Okay, I have no idea what happened. I understand that spitting is a pretty serious insult, especially in an occupation as macho as football. I understand that pretty much every level of a professional sports league rags on the officiating on a regular basis.
That said…Anne Frank??
Okay, I’m kinda willing to forgive that conservative hack who blasted “Roger Moore” for Farenheit 9/11. Roger Moore is a famous actor, and Michael did have a film titled Roger And Me (although it was made several years earlier), so it’s not inconceivable that an emotionally-charged right winger would make a slipup like that. But how on earth does anyone equate a sensitive girl who hid from the Nazis and chronicled the experience in a famous diary with a blown call?
Maybe he should have said Ann Coulter. Y’know, because she’s completely off base on nearly evertyhing, but she’s rich so she doesn’t care. And…I probably shouldn’t open that can of worms on MPSIMS. Sorry.
“They see injustice all around them but don’t do a damn thing about it!” Eh, I got nuthin’…
Strikes me that he genuinely misspoke - dredged up a random name that he associated with something negative. But not Ann Coulter - he was aiming for “famous blind people”.
The article goes on to say that, when asked about the Anne Frank reference, he seemed not to know who she was, and suggested that he really meant Helen Keller. In other words, he intended to accuse the officials of being blind and deaf, but referred to the wrong person in doing so.
It’s easier if you just think of professional football as an employment program for large, dumb guys who like to slam into each other, but who are too ugly for gay porn.
It sounds like this fellow barely has the brains to sign his paycheck.
He probably saw The Miracle Worker as a kid and subconsciously mixed up Anne Frank with Anne Sullivan, and then let the name association game go from there.
First thing I thought of was Helen Keller when I saw this thread title. The two are kind of in the same box for me of “young girls from long long ago who had something bad happen to them.”
Was Anne Frank well known for spitting at people? The dutch language does lend itself to increased expectoration… all those difficult vowel combinations.
Maybe, but this is the guy who a couple of years ago said this, "“I couldn’t find London on a map if they didn’t have the names of the countries. I swear to God. I don’t know what nothing is. I know Italy looks like a boot. I learned that.” That’s good to know. “I know (Washington Redskins linebacker) London Fletcher. We did a football camp together. So I know him. That’s the closest thing I know to London. He’s black, so I’m sure he’s not from London. I’m sure that’s a coincidental name.”
Channing Crowder is a talker. My favorite public war of words involving him was with Jets coach Rex Ryan. Channing either said or implied that he could or would kick Ryan’s ass, to which Ryan replied: “Channing Crowder? I’ve stepped over guys tougher than him on the way to a fight.” I love that quote.
Xema - Trust me, I doubt any prominent left wingers were too critical of Farenheit 9/11. (Okay, Roger Ebert pointed out a couple flaws, but he certainly would never credit it to Roger Moore. I mean, c’mon.)
Gangster Octopus - Ah. Hell, in light of that, maybe we should be grateful he got Stevie Wonder right. I could very easily see him citing the singer for Aerosmith. Or Fleetwood Mac. They’re both classic.
He did go, and presumably was surprised. Weirdly, the idea that there are no black people in Britain is apparently common among the African-American community. I’ve been asked a dozen times if I knew any black people before moving to the US.
