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December 14, 2012

ESPN Suspends Robert Parker, Indefinitely
— Ace

I don't really consider this a victory because in a perfect world Rush wouldn't have gotten fired for saying something someone else didn't like. And I don't think this idiot should be fired, just because he's stupid. That's certainly never been a bar for appearing on ESPN in the past.

However, because the liberal media and liberal establishment (as in academy) is determined to use ThoughtCrime tactics selectively, only against the right, we must compel them to live by their own rulebook -- otherwise they will gleefully just keep using these Orwellian tactics against us.

By the way, they'll let this guy back in a couple of months when no one's looking.

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I'm now unemployed.

Thanks Obama!

Posted by: Spenser at December 14, 2012 10:24 AM (3SvjA)

2
doesn't ESPN still employ a wife beater?

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:25 AM (G/zuv)

3 Glad I never watched. And never will.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 14, 2012 10:26 AM (EKr9U)

4 ah yes, Howard Bryant

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:26 AM (G/zuv)

5 By the way, they'll let this guy back in a couple of months

Suspended with or without pay? Because "suspended with pay, knowing you'll get your job back when the stupid wingnutters go away" sounds like a dream come true.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at December 14, 2012 10:27 AM (/kI1Q)

6 He's a racist dork. He can now thank another "semi-black Bro" for extending his unemployment benefits for 2 years.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at December 14, 2012 10:27 AM (n8LUb)

7 They hate RG3 because he is unashamed of his belief.

Posted by: Bob Costas Elevator Shoes at December 14, 2012 10:27 AM (KHo8t)

8 More like a few weeks

Posted by: Hard Right at December 14, 2012 10:28 AM (uhftQ)

9 Apparently, the ignoramus doesn't know that MLK Jr. was a Republican.

Posted by: Al at December 14, 2012 10:28 AM (V70Uh)

10 Sorry to hear that, Spenser. Hope something turns up for you.

Posted by: joncelli at December 14, 2012 10:28 AM (RD7QR)

11 He was "suspended indefinitely" because ESPN needed Parker far less than Parker needed ESPN. They may have hired him to be The Race Guy, but I don't think so. Just another guy who falsely predicts what will happen. Smith is The Race Guy mostly because he wouldn't go this far. Parker, however, is a know-nothing, talentless hack and the easiest road for him to take is to become The Race Guy.

Posted by: AmishDude at December 14, 2012 10:29 AM (9priM)

12 Why does no MFM type EVER call out people like this idgit or the Rev Al or Jesse Jackson Sr or any of the dozen race baiters that constantly do this on the news and ( occasionally )sports channels??

Posted by: Sphynx at December 14, 2012 10:29 AM (j2McS)

13 Heather, he might get paid "by the appearance" , like some cable news contributors.

Posted by: AmishDude at December 14, 2012 10:30 AM (9priM)

14 I never heard of this douche before yesterday.

Posted by: Mark formerly in Spokane,now in Sandy Ut at December 14, 2012 10:30 AM (xGX1p)

15 We can't allow prominent people with good reputations vote for Republicans without being punished. Especially if those people are black. That's practically voter fraud.

Posted by: Truman North (D) at December 14, 2012 10:30 AM (p5pG2)

16 Shit. Didn't make the connection with "Parker" and "Spenser." Maybe I need to take the rest of the day off.

Posted by: joncelli at December 14, 2012 10:30 AM (RD7QR)

Sorry to hear that, Spenser. Hope something turns up for you.

I'll put out a sign. Something like

"Spenser For Hire"

Posted by: Spenser at December 14, 2012 10:30 AM (3SvjA)

18 Brother, can you spare a cornball?

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2012 10:30 AM (/ZZCn)

19 Yeah, another successful black man gets it in the back from his peers for being "not black enough". And where did THAT issue come into play here? Okay, the black quarterback is in his starting year, he's had a rough year, actually for a rookie is doing OK. But the Redskins are still lame. How does being a B for a lame team turn into "he's not a real black man"?

Posted by: exdem13 at December 14, 2012 10:31 AM (1GunI)

20 What kind of a name is Robert Parker for a brother anyway?

Gots to have a name with sumthin from the Motherland, like Kunta or Odingo or sumthin.

I find him unauthentic.

Posted by: AA Acreditation Agency at December 14, 2012 10:31 AM (EKr9U)

21 So, cornball brother crosses the line. Good to know.

Posted by: L, elle at December 14, 2012 10:31 AM (0PiQ4)

22 Parker is just, literally, a very dumb man. I saw the clip. Smith immediately saw what Parker had done and smartly condemned it. Parker was too much of an idiot to realize his comments would be a problem. ESPN has no shortage of black sports journalists willing to play the race card. Parker can easily be replaced.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 10:32 AM (ZPrif)

23 /points and tries to laugh ...sorry. I can't manage the laugh today.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 14, 2012 10:32 AM (GBXon)

24 Rob Parker, American Sports Bigot.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 10:32 AM (ZPrif)

25 So, doesn't this make Parker even more authentic?

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 14, 2012 10:32 AM (zpqa2)

26
Robert Parker is already writing a book about his infamous comments.

N O T
B L A C K
L I K E
M E

by
ROBERT PARKER

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:32 AM (G/zuv)

27 Actually, I've quite enjoyed watching RG3. But now I'm officially a Redskins fan.

Posted by: Truman North (D) at December 14, 2012 10:32 AM (p5pG2)

28 >>>>he's had a rough year, actually for a rookie is doing OK. for a rookie, he's been amazing. and he has character. he's going to be the face of the league.

Posted by: Bob Costas Elevator Shoes at December 14, 2012 10:33 AM (KHo8t)

29 I've come to the conclusion that black people are the most racist people of all. If they can talk like this about another black person because he's not their stereotype, they can talk worse about someone else.

Posted by: EC at December 14, 2012 10:34 AM (GQ8sn)

30
No? Nothing?

Black Like Me was required reading in high school at one time.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:34 AM (G/zuv)

31 Mr. Parker is abnormally stupid, even for a sports talker.

Posted by: Congressman Hank Johnson (D) not Guam at December 14, 2012 10:34 AM (bAGA/)

32 Looks like that FB of Ryan Lanza wasn't the shooter.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 14, 2012 10:34 AM (tkoGU)

33 Quanah Parker was a noted Commanche war chief. He was named for his mother, a white captive taken into the Commanche when she was young. Apparently by today's standards he wasn't an authentic Indian.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 14, 2012 10:34 AM (1GunI)

Sports pundits should stick to sports.

People don't tune into sports shows to listen to them blathering on about their own personal opinions.

Posted by: wheatie at December 14, 2012 10:35 AM (K4wCe)

35 The real victory (in this stupid Alinsky game we are forced to play) is when one of the black ESPN talking-heads is suspended for something he said about a white person. This is still in the genre of -- you can't say something negative and racial about a black person. I watch ESPN a lot. The black guys go full Whitlock fairly often. And many of the white guys do, too. You can still mock a white athlete on ESPN for being "white" with impunity.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 10:35 AM (ZPrif)

Maybe they just suspended him for being an idiot that made them look bad.

Like that chink in the armor guy. Free speech can get you fired. I've no problem with that.

Posted by: eleven at December 14, 2012 10:35 AM (fsLdt)

37 ooops, wrong thread. I'm surprised as hell ESPN did anything at all. So much easier to just ignore it and let it be forgotten. That's what they always do for Libs.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 14, 2012 10:35 AM (tkoGU)

38 But I'm black!! I get to say stupid shit! Whitey be keepin' me down!

Posted by: Robert Parker at December 14, 2012 10:35 AM (sbV1u)

39 what the heck is a "cornball brother" anyway ?? i've never heard that term before. how i miss the days when everybody wasn't offended and 'outraged' by every little thing!

Posted by: el polacko at December 14, 2012 10:36 AM (H+1aM)

40 @33: That depends: Did he have high cheekbones?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 14, 2012 10:36 AM (1ml8s)

I agree with this sentiment. Rush should not have been canned.

It's ok to make idiotic comments, they should just be called out for it. Neither rush nor this clown should have been taken down.

But i suppose in crazy sensitive double standards town, what is good for the goose is good for the gander...

Posted by: Prescient11 at December 14, 2012 10:36 AM (tVTLU)

42 The Federal government was spending $1.8 trillion per year in 2000. Today they are spending $3.8 trillion, a 111% increase in 12 years. The GDP has risen from $10 trillion to $15.6 trillion over this same time frame, a 56% increase.
Do you think the Federal government is twice as good as it was in 2000?

Total government spending in the country (Federal, State & Local) has gone from $3.2 trillion in 2000 to $6.3 trillion today. Government spending was 32% of GDP in 2000. Today it is 40% of GDP.
Has this been beneficial to the country or your life?

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter, M.D. at December 14, 2012 10:37 AM (e8kgV)

Shit. Didn't make the connection with "Parker" and "Spenser." Maybe I need to take the rest of the day off.

It's 5 o'clock somewhere.

Posted by: Spenser at December 14, 2012 10:37 AM (3SvjA)

44 Fox repeating rumor that shooter may have been son of kindergarten teacher.

So, "domestic violence", I guess.

Posted by: Methos at December 14, 2012 10:38 AM (hO9ad)

45 What's a brother got to do to get all authenticky?

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2012 10:38 AM (/ZZCn)

Plus RGIII is this year's golden boy for ESPN. What that guy did was practically sports broadcasting sacrilege.

Posted by: eleven at December 14, 2012 10:38 AM (fsLdt)

47 So Parker is a brother, and believes he has a MONOPOLY on deciding who is and is not a Parker brother?

Sorry, he needs to get a clue.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 14, 2012 10:39 AM (BeSEI)

48 This will just get me a job on NPR or a new show on PBS. It proves I'm no cornball.

Posted by: Rob Parker at December 14, 2012 10:39 AM (/YJYi)

49 I've come to the conclusion that black people are the most racist people of all. If they can talk like this about another black person because he's not their stereotype, they can talk worse about someone else.

Posted by: EC at December 14, 2012 02:34 PM (GQ8sn)

Not excusing them, but this is what results from the real racism they USED TO be subjected to. How to get them and the Left to just let it go is the challenge. MFM perpetuates.

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 14, 2012 10:39 AM (zpqa2)

50 what the heck is a "cornball brother" anyway ?? i've never heard that term before. how i miss the days when everybody wasn't offended and 'outraged' by every little thing!

Posted by: el polacko at December 14, 2012 02:36 PM (H+1aM)

From what I understand cornballs were given as treats to slaves who the master favored. At least that's what I've heard from around the internetz

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at December 14, 2012 10:39 AM (NzBQO)

51 Parker! Teennagers!

Posted by: Jay Jonah Jameson at December 14, 2012 10:39 AM (H52Cw)

39 what the heck is a "cornball brother" anyway ??

The retard was at least self-aware enough to refrain from calling him an "Uncle Tom."

Posted by: Oschisms at December 14, 2012 10:39 AM (idE8D)

53 Quanah Parker was a noted Commanche war chief. He was named for his mother, a white captive taken into the Commanche when she was young. Apparently by today's standards he wasn't an authentic Indian.

Posted by: exdem13 at December 14, 2012 02:34 PM (1GunI)

Liz Warren: Total cornball Indian. Not authentic like me

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2012 10:40 AM (1Jaio)

54 Let me amend my previous comment:

"I've come to the conclusion that uneducated black people are the most racist people of all."

I do not understand the hatred toward RG3. Up until this happened, I had no idea he was engaged to a white woman, had two ex-military parents, or that he may or may not be a Republican.

So fucking what?

I hope this isn't how other black people feel about themselves.

Posted by: EC at December 14, 2012 10:40 AM (GQ8sn)

55 ESPN is racist for suspending a racist!

Posted by: Jason Whitlock at December 14, 2012 10:41 AM (eHIJJ)

56 FNC confirming 26 dead, 18 of them kids.

Posted by: Soona at December 14, 2012 10:41 AM (1CXqI)

57 "cornball" = "dorky" = "white" cornball brother = black guy who pretends he's white cornball brother = not a "real" black man.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 10:41 AM (ZPrif)

58 cornball used to mean "corny" now it means fake black person?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at December 14, 2012 10:42 AM (xDelD)

59 Not excusing them, but this is what results from the real racism they USED TO be subjected to. Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 14, 2012 02:39 PM (zpqa2) I would be interested in understanding exactly how "real" racism directed at a black person causes racism to be directed at a black person by a black person. Discuss amongst yourselves...

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 14, 2012 10:42 AM (sbV1u)

60 I'm only half Skandi. Someone might shame me as not being authentic.

Posted by: fluffy, ice wop at December 14, 2012 10:42 AM (3SvjA)

61 Looks like that FB of Ryan Lanza wasn't the shooter. Posted by: Lincolntf at December 14, 2012 02:34 PM (tkoGU) Why do you say that?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2012 10:42 AM (79ueO)

62 cornball brother = black guy who pretends he's white

cornball brother = not a "real" black man.

I've yet to hear what he's done that would make him pretend he's white.

Posted by: EC at December 14, 2012 10:42 AM (GQ8sn)

63 Yeah, mother may have been teacher at school. Which makes more sense if they found one dead back at the home. He went on a family shooting spree. His twitter says it all.

Posted by: beach at December 14, 2012 10:42 AM (LpQbZ)

64 In solidarity with Rob Parker I will be striking for the next two weeks from my duties at ESPN. Meaning I will be taking two weeks of paid vacation.

Posted by: Jemele Hill at December 14, 2012 10:43 AM (/YJYi)

65 Parker is ok. Get off his azz.

Posted by: Iluv jumbo black nuts at December 14, 2012 10:43 AM (zCojJ)

66 No offense, but who is Robert Parker?

Posted by: looking closely at December 14, 2012 10:44 AM (6Q9g2)

67 This seems to be a bunch of espn lawyers starting the firing process and insulating the mothership from lawsuits. Seriously, this guy literally has people from here to the huff po calling for his job. That's some pretty outstanding douchebagger.

Posted by: Lazarus at December 14, 2012 10:44 AM (q4ggw)

68 And I don't think this idiot should be fired, just because he's stupid. That's certainly never been a bar for appearing on ESPN in the past.

But if they fired more idiots, the bar would be raised.

Put me on the side of firing stupid people for saying or doing stupid things whenever possible.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at December 14, 2012 10:45 AM (SY2Kh)

69 Yeah Rush said, the media is racist in covering a quarterback trying to make him out to be better than he is because of his skin color

that isn't in the same ballpark as 'That guy ain't really black because he doesn't fit my definition of a black man' that's pure bigotry right there.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose is Shrugging at December 14, 2012 10:45 AM (0q2P7)

70 I don't really consider this a victory because in a perfect world Rush wouldn't have gotten fired for saying something someone else didn't like. I have to say that I'm impressed that at least profootballtalk accurately reported what it was that Rush said, even if its mischaracterized as racially charged.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Tick tock tick tock. at December 14, 2012 10:45 AM (VtjlW)

71
how many shooters, one or two??

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:45 AM (G/zuv)

72 47, Heh.

Posted by: B5D, from the phone at December 14, 2012 10:45 AM (Bfbpz)

73 So Parker is a brother, and believes he has a MONOPOLY on deciding whoisand isnot a Parker brother? Sorry, he needs to get a clue. Groan. And let the games begin!

Posted by: rickb223 Let. It. Burn. at December 14, 2012 10:46 AM (GFM2b)

74 The state with the smallest black-white differential in income, welfare, criminality, etc, etc is ... Hawaii. Why Hawaii? Because the black folks who live there are largely from military families. A self-selected group of responsible, smart, honest, hard-working black people who get stationed in Hawaii and end up settling there. It's hard for the black underclass to move to Hawaii.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 10:46 AM (ZPrif)

75 how many shooters, one or two?? Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 02:45 PM (G/zuv) other guy they found -- dressed in same way in woods -- said he didn't do it

Posted by: beach at December 14, 2012 10:47 AM (LpQbZ)

76 Free speech just means the government can't get you. Your boss can do whatever he wants.

Posted by: eleven at December 14, 2012 10:47 AM (fsLdt)

77 Brian Copeland has an interesting book called "Not a Genuine Black Man." While much of it deals with white racism, it also talks a lot about black on black racism. Actually it's a fairly heartbreaking book.

Posted by: Eaton Cox at December 14, 2012 10:47 AM (q177U)

78 If this is really him https://twitter.com/Ryan__Lanza he's out of it

Posted by: beach at December 14, 2012 10:48 AM (LpQbZ)

79
yeah, but what are witnesses saying, one shooter or two?

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:48 AM (G/zuv)

80 https://twitter.com/Ryan__Lanza Yeah, this kid was a fucked up mess. How could anyone of the people in is friends feed not read those tweets and think this dude needs help?.

Posted by: CaptianL.I.B. at December 14, 2012 10:48 AM (3YN0H)

81 I am indifferent.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at December 14, 2012 10:48 AM (QupBk)

82 or are all the witnesses dead?

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:48 AM (G/zuv)

83 #47

Yeah, I bet that Parker brother is really sorry for what he said. He won't take that kind of risk again.

Posted by: looking closely at December 14, 2012 10:48 AM (PwGfd)

84 Interesting choice of words.... Does "suspended" mean, like, fired?

Or just to sit in the corner for a little while, then come back to full pay and benefits - retroactive, of course.

Posted by: george at December 14, 2012 10:49 AM (qBLA2)

other guy they found -- dressed in same way in woods -- said he didn't do it

whoaa....hold on there. Not at all what I read (Fox). They said shooter in black, guy in woods camo.

Posted by: eleven at December 14, 2012 10:50 AM (fsLdt)

I hope this isn't how other black people feel about themselves.

It's a form of psychotic racism to me. They seem particularly proud to reject a society that could give them a fruitful and productive life and prefer instead to denigrate it and those who recognize its value.

I waded into the comments over at Twitchy this morning to counter one commenter who called it something totally unwarranted (at the vile post that contained some idiot rappers violent tweets to MM). I asked him why we didn't have the same right to defend our culture as those who criticize it. Naturally, he dismissed my questions as a rant.

Typical.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at December 14, 2012 10:50 AM (yiIja)

87 #86

"Fired" (or "dismissed") would mean "fired".

"Suspended" means "we did something to create an appearance that we did something, and we'll see how this plays out before we make any decisions about firing".

Posted by: looking closely at December 14, 2012 10:50 AM (PwGfd)

88 Don't be racist against a nice dark sac

Posted by: Iluv jumbo black nuts at December 14, 2012 10:51 AM (zCojJ)

89 RG3 is clean-cut. All-american. Responsible. He has a white wife. He talks without any obvious ethnic accent. His mannerisms are uniformly polite. He doesn't talk smack. He makes no attempts to intimidate people. Very few signs of chest-thumping bravado. Sadly, to a many if not most blacks in America, those things make him not "authentically" black. Those attributes make him seem "corny". Like a white guy.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 10:51 AM (ZPrif)

90 "Suspended" means "we did something to create an appearance that we did something, and we'll see how this plays out before we make any decisions about firing". Posted by: looking closely at December 14, 2012 02:50 PM (PwGfd) He is a fat bastard nobody. Not worth keeping anyway. He is history

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2012 10:51 AM (79ueO)

91 WTF are schools supposed to do when they have a security system that requires facial recognition by someone in authority to enter, and its a Dad? C*cksucker, I hope he bled out from a groin wound.

Posted by: Schrödinger's cat [/i] at December 14, 2012 10:52 AM (feFL6)

92 I just remembered last night after signing off that the Parker affair reminds me of the kerfuffle a couple years ago between Juwan Howard and Grant Hill. Howard basically questioned how "real" Hill was in his blackness, what with being raised by both parents, growing up middle class, and graduating college. Hill then replied with an exquisite smackdown of a column published in several papers (I'm sure it's somewhere online), and the cherry on top was his reminding Howard (and the world) that Michigan never beat Duke when Hill was a Blue Devil.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2012 10:53 AM (WqKmU)

93 SHIT JUST GOT WEIRD

check this out

https://twitter.com/Fletch788/status/279668466150166528/photo/1

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 14, 2012 10:53 AM (8sCoq)

94 Keepin' a brother down for keepin' a brother down!

Posted by: zsasz at December 14, 2012 10:54 AM (6edpX)

95 Just to get your mind off the shit. Citizen Kane is on TCM. One of the greatest movies ever made. Mighty damn long. Newspapers even a hundred years ago trying to run the world.

Rosebud!

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 14, 2012 10:54 AM (wR+pz)

96

Yeah, I bet that Parker brother is really sorry for what he said. He won't take that kind of risk again.

Posted by: looking closely

I thought Risk was Milton Bradley, not Parker Brothers.

Posted by: imp at December 14, 2012 10:55 AM (UaxA0)

97 OT, but shooter in Conn was son of union member. (Mom a teacher at school)

/Left-Obama-'Rat-MFM-Alinsky mode

Posted by: eureka! at December 14, 2012 10:55 AM (HPRku)

98 Rob Parker has the head of an Oompa Loompa. I mentioned this to my kid on Monday of this week as he was watching one of these stupid sports gab fests.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 14, 2012 10:55 AM (jucos)

99 95 -- can you describe what that is, I don't want to see some disturbing photo.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 10:55 AM (ZPrif)

100

78 Free speech just means the government can't get you. Your boss can do whatever he wants.

He wasn't doing his job.

Even worse, he was using his position to forward his own agenda.

If you're hired to sell a product, for example...and you use that position to try to sell another product, using the employer-provided forum and employer-generated audience...then you are guilty of using your job for your own personal purposes.

Posted by: wheatie at December 14, 2012 10:55 AM (K4wCe)

101 SHIT JUST GOT WEIRD check this out https://twitter.com/Fletch788/status/279668466150166528/photo/1 Posted by: Jones in CO at December 14, 2012 02:53 PM (8sCoq) HOLY FUCKING HELL

Posted by: Eaton Cox at December 14, 2012 10:56 AM (q177U)

102 His mannerisms are uniformly polite. He doesn't talk smack. What many have forgotten, is that when you can back it up with deeds, smack isn't neccessary.

Posted by: rickb223 Let. It. Burn. at December 14, 2012 10:56 AM (GFM2b)

103 YOUR PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE NATION AT 3ET

4 MINS

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 14, 2012 10:56 AM (8sCoq)

104 Yeah, I bet that Parker brother is really sorry for what he said. He won't take that kind of risk again.

He thought he had a monopoly on authentic blackness.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 14, 2012 10:56 AM (+lsX1)

105 Ah, here's the Grant Hill bitchslapping (link in nick)

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2012 10:57 AM (WqKmU)

106 re: 'what the heck is a "cornball brother" anyway ?? i've never heard that term before.'

I've never heard it used exactly like he used it, but to a black guy who's trying to sound rough, "cornball" means, roughly, "beta." It also means "white." Which also means "beta."

I'm not literally on The Street much these days, but I know the current term there for a socially submissive dude is "piss boy." It means you serve, and the tone is equivalent to the Bostonian "faggot."

So Parker's not up on the lingo. But that's what he meant.

Marrying (marrying, note) a white woman, not caring if you're right with the Blackness Police, not being a Democrat--that's all serving. Strange idea. But nearly universal. So it's ironic, too.

Posted by: oblig. at December 14, 2012 10:57 AM (cePv8)

107 >95 -- can you describe what that is, I don't want to see some disturbing photo.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 02:55 PM (ZPrif)

IT'S Ryan Lanza posting to facebook that he's not the shooter

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 14, 2012 10:57 AM (8sCoq)

108

4 MINS

Good, time for me to check the mail and have a smoke.

Posted by: Infidel at December 14, 2012 10:58 AM (O/fK8)

109 @103

Help me out here. Who is the fucker in the tweet? I am sure I am suppose to know, been shopping.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 14, 2012 10:58 AM (wR+pz)

110 whoaa....hold on there. Not at all what I read (Fox). They said shooter in black, guy in woods camo. Posted by: eleven at December 14, 2012 02:50 PM (fsLdt) they guys is claiming he didn't do it, not the police

Posted by: beach at December 14, 2012 10:58 AM (LpQbZ)

111 RG3 is clean-cut. All-american. Responsible.
He has a white wife. He talks without any obvious ethnic accent.
His mannerisms are uniformly polite. He doesn't talk smack. He makes no attempts to intimidate people. Very few signs of chest-thumping bravado.

Sadly, to a many if not most blacks in America, those things make him not "authentically" black.

Those attributes make him seem "corny". Like a white guy.

If that's true, if that's what some black people really believe, I'm not sure that any racial healing or racial bridging is ever going to work with them.

Posted by: EC at December 14, 2012 10:58 AM (GQ8sn)

112
Is Obama gonna show leadership by saying something original and bold such as it's time to come together as a nation??

This is exciting. I can't wait to hear what he has to say.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:58 AM (G/zuv)

113 YOUR PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE NATION AT 3ET 4 MINS Posted by: Jones in CO at December 14, 2012 02:56 PM (8sCoq) What could he possibly say that matters? Can't he just shut the fuck up. The campaign is over

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 14, 2012 10:58 AM (79ueO)

114
is it time to heal as a nation after this horrific tragedy, Obama?

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 10:59 AM (G/zuv)

115

I don't really consider this a victory because in a perfect world Rush wouldn't have gotten fired for saying something someone else didn't like.

I disagree, ace. Rush shouldn't have gotten fired for his remarks, but what Parker said IS fireable, IMO. Rush said nothing about Donovan McNabb's race outside of saying that it was the only reason anyone called McNabb a great quarterback. He was calling out the media for ITS racism, because the media allowed its NAACP-approved sunglasses to obscure their perception of a guy who was at best a GOOD quarterback, but not one of the all-time greats. They were so desperate to have a quality black quarterback again that the sports media latched onto McNabb and didn't let go until Vick came along. And that worked otu SO well for them.

But what Parker said was pure, uncensored racism. He questioned RGIII's racial bona fides just like a KKK member in the 1950s might have questioned the family tree of someone who didn't look white enough, or the Nazis might question the Aryan blood of someone with a "Jewish nose." It was an individual, personal attack on a man who'd never done Parker any wrong, made for the simple fact that RGIII is marrying a white woman and "may" have voted Republican.

And worse for ESPN, it was a direct attack on one of the hottest figures in the most popular sport in the country. The last thing they'd want is RGIII responding to an interview request with, "Is that Rob Parker still working for you? Yeah? Sorry, I've got an appointment with Fox Sports to schedule instead."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 14, 2012 10:59 AM (4df7R)

116 YOUR PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE NATION AT 3ET

Or whenever he gets around to it. Sometime before four, maybe.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at December 14, 2012 10:59 AM (/kI1Q)

117 The same people on Twitter who sent the FB all of a sudden started retracting it, saying he had posted that it wasn't him and to fuck off. If the shooter is dead, then someone else is posting. Could even be a sick hoax from the get go. Obviously I don't know what to think.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 14, 2012 10:59 AM (tkoGU)

118 corn balls http://tinyurl.com/cnwgdnc

Posted by: beach at December 14, 2012 11:00 AM (LpQbZ)

119 I never heard of this douche before yesterday. Posted by: Mark formerly in Spokane,now in Sandy Ut at December 14, 2012 02:30 PM

I got ya beat. I STILL don't know who the hell this guy Ace is writing about is, and I don't really care.

Memo to self: must watch ESPN someday. Maybe. If they actually broadcast something I want to see.

Posted by: MrScribbler, banned at TepidAir at December 14, 2012 11:00 AM (yKUrR)

120
Hey, Obama, tell me you've spoken to the mayor of Newtown and to the governor of CT and told that if they need anything, they should just call you. Because that'd be swell!

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 11:00 AM (G/zuv)

121 FUBO. Let the parents see their children first.

Posted by: eureka! at December 14, 2012 11:01 AM (HPRku)

122 YOUR PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE NATION AT 3ET not my president *switch channel

Posted by: beach at December 14, 2012 11:01 AM (LpQbZ)

123

YOUR PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE NATION AT 3ET

4 MINS
Posted by: Jones in CO at December 14, 2012 02:56 PM (8sCoq)

Oh, FUCK HIM. He has NO reason to address the nation. The incident in CT is a tragedy, but it is NOT something the Preezy of the United Steezy needs to be sticking his jug ears into.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 14, 2012 11:01 AM (4df7R)

124
Obama, does your heart and prayers go out to all the families?

I'll bet they do. But tell us, anyway. We like hearing you speak.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 11:01 AM (G/zuv)

125 Never miss a chance to get on TV. A good crisis is always good for some time on the air.

So what is this egotistical asshole going to say. Gee, our prays, seectual of course, are for the parents.

If we just had more gun control, and I will be introducing legislation, to make schools "Gun Free". That should do it! Crazy people know the law, and they wouldn't think of disobeying it.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 14, 2012 11:03 AM (wR+pz)

126 jaime foxes president is going to be speaking......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at December 14, 2012 11:03 AM (xDelD)

127
Obama, would you call this a senseless tragedy or a national tragedy?

(I'm guessing he goes with both)

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 11:03 AM (G/zuv)

128 oh shit!

someone, quick, fix it!

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 11:03 AM (G/zuv)

129 Barrel!

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at December 14, 2012 11:03 AM (/kI1Q)

130 eh?

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 11:03 AM (G/zuv)

131 ESPN is a for-profit business. If Parker hurts the bottom line, he needs to go. It's not a freedom of speech thing.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 14, 2012 11:03 AM (dZ756)

132 wanna bet it becomes all about him .....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at December 14, 2012 11:04 AM (xDelD)

133 What? Schools are already "Gun Free". Did the guy not see the sign?

Must have gone to public school and couldn't read it.

Posted by: Injuin Blackfoot Barry, The One Who Eats Dogs at December 14, 2012 11:04 AM (wR+pz)

134 thanks, Heather

that was not good

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 11:04 AM (G/zuv)

135 Oh, FUCK HIM. He has NO reason to address the nation. The incident in CT is a tragedy, but it is NOT something the Preezy of the United Steezy needs to be sticking his jug ears into.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 14, 2012 03:01 PM (4df7R)

---------------------------------------------------

It's what dictators do. They must be in total control.

Posted by: MFM at December 14, 2012 11:04 AM (1CXqI)

136 I'm not literally on The Street much these days, but I know the current term there for a socially submissive dude is "piss boy." They had to reach deep into the way back machine to come up with something from The History of the World, Part One for that one.

Posted by: rickb223 Let. It. Burn. at December 14, 2012 11:04 AM (GFM2b)

137 I would be interested in understanding exactly how "real" racism directed at a black person causes racism to be directed at a black person by a black person.

Discuss amongst yourselves...

Posted by: Sean Bannion at December 14, 2012 02:42 PM (sbV1u)

Plantation attitude. Can't leave it.

Posted by: hannitys_hybrid at December 14, 2012 11:04 AM (zpqa2)

138 wanna bet it becomes all about him .....

I'll take that bet.

Not!

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 11:05 AM (G/zuv)

139
Obama, tell us how it affected Salia and Marsha. We love when you use your kids as props.

Posted by: soothsayer at December 14, 2012 11:06 AM (G/zuv)

140 On Grant Hill. Jalen Rose made a celebrated 30 for 30 documentary for ESPN on the Michigan vs Duke rivalry. In that he called Grant Hill on "Uncle Tom". Said he wasn't really black because he grew up in a white suburb. (Grant Hill's Dad was a pro athlete and is rich.) ESPN reward Jalen Rose with a job as a regular commentator. He's on ESPN almost every day. Jalen Rose did the same thing Parker did, except he actually said Uncle Tom.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 11:06 AM (ZPrif)

141 Fucking socks

Posted by: Soona at December 14, 2012 11:06 AM (1CXqI)

142 So the guy killed BOTH his mom and dad.

Just a note to parents, make sure Santa doesn't forget anything.

Might be a mistake this year.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at December 14, 2012 11:07 AM (wR+pz)

143 i think giving an address after something of this magnitude is pretty normal

Posted by: JDP at December 14, 2012 03:06 PM (60GaT)

Releasing a simple statement of condolence, yes.

Addressing the nation via televised broadcast? No.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at December 14, 2012 11:08 AM (4df7R)

144

I'm not giving up my guns. I don't care what they say. I'm not giving them up.

Posted by: Soona at December 14, 2012 11:09 AM (1CXqI)

145 who ever buzzed him in.....damn....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at December 14, 2012 11:10 AM (xDelD)

146 Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard were recollecting their feelings toward Duke at the time, as freshmen in college, and how they resented a black player like Hill who had two parents and a solid home while they were poor and a school like Duke wouldn't recruit them. The feeling was that Duke would only recruit a certain kind of black player, ie. a cleancut Grant Hill, and would never take a bald, trash-talking, "ghetto" player like Jalen Rose.

Rose did not use "uncle Tom" in the present tense, he was talking about how he felt as an immature freshman in college. It's not quite the same as what Parker did. Rose and Howard can be forgiven for what they thought as 18-year-olds. Parker doesn't have that kind of excuse.

Posted by: the dandy at December 14, 2012 11:11 AM (lVK3L)

147 who ever buzzed him in.....damn....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work at December 14, 2012 03:10 PM (xDelD)

---------------------------------------------

That person is probably dead too.

Posted by: Soona at December 14, 2012 11:11 AM (1CXqI)

148 TFG's giving a televised address? Yeah, it's going to be "I'm taking all your guns, it's for your own good".

Posted by: Ian S. at December 14, 2012 11:12 AM (B/VB5)

149 Barack Obama's mother = white
Barack Obama's grandmother = white

He's not Black 

Posted by: T. Hunter at December 14, 2012 11:16 AM (EZl54)

150 >>YOUR PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE NATION AT 3ET

He's not MY president

Posted by: Albie Damned at December 14, 2012 11:17 AM (Yhu4q)

151 YOUR PRESIDENT WILL ADDRESS THE NATION AT 3ET But Reagan's dead...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at December 14, 2012 11:20 AM (GBXon)

152 >>>>he's had a rough year, actually for a rookie is doing OK.

He is the #1 ranked passer in the NFL
He is #1 in yards-per completion in the NFL.

A little better than 'OK'

Posted by: washington nearsider at December 14, 2012 11:20 AM (fwARV)

153 Stupid is a qualification for Vice President. What's the problem?

Posted by: Sherriff Joe Biden at December 14, 2012 11:26 AM (I+Z9T)

154 Will this tool get back pay, like the fired Chrylser "workers" who were videotaped boozing and smoking joints during their lunch break, before heading back to the factory to build cars that carry America's children? Those worthless slobs were recently rehired, with back pay and apologies for having been "wrongfully" fired for their gross malfeasance on the job.

Posted by: Observer at December 14, 2012 11:30 AM (/sohm)

155 No, Jalen Rose called Grant Hill an Uncle Tom. As an adult. And he didn't apologize for it. He didn't say, I realize now I was wrong. And Jalen Rose still plays the race card all the time and still sells himself as a "true" brother. Jalen Rose is a racist piece of shit.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 11:37 AM (ZPrif)

156 I just imagine that the talking heads at ESPN are all of Frum caliber.

Posted by: HoboJerky, now with 45% more DOOM! at December 14, 2012 11:38 AM (xAtAj)

157 from the 30 for 30 show:

"I hated Duke and I hated everything Duke stood for," Rose said in the documentary. "Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me. I felt like they only recruited black players that were Uncle Toms."

"Felt", "hated", that's called past tense.

Rose apologized to Hill before the show even aired.

Posted by: the dandy at December 14, 2012 11:51 AM (lVK3L)

158 Jalen Rose never apologized in public or on-air or acknowledge he apologized. Grant Hill says Rose sent him an apology tweet. Jalen Rose is a racist piece of shit.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at December 14, 2012 12:21 PM (ZPrif)

159 The Iron Sheik ‏@the_ironsheik

the @RobParkerESPN Rob Parker you have smallest black dick in the world you talk bullshit about the RG3 you dont know how to talk on the TV

Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at December 14, 2012 12:34 PM (ZX+8f)

160 Late to the party, but Parker has been fired or let go or whatever by most media outlets here in the Detroit area where he originally "made his name".

He's an asshole who thinks he's smart, mostly by being a contrarian for no good reason and claiming lots and lots of connections in the sports world. When he was a regular columnist for either the the Freep or the News he routinely wrote the worst columns in the city.

He had a radio talker that got cancelled, and he had a regular spot on the tv that got cancelled. Now he shows up occasionally on the NBC affiliate on the late Sunday sports edition. Evidently when they can't get anyone else to prop up the "sports chick" and her blather. He's still and idiot.

Posted by: JorgXMcKie at December 14, 2012 01:59 PM (290l2)

161 166 The Iron Sheik ‏@the_ironsheik the @RobParkerESPN Rob Parker you have smallest black dick in the world you talk bullshit about the RG3 you dont know how to talk on the TV Posted by: Captain Hate (more dagny and less curious) at December 14, 2012 04:34 PM (ZX+8f) --Awesome.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2012 02:00 PM (LMgaP)

162 Rush was right though

Posted by: Zakn at December 14, 2012 06:05 PM (zyaZ1)

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