Vox Day seconds my motion from yesterday that politics be stricken from the sports pages.
BTW, Simmons' jab yesterday wasn't a first offense for ESPN.com. Former Pioneer Press sportswriter Jim Caple now writes for the ESPN website. In his recent memorial to David Halberstam, he let the mask fall off completely, revealing the seething, annoying liberal he is in his off hours:
Halberstam was an exceptional and relentless journalist -- had more reporters been as questioning early in the Iraq War as Halberstam was in Vietnam, we might not be in our current quagmire.
Yes, the "Bush Lied" premise being trotted out at ESPN. Questions of Halberstam's veracity and "Iraq as quagmire" aside, this belief that a bunch of self-righteous reporters could have changed the fate of nations and the course of world events, if only they'd been even more agenda driven and hostile to Republicans, is laughable. Though it's not uncommon in the circles of the delusional, self-reverential political press. Up until now, I didn't consider ESPN among those circles.
Caple goes on:
Journalism, already under attack from the government, is much the lesser with Halberstam's passing Monday morning in an auto accident.
A little conspiracy mongering to go with your propaganda? You get the sense Caple is yearning to write about these "important" issues, instead of wasting his big brain on mere sports. Unfortunately, mere sports is why most people visit EPSN.com. Maybe Mother Jones or The Nation could add a sports section, he could get a job there instead, and everyone would be happy.
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