Tackling Bill Maher’s “NFL Is Socialist” Rant
January 31, 2011 at 9:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Bill Maher, Capitalism, Economics, Football, HBO, Hollywood, huffington post, NewsReal Blog, nfl, Real Time, Socialism, The Concession Stand
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…
Of Dogs and Men: How the Tucker Carlson / Michael Vick Flap Reveals the Left’s Moral Degeneracy
January 3, 2011 at 10:00 am | Posted in NewsRealBlog | Leave a commentTags: Agendas of the Left, animal rights, Conservatism, Defining the Left, dog fighting, education, Football, Higher Education, Michael Vick, Moral Agency, Moral Agent, NewsReal Blog, nfl, PETA, politics, Princeton University, The Concession Stand, The Nation, Tucker Carlson
by Walter Hudson, contributed to NewsReal Blog
There are times when the explanation for a misunderstanding reveals an offense much more appalling. The recent controversy regarding Philadelphia Eagle’s quarterback Michael Vick and his cruelty to dogs, for which he was incarcerated, has provided such a moment.
The impetus for controversy was a comment by President Obama in support of the Eagle’s decision to let Vick play football following his incarceration. The presidential attention led commentator Tucker Carlson to assert that Vick ought to have been executed for his crimes. As we might expect, Carlson provoked a hardy response.
Among those chiming in was Professor Melissa Harris-Perry, who joined fill-in host Bill Wolff on The Rachel Maddow Show. Expecting more time to articulate her point, Harris-Perry’s comments were initially perceived as an attempt to justify Vick’s crimes as a product of America’s history of slavery and institutionalized racism. As it turns out, that was not her intended point. Eager to clarify, Harris-Perry crafted a blog post at The Nation to flesh out her argument.
Ironically, her correction is far more alarming than the initial misunderstanding. Along with Nation colleague Dave Zirin, Harris-Perry demonstrates the utter moral depravity which underlies leftist notions of animal rights, race relations, and the criminal justice system. Their worldview, carried to its logical conclusion, would inform a totalitarian state.
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