Tackling Bill Maher’s “NFL Is Socialist” Rant

January 31, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a comment
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by Walter Hudson, contributed to David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog

Americans must realize that what makes the NFL so great is socialism. Such is the thesis of Bill Maher’s most recent “New Rule” on HBO’s Real Time, and a companion column in the Huffington Post.

I can only imagine the delight with which Maher concocted this clever-sounding notion and unleashed it upon the world. It’s quintessential Maher, the kind of rhetorical titty-twister he regards as legitimate intellectual combat. Of course, as is so often the case with Maher’s superficially sound arguments, this latest exercise in carnival cognition unravels upon cursory examination.

It’s no surprise that some 100 million Americans will watch the Super Bowl next week… Because football is built on an economic model of fairness and opportunity, and baseball is built on a model where the rich almost always win and the poor usually have no chance…

Read on at David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog



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