Our friend Phil's racist rant about Jay-Z's Nets raising eyebrows

You keep saying that no white person in any circumstance can ever utter the 'n-word' to an African-American without provoking violence.

Eminem is still one piece.

 

Hold it! The next man makes a move, the Mushnick gets it.

 

Women ain't nothing but Mushnicks and Lupicas.

 

Get your facts straight. I have never said such a thing and for that matter, I don't know or really care if you are Black or White. I know many Black people who don't use the word and are offended when another Black person says it. I know many White people who don't use the word and are offended.
So where are you trying to go with this?

 

Why Black but not White?

 

typing too fast.

 

Eminem does not use that word, just to be clear.

 

Stephen A. always kissing up to big names

By PHIL MUSHNICK

Last Updated: 5:25 AM, March 18, 2012

Posted: 12:42 AM, March 18, 2012

Not that Stephen A. Smith has to worry about his credibility — too late for that — but his recent, recidivist put-down spews against Jeremy Lin on 1050 ESPN Radio sounded designed to encourage us to believe what Smith says, rather than what we’ve seen. And I’m not quite ready for that. You?

Smith has tried to over-simplify and reduce the Knicks’ latest Greek Tragedy as a mandate: Who should get the most shots, Lin or Carmelo Anthony?

That’s the yardstick? Who gets the most shots?

Lin, when allowed — and with Anthony out — made the Knicks a better team. And, not coincidentally, a winning team.

Sure, it purely was accidental, but it became a matter of indisputable self-evidence that Lin kept everyone — except opponents — moving without the ball, alert, energetic, achieving, a gas. More times than not, the Knick with the easiest shot scored. Imagine that!

It’s also a matter of self-evidence that when Anthony returned, the energy dimmed, then drained. Minimalist, isolation ball and offensive loitering returned. The goal no longer was for the Knicks to be the best team it could be, but to feed the highest-paid individual talents on the team, stay out their way and hope for the best.

Smith, although always eager to ID himself as a basketball Erasmus (Royal Order of the Self-Appointed), has tried to reduce a five-man team game to a single stars pecking-order game — a quick return to the flaw plan that has for years made James Dolan’s Knicks a square-dance squad, a drag.

Not that we’re surprised. Smith’s stock-in-trade — what makes him attractive to Motherland ESPN — are his kiss-fanny, slick-talk interview access to point-totals NBA’s stars.

Of course, he would make it a Lin vs. Anthony thing. And once he creates such a baseless, disingenuous issue, he would obligatorily back Anthony, superstar. Team game? Basketball? Since when?

And now back to our originally scheduled programming, One-On-One Clear-Out Ball. “Shot clock down to two! ...”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/star_stuck_PbUUNM5QGww8RjQQ13nAjM#ixzz1u2zOTfSC

 

This is a tough one to sort out. I'm a Jay-Z fan for various reasons. Reading through some of those lyrics Boom posted... you're reminded how good he is at what he does. I did a story once on something where he donated millions and wanted zero credit. I find him crazy-ugly-sexy.

On the other hand, I can't stand Mushnick. He's cringeworthy in his old cootness. He's also a hypocrite.

And yet I find myself nodding at gingerbread's posts.

 

On that one, Mush gets demerits for waling on an easy target almost all can agree on. At least with Jay-Z, whether Mush is right or not, he is taking on someone who's an icon to many.

 

He's no Pat Boone.

 

I'd rather Jay-Z try heavy metal; maybe it will karmically cancel out Pat Boone's stab at it.