Power forward Charles Barkely said that athletes should not be role models. Point guard Jeremy Lin begs to differ. Though the Knicks got burnt by the Heat last night, Lin is turning around the beleagured franchise in America's largest media market. And he is doing so without tattoos, baby mamas, or a bad attitude. He's linspiring people halfway around the globe. Read my article @ the American Spectator on the Tim Tebow of the NBA.
If you're going to use any Asian racial slurs against him, though, just make sure there are no media people around. Because even if you're just a LOWLY DOMINOS PIZZA worker, if you say the wrong thing around a reporter, you will be RUINED FOR LIFE on the internet and in the main stream media.
Welcome to the new GDR.
It's completely ridiculous. This P.C. crap is killing us slowly. ESPN reporter already done in by it for making a seemingly innocuous comment. But that didn't mean that Jason Whitlock would not get a pass for his comments that were blantantly based on an insulting Asian sterotype.
The ESPN reporter was, well, "pasty". But J.W. is a member of a protected racial group.
That's how it works with the leftist media.
I meant to include this clip from The Lives of Others: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-44OjhEZio
The ESPN talking head who misspoke, and got suspended for 30 days, has an Asian wife and child. I don't think he harbors a hidden hatred against Asians (I have never met anyone who does save for veterans of various wars of the last century). I think the main point of all this is how graciously Jeremy Lin handled it.
Homer: Is there a Dominoe's Pizza employee who got caught up in all this? I hadn't heard.
I was aware of that. That's why it makes it even more absurd. But, consider it's ESPN - as P.C. as P.C. can get.
Lin is great. An inspiration and by all accounts a solid and humble guy. And a Christian too! Which is why I'm surprised that the secular press has not made it into a Tebow-like thing.
Let's put it this way - he's heard it all and I'm sure has developed a very thick skin. Seems to be for others to verklempt over supposed assaults.
Oops it was Papa Johns, and preceeded the current manufactured outrage. None of the articles ever mentioned the profession of the offended party.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/papa-johns-employee-calls-woman-lady-chinky-eyes-on-receipt/
