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Old 11-16-2016, 03:56 AM   #1
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Default Has ESPN become too political and liberal?

http://www.espn.com/blog/ombudsman/p...tical-dynamics

I get really tired of the click-bait politically pandering kind of articles on ESPN.

Just today there are TWO different articles on Phil Jackson calling LeBron's entourage a "posse."

Btw, am I allowed to say entourage? Is it racist for me to say that?

Well what does Lebron think? What does Carmelo think? How does Phil respond? How does each talking head at ESPN respond to all of this?

And so forth. Getting very sick of it.

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I heard about the Phil Jackson dispute with Lebron James on the Doug Gottleib sow today. At first I thought that James is being ridiculous (what Gottleib thinks), based on my understanding of the meaning of posse; it just seemed a poor choice of words when he meant entourage. At most I would have faulted Jackson's vocabulary. But then I looked up the word in the urban dictionary and I see it has another meaning that arises from inner city, African American groups of young men and gangs. And I decided James isn't being overly sensitive. I'm not saying Jackson is racist. I just think he was being too cute; he's a 75 year old white man. He shouldn't be using posse in that context.

This reminds me of when Jackson called Mormonism a cult.
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I heard about the Phil Jackson dispute with Lebron James on the Doug Gottleib sow today. At first I thought that James is being ridiculous (what Gottleib thinks), based on my understanding of the meaning of posse; it just seemed a poor choice of words when he meant entourage. At most I would have faulted Jackson's vocabulary. But then I looked up the word in the urban dictionary and I see it has another meaning that arises from inner city, African American groups of young men and gangs. And I decided James isn't being overly sensitive. I'm not saying Jackson is racist. I just think he was being too cute; he's a 75 year old white man. He shouldn't be using posse in that context.

This reminds me of when Jackson called Mormonism a cult.
The disconnect here between speaker and audience is a perfect example of people seeing what they want to see.

Entourage of course makes sense. I had no idea "posse" has an urban sub-meaning and I doubt anybody outside of the subset within the urban community has any idea it has acquired a secondary meaning. For me, posse always conjures up the sheriff with John Wayne at its head to do justice, not some gang member. James, given his wealth and connection to mainstream society, had to know for most people outside the urban setting, "posse" doesn't connote the negative subtext.

On the other hand, Jackson is not some mensch who is very gifted with words, even though ESPN wants to portray him as a cerebral coach.
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ESPN contacted all 30 teams this week to ask about their travel plans in New York and other NBA cities that feature Trump-branded hotels, which include Chicago, Miami, Toronto and Washington.

Several teams that have stayed at the Trump SoHo in particular in the past told ESPN that they are not staying there this season but did not specifically attribute the switch to any political reason. Several more said that they’ve never stayed at Trump-branded hotels.
Yet another example of ESPN pretending to be Woodward and Bernstein for the purpose of roiling the waters and stirring up dissent and controversy for clicks.

I've never given a rats ass where NBA players spend the night.

One more reason to quit both ESPN and the NBA.
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Yet another example of ESPN pretending to be Woodward and Bernstein for the purpose of roiling the waters and stirring up dissent and controversy for clicks.

I've never given a rats ass where NBA players spend the night.

One more reason to quit both ESPN and the NBA.
Wow. F them.
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