{"id":2012,"date":"2007-11-28T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T11:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/28\/hateful-talk-radio-update\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T11:03:10","slug":"hateful-talk-radio-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/28\/hateful-talk-radio-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Hateful Talk Radio Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I generally listen to ESPN radio in my office in the morning, because I like the Mike &amp; Mike show. Unfortunately, they&#8217;re followed by Colin Cowherd, who is a world-class pinhead.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s currently holding forth on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/articles\/2007\/11\/28\/taylor_dies_from_wound\/\">death of Sean Taylor<\/a>, with his basic position being that Taylor had it coming because he had a checkered past. If you were reading <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/04\/a_vain_plea_for_decorum.php\">back in April<\/a>, you can probably guess how happy I am to be hearing this line of argument.<\/p>\n<p>In support of this brilliant insight, he&#8217;s just touted his track record in correctly assessing high-profile public legal cases by noting that he didn&#8217;t believe the accusers in the Duke lacrosse  case, and he didn&#8217;t believe the excuses offered by Michael Vick, and he doesn&#8217;t believe people who are saying that Sean Taylor had reformed and was turning his life around. And as much as I hate to throw around casual accusations of racisim, I can&#8217;t help noticing the pattern here, namely that in all of these cases, he didn&#8217;t believe things said by black people.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time to turn the radio off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uncle Al,&#8221; if you&#8217;re reading this in order to comment, don&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally listen to ESPN radio in my office in the morning, because I like the Mike &amp; Mike show. Unfortunately, they&#8217;re followed by Colin Cowherd, who is a world-class pinhead. He&#8217;s currently holding forth on the death of Sean Taylor, with his basic position being that Taylor had it coming because he had a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/11\/28\/hateful-talk-radio-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hateful Talk Radio Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,31,28,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_issues","category-football","category-politics","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}