Jason Whitlock's letter to Barack Obama

I never said it wasn't a big deal. Just pointing out that the actual column in question is going to get lost in the disdain for Whitlock. I'm no fan, but I liked this column. Simple.

 

He does frame it as a situation where Don Imus' chickens will come home to roost.

It's a couple degrees, but it is related to sports.

 

Curious: What is this "outing debacle" of which some speak? I have no idea.

 

really don't either.... just in very general terms.

 

I think you're saying your posts aren't worth reading. OK, I'm fine with that.

 

Holy Leap in Logic, Batman!

 

Check your PMs, those who asked.

 

Can't wait to see you try explaining that one...

 

Pall, I know you, and I know you're not this obtuse. Chopping someone's words and leaping isn't really you, and I'm saddened.

If you really don't think there's a big difference between someone posting on a MESSAGE board what they believe vs. filling a "sports column" with drivel about their political beliefs, then you probably shouldn't take up that argument.

I can post on here that I think Jason Taylor's hot. Do you think I'm putting that in my paper? Because I'm not.

 

I don't really believe that's what Grimace was thinking., Doc. But I do believe his posts aren't worth reading.

 

Give it a couple years...

Papers had better start thinking about becoming more provocative... European....Tabloid.

We are fucking boring, people.

 

The paper vs. message board argument has nothing to do with it. I was addressing the general idea that if you write sports, you don't have anything viable to say about other subjects. I compare that attitude to someone who doesn't work in sports coming onto a political thread here and saying, "What the fuck do you guys know, you're sportswriters." If someone did that, people around here would be livid (rightfully so). So to suggest that a sportswriter has no business writing about politics is pretty close-minded, IMO.