What was he thinking?
Verbal Jazz is still in the process of sorting out all the news that was fit to miss while on honeymoon. I did learn that Prince William was very upset with his mother's former butler for having loose lips and liking the looks of some sweet royalty payments for delivering the dirt on William's mom. One thing I am shocked to discover upon my return is that one of my favorite football columns, Tuesday Morning Quarterback, will no longer appear on ESPN.com because writer Gregg Easterbrook, decided to single out movie executives (Harvey Weinstein and Michael Eisner) as being both Jewish and Greedy on his New Republic Blog. Smooth, babe. Verbal Jazz normally likes to excoriate people who say and do stupid things (already Rush is planning to say that drugs influenced his opinion of Donovan McNabb, I know it). Verbal Jazz has no problem with blasting movie executives because, frankly, most movies are pure crap. Verbal Jazz also has no problems with pure crap. Verbal Jazz would like to point out, however, that Easterbrook did make a fundamental error in judgment by singling out Jewish movie executives as specifically Jewish and specifically greedy. That is a verbal pratfall that simply cannot be explained.
As much as I disagreed with Limbaugh's assessment of the media conspiracy regarding African-American quarterbacks, it is an issue that once brought to the forefront should have at least been debated, with cooler heads proving Limbaugh to be grossly misinformed. In fact, Limbaugh's gig should have been up do to his addictive substance problem, not general idiocy. General idiocy is a reason for not hiring someone in the first place. Easterbrook, likewise should have been allowed to continue with his excellent football column, seeing as the offending blog is still in existence after apologies by both the Easterbrook and The New Republic. Since when has ESPN become the arbiter of political correctness? |
Verbal Jazz is still in the process of sorting out all the news that was fit to miss while on honeymoon. I did learn that Prince William was very upset with his mother's former butler for having loose lips and liking the looks of some sweet royalty payments for delivering the dirt on William's mom. One thing I am shocked to discover upon my return is that one of my favorite football columns, Tuesday Morning Quarterback, will no longer appear on ESPN.com because writer Gregg Easterbrook, decided to single out movie executives (Harvey Weinstein and Michael Eisner) as being both Jewish and Greedy on his New Republic Blog. Smooth, babe. Verbal Jazz normally likes to excoriate people who say and do stupid things (already Rush is planning to say that drugs influenced his opinion of Donovan McNabb, I know it). Verbal Jazz has no problem with blasting movie executives because, frankly, most movies are pure crap. Verbal Jazz also has no problems with pure crap. Verbal Jazz would like to point out, however, that Easterbrook did make a fundamental error in judgment by singling out Jewish movie executives as specifically Jewish and specifically greedy. That is a verbal pratfall that simply cannot be explained.
As much as I disagreed with Limbaugh's assessment of the media conspiracy regarding African-American quarterbacks, it is an issue that once brought to the forefront should have at least been debated, with cooler heads proving Limbaugh to be grossly misinformed. In fact, Limbaugh's gig should have been up do to his addictive substance problem, not general idiocy. General idiocy is a reason for not hiring someone in the first place. Easterbrook, likewise should have been allowed to continue with his excellent football column, seeing as the offending blog is still in existence after apologies by both the Easterbrook and The New Republic. Since when has ESPN become the arbiter of political correctness? |
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