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Uh oh… the ESPN corporate masters who genuflect at the feet of the NFL won’t be happy at all about this.
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Keith Olbermann, still out on a life long fishing expedition. Like Hannity and some of the other deer in the head lights attention hawks, I wonder if they ever had a childhood or life, worth living.
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Keith, I like you, but c’mon.
Trying to get a football season ticket holder to boycott a game is like trying to stop a three-year-old from eating dirt.
You just can’t do it!
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There are still arrested batterers playing in the NFL: San Francisco’s McDonald, for example.
I gotta agree with him. You combine this with Goodell’s prevarication regarding CTE, I wouldn’t keep this guy in charge of my league. But I suppose he represents the typical asshole NFL team owner just fine.
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KO liked his Dad enough to go read JamesThurber to him as he lay dying in a hospital bed.
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And . . . Keith used his father’s illness and death as a “teachable moment” about the need for universal healthcare. (He cited the fact that his father had decent care and had a dignified death but that many, many others were not so fortunate.) Does Keith overreact at times? Perhaps. That doesn’t mean that he is always wrong about the issue or that he doesn’t have a “life worth living.”
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I don’t always agree with Keith Olberman, but here he’s dead on. The NFL decision makers have to commit seppeku if they want the league to continue; otherwise everyone will see that this is the Roman Gladiator forums all over again; with the same result.
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True. And that is exactly why I am no longer a 49er fan, or an NFL fan. Domestic abuse, date rape, and murder in the NFL have completely turned me off to the game.
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If the NFl has ex-FBI and ex-Secret Service investigators doing their searches for them. What does that say for the abilities of the FBI and Secret Service that a tabloid tv program TMZ can come up with a video of the assault in the elevator and they can’t? Maybe the NFL should hire Ace Ventura. So many heads should roll over this. Not the least being the investigators. UNLESS they did have them and the higher ups didn’t want to see them because they had already made their mea culpas about getting it wrong the first time and expected it to die down and go away. Always the cover up. It is still amazing to me the little they did have, pulling her out of the elevator and dropping her on her face, wasn’t enough to come to the same conclusion they finally did after seeing the elevator video. Rice admitted to hitting her and nothing was refuted. And his attorney had a copy. Some investigation.
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Keith, I have some news for you: this criminal justice system is an enabler of men who beat women.
That’s what I always liked about Olbermann - he says exactly what he thinks on air and bosses be damned. Yes, it’s gotten him in lots of trouble in his career, but a major host on ESPN telling the truth about how domestic violence is covered up by NFL leaders based on greed is refreshing.
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The most plausible scenario to me is that the authorities had this video and were trying to quash it. TMZ leaked it like Chelsea Manning, and, unlike the wanton slaughter of unarmed journalists from a helicopter gunship which dumbass Americans could evidently care less about, all hell broke loose. After all, this is about football!
So the discussion was turned to his NFL career instead of the clear and documented criminality caught on video in order to offer the celebrity as much protection as possible. And it’s working. He won’t go to trial, and he won’t spend a day in jail, because, in spite of all the hemming and hawing, not many give a shit about assault and battery, either.
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