Hannity defends Rutgers coach: ‘My father hit me with a belt, I turned out okay!’

[DonViejo]

Hannity defends Rutgers coach: ‘My father hit me with a belt, I turned out okay!’

By David Edwards
Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:05 EDT

Fox News host Sean Hannity and conservative pundit Michelle Malkin on Wednesday both defended a former Rutgers basketball coach who verbally and physically abused his players, both saying that they had received plenty of spankings and “turned out okay.”

On Wednesday, Rutgers announced that the school had fired coach Mike Rice after ESPN revealed video tape of him kicking players, throwing balls at the heads of players and shouting homophobic slurs like “fucking faggot” and “fucking fairy.”

Hannity, however, said that the coach “maybe” should have stopped physically abusing the players, but he was just “trying to get the best out of them.”

“I’m watching this and I’m thinking, ‘I don’t like it’ — he kicked one player there — but on the other hand, I kind of like old-fashioned discipline,” the Fox News host explained. “I mean, have we become that politically incorrect? These are adults, they don’t want to play for that team, they can leave.”

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[JaneyVee]

1. Uh, no you didn't turn out fine. You turned out a racist brainless hate-monger.

[treestar]

2. He only thinks he is ok

I was hit with a belt and I did turn out sort of OK, but I don't think it was because of that. If anything, that made me more timid. I'm not really sure. But I don't think it was a good thing.

[WinniSkipper]

3. His definition of "OK" and mine differ. nt

[bemildred]

4. No, you did not. nt

[wilt the stilt]

5. debatable whether you turned ok n/t

[hobbit709]

6. I got hit with a belt too but I don't act like Hannity.

Something else must have turned him into a total asshole.

[JustAnotherGen]

7. n/s

He's such an idiot.

[rustydog]

8. Rushing Limpballs, Bill Orally, Laura Ingram, Lady BlahBlah

believe they turned out ok too....

[hughee99]

9. Which misses the point completely.

Whether Hannity "turned out okay" is certainly something I disagree with him about, but if his father had shot him in the leg and he still "turned out okay", does that mean it's okay to shoot someone in the leg?

Making your players run extra laps, take extra foul shots, or do extra conditioning drills a means of punishment can make them better players, but you can call a person all the names you want and kick them in the ass a billion times, and they won't be any better at basketball.

[Moral Compass]

10. What a softball!

Man, he just hung this one out over the plate didn't he? Getting whipped with a belt can scar you for life, but in Hannity's case it taught him a lesson that shouldn't be learned. Coercion using physical violence works...

So, now he thinks that it's just fine.

As usual, he displays his essential stupidity and his moral blindness. His stupidity is most likely innate. His moral blindness came from the lessons he learned from his parents. Getting hit with a belt was just one of them.

[calimary]

18. Welcome to DU, Moral Compass!

Glad you're here. Yeah, he did. I wonder how soon he'll go all the way - for those wonderful "second-amendment remedies"...

What a creep. No wonder he has such an abusive, loutish, bullying on-air persona. That's what he grew up with, and obviously modeled.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. you mean he wasn't born an asshole?

I think someone should bring his barber up on abuse charges.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Um, sorry. Pick another example. nt

[PD Turk]

13. LOL

Wait til Jon Stewart gets hold of this

[Ikonoklast]

14. Hmmm. It all starts to make sense to me now.

“I’m watching this and I’m thinking, ‘I don’t like it’ — he kicked one player there — but on the other hand, I kind of like old-fashioned discipline,” the Fox News host explained.

I'll bet you do, Sean, I'll bet you do.

[bowens43]

15. Wow. Hannity thinks he turned out ok? what planet is he from?

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. I feel sorry for the belt. n/t

[calimary]

17. I feel sorry for his kids.

If he thinks it was okay, well I guess we know how his kids are treated at home when he thinks they've stepped out of line.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Yeah, just the fact he's their father is bad enough.

Sad.

[longship]

20. Maybe Malkin had Mommie Dearest.

No wire hangers!!!! Ever!

[LeftishBrit]

21. But he didn't turn out okay.