Clay Travis, Boobs and CNN

I watched the video. It felt and looked like a dude ranting at the end of the bar about something that happened a long time ago. And nobody is listening.

 

Inexpressibly bad.

Not-quite-up-to-the-standards-of-public-access-cable-channel-47 bad.

 

That's the thing ... he's got talent and still got "It" but is wasting away.

 

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The guy has done TV - he couldn't put together a better production effort than that? It looked like a hostage video in sections.

 

Production value aside, he's bored.

 

he's another person who requires a great deal of attention, and a lot of shit is going on that takes it away from him

 

As a viewer, I don't care that he's bored.

I care very much that he's boring me.

 

His media critiques and insults are about the only way that Jason Whitlock can generate any sort of heat any more. What's the last Whitlock opinion on anything actually sports-related you can remember? I can't think of one. And his critiques of the politics of athletes don't resonate anymore, either, in large part because most Black athletes and Black media members no longer see him as anything other than an attention monger who brokers in respectability politics.

The only way he gets any sort of attention anymore is by ripping other media members.

 

Much better production values.

 

The last time I recall Jason being turned to as a national voice was during the lacrosse scandal at Duke.

 

That's a great example of how the dude actually used to contribute some critical thinking on national news stories. Now? It's just basically him calling any athlete's political perspective immature and misguided.

I remember him writing a column -- I think it was on FOX Sports -- in which he stated that America believed in reparations in the case of old, white men who were now crippled because of their football careers, but not after slavery. It was a thought-provoking comparison. At least for me.

The Iverson video shows just how deeply Whitlock pissed him off. I don't know if any contemporary pro athlete would pay him that kind of attention now.