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So Jemele Hill got suspended from ESPN

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Big Chee, Jun 18, 2008.

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  1. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    I'm giving you a timeout. No stalking for 15 minutes.
     
  2. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    :)

    (sorry, had to dump all the quotes. That was getting way too long.
     
  3. joe

    joe Active Member

     
  4. editorhoo

    editorhoo Member

    Hill is a giant poser.

    In March, while sitting in for Rome, she blasted Ohio State during her final burn for hosting an NIT game at old St. John Arena because The Schott was booked for a concert (like Ohio State is going to take into consideration a possible men's NIT game when booking events).

    She called St. John old and dilapidated, but has that moran ever been to a game at St. John Arena?

    That dilapidated old building has 100x more character than she'll ever have, and when that place is full and rocking, the atmosphere trancends any "knowledge" Hill may have of sports.

    That said, she nor Imus, should not have had their employment affected by their comments. This is America, and you have the right to be anything you want -- including stupid.
     
  5. Dickens Cider

    Dickens Cider New Member

    She used to work in Detroit, so it's certainly possible.
     
  6. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Not yet, but it's coming.


    And Hoo, you're right about St. John Arena... classic old barn...wonderful place to watch a game
     
  7. Lester Bangs

    Lester Bangs Active Member

    Probably covered at length in the other thread(s?), but how the hell does the word "Hitler" appear in copy written by an ESPN-caliber (/straight line) columnist not set off every imaginable red flag on the desk, causing any one person to break out the perspective defibrillator?

    Every college copy editor in America knows that "Hitler" should stop them in their tracks so that they can ruminate on unleashing said comparison on a fairly sensitive reading public. It was not worse than Imus but it was dumber.
     
  8. JakeandElwood

    JakeandElwood Well-Known Member

    The Schlieffen Plan was WWI.
     
  9. steveu

    steveu Well-Known Member

    Chicken dinner my ass... lol
    Your lovely PC police at work again. :)
     
  10. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    Yeah, Imus' wasn't as bad.
     
  11. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    I'm not sure Hitler ever needs to be mentioned in anything other than a stringently historical context, in his time and place, where he belongs. The flood of Hitler material is off the charts -- more has been written on him than Christ, just since 1936 -- and doesn't need a turdlet of a sports column thrown on the shit heap. Historians can no longer even place a number on the primary source material. The secondary is unfathomable. You're talking in the thousands -- from biographies and monographs to psychohistories and studies of his diet. Enough has never been enough. One thing is clear -- Jemele has added nothing to the historical record, either.
     
  12. hpdrifter

    hpdrifter Member

    Hill wasn't bad at the start. She just went too far....
     
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