Jason Whitlock really ticks me off

[I Should Coco]

Clearly, it's difficult, if not impossible, to determine if Clutch is, indeed, Whitlock. Frankly, I could hardly give a shirt, though if you are Whitlock, I am one of those who think your work is vastly overrated ... However, given this Clutch's insipid and childish dismissal of liberals as desperate to let terrorists roam free, it's certain Clutch is an ill-informed idiot at best and consciously and studiously ignorant at worst.

Um, Clutch? As a proud, loud, liberal who came by his hate for the right back in 1972, I can assure you, I want both George Bush prosecuted for his many obvious crimes and I want real, honest-to-goodness terrorists to pay for their acts.

Now, where is that pesky Osama bin Laden again? Oh, wait, that's right -- we don't really need to catch him after all, sayeth Bush....

We're going to smoke that evildoer out of his cave, remember?

Oh wait ... was that Osama bin Laden or Michael Phelps? ???

"Guess I'll roll another number for the road ..."

 

[Double J]

Hero worship.

Who died and made YOU of all people the arbiter of what's acceptable on SportsJournalists.com? I don't see a Global Moderator or Forum Moderator tag under your user name.

Or "Hero Member," as it says on one particular douchebag's forum, of which he is the only regularly posting member.

Huh-huh-huh.....he's a "member."

 

[Batman]

Clearly, it's difficult, if not impossible, to determine if Clutch is, indeed, Whitlock. Frankly, I could hardly give a shirt, though if you are Whitlock, I am one of those who think your work is vastly overrated ... However, given this Clutch's insipid and childish dismissal of liberals as desperate to let terrorists roam free, it's certain Clutch is an ill-informed idiot at best and consciously and studiously ignorant at worst.

Um, Clutch? As a proud, loud, liberal who came by his hate for the right back in 1972, I can assure you, I want both George Bush prosecuted for his many obvious crimes and I want real, honest-to-goodness terrorists to pay for their acts.

Now, where is that pesky Osama bin Laden again? Oh, wait, that's right -- we don't really need to catch him after all, sayeth Bush....

We're going to smoke that evildoer out of his cave, remember?

Oh wait ... was that Osama bin Laden or Michael Phelps? ???

"Guess I'll roll another number for the road ..."

So Osama bin Laden was smoking a doobie with Michael Phelps and Jason Whitlock?

 

[Double J]

Hero worship.

yes. i've always thrown down a little worship at the foot of the fat man.

Which one??

Given your photo icon, was waiting for Jackie Gleason with a cue in his hand.

Naw, Jackie's not the Fat One. He's the Great One. (No apologies to Wayne Gretzky necessary)

 

[clutchcargo]

Hero worship.

Who died and made YOU of all people the arbiter of what's acceptable on SportsJournalists.com? I don't see a Global Moderator or Forum Moderator tag under your user name.

Lighten up.

 

[clutchcargo]

Now, where is that pesky Osama bin Laden again? Oh, wait, that's right -- we don't really need to catch him after all, sayeth Bush....

I haven't seen Obama knocking on Bin Laden's door, either, unless it's to give him a bailout or a $3 million bonus.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

 

[Zombie Vonnegut]

Now, where is that pesky Osama bin Laden again? Oh, wait, that's right -- we don't really need to catch him after all, sayeth Bush....

I haven't seen Obama knocking on Bin Laden's door, either, unless it's to give him a bailout or a $3 million bonus.

One had 2688 days to find him.

The other's had 58.

So how about we all shut the fork up and keep the dimwitted politics on the politics board?

Thanks.

 

[clutchcargo]

Nice language.

 

[shotglass]

Oh, yeah. You're really going there on THIS board.

Jesus.

 

[clutchcargo]

Clearly, it's difficult, if not impossible, to determine if Clutch is, indeed, Whitlock. Frankly, I could hardly give a shirt, though if you are Whitlock, I am one of those who think your work is vastly overrated

Three reactions:

1. Yes, you do give a crap. If you didn't, you wouldn't be responding.
2. Just by participating in a callout of Whitlock on this thread, you are no better than the other minions here who persist in giving him the in-awe-of celebrity treatment---if he were to walk into a room occupied you, it would take you 15 minuets to work up the nerve to speak to him, and let's see yuo say to his face what is being said in here. He's one of your PEERS for cryin' out loud!! Treat him as such.
3. Overrated???!!! He gets paid very, very well for being overrated, and this obviously is not an industry that frivolously throws around big salaries and retention bonuses not paid to CEOs.

 

[WriteThinking]

Here we go again, hero worship on the threads of sportsjournalists.com.

Whether we diss Whitlock or praise him here, or Jay Mariotti, or Jeff Pearlman, or whomever, just the fact we single out one of our peers by name and talk about him or her, is a form of hero worship.

This is kind of embarrassing, for one of our peers to be talking about another peer like they are some sort of celebrity. We should be able to let one of our peers write a column without getting bent out of shape over it, even when opinion goes against what you would write.

It's not hero worship. It's water-cooler conversation.

I never read Whitlock, except when things are posted on here, but discussions about specifically named people -- usually columnists -- should be no surprise, or any problem.

Columnists are the celebrities of our industry. It makes sense that they're the ones who people -- even fellow journalists -- would talk about. It's just giving a topic a name, a face and a voice, which often is how things get talked about at all.

When we do it, it's just the intersection between our inner sports fans and our identities as sports journalists being reached.

I doubt Whitlock cares whether he or his columns come up in conversations. In fact, he would, and probably should, be more concerned if his name didn't come up, and if he and/or his writing didn't elicit polarizing reactions once in a while.

That's part of the whole point of being a columnist, isn't it?