Sounding as if he were describing himself, Lupica
writes that the NRA convention attendees are “mean, dumb” and “angry.” He
painted those who cheered the comments of Sarah Palin as “phonies” and said
that all Palin did was “turn herself out for the
craziest and creepiest gun lovers on the planet.”
Lupica assailed Governor Palin’s
supposed “spectacular lack of talent [that] has made her virtually unemployable
on television.” He attacked LaPierre as “nothing more than a cheap, dangerous
demagogue, constantly trying to act as if he and an association that represents
an amazingly small percentage of gun owners in this country are the ones who
represent the heart and soul of America…LaPierre isn’t a patriot, he’s a pimp.”
Lost
in his own hypocrisy, Lupica laments the “politicizing”
of recent American tragedies in Boston and Newtown. Yet in mid-January of this
year, a Lupica piece urging action on gun-control legislation contained, in the
title of the piece no-less, the phrase “for the families of Newtown, before the
moment is lost.”
At the top of the fold on Drudge today
is a headline pondering whether Rush Limbaugh is going to depart WABC. Much of
the speculation about Rush’s future is due to an incident last year where he,
on air, called Sandra Fluke a “slut” because of her efforts speaking before the
U.S. Congress in favor of mandated health coverage for birth control.
The liberal media went nuts and pressed
advertisers to drop his show. According to the New York Daily News (where Lupica is also employed), several
hundred—including Sears, Geico, John Deere, Netflix, and Capital One—complied.
Rush’s people claim that the advertisers that left were replaced. Nevertheless,
there is some tension here.
Now here’s the real question. Will
advertisers for the sporting giant that is ESPN get the same kind of pressure
over Lupica’s comments—which insult millions—as did Rush’s advertisers? Will
there be calls for ESPN to fire Lupica?
Is calling someone a slut worse than
calling them “mean, dumb, phony pimps?” I mean, how much difference is there
between a slut and a pimp? I guess the liberal media will let us know.
(See this column on American Thinker.)
Copyright 2013, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason
Trevor and his wife Michelle are the authors of: Debt Free Living in a Debt Filled World
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