a definition of it, so went to go look that up. The definition they present certainly fits the bill of everyone else here, while their examples are much closer to what I've experienced, especially #1 (which is what my definition fits). I think the key to tying in the second example there is Rush's history, and honestly I tuned him out after Clinton went out of office and hadn't heard most of the other quotes. I think when you take the comments in isolation, they don't meet #2, but when you put them together with all the other quotes presented here, yes they do.
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If it helps you out at all, his comments shut down intelligent football debate. Koy Detmer just as good as Donovan McNabb? Really? |
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Looking at the first sentence of the wiki "Playing the race card is an idiomatic phrase that refers to the act of bringing the issue of race or racism into a debate, perhaps to obfuscate the matter." Someone taking advantage of affirmative action isn't attempting to obfuscate anything. That obfuscation, if there is any, has already been done and this person is merely taking advantage of what that brought about legally, kinda like the republican states taking stimulus money. Rush, in bringing in race was obfuscating the issue of McNabb's ability by using the racial strawman argument. To me, that's the difference there. I don't believe he was making some indictment of the media and if he was, again, sunday football isn't the time or place for that.
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Hey, I'll admit to going off my own definition too that's why I looked it up as well. I don't think people here are trying to obfuscate the issue. Remember Marge Schott?? Not a good owner, not good for the sport, had to move on. Why would football, which isn't hurting for money, even risk this?? It'd make no sense. The fact is the guy who has used racially questionable arguments is trying to buy himself into a position where 70% of his employees are of the denigrated race. Politics aside, there's just no reason to do this. If it were just his politics I'd be annoyed by the negativity about him being an owner ( though I doubt he'd get that much ) and frankly I dislike him immensely but holding a political position shouldn't disqualify you from owning a team. Being a divisive figure that is going to bring negativity to your organization should.
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It's funny. It's been how long and still all that's remembered is how stupid it was that he said it not his analysis of the qb position, McNabb or the media. That's telling too.
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But again, more telling about those doing the remembering than about what he said.
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I'd say that was a given. What he said was invalid racial tripe. What's left to tell about that? Only folks reaction to it and that's what I was pointing out. Do you really feel compelled to discuss how Detmer is better than McNabb???
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The sad fact that so many people are too blind, too in denial, or simply too fucking stupid to see the validity of it is "what's left to tell about it". But what would be the point? As Rush discovered, speaking plain truths is about as welcome in today's society as trying to teach pigs to read. It did him no good & annoyed the pig.
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I heard it, considered it, dismissed it, then turned my attention to him. All the discussion in the world isn't going to convince me that Detmer is better than McNabb or that McNabb is a bad qb. I don't need any mainstream liberal media, I have eyes, I've used them. If you believe that Detmer is more talented than McNabb then I have no reason to respect your opinion about this subject because we're not only not on the same field, we're not even playing the same game. Personally, I'd say anyone who falls in line with skewed beliefs by someone who has an army of "dittoheads" even in the face of evidence to the contrary is much more likely to be too blind, too in denial, or simply too fucking stupid to see that this guy doesn't walk on water and occasionally makes mistakes and this is one of them than the guy who realizes that Rush's football talent evaluation is totally off ( and that's being kind and giving him the benefit of the doubt about his motives ).
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Oh FTR, it wasn't Rush who said that about how maybe Detmer is just as good as McNabb. Steve Young said that in response to Rush.
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But then again, since I remember what was actually said, I guess there's supposed to be something telling about me in this. Maybe it's that *I* think Detmer is better than McNabb? I dunno.
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Well then, Steve Young is the idiot. I knew it when he left Tampa for San Francisco. Loser.
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By that standard, Steinbrenner would have had to divest himself from the Yankees, no way Mark Cuban can own the Mavericks, and Dan Snyder should be forced to sell the Redskins (after they change their name to the Native Americans). You really think that the only people who should be able to be a part of an ownership group of a sports team are people who give us the warm fuzzies? And if being a divisive figure is enough to prevent you from owning a team, should it be enough to prevent you playing in the league?
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I don't really find any of those men divisive. I have met Steinbrenner several times as a kid so I'll admit a bias there but what's divisive about Cuban? He's vocal and outspoken but not in a way that divided people against themselves and Snyder just wants to win. What's his divisive controversy? I honestly don't know of one. Being a jerk does not equal being divisive.
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So you think that NFL owners should be forced to tie their own hands on this one and let Rush own a team? Really? |
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Well, to be fair, the NFL never got the chance to decide one way or the other. It's quite possible that they would have. Not likely but possible. Only one owner spoke out against him.
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You apparently don't listen to a lot of D.C. area sports talk radio. It's not about whether an owner gives warm fuzzies or not. It's about business. The owners feel he would be bad for their business. That's capitalism.[/quote] And that's a fine argument to make, but it wasn't the one that Axxon was making. Axxon said divisive people should not be allowed to own sports teams. Maybe I was wrong in pointing to Steinbrenner, Cuban, and Snyder. How about this instead: Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton are as divisive as Rush Limbaugh. Michael Moore is as divisive as Limbaugh. Should they not be allowed to own a sports team?
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I don't, but I still don't see how him and Rush are in the same sentence. Can you give me some examples of divisive comments that Snyder has made? Quote:
I don't agree that divisive people should not be allowed to own a team. I believe it's up to the leagues and their owners to decide if it's good or bad. I made a thread the other day about this topic and said I thought it would be fun to see him own a team. There aren't enough "villians" in football these days. But I certainly don't blame the NFL owners for not wanting him and would have to say that if I was in a position as an owner, there isn't a chance in hell I take that risk on him. |
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I have a real problem thinking about Rush as a "villain". That's a role someone like a Snyder or Steinbrenner. They're good at it and they get their fans involved defending them and their team which is all good. Fans may gripe about these guys but let an outsider comment and watch them circle the wagons. People with issues that make it hard for people to root for their own team are a different story. That's the kind of reaction that a divisive character would get and it isn't fair to put your own fans into that situation.
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Actually one of the quotes about this sale involved the NFL not wanting to have a Mark Cuban owning a team...
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I can't believe this thread is three pages.
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And Steinbrenner, while a huge dick publically, is probably a top 5 philanthropist in New York City and does it anonymously. Wouldn't the better comparison be Marge Schott? |
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Like I said, I've met George and it was because of his philanthropy in Tampa. No way I'd think a bad thing about him personally but I understand how he comes off publicly.
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Sorry, I was agreeing with you and referring back to who you were responding to (think it was Cam?). And my bad on missing your reference.
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I see that someone already brought up Marge Schott who was forced out as owner for making racist statements. |
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Which just underlined the fact that while Rush clearly likes watching football, he's never been a very astute analyst of it. This is a guy, after all, who a few years back launched into a solid defense of Mike Martz, characterizing him as a guy who won a Super Bowl for St. Louis as Head Coach. Him reducing his analysis of McNabb & Grossman to a discussion of their race really just showed that he didn't have the analytical chops (or just plain desire) to measure all their merits and problems. But then again, that's the way Limbaugh works. He reduces any issue or argument to black-and-white (no pun intended) terms that wholly exist on his own turf. Why ESPN thought they were going to get anything different is beyond me. |
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We largely agree. I remember looking at it pretty closely at the time of the comments. I wouldn't have taken that McNabb on "my team", regardless of my QB situation, if he had played for free. And aside from all that, the point he made really wasn't about McNabb's performance or Detmer's nor how the two compared nor what the future of either QB was. It was about how race influenced how the situation would be discussed publicly, perceived, and handled.
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Snyder on the other hand is more a villian to his own fans. I'm sure the guy would get a standing ovation from the opposing teams in the NFC East. |
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If he had some evidence to backup his statements, fans would look into it. But he didn't. When you throw race into the discussion, I think the person should have something to back it up. He didn't and it played out like race-baiting. |
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Looks like the Rams finally have an owner..........
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For the record. Pre Rush comments. I pretty well agreed with Rush that McNabb's was seemingly overrated compared to what he had actually accomplished on the field.
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