Hey, look who’s on his high horse.
Via Newsbusters:
Well Redskins fans, it’s over. The ruling has been handed down from on high – The Washington Post and USA Today. They’ve got a foam finger for you, but it’s not the index and you’re certainly not #1 to them, and they’re the ones who matter. They’ve decided your team name will change.
They got some help last week from President Obama, who took a break from refusing to negotiate with Republicans to tell the AP, “If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team – even if it had a storied history – that was offending a sizeable group of people, I’d think about changing it.” In other words, if he had a team mascot, it wouldn’t look like the ’Skins’ logo, and Dan Snyder is acting stupidly.
The Post ran the story on its cover page, declaring that “the willingness of the president, the nation’s most influential sports fan, to weigh in has raised the protracted debate to a new level of prominence.”
And on Oct. 8, in the Post, Mike Wise, a leftwing opinion hack trapped on the Sports page, declared the name change is a done-deal. “The debate over whether a people are denigrated or honored by the name of the Washington NFL team, like the absurd debate over whether the name is a unifying force, is over.” Because Mike Wise says it is, and everyone is bound by his declaration, even football stars.
“Even if he remains in Washington for his entire NFL career, Robert Griffin III is not going to retire an R-word.” Yes, “R-word.” Wise and others of the “journalist” class like USA Today’s Christine Brennan, have imperiously declared they won’t use “Redskins.”