David Feherty channels Ben Wright

Hey, Fenian, can you or one of your minions show me how to post a giant IF as a proper response to this bit of whining.

 

CBS has done it for years and never had a problem.

The question I have, though, is, if I looked at the link correctly, this thing was published in March. Why is this suddenly an issue now?

 

Just a hunch, but I don't think he's talking about SportsJournalists.com posters. Scoring points on the sj politics board is like dunking on a six-foot goal.

 

I've heard the guy say some pretty eyebrow-raising stuff on the air before. No, I can't recall any examples to cite to you, but to the point where I was not really surprised about what he said here.

 

The only thing I've ever heard from Feherty is a massive orgasm every time Tiger hits a shot.

 

Feherty did apologize today. From AP:

CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty apologized Sunday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a morbid joke that went bad in a Dallas magazine.
Feherty, one of the most popular golf analysts for his sharp wit and self-deprecating humor, was among five Dallas residents who wrote for “D Magazine” on former President George W. Bush moving to Dallas.
“From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though,” Feherty wrote toward the end of his column. “Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”
Feherty, a former Ryder Cup player who grew up in Northern Ireland, has gone to Iraq over Thanksgiving the past two years to visit with U.S. troops, and he created a foundation to help wounded soldiers.
“This passage was a metaphor meant to describe how American troops felt about our 43rd president,” Feherty said in a statement. “In retrospect, it was inappropriate and unacceptable, and has clearly insulted Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid, and for that, I apologize. As for our troops, they know I will continue to do as much as I can for them both at home and abroad.”
Feherty has lived in Dallas the past dozen years. Along with working for CBS Sports, he writes a monthly column for Golf magazine and has written four books, the last one titled, “An Idiot for All Season.”
CBS Sports distanced itself from Feherty’s writing, saying it was “an unacceptable attempt at humor and is not in any way condoned, endorsed or approved” by the network. The PGA Tour also criticized him for an attempt at humor that “went over the line.”
CBS is not broadcasting The Players Championship this week. The network resumes its PGA Tour coverage next week in San Antonio with the Valero Texas Open.

 

A blogger! finally came across it and was outraged by it.

 

By "scoring points", I mean the "outrage" that suddenly develops on something like this. Be it spicy mustard, semi-nude pics of a beauty contestant, Obama getting a degree from Notre Dame, Palin's daughter speaking out for abstinence, etc., etc.
I'm not going to harp on those who take genuine offense at such things (except for the mustard thing), I'm just saying it doesn't affect my views at all.

 

That's what I thought.

 

The Pelosi/Reid line was in horrible taste, and confirms why I can't stand the guy on CBS golf telecasts.

You watch, too. He won't leave it alone. In some interview somewhere, he'll piss and moan about it. Poor SOB. Half-assed golfer who gets to make a living cracking jokes about shots he can't make.

 

Once again, true freedom of speech is sacrificed upon the altar of political correctness.

 

Freedom of Speech only protects you from the government, not from a backlash from private citizens.