For about a half hour.
With a five iron.
Nine iron. You get more of a divot with that club.
So…who is the current Emperor of Black People? The other 86% of the country needs to know, so we don’t make gaffes. Thanks!
Except that boycotts don’t typically work that way; they’re done against sponsors and their parent companies, which then pull advertising, which then hurts the channel. Sort of like Dog the Bounty Hunter lost sponsors (and that was without any boycott of any kind even going into place yet.)
I wonder what companies advertise on that network and what interests they hold; everything is pretty much mixed together nowadays in terms of corporate ownership to include far-flung retail businesses that wouldn’t at first blush seem to have anything to do with the primary market for golfers.
Also, it’s not like golf didn’t have a race-image problem before Tiger as well; I bet some of the money interests behind its broadcasting would prefer not to have race issues argued about in the public spotlight. Probably wouldn’t help them much.
Asimovian:
He has essentially said Tilghman is the same as Don Imus,
Flying Dutchman:
I would agree with that.
Are you serious? You see no difference between someone who has made a decades-long career out of being as offensive as (FCC-)possible and someone who makes an offhand remark without thinking through the possible loading of one word?
No, he means she looks the same as Don Imus.
Okay, that one gets forwarded to half my address book. (And people wonder where I come up with these links…)
If just once someone were to stand up to Al Sharpton he would lose most, if not all of his credibility. If this lady were to have gone on the air and said:
“This is absolutely ridiculous. It saddens me to think that there is someone who bides their time by waiting for anyone to step on some sort of verbal landmine in the media so that they can paint them as something that they’re not. Al, you’re a silly, stupid bastard and you can kiss my ass. Everyone has had just about enough of you and your shit and I’m not taking it. Sir, your 15 minutes of fame has long passed you by, please go find something productive to do you slimeball.”
The ratings on the Golf Channel would shoot up 100%.
Whoa! That’s a whole THREE more viewers!
I wouldn’t put the blame on the Golf Channel. I can guarantee you that as soon as Sharpton got involved, they got phone calls from the PGA Tour, Nike, and Buick that said “Do something, we don’t care what it is, but do something and do it now. We don’t need Sharpton around our sport.” I’ll bet that Tilghman is getting paid during the suspension.
I know, I know, but it’s the old bar fighter axiom. No matter how tough and good you are, one day you’ll meet up with someone that’s tougher and better than you are and I wait with great anticipation the day that Al or Jesse or whomever tangles with the wrong person and gets absolutely destroyed for it.
Does Sharpton have a job so we can get him fired for his anti-Mormon statement last year? Turnabout and all that?
Heard this morning on Sportstalk radio that Sharpton’s original fax to the Golf Channel refered to Ms. Tilghman as a “he.”
If true, this proves without a doubt that Sharpton is sexist and he should immediately step down as self-appointed leader of Blacks since he obviously carries such prejudice and hatred inside of him.
It’s only fair and just.
I agree. I’d have had her add a preface to that which clearly expresses understanding for the idea of policing the airwaves by those who are concerned about cultural pollution (as they’d put it), etc., etc. but that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar…<insert the rest>.
De-fang the strawman first, and then go to town with the truth.
That, I think, has to be included since there **are **such things as racists in the world with an interesting sense of humor, so clearly drawing that distinction eliminates (to my thinking) that element.
Of course, whether or not racists should be able to express their racist humor – even if it was in fact the case though it clearly wasn’t in this case – is another question but I don’t think we’re nearly far enough along to be that openminded.
Dear Sharpton: Please continue about your ways - you’re doing a great job. In fact why not go as far to claim to be a spokesperson for all blacks, or even a black leader, which you never do? You perform an important filtering service for all Americans forced into any racial debate (i.e., blacks) - those who take you seriously as more than either at best one man with strong convictions and a few followers genuinely fighting for civil rights or at worst an opportunist hungry for attention are people I can comfortably refuse to take seriously as intelligent people. Considering that you have no official power, and no one is forced to consider anything you say, one can plainly see that those with overblown ire towards you have hangups and shoulder-chips of their own.
God, wouldn’t it be nice. But it would carry more weight coming from an influential black personality, which is why I said it would be nice if Tiger were to tell Sharpton, politely and firmly, that he should back down.
What I love is that Sharpton is perfectly willing to destroy some woman’s career over a misstatement. Gotta love that Christian charity. :rolleyes:
He has no “official” power, but it’s patently false to pretend that he has no power. And one can be concerned about how he wields that power (which is apparently sizable) without hang ups or shoulder chips.
Yeah, like those crybabies Steven Pagones and Yankel Rosenbaum. And all the “white interlopers” and “diamond merchants.” Like Sharpton says, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.” At least he apologized to the Mormons, but in Sharpton-Land, that’s not supposed to be the end of it. He’s racist, prejudiced against women and other religions, and why exactly he’s given a pass is beyond me.
In this article, he’s already said that he’s not offended.
To be honest, this is the kind of reaction that probably scares Sharpton shitless because it shows a modicum of progress in the battle for equality. As soon as people stop looking for things to be offended by and start looking at things in context and considering the source, and reacting in a calm, even manner, Al Sharpton is out of a job.