Thursday, July 23, 2009
Jason Whitlock is a Racist Prick
The Erin Andrews scandal is by no means any kind of racial issue no matter how Whitlock tries to spin it. The Erin Andrews scandal is an issue of privacy… a violation of privacy without knowledge while behind a closed and locked door. If I were to go to the hotel next door and place a reverse peephole viewing camera on the door of a paying customer (black or white, male or female) inside the hotel, I would be arrested without a shadow of doubt. I would be charged and input as a Peeping-Tom in the National Sex Offender Registry.
With the pictures and video circulating the web, this has become a national embarrassment to Ms. Andrews and to publicly discredit the issue by accusing ESPN for being racist by NOT further embarrassing one of their own employees is a disgrace to the ethics of media journalism. Jason Whitlock is a downright scoundrel trying to create a stir out of a non-issue and further promoting the divide between the races that make up the majority of this nation.
His examples of “injustice” to the black community bear no resemblance or relevance to this particular issue. Stuart Scott’s alleged text message scandal was never a national issue. In fact, his column was the first time I heard of the alleged “Lemme know” text that proves nil and promotes nothing except speculation.
Isiah Thomas’ suit against him for sexual harassment went to court and he was ordered by a jury to pay 11.6 million dollars to the accuser. Shannon Brown’s civil suit got just as much attention in the media as Ben Roethlisberger’s civil suit sans criminal investigation so there is no point to be argued there either.
The biggest negligence to truth came in his reference to Pacman. Pacman Jones’ off-field drama last season was not just a media exploitation… it was more of a snowball building of numerous stories that surrounded the troubled corner back. In the span of 2 years, the man got in an altercation with a valet attendant while on probation, was pulled over and arrested for being connected to a cocaine bust, was arrested and charged for disorderly conduct and public drunkenness after spitting in the face of a woman at a nightclub, beat down his own personal security guard while in a drunken stupor, was involved in shooting at a Las Vegas strip club after publicly assaulting a stripper, and was accused of allegedly ordering a hit by members of his entourage after an altercation at an Atlanta nightclub. The media attention that he got was very much warranted and it had to do with the fact that he was an out of control hooligan, not because of the fact that he was a black male athlete.
Athletes of all races are targeted by gold-diggers and con artists for the money in their pocket, not the color of their skin. The reporting of bullshit cases get tired and wears on the audience.
I am surprised and regularly appalled by Fox Sports for the publishing of Jason Whitlock’s columns on a weekly basis, but his most recent article in regards to the Erin Andrews story has struck a nerve so deep that if I ever see that pigheaded, overzealous bastard, I will surely leave knuckle indentations on his bloated jaw line. The fact that this guy won an award for National Journalism is a greater disgrace to the industry than the political and corporate alignment of the major market newspapers. At least they aren’t fooling anybody.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Putting to Rest the Pervert of Pop
First off, I’d like to get it out there that I was one of the millions of fans who listened to every MJ record when it came out. I used to moon-walk through the kitchen, do a spin, and grab my crotch when I got to the fridge. I was a childhood fan of the biggest pop phenomenon of my generation. I even remember where I was when the Black or White video first premiered. But then, I got older and started to understand what a whacko the guy was. At first, I was cool with it. There’s nothing wrong with being weird in a world full of weirdoes and crazies. But then the mother fucker hangs a baby over a balcony and has case after case of lawsuits filed and charges pressed against him accusing him of being a pedophile.
That was it... the end all be all. He became a habitual line stepper and with his musical genius vastly beginning to slip away, the obscurities of the King of Pop came to the forefront. The “smooth criminal” was now a perverted criminal with more under-the-knife experimentations than a college level biology class. Eventually he disappeared from the lime light, lost every dollar he ever made, and buried himself in what the Wall Street Journal estimated at $500 Million of debt.
The first headline Michael Jackson made in the last 10 years was when the story broke in the Los Angeles Times that he was dead. There was a reason for that. Some people had enough decency not to give a sick and twisted child molester the glorification that everyone has all of a sudden began to embrace since the passing of the perverted icon. I’m not trying to be the cynic here. I’m not making an argument for the sake of making an argument. I’m looking at this from the perspective of someone who hopes to someday have children. Who the fuck has the audacity to praise a man for his music and disregard the fact that he may have molested children?
One reason the man died broke and immersed in a mountain of debt was the fact that he settled out of court in each case to avoid federal prosecution, much like politicians and catholic priests accused of the same crime have done. I would be willing to bet that not a single god damn person praising Michael Jackson in his passing would have even considered the thought of sending their child to visit and stay with him for a weekend. If you would have, then you’re a sick bastard and you should consider neutering yourself and putting any child you may already have up for adoption so they can have a nurturing home to grow up in, free from the possibility of rape and molestation.
The thing that really gets me though… besides the assholes who went out and got tattoos commemorating the King of Perversion… is the people who are genuinely offended that the city of Los Angeles has asked the Jackson family to help pay for the funeral ceremony which will play host to millions of drooling diehard fans with nothing better to do than cry and praise their fallen hero on a Tuesday afternoon in the streets of a major city facing economic collapse. The last thing the city of Los Angeles needs is for their streets to be shut down by rioting lunatics in tears and a multi-million dollar bill to foot the cost of attempting to control the mass hysteria. If the Jackson family wants to have this huge celebration then they need to pay the tab at the end of the day. If I died tomorrow, the city or town I live in is not going to cover the cost of my funeral and that's without the expectation of millions of cooks with sequined gloves impersonating me and showing off their tattoos wishing me a peaceful rest.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Congratulations America... You're getting even fatter.
FDA Malpractice
Let us look at the effects this decision will have as a whole...
1. People who take Tylenol to ease aches and pains regularly take extra dosages to alleviate as much pain as they can, complaining that the current dosage is not enough. By lowering the dosage per pill, the number of pills being taken will be sure to increase which will in turn sell more bottles of Tylenol as they will not last quite as long as its predecessor.
2. Vicodin and Percocet are prescribed to people with serious chronic pain. They are the last resort scripts written before the script of oxycodone, aka Oxycotin... the closest thing to pure heroin one can get via a licensed drug dealer. Mind you that Oxycotin is by far the most addictive and most damaging drug available through prescription. In fact, Percocet is often prescribed as a transition drug to wean patients off their Oxycotin prescription.
So somebody please tell me how the FDA is improving service to the citizen customers of this country when cigarette and alcohol sales go relatively unregulated in terms of toxin dosage. When it comes to over-the-counter medications, nothing is going to stop people from taking whatever dosage they deem fit for themselves. Some people take 4-5 pills now... you're trying to tell me that they're not going to take 8 pills from the new proposed packaging because the FDA says the present day pills are too strong? There's common sense that destroys all reasoning behind this. It's almost as if they are trying to put more people in a bind. More pain. Higher cost for patients/consumers. More dope addicts. Is that the intent?... because that's how it's looking from this side of the fence.
You may think I'm going a little far by accusing the FDA of purposely attacking the well being of The People. I don't think I am. Government funded programs are notorious for civil rights infringements. The FCC attacks Free Speech on a daily basis. The Department of Education has ruined our education system by lowering standards and teaching children to think what they are told to think as conformity runs amok. Shit, the FDA is the culprit who regulates the vaccinations loaded with mercury that we give our children and has been linked to the autism breakout in our country. So why the hell should we trust these agencies with our well-being?
Maybe the FDA should focus more on preventing the spread of E.Coli and Salmonella from disease infested factories to the cafeterias of our schools and eliminating the use of pesticides on our crops and growth inducing steroids on our cattle. Maybe then they can occupy their time better and stop prying into a world that has helped far more people than it has hurt. If you want to go after liver disease, I would think alcohol should be #1 on the Most Wanted list... not Tylenol. In fact, I bet if you looked up all persons hospitalized for liver failure with acetaminophen being the accomplice, chances are they took more than double the recommended dosage. Anybody who puts something in their body should know what the possible side effects are. If they don't, there is nobody to blame but themselves.