NBA Player Disses Anthem: How soon until the Freepers try to link Obama to this?

[OmahaBlueDog]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-mavericks-howard&prov=ap&type=lgns

<<DALLAS (AP)—The battered reputation of Josh Howard took another hit this week when an online video surfaced showing the Dallas Mavericks forward disrespecting the national anthem.

In a video posted on YouTube, Howard is shown on a football field at a charity flag football game. As the national anthem plays in the background, Howard approaches a camera and says: “‘The Star Spangled Banner’ is going on right now. I don’t even celebrate that (expletive). I’m black.”>>

[Happyhippychick]

1. Luckily their site has melted into oblivion so we will never know...

[codjh9]

2. Well theyr'e the same culur, ain't they? (I can see the good ol' boys puttin' 2 & 2 together)

[KingOfLostSouls]

3. more bullshit that freepers will care about

I'm so sick of the utter stupidity of republicans because the truth is they WILL bitch about this


the economy, nah. not their problem. housing? nope. health care? nuh uhn. kids dying in iraq? hey its not their kids, what do they care?

[BlooInBloo]

4. (shrug) As has been clearly proven over the last year, Obama *IS* responsible for anything...

done or said by any black man anywhere.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. OBD

You have GOT to be kidding me.
Josh Howard also admitted to smoking herb in the off-season.
Does that mean that Obama is selling hydro at 700.00 a quarter in vacuum sealed bags?
You know, NBA quality herb.
They ain't smoking what we're smoking.

Give me a break.
No one gives a rats ass about Josh Howard.
Shit, Cuban could trade his ass tomorrow to the Raptors.
They got B.C. bud up there.
I'm sure he'll be very happy.

[thewiseguy]

6. and why are you posting this shit here again?

[Number23]

7. Now THAT my friend...

is the million dollar question....

and why are you posting this shit here again?

That this wasn't the very first question on this thread is another issue.

What in hell does some idiot basketball player have to do with anything?? Is Barack now the official spokesman/representative for all Negroes??? How come no one told me? I've been cussing a lot more recently and not eating NEARLY as many vegetables as I should. Now that I know that Obama will catch the heat for my foul mouth and digestion issues, I promise to do a lot better.

:crazy: :wtf:

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. Of course, you are right. No reasonable person would link this to Obama

...just like no reasonable person would insist Obama took his oath of office on a Quoran when, it was in fact, Keith Ellison who did this.

... just like no reasonable person would make blanket judgements about a man's patriotism based on isolated pictures taken when he didn't happen to have his hand on his heart during the National Anthem.


... just like no reasonable person would take Michelle Obama's statement that she was proud of America for the first time, and twist it to infer that she is an angry woman who hates America.

Maybe I'm 100% wrong, but I'll guess that our friends in Freeperville will devise one of those clever e-mails they always seem to write and find some unreasonable association with this incident and Obama.

[Number23]

10. Well, you hit the nail on the head with the "reasonble person" qualifier

Because we all know that if there's one thing Freepers ain't - it's reasonable. Or REASONED for that matter.

I just think it's odd that YOU made that association, even putting it in the context that it will be something that Freepers will do. The fact that anyone would automatically make that connection makes them very suspect in my eyes.

[OmahaBlueDog]

12. I view many events in the "what will the opposition do with this" paradigm

If that makes me suspicious in your eyes, so be it. I don't feel I have to justify myself to anyone on this site except Skinner or the mods.

If you feel I'm an undercover Freeper, then alert the post. I'm reasonably confident I'll survive scrutiny. If not, then the post will get yanked or a tombstone will fall on my head or both.

[Number23]

14. Man, you are drama-fied, aren't you??

I'm not an alert addict. I don't see any reason to alert on you or your post.

But if you don't think that your decision to automatically connect a black basketball player's refusal to sing the Star Spangled Banner to Obama, even under the pretense of "it's what Freepers will do" is suspect or just flat out bizarre, then more power to you.

[endthewar]

9. How many degrees of separation?

Josh Howard plays for the Dallas Mavericks. John McCain pretends to be a Maverick. Obama is running against John McCain.

YAY! I did it in three! Now YOU give it a try. :rofl:

[Thrill]

11. Josh Howard is an idiot. No one takes this moron seriously. He admitted he smokes weed

This has nothing to do with Obama.

Why is this even posted?

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

13. What a dumbass. I wonder if it will cost him his job.

[democracy1st]

15. I hope they ship his butt to China to play ball,he's a freakin thug