What is it with sports writers and politics? We had in recent weeks, Bob Costas anti-gun rant and Rob Parker calling RGIII a cornball. In recent years we had the Keith Olbermann soap opera. But one of the most annoying sports writers is NY Daily News writer, Mike Lupica. When he discusses sports, Lupica is usually spot on. When he veers into politics, Mike Lupica shows his Far left colors. Inserting himself into the gun debate, he goes after the NRA and really doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
So now Wayne LaPierreof the National Rifle Association, who attacks the mental health system in this country even as he sounds like he needs to be in it, goes on “Meet the Press” and continues to double down on his notion that the only way to keep our schools safe is to put armed guards at the front door and the side door and in every home room in America and maybe on every school bus, too.
The other day there was a terrific Daily News front page calling LaPierre, the NRA’s executive director, the “craziest man on Earth,” and he was clearly referencing that Sunday morning, even as he continued to sound like just one more coward made brave and tough by a gun.
[....]But then LaPierre is the type who lies to stay in practice, as he continues to pass himself off as the front man for responsible gun owners when he actually is a front for their lunatic fringe. To say that the NRA represents mainstream thinking for gun owners is the same as saying that the Tea Party represents mainstream thinking in the Republican Party.[....]
The phony is LaPierre, who chooses this moment in American history — one that should change the country and will change the country — to push his own agenda and his association’s agenda and expects people to believe that it is all about our children.
“The NRA is not going to let people lose the Second Amendment in this country,” LaPierre said Sunday, and at that point he does sound like an expert on what he calls the “cracked” mental health system, because that system is clearly doing nothing as he goes from his press conference Friday to national television sounding like a slobbering idiot.
Tags: Mike Lupica, NRA
all this phoney outrage and hysteria always sidetracks these blathering dupes…they fail to provide any solutions, just drooling rhetoric….why are they so afraid to spell out their answers to the problem?….do they doubt that conviscation, illegal grabbing legal arms is the solution?…chicken shit cowards
Sports Jounalists are not exactly cum laude grads.
They were mostly sub standard in J school etc &
now try to compensate by sounding like deep thinkers.
As I say, we need to expose these people for what they are: anti-Civil Rights activists. There is no difference in being pro-gun control anbd being pro--segregation. Both of them are anti-civil rights positions and both of them are dispicable. It should be shameful and career destroying to take the positions that they are taking. SOme 70% of the population supports Second Amendment rights. They are in the minority wanting stricter gun control, anyway. They are also wrong.
@ Iron Fist:
Both positions have common origins.
Lupica is a drooling moron, who likes to play with himself when speaking on TV.
He was born on Long Island and went to school in Boston. Shocker that he is a lefty. /
RIX wrote:
Jock sniffers.
Turn off the NFL and the NBA. Pick up your rifle and go to the range or for a walk in the wild.
Thomas Jefferson told you to.
Speranza wrote:
True
turn off the NFL?…that does not work for me…
have not heard of this guy til now, his opinion means nothing to me
From Fox Nation
The Media have no bounds when it comes to hypocrisy.
@ heysoos:
@ The Osprey:
Good thing the NHL is off…for now…perhaps if we’re lucky, we won’t have a season this year, and I daresay the Canadian Fans are even more upset!
Mikey have you completed your hard hitting essay on the thuggery in the NFL? Have you researched and condemned the wife/girlfriend beaters/killers? Or is it all the NRAs fault and attribute it to guns shooty bullets?
@ Buffalobob:
Remember, without a gun, there’s no possible way that an NFL linebacker could murder his girlfriend.
//At least according to Bob Costas
heysoos wrote:
Neve mind then. He’s just a DWEM. Nothing relevant to say to the new multicultural
United Socialist States of Amerika. Enjoy your panem et circenses!
Merry Christmas to all!
I suspect that there’s quite a bit of overlap between the two groups, actually.
After all, they’re both made up of people who have the crazy idea that our founding documents actually mean what they say.
Buffalobob wrote:
You will never hear these guys talk about the culture of
professional sports.
All of the baby mammas , violence against woman, substance abuse.
nightclub thuggery & on & On.
These guys are their golden geese, so better to blame guns or anybody
but the perps.
@ lobo91:
Remind me, what caliber weapon did OJ Simpson use?
@ The Osprey:
pretty wimpy insult, and Merry Christmas to you
It’s clearly Wayne Lapierre’s fault…
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@ lobo91:
This guy woul dhave no problem with you r I being jailed or even killed for violating gun laws. THey should lock him up for the maximum sentence, but, of coures, as a Media Elite nothing will happen to him. One reason people like this advocate such laws is that they know that as part of the Elite they won’t be subject to the consequences of them.
The politicization of every damned facet of life, including sports, is detestable.
@ lobo91:
maybe Chief Lanier forgot that you van perpetrate a felony with a toy gun
Urban Infidel wrote:
And to you!
In light of all the idiocy, I’ve decided it’s way past time I invested in a “scary-looking assault rifle”. I wonder how the idiots feel to know that they inspired thousands to do just that.
More evidence of the success of gun ban laws:
@ lobo91:
I love the typical Democrat reaction to laws that clearly don’t work: We need more laws! (that also won’t work).
Kirly wrote:
it probably angers and frustrates them off the scale…it will harden their position, and used to support their phoney racism charges
What’s needed is more crazy kook control not more gun control, but you know which one we’ll get.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
The Dems will never go for controlling crazy people.
They’re a key voting bloc for them.
@ heysoos:
Yep. I’m sure you’re right. I wonder how they think they could actually confiscate them all though. Millions and millions. Changing hands through private sales multiple times. It’s not possible to put the genie back in the bottle.
lobo91 wrote:
One of the few things stupid lawmakers excel at is making more stupid laws that can never work.
Interestingly, George Costanza on the “Seinfeld” show mentions Mike Lupica as his favorite writer. Costanza was played by far-left Obamabot Jason Alexander, who would no doubt agree with Lupica on this topic.
We’re watching A Christmas Story on TBS. I’m sure the loons hate this excellent movie. After all, the kid gets his Red Rider air gun in the end.
lobo91 wrote:
Look at OWS.
Kirly wrote:
It’d be nice if some manufacturer came out with an airgun called the “BB Netanyahu.”
heysoos wrote:
Maybe I should have used a sarc tag for the humor impaired.
Merry Christmas to you too.
@ lobo91:
Never let a crisis go to waste. The Dems love high crime rates. It is easier to scare the people into giving up their rights when crime rates are high.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Maybe IWI will come out with an Israeli firearms airsoft line with a replica Galil, Uzi and Tavor.
“The BB Netanyahu Collection(tm)”
Iron Fist wrote:
Never mind the fact that violent crime rates have been consistently declining for most of the past 25 years or so. Facts are so inconvenient.
Some idiot yesterday was yapping about kids being killed in firearms accidents. Again, the numbers have been steadily declining for decades (primarily due to safety training done by the NRA) and the actual number of kids killed annually now is so small as to be statistically insignificant.
Many times more kids are killed in accidental drownings. We clearly need to ban water.
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@ lobo91:
From what In have read, Gregory could face a year in
jail for brandishing that magazine.
Never happen, but the thought of him in the joint lecturing
felons on their poor behavior for owning guns has potential.
lobo91 wrote:
Penn and Teller are on it.
@ lobo91:
Got to love it when the left wingers get bit in the ass by their own cleverness…
@ lobo91:
Many more people are killed in accidents with cars than are killed with guns, accidents, homicides, suicides (which don’t really count), or justified self-defense combined. Maybe we should ban cars. The gun controllers don’t care about the facts. They want Control. Ultimately, they want to be able to say who lives and who dies, what you shoudl eat and drink, and in general dictate every move you make. That which is not forbidden would be compulsory in their “Ideal” society. I don’t think that they are going to be able to get gun control through the House. The Senate may pass Feinstein’s “Assault” Weapons bill, though. We’ll see on that. The Donks don’t really want to go on the record about gun control. The last time they did it cost them both houses of congress.
@ lobo91:
Ah yes! Dihydrogen monoxide! 8)
Iron Fist wrote:
The Left would love that; leftists hate the freedom and personal mobility that automobiles represent. That’s one of the reasons they are so into emissions standards, “traffic calming” and other regulations which make car ownership difficult and expensive, jacking up the price of fuel, encouraging public transportation in the most impractical places at great expense, etc., etc.
It must have killed Obama, deep down inside, to have had to brag about “saving” the auto industry when he would have much preferred to kill it outright. Now, of course, he will kill it with a thousand cuts—or at least permit it to die—since it has served the purpose of getting him re-elected.
@ Iron Fist:
Having “Slow Joe” head a Blue Ribbon Panel is a good indication that Obama is not all that serious about real gun control. What worries me is what Obama will do with EOs below the radar…
Se ya later . Have a merry Christmas!
I never heard of this Lupica twit so the importance of his yammerings are lost on me.
huckfunn wrote:
Same here
@ lobo91:
And that is the problem with permitting. No permit, no govt record of any kind would be best, IMO.
huckfunn wrote:
Lupica is a twit who is read by a great many people, mostly in and in some cases out of the greater New York area. He is one of many twits who say similar moronic things. The fact that you, or I, may not have heard of one or more of these twits—or, having heard of them, do not follow their writings—is immaterial.
If they are read by a number of people, then they have the ear of a number of people (many of them those “low information voters” who famously did not vote to get rid of Obama last time around), and what they say is, therefore, important—because it is part of what makes up the culture that works against conservative viewpoints being accepted in the society as a whole.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Yeah, but it makes me feel better to proclaim his unimportantence to me. So there…
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Cash for Clunckers took an entire generation of affordable cars out of the market for would-be low income buyers. Those peeps are now further than ever from car ownership. Which, of course, was part of the Obamunist plan. Drive them all toward government funded mass transportation.
epic failure of the car industry bail out…
taxpayers hosed again for the benefit of unions
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/12/20/the_auto_bailout_failure_is_now_complete_116473.html
huckfunn wrote:
cattle cars have a proven efficiency…line starts over there—>
huckfunn wrote:
of course an enterprising individual with a few bucks could make a lot of money filling that void by reselling clunkers bought in say Mexico
studies have proven than GM vehicles are involved in drunken driver deaths more than any other brand…therefore BO supports death by drunken driver….working on my lib logic here
I just fixed a busted light switch with my nifty new Christmas DeWalt screwdrivers. Rejoice!
@ huckfunn:
good for you!…operating a screwdriver is a lost art
heysoos wrote:
Brooklyn to Times Sq. in 11 minutes for around 2 bucks (with an unlimited card) ain’t bad at all… of course outside of the big cities mass transit sucks.
brookly red wrote:
Next time you drive south on Interstate 35 toward Laredo, you will see caravans of entremanures in clunkers towing clunkers toward Mexico. A thriving market.
huckfunn wrote:
you did remember to turn off the power first, right Huck?…
Huck?
heysoos wrote:
I had the same thought. Welfare macht frei, etc…
brookly red wrote:
it that was intentional it was brilliant
@ brookly red:
I really enjoy using mass transit when I have the opportunity and NYC certainly provides that…I spent a week around the DC area a few years back with my family…we loved riding the metro, buses and such…it’s a cultural thing, and you touched it, that opposing subcultures have no claim what’s right for the others…a subway in DeMoines doesn’t work, conversely, without one NYC doesn’t work…public transportation is hardly one size fits all…thanks for pointing that out
brookly red wrote:
Nope! I love living dangerously. It makes the chore more rewarding, particularly if I don’t fry myself. Not only that, it’s windy as hell outside and I didn’t want to go outside to find the breaker. And that’s a chore in itself. Click each one until someone inside yells “YO”.
huckfunn wrote:
/don’t forget about our secret underground processing centers where an entire train load of tourists can just disappear into a hole in the ground to have their organs harvested. Muhahahah
@ huckfunn:
Uh, label the breakers, dude.
Mike C. wrote:
Killjoy!
heysoos wrote:
You can tell that the so-called “greens” who babble about public transportation are complete hypocrites by observing how seldom they advocate for the revival of trolley buses (never, in case you are wondering). Instead, they advocate for hybrid vehicles or light rail.
Hybrids are ridiculously expensive, because they require two propulsion systems. Light rail is ridiculously expensive because it requires tracks, which take forever to lay, which are subject to stoppages due to debris, and which are…limited to the track.
Chicago, when I was a kid, had a comprehensive trolley-bus system; the buses were virtually all electric, and ran off a grid of overhead electric wires. Trackless, on rubber tires. No secondary propulsion system; they were entirely electric.
The overhead electric grid was proven safe, allowed for centralized powering of the buses (thereby achieving economies of scale). Rebuilding such networks (Chicago scrapped its electric system under Carter, just in time for the gas shortage) would be a genuine job provider that would build infrastructure.
Not a single “green” advocate has ever, to my knowledge, suggested such a system.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
well some do but they are quickly thrown under the bus.
brookly red wrote:
Heh.
If there ever has been such an advocate from the “green” side, I’ve never heard them.
they have been talking about a 42nd street trolley for like 30 yrs now…
@ buzzsawmonkey:
ahhh, fond memories of the Loop…if one has not ridden the L around, especially at night, you’ve missed a great opportunity to witness public transportation at it’s zenith…here in NM we have the RailRunner light rail between Las Lunas, south of ABQ through town and up to Santa Fe, 40 miles north…it is a real fun way to get around (if north and south is where you wanna go) but a miserable failure financially…it’s very expensive to build tracks and stations in the medium of an interstate highway, but we did it, and you are paying for it…thanks or that
up in Denver, they built a overhead power trolly system from scratch, primarily around the shopping district at Larimer Square…back in the early 90′s I think…but it is very popular and highly effective, cool to see putting around and gives the citizens a sense of logic…ding ding!
@ heysoos:
My niece drives one of those articulated electric double buses in downtown San Francisco.
brookly red wrote:
Again, that’s a tracklaying thing. An electric overhead power grid for trackless trolley buses could probably be rigged in a matter of weeks. They’re not serious.
leave the people alone and we’ll figure it out…my trip to DC involved a motor home which we parked in some huge complex out in Alexandria…the park had a bus system which took you to a train depot…from there you could make one underground change, and pop up on the Mall a few minutes later…very tourist friendly
@ heysoos:
Again: trolley buses have no tracks, and no stations—merely an overhead electrical wire grid. Easy to put up, easy to maintain, easy to expand. Most of Chicago was covered with these grids up through the late ’70s. They could easily rebuild the grids—but no; they’d rather spend money on hybrids. It’s bullshit.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Doomberg is no doubt busy with more urgent issues such as big gulps and salty things.
huckfunn wrote:
cool job…it’s not about getting rich, it’s about enjoying yourself…I’d take that job in a NY second
huckfunn wrote:
He’s busy destroying the traffic patterns everywhere in the name of “traffic calming.”
Now that he’s made Broadway impassable in several spots—how sad is that?—with stupid “pedestrian plazas,” and stuck barely-used bike lanes everywhere, he’s talking about putting in special traffic lights for the cyclists to ignore the way they ignore the existing traffic lights. Not only hasn’t he cracked down on cyclist scofflaws, he’s letting unlicensed mini-scooters act like bicycles now and ignore the traffic laws.
He’s an idiot.
heysoos wrote:
She’s an interesting gal. She’s Korean, adopted by sis and bro-in-law. She was always a bit on the slow side, emotionally and developmentally. She bought a house in SanFran. The house has a small apartment that she rents out. She’s done quite well and being a union member bus driver in SanFran pays about $80k per year.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
The electorate (save the good Blogmocats who reside there) are idiots for continually reelecting the jerk.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
NYC is an interesting place…I’m not sure that if you don’t visit or pay attention if you do, it will make any sense…it’s mammoth, beyond most people in a way
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
well the smart pedestrians don’t want to sip their lattes in the middle of freakin Broadway…
huckfunn wrote:
well we voted for term limits, but laws are for little people…
huckfunn wrote:
Bloomberg bribed the City Council to illegally abrogate the term limits so he could run again, and then spent $100 million to get re-elected. This money went to the newspapers, to bully them into supporting him; to the broadcast media; to the various machine politicians who helped to make sure that the votes added up right—and he still barely squeaked in by 50,000 votes.
It used to be that people thought “Oh, let’s elect the rich guy because he won’t be corrupted by ordinary politics.” Bloomberg is living proof that with enough money, the rich guy can corrupt the system to feed his own massive ego. We saw something of the same sort happen with Obama’s re-election, where a corrupt media in the bag for Obama made sure that the illegal donations which Obama received were not an issue, and there was no scrutiny of registration and tallying fraud in the two or three swing states where skillfully-spread corruption could effectively steal the election nationwide.
@ heysoos:
Karachi, Pakistan is an “interesting” place, too, but damned if I’ll ever go there again.
heysoos wrote:
New York, at this point, is a theme park imitation of a real city.
I’m starting to wonder if the division between urban and rural America is having even more political effect…the extreme differences regarding what’s good for every American is exacerbated by those very geopolitical rifts…what a mess…people need to travel more
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I suppose I post in terms of NYC the Myth…I have not lived there so I don’t know of the pulse as time goes by…I’m a perpetual tourist, so let’s go look at the gangsters!…I like clams too
brookly red wrote:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I was about to axe how he got around the terms limits. Thanks to Buzz for the explanation.
In the spirit of ignoring the BS for just one day, here’s a reprint of a Mark Steyn piece about “White Christmas” and Irving Berlin. Berlin was quite a remarkable fellow; a Jewish Russian immigrant, he was the quintessential American.
Merry Christmas, peeps!
MacDuff wrote:
Otto Preminger, as the Camp Commandant in the movie “Stalag 17,” refers to the song; “Good morgen, Sergeants. Nasty weather we are having…and I so hoped we could give you a white Christmas, just like the ones you used to know. Isn’t that what was said by that funny little man who stole his name from our capital…that what-do-you-call him “Berlin”? Now, as a treat, I will have you all de-loused for the holidays…”
“Stalag 17,” with William Holden and Peter Graves, is one of the great unsung Christmas movies.
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I still like the original Die Hard, but to each his own
@ lobo91:
Yippi-ki-yay motherfuckers!
Macker wrote:
Probably won’t see that on a card from Hallmark…
Otto Preminger in “Stalag 17″, at 4:30.
“Stalag 17″ Part 1, if you want to watch it all the way through.
lobo91 wrote:
“Die Hard” has its moments, certainly, but there’s a lot more going on—in my humble opinion—in “Stalag 17,” even if the body count is lower and the thrills not quite so easy.
Iron Fist wrote:
Funny you should mention that.
Right on cue Juan Williams picks Wayne Lapierre for his “naughty” list, saying that his press conference the other day was “apalling.”
Idiot.
after the initial hack job by the media Lapierre may have the last laugh … safe schools for me but not ye?
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/23/School-Obama-s-Daughters-Attend-Has-11-Armed-Guards-Not-Counting-Secret-Service
@ brookly red:
Wow…liberal hypocrites.
I’ve never heard of such a thing…
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and while were at it…
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/24/Merry-Christmas-immigrants-Obama-Holder-push-to-loosen-alien-gun-sales-restrictions