NFL Goodell’s Hypocrisy Continued
If you remember, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell rejected the idea of Rush Limbaugh becoming a potential minority owner of the St. Louis Rams because of his “divisive comments”.
I’ve said many times before, we’re all held to a high standard here. I would not want to see those comments coming from people who are in a responsible position in the NFL –- absolutely not.
— Roger Goodell to the New York Times
Never mind Keith Olbermann, who has repeatedly referred to Democrat policy protesters as “tea baggers”, and is still a commentator on a weekly, nationally-televised football broadcast bookmarked by the NFL logo, Goodell couldn’t allow people like Rush anywhere near the sport.
Sex offenders?
That’s another thing altogether….
Child abuse groups in Florida are asking the NFL to drop the British classic-rock band The Who from the upcoming Super Bowl’s halftime show. And one organization asked U.S. immigration authorities not to allow the band’s famed guitarist into the country.
Axman Pete Townshend, they point out, was arrested in 2003 in a roundup of alleged pedophiles cruising the Internet for pictures of infants and teens engaged in sex. He was placed on the United Kingdom’s sexual offenders list.
In a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Child AbuseWatch founder Evin Daly wrote: “Inviting Townshend to play is a blatant disregard to the values of… American families and a slap in the face to victims of child sexual abuse.”
In his response to Daly’s request to drop The Who, the NFL’s Joe Browne, head of public relation, pointed out that Townshend viewed one child abuse photo and didn’t download the material. Browne also wrote that Townshend has been known to support children’s charities. The NFL, Browne added, “has worked hard in recent years to ensure the (halftime show) is suitable for… mass audience.”
Pete Townsend can download all the kiddie porn (for “research”) he wants, is still blessed by the NFL to play the Super Bowl halftime, and Commissioner Goodell is silent.
As long as Townsend doesn’t become an American and vote Republican….
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Well they do let Marv Albert do radio broadcasts for Westwood One.
December 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I have often wondered if he and his wife ,Jane Skinner on Fox Cable, ever discuss Mr. Limbaugh. Not sure, but I thought she was at least a conservative. If so, she must not have much of an influence on her husband which has recently made me think a little less of her and him, for that matter.
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
As long as Townsend doesn’t become an American and vote Republican…
Polanski, Sunstein, Jennings, Obama, et al, would agree with that sentiment. Truly an upstanding group of miscreants.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Frankly, I don’t care what depraved acts someone does, so long as a) it only involves consenting adult b) they restrict it to the privacy of their own homes c) they don’t come out all hypocritical about it in public, and d) they don’t proselytize either.
I think laws against acts that fit 1 and 2 are outside the government’s purview, and we only hurt ourselves asking government to get into the bedroom.
In public, on the other hand, is another story.
December 24th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Mauser:
Exactly. Some deviant behaviors do not pose a threat to society or our species on their own. However, it is in our best interest that they are never normalized. Exploitation of an immature human being is a deviant behavior which does threaten the integrity of our society and our species. It subverts individual dignity and the “Creator-given” rights inherent to every human.