The dumbest thing you’ll read today
The New York Times reports that ESPN has reassigned an announcer to broadcast a football game at the University of Virginia because he shares a name with the Confederate General, Robert E. Lee. ESPN claims that they made the decision because of “safety concerns”.
The network announced late Tuesday that the announcer, Robert Lee, a part-time employee who calls about a dozen college football and basketball games a year for ESPN, would no longer participate in the broadcast of the Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville, Va., which became the center of violent clashes this month during a white supremacist gathering.
I sure hope that the broadcaster doesn’t have any statues in his yard.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
Well, they say Jeff Foxworthy wrote this, but it ain’t true. But…that doesn’t make what is said any less true. Anyway, this came to mind after reading Jonn’s post about how fucking stupid our country is becoming. ========================= A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots Attributed to Jeff Foxworthy: If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a wheelchair can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars… Read more »
Here’s your sign.
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But this stupidity is all Trumps fault!
Oh, yeah?? Prove it, buster!!!
Commissar to show up and post 1,000 word screed in 3…..2…….1….
(LOL! )
Beetlejuice!
It’s Betelgeuse.
Get it right or it will go supernova on us and we’ll be doomed with a spear of gamma rays !!!
It’s listening you know…
<|;=D
https://www.britannica.com/place/Betelgeuse-star
Beetlejuice!
Let me guess, it’s because he legitimately WON the election and that set all the pissyassed snowflakes into a perpetual hissy fit!
Snowflake: Donald Trump did not get a majority of the votes. He is not my President.
Hack Stone: Well, Hillary Clinton got on the Democrat ticket from superdelegates, so she didn’t get a majority of the votes in the primaries. So let’s call it a wash.
Hell, Hack – just remind them that Hillary Clintoon didn’t get a majority of votes cast for POTUS in 2016 either. Then remind them that the same is true for Bill, too – both times he ran for POTUS.
Horseshyt a.h.! This is a bunch of leftist morons paid by Soros. worthless warts on the ass of humanity that NEVER accomplished a damned thing in their dirty little brainwashed lives..the went to college..whoopie, brainwashed by more communist a.h.’s…sell out america for a few bucks that piece of shyt soros will pay them….I say gun the bastards down in the streets, they are no freaking use to ANYONE, and especially no business staying in America.imho This CRAP of kissing their worthless asses so they don’t complain? TO HELL WITH THAT!
My neck can’t stand any more SMH.
I’m glad to have seen the high water mark in American civilization but we downhill now, bud.
Image a country were a President that ‘no one likes’ would remain unthreatened with impeachment but a President that gets a ‘oral release’ and lies about it would be sent packing.
Attorneys will be scrambling to get a piece of the upcoming lawsuit. Mr. Lee is gonna be rich.
https://youtu.be/BwjTUoiXgrE
This is by far the dumbest thing I have read today, but the day is young…
So, you haven’t been on one of Bernath’s web pages today?
Thankfully no…
I wonder what Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee has to say about the hysteria over his surname?
Bruce Lee is rolling over in his grave.
If you are bothered by the surname “Lee”, please don’t look it up in a large metropolitan phone book.
And don’t ever go to Korea or China. 😉
Or Houston, TX for that matter. Lotsa Asians around here. 🙂
God love ’em… some GREAT restaurants on the SW side of town.
And as David notes, some excellent Asian eateries and markets.
Shoot, even HEB out Beechnut has some great Mexican and Asian groceries.
Oh Yeah! One of my favorite parts of town.
One would think you would be safer in Virginia with a “Lee” surname than you would with a last name like “Sherman”.
I thought it was Georgians who get riled at the mention of Sherman’s name. I once (long before I met my wife, obviously) met an Asian chick in Lake Tahoe who was born and raised in central Georgia–hot Asian chick with a legit Southern belle accent…how do you say no to that? Anyway, a passing reference to Sherman pissed her *right* off. I was scratching my head, pondering, “There’s no way in hell your family was around for that.”
She just said, “Ahm from Jahrgia, boy!” and that was that. The deal still got sealed, of course, but she was noticeably angry after that.
“Of course?”
Ah, confidence, a needed quality in our firefighters.
Heh…
Of course.
That old Georgia accent is guaranteed to make any red-blooded American male perk up and take note.
Just wait until you meet an Asian with an Australian accent.
When I was a very young military history buff reading WWII history, I would very often come across the name of VADM Willis Augustus Lee, famed commander of the Battleship Line during the 1943-45 Central Pacific Campaign. His nickname was
“Ching” Lee, so as a young military history buff, I though VADM Lee was a Chinese-American fellah until I actually came across a photo of him…
Ching Lee knew how to kick ass with big guns.
And the subscriptions to ESPN just keep falling even lower….
Stealing this from another Blog….Hilarious!
“…Fact is actually stranger than fiction…”
“Budweiser called this….” in one of their Commercials:
Excellent. Kudos.
It would seem that these “safety concerns” is an acknowledgement by the left that their supporters do not behave in a civilized manner, and are in fact violent extremists that would do harm to someone just based on a name.
If we’ve learned nothing else from Sheldon of Big Bang Theory. Since Mohmmed is the most common first name in the world and Lee is the most common surname if you had to guess the name of someone Mohammed Lee would be a good guess.
During my career, I once worked for a guy named “Robert E. Lee”. He was an Army officer, and a damn good one.
He was also a Black American.
I wonder if I should send that info to ESPN’s management and make their pointy little microcephalic SJW heads explode.
**Guffaw**
Knew a South African white fella who had a lot of fun identifying himself as African American.
The Interweb has been won today.
I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.
Then you let them win, SAE.
I don’t want them to live in this country any more.
Loss of all assets plus mandatory expulsion for 5 years (1st conviction) 20 years (2nd conviction) to Afghanistan, Ethiopia, or Venezuela. If necessary, by HANO air drop.
I don’t want them to live on this PLANET any more, Graybeard. Round ’em up. Ship ’em out to Tau Ceti. There’s a set of four planets in the Goldilocks zone orbiting that star. Not too far from Earth. Send them there.
I hold out the faint hope that, given some real-world experience with other-than-Western culture, they would become useful members of society.
That or die in the process, which may be more likely.
But then, I’m an optimist.
Here you go, Graybeard, SAE: an article perusing the qualities of the four detected (so far) planets orbiting in the habitable zone of Tau Ceti, a mere 12 light years away. None of them exceed 4 Earth masses, based on radial velocity and other detection techniques.
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=38293
What’ve you got against Tau Ceti?
Had to laugh this morning, while the GMA folks were excoriating Mr. Trump (yet again) for his remarks blaming all sides for the Charlottesville conflicts, they werreew simultaneously showing the leftist protesters outside the Phoenix even who had to be tear gassed by the riot police to keep them under control. Apparently the irony escaped GMA.
Well, think about it for a moment: 3 to 4 Earth masses may mean 3 to 4 times Earth’s gravity, which means those slugs and the GMA mopheads would weight 4 times their Earth weight. Instead of 110 pounds, close to 450 pounds. The irony of it draws me.
I’m holding out for a gas giant for them. 10gs, lots of methane.
Their egos hitting critical mass in that environment would make for one hell of a celestial event.
Drop them into Jupiter on the 4th of July to see the pretty fireworks?
The left continues to prove that they really are dumber than dirt.
The more they tighten their grip, the more repellent they become.
Lee is most common surname in the world. This is because its the most common surname among Asian immigrants to the US and in China & Korea where its sometimes spelled Li or Rhee.
What about a guy with the name of Thomas Jackson? James Stuart?
Those aren’t exactly uncommon names but now any poor soul with those names in for a world of trouble…well, trouble with the fringe Left as most people won’t associate them will Stonewall & JEB. Just sayin’ that’s as ridiculous as this story.
How about Brigadier General James Stewart, USAFR, who flew B-24s with the 445th BG in Europe, and before that got an Academy Award for “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” while banging Marlene Dietrich? And later played a Virginia farmer in the Civil War in “Shenandoah,” besides appearing prominently in a few other movies here and there? Can “It’s a Wonderful Life” no longer be shown on Christmas because of the star’s name?
Why can’t you show it? It’s a Scottish name, isn’t it? Pre-7th century old English ‘stigeweard’, meaning ‘guardian of the hall’.
think you are conflating the last names of James Ewell Brown Stuart with James Stewart. Homonyms only
Close enough, if the original topic is anything to go by.
What’s next? Do we drop the suffix ‘-ly-‘ because it’s pronounced ‘lee’ and it might offend someone.
Happily, happily, happily, I refuse explicitly.
This should make the little basters heads explode. From the 1950s, boys and girls, I give you American Bandstand’s dance floor and ‘Walkin’ with Mr. Lee’ by Lee Allen. Good jazz piece, too. that was real music.
Well, can we say goodbye to Shelia JACKSON LEE now?
Girls’ night out with Bud Lite. Warms the cockerels of my heart.
What??? No reply from Dave Hardin?
Crushed…Absolutely crushed..😔
Was also waiting for him to comment about your Sara Lee Pumpkin Pies post (which you probably make better ones than Sara Lee)…
You have provided a challenge regarding pumpkin pies, A-Pat. I have not made a pumpkin pie in ages, but I will do so this fall, right around the time I pick up fresh cider and apples at a “family fun farm” (apple orchard) up the road from me. Thank you for that.
We stock up on a pumpkin or two at Halloween, so my beloved bride can make her famous pumpkin pies not only for the holidays but periodically throughout the year.
Ex and GB: Please do not forget to share your pumpkin pie recipes with us this fall. Thank You!
1 – Get a can of pureed pumpkin.
2 – Get a pieshell, put it in the pietin.
3 – Heat the oven to the correct temperature
4 – Mix appropriate spices and sugar with pumpkin.
5 – Pour pumpkin puree into pie shell.
6 – Bake exactly according to time and temp in recipe.
7 – Remove carefully, because it’s a form of custard and will be liquid in the center.
8 – Put in a quiet place to finish baking itself outside the oven and cool.
9 – Cut into portions. Serve with real whipped cream, not that veg oil stuff, and hot beverages of your choice.
Alternate recipe:
1 – Go to freezer case at store.
2 – Pick up a Sara Lee or Mrs. Smith’s frozen pumpkin pie.
3 – Bake according to instructions on pie carton.
4 – Let cool, cut into portions and serve with real whipped cream and hot beverages.
Another alternative:
1 – Support your local ‘fresh stuff’ bakery by buying on of their freshly-made pumpkin pies.
2 – Serve after Thanksgiving dinner with real whipped cream and hot beverages.
Um, Ex-PH2, you might want to check out the definition of “cockerels.”
I do not believe you, of all people, could accurately be called chickenhearted.
Wow…..glad I am sure glad I changed my name
from Jesus H Hitler! 😉
Yes, that is important.
But does all this fuss mean that I have to do without my Sara Lee Oven Fresh Pumpkin Pie at Thanksgiving?
http://saraleedesserts.com/products/pies-3/seasonal-pies-3/oven-fresh-pumpkin-pie/
This could end up being a boost for young Mr. Lee’s career. After all this attention ESPN will probably bend over backwards to be fair to him.
I don’t see Bob Ley getting any pushback, by the way.
Do any of you remember the movie, “1776”?
There’s a great song in it about the Lee’s in Virginia.
Maybe one of you can find it on YOU TUBE and post it here.
I don’t know how to do it.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjV4PLmwO3VAhUV9GMKHYoCC9wQyCkIKTAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DurgrF6OBuZc&usg=AFQjCNE5FO_lz86dKy57IZ1YmYX7WQk8nA
Here’s the complete movie, “1776”:
https://youtu.be/bBOQvfR1bvs
Unfortunately, the quality is rather poor, due to efforts to bypass YOU TUBE’s copyright restrictions.
You can improve it a little by selecting a higher speed in “SETTINGS”.
I can’t wait for the calls to have Sheila Lee Jackson change her name because it is offensive times two.
She’s a walking offense to civilization. Maybe she could change her name to Sheeza Jackass or something. That would make me quite happy.
And be quite accurate as well.
With high water forecast this weekend, I am indulging in my usual fantasy of a combination of SJL, a low slung car, and high water… hope springs eternal.
Shame Teddy K’s not around. He could take her for a ride across a bridge.
You mean Teddy “Wine ’em, Dine ’em, Dink ’em and Dunk ’em” Kennedy?
NEVER, EVER underestimate liberals’ capacity and capability of being STUPID. Like Ron White said, “No matter what you try, YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID, stupid is forever.”
Next thing you know, certain sounds will offend them, even though they may have no meaning at all. Explosions, for example, may shake their tiny little world. The horror!!!
Don’t even get me wound up this morning Ex! 🙂
A few years ago out here at Hanford there was an ummm explosion. Even though one of our team took a picture of the whiteboard being used to reflect the events; to include the time of the “Explosion”. The Dept of Energy insisted on a rewrite of history and called it a “loud bang, accompanied by a bright flash of light”.
Huh? Even though 98% of my time in the Army was as a guardsman or a reservist, that kind of describes what an ‘splosion looks like to me.
The Stoopid seems to rule at many Federal agencies.
So use forty words when one will do, to avoid feellzzz?
Do these people have any idea how utterly dimwitted they are when they do these things?
This is for you, Dinotanker.
Ex!? I love that routine! I remember hearing it as kid. Then I joined up and really learned how to employ profanity. 🙂
However, I am still an apprentice foul mouth when compared to ChipNASA’s stellar work of art.
Thanks for putting a grin on my mug! 🙂 One of the folks on my team hadn’t heard this before so I played it for her. She thought it was awesome!
Thank goodness I live in Eastern Washington. I think invoking George Carlin’s name in Olympia results in an automatic sentence to sensitivity training.
You have to remember, that’s just a collage of my experience as an NCO, a potty mouth, in general, google fu on the internet and a variety of volunteered insults from many of you here at TAH.
I am just the curator of the living document that is the Wall of Insults®™
Go for it, Dinotanker!
I haven’t used a lot of profane expressions in my stories so far, but that’s coming up.
Is that like what ex-Air Force red hat told me about AF helicopters not crashing, but having a “rough landing?”
And when there are no survivors, it’s an uncontrolled rough landing.
I’ve read accounts of the little shits running around vandalizing religious statues as well, the vermin just want to run around destroying things like the goddamn Taliban and daesh hadjis!
Who are their brothers from another mother…
And “The Sports Leader” wonders why subscriptions and profits are dropping? Doesn’t take a genius to figure that out…
No, you guys have it wrong. They didn’t remove Robert Lee because they thought his name might be offensive.
They were afraid that all those confederates hiding in the woods in Virginia would rally to his side and they’d all march on Gettysburg.
Or were they shit-scared of antifa fleabags showing up to riot?
I know of one cop in Phoenix who’ll never have to buy himself a beer, like, EVER.
I saw that, LMAO!
AMEN on that !!!
That was a great shot !!!
Dropped like a ton of shit in a 500lb box !!!
I wish I was better at history. PLEASE tell me there was a Confederate General named Stephen A Smith…..
No balls to start that rumor, EM1….
It’s bat shit crazy alright,
Another one is Camping World,
telling people
“that if you support Trump don’t shop here please”
Statement was made because of races statement
By Trump about Charlottesville, the problem is I’m still
Trying to find it,
and exactly who shops at “camping world”
It’s not Cadillac Libtards. It’s working class people who have had
Enough it’s this kind of crap that is making more people move
Over to trumps camp people have had it with stupid
A NASCAR driver, Mark Martin, who had just ordered a $150,000 Class A from them, said he was cancelling his order. After talking with said CEO, he backed down and the CEO made a claim that he was “misinterpreted”. Funny, until he got publicized pushback he didn’t seem to feel he was misquoted. Camping World also runs Good Sams, another camping/RV supplier. You can deal with whom you choose. http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/08/22/ceo-nascar-sponsor-camping-world-tells-trump-supporters-not-shop-driver-mark-martin-promptly-cancels-150k-order-528242
He got such a backlash out of it that he had to retract what he said. Doesn’t matter. What he meant was what he said. He can dislike Pres. Trump all he wants to. He has the right to do so. He also has the right to tell people who support Trump to not shop at his store.
But in trying to cover his ass so as to not lose business? I’d have some respect for him if he’d stuck to his guns.
Me to but I wish these CEOs would do there homework before running there mouths
ESPN is dumb enough to put Bob Costas on TV…
Can’t wait for Robert (no middle initial given) Lee to file his lawsuit!
I can hear the lawyers slobbering from here!
I have to go mow the lawn. Make sure you provide me with more entertainment when I come back, okay?
Here you go, Ex. Reuters thinks that the Asian-American Robert Lee is a “doppelganger” for Robert E. Lee, and “a namesake”.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2017/08/23/dumber-by-the-minute-reuters-calls-espns-robert-lee-a-confederate-namesake-n2372420
Ah! Another manufactured fake news crapweasel tabloid gossip! (Did I cover every aspect of it?)
So, it does not occur to Reuters that Lee is the man’s last name because it’s a family name, a common Chinese surname, and Robert Lee the ESPN sports guy is only one of 11,500 with that name? https://www.fastcompany.com/40457655/there-are-literally-thousands-of-people-named-robert-lee
Why is this not a surprise?
Reuters is to the printed word as CNN is to TV news as the Commissar is to logical thought.
I happen to love all Lee’s….
Lee-Enfield, Lee-Metford, Remington-Lee ect.
All of them!!
Lee Meriwether?
Oh yea! Now you’re talking!
Julie Newmar!
If memory serves me correctly, Julie and Lee both played Catwoman on the TV show Batman starring Adam West. And Julie also played in the TV show “My Living Doll”, while Lee, Miss America 1955, played on “Barnaby Jones”. And the lead character, Barnaby, starred in ” The Beverly HillbilLEES”..Did I win on Jeopardy today? 😎
Eartha Kitt also played Catwoman on the ‘Batman’ TV show.
🗣🎼🎶🎵 “I Lost on Jeopardy, Baby…”🎶🎵🎼
😣
Brenda Lee?
Michele Lee?
Peggy Lee?
Lee Grant?
You forgot Janet Lee…and Gypsy Rose Lee..
But you are probably too young to remember them…😉
Wasn’t that Janet Leigh?
Yes, Sir, you are totally correct and I was wrong…again. *Sigh* As the expression goes, “No excuse, Drill Sgt..”😔
Amy Lee
Love me some SMLE!
1,2,3, look at Mr. Lee, 3.4.5, look at him jive, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee eeee,eeeee. I guess the music industry will now get rid of that song. Weather bureau will get rid of the wx. term Lee ward wind/side. I just love it. This shit can’t get any better. I’d better LEEV it alone so I won’t die laughing.
Yeah, but isn’t leeward pronounced ‘looward’?
Not when I was in Hawaii.
EX- I think its a British bathroom (loo)in a British “Ward” Room. 3 letter word for Brit bathroom in the cross word puzzles is a loo. As Betty Boop used to say-Poop,poopyloo.
The Leeward Islands are pronounced ‘Looward Ialands’. When leeward is used as a nautical term it is pronounced looward.
However, both pronunciations are correct depending on how they are used. The Brits say ‘lee-ward’.
Always thought Leeward was correct but today i learned it was was pronounced in different ways. Thank you Ex for the heads up.
Sometimes I forget that I can be stiffnecked about things and need to be reminded to lighten up, like Francis.
I guess I should have listened to my wife and not named our dog Dixie!
They will be a comin’ fer her!
What’s next, a ban on Dixie cups?
Outta my cold dead rednecked hands…
Uh, Huh! I knew it..I just knew it why you call yourself “Gray” beard instead if “Blue”beard!!
I’m out of the closet!
My beard is a beautiful Confederate Gray, and it is all natural.
They have to change their name from Dixie Cups, that is such a racist term !!!
I am sooooo triggered !!!!
The Dixie Chicks are gonna need a new name.
Next thing we know we’ll hear them screeching for the song “Dixie” to be banned, their idiocy and intolerance knows no bounds!
Interesting you said that, API, because it DID happen to the High School I attended in the early 1970s. We were the largest High School in our State. The majority of us were Military Brats since the Military Base in the city of the HS did not have a DoD school,i.e. we were teenagers from various races. Someone in the early 1970s got their feelings hurt and things started changing. We had to repaint our Gymnasium because it had the Confererate Flag. Our Band at Football games could no longer play Dixie. Flying the flags were banned at football games. That school now no longer exist. And this was in the EARLY 1970s.
When the department head asked me to tell one of his professor to come to his office I somehow resisted the temptation to say to the professor of Korean extraction “Dr. Leigh said for you to Ih di wah, chop, chop, bolli, bolli.” I can’t remember if the first Dr. Leigh was American or British.
Hmmm…wasn’t there at one time a popular Orange 1969 Dodge Charger that had a flag on the top…..🤔
Never Go Full PC…
And the sheriff of the next county over, who was an honest and professional Southern lawman who made corrupt good-ol’-boys Boss and Roscoe piss themselves in terror, was a black guy.
God, how I still love that show. And Daisy.
As I recall they boys with the flag on their car were not racist. Also the good Hogg was Abraham Lincoln Hogg.
You are correct.
In many ways the Dukes of Hazard provided a much more accurate view of life and attitudes in the South than was, or is, otherwise seen portrayed.
If memory serves, even Boss and Roscoe were equal-opportunity swindlers. They were incompetent, inept, two-faced liars, but they weren’t racist.
Especially Daisy.
The movie caught a lot of flak for keeping the flag on the top of the Charger.
What’s truly ironic is that at least one black southern entrepreneur re-imaged the battle flag in ANC colors.
Love to watch snowflake heads explode over that concept…
What’s next, calls for Aunt Jemimah Syrup to be banned from grocery store shelves along with Uncle Ben’s Rice and Cream of Wheat? I wonder just how much more butthurt the snotnosed snowflakes will get?
Careful, API.
Right now, some Antifa man bun wearing, ear gauged, mommas boy is turning to his friend, saying, “Hold my PBR and watch this!”
Antifas drink PBR?
(Just trying this one) PBR = Phlyarological Breastmilk Replacer.
Phlyarologist = someone who talks nonsense. (dictionary of obscure words)
Makes sense.
It’s ESPN, what else can you expect. The stupidity is strong in ESPN.
Robert Ley – Longtime ESPN reporter.
Robert Ley – Senior Nazi official who committed suicide before he was to face trial in Nuremberg on war crimes.
You can’t make this stuff up…
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/23/espn-wont-say-whether-itll-pull-pundit-sharing-name-with-infamous-nazi-off-of-airwaves/
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ESPN fucketh itself to mort with kneejerk political correctness and the absence of backbone or guts.
I hope Mr. Lee cleans them out.
E = Exceptionally (or to be unemployed)
S = Stupid (and)
P = Pathetic
N = Nimrods.
To bad there was not a “B” because that would mean BROKE!.
Can’t fix stupid.
That’s all that needs to be said.