The Other McCain

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HOLY. FREAKING. CRAP.

Posted on | September 18, 2011 | 155 Comments

Just now got in off the road, returning from Ohio where my wife’s parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. On the way — quite literally writing “on the road,” since the trip was seven hours — I composed a long post that I’ll put up later tonight.

But that’s going to have to wait a while, because I just logged on and saw this by Ladd Ehlinger and this by Dan Riehl. Both Dan and Ladd called me yesterday while I was driving to Ohio, but the cell-phone reception on the road was sufficiently crappy that I was unable to understand what they were talking about. And then I caught this link via Dan’s blog and . . .

HOLY. FREAKING. CRAP.

The blog-war aspect of this incident rather dwindles into insignficance when measured against the apparent willingness of a Las Vegas radio station to allow Mike Tyson to spew such filthy and derogatory racial stereotypes. Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Norm Clark writes:

Former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson is under fire for “deplorable” and “stomach-churning” graphic sexual descriptions in a local radio interview about Sarah Palin’s alleged fling with Glen Rice.
The website, Mediaite.com, also leveled criticism at “Gridlock” hosts Mitch Moss and Paul Howard, of ESPN affiliate KWWN-AM, 1100/ 98.9 FM, for finding humor in Tyson’s shocking take.
“The fact that someone convicted of sex crimes even talked about it in such disturbingly gross ways”… and “so violently like this over mass media” raises serious questions, wrote Mediaite columnist Frances Martel.
Moss, who also serves as “Gridlock’s” program director, and Howard “cackled and guffawed in harmony at Tyson’s deplorable comment,” according to Martel.

Does FCC know about this? How about AttackWatch? Now that I think of it, have we heard from Jill Filipovic, Jessica Valenti, Melissa McEwan or any of the other feminists? Because if Sarah Palin weren’t a Republican, I think they’d probably be outraged by this.

UPDATE: Catching up, I see Jim Hoft wondering:

Is this it?  Is there anything else they could say about Sarah Palin?

Dunno. But if there is, they’ll say it.

UPDATE II: Greta Van Susteren calls out Tucker Carlson by name:

I keep asking myself, why would Tucker allow this to be posted on his website?  . . .
Tucker has daughters and a wife and I would think he in particular would not want to be a purveyer of smut (and this is actually more, this is violence against women) and allow this to be posted on his website.
I emailed Tucker yesterday and asked him about it.  He did not reply.  I wanted to know what action he was going to take about it since I really did not want to blog about it and felt some urge to protect him.  24 hours have passed and I have not heard from Tucker and it is still on the front page of his website.
So…I am calling him out on this.  This is not about whether you are in favor of Governor Palin’s policies or not — this is about whether women should be treated this way and whether this is journalism.  It is also about the willingness to stand up to a friend when he or she has gone way over the top and this is one instance where a friend has gone way over the top.
Tucker can’t hide behind ‘this is news, it was said by Mike Tyson and we are simply reporting it.’  It is not news.  This denigrates women.   He knows that, I know that, you know that. . . .

Much much more at the link, explaining how a story about what Mike Tyson said became a story about how the Daily Caller reported it.

UPDATE III: Tammy Bruce slammed Daily Caller on Twitter, as did Jedediah Bila, while Sissy Willis wrote a whole post about it.

UPDATE IV: Linked by Da Tech Guy and now a Memeorandum thread.


Category: Dan Riehl, Ladd Ehlinger, Racism, Sarah Palin

Comments

155 Responses to “HOLY. FREAKING. CRAP.”

  1. Bob Belvedere
    September 21st, 2011 @ 11:59 am

    Mr. Treacher: Did you read Stacy’s post from yesterday where he showed how the report should have been written?  Read it and tell me he’s not right.
    http://theothermccain.com/2011/09/20/the-irony-of-tucker-carlson-sarah-palin-mike-tyson-greta-van-susteren-and-me/

  2. Bob Belvedere
    September 21st, 2011 @ 12:03 pm

    How do you answer, Mr. Treacher, the fact that Tyson’s comments were never broadcast, that the radio station claims the seven-second delay was used?

  3. Bob Belvedere
    September 21st, 2011 @ 12:07 pm

    Actually, we’ve disagreed a number of times.  But you’re one of the better wits on the Right, up there with Iowahawk, so I enjoyed your humor in the morning e-mail even when I disagreed with your point. 

    Look at my archives over at thecampfothesaints.org.

  4. blue star
    September 21st, 2011 @ 12:32 pm

    “Palin has defended Perry in the past and defended so many like Dr.Laura”

    Which is interesting because I know that Dr. Laura initially (at least) was totally against Palin as Vice President.  Palin is classy.

  5. Anonymous
    September 21st, 2011 @ 3:11 pm

    Wow.  You have the worst case of “Dead men do bleed!” that I’ve seen in a very long time.