Skip Bayless on the racial preferences of Redskins fans

You gave him the click.
Excrement is meant to be flushed, not inspected.

 

Insight, enlightenment, an invitation to contemplation, analysis, context, levity, humor, perspective, information. Good journalism provides these things, keeps people entertained with these things, gets people thinking with these things, gets people talking with these things.

What is the point of the "like him or hate him" observation. To remind us that he's an attention whore? We'd all be talking about Skip Bayless if he smeared shit on his face.

So what?

Why I think this matters (and not the race thing, which was stupid and demonstrably, provably false and such naked pandering and narcissistic trolling that to consider his point or refute his point or debate his point requires a willing suspension of basic adult intellgence -- but wasn't necessarily racist or offensive) is that it debases the entire profession and (further) lowers reader expectations and standards.

Bayless is always talking about himself, only himself. What use, beyond his weird egotistical masochism, does any of what he does serve?

He wants people to debate Skip Bayless. It "works."

 

It speaks volumes of Bayless' reputation that the general reaction seems to be, "It's Skip Bayless. Of course he said something like that." Anyone with a reputation for thoughtful insight would be taken to the cleaners for something like this.

With Bayless, it seems like a waste of time.

 

I understand where he's coming from but this guy needs to STFU. WHY is he still on the air?

 

Next topic for Skip: Why white guys born in the U.S. are inherently inferior basketball players.

 

I sure don't.

What do you think his point is?

 

White people are pulling for white people. Black people are pulling for Black people. White people want to see a white quarterback run the 'Skins.

 

Do believe that's true?

Do you think Skip Bayless believes that's true?

 

I believe there is some truth in what he's saying that connects to a segment of our society. But Skip Bayless is an asshole. That idiot does not represent my ideas and I definitely don't consider him an authority on race relations in Washington or anywhere else.
I think I may have to call Jalen Rose to straighten him out.

 

Of all the jackassed retorts you've made THIS is the worst. I DID NOT say I agreed with this ahole. I said I understand where he is coming from and there is a segment of our society who believes in this type of logic.
As for his popularity in D.C., I definitely don't need you tell me how popular he is. I'm in the city quite often. I know his impact.

 

For how many years did we hear about how fans were waiting for (and promoters were looking for) a great white hope to challenge for the heavyweight boxing crown.

Why was that?

The answer to that is, in many respects, the answer to what Bayless was getting at.