Other soccer bashing doesn't really get me, for some reason that one does. I guess it's his mix of political views and soccer veiws. Really a different approach in soccer bashing though. The communist comment most have really gotten to me as my dad has been serving in the military for 22 years now and most of my soccer friends are as american as you get.
Do you ever start threads without "soccer bashing" in the title? What is your agenda? Any "positive" soccer press?
Yawn. You're beyond boring. This ground was covered and thankfully disintegrated by the server. Moved to a more appropriate forum.
Re: Re: Soccer Bashing in the New Republic Sorry. I didnt know this was already on here before. I was bored at work and did a search for soccer and politics and that came up. I had never seen it on here before.
What a stupid article. He is even a senior editor and gets paid for that. Amazing. I wonder where the soccer hatred comes from. I would be embarrased if I found articles in the papers over here attacking other sports. People, teams and opinions can be bashed, but not a sport. Not to the degree soccer is in the US. I must say as an outsider I find them amusing to read. Links to these masterpieces have been posted on BigSoccer for a long time and I smack my forehead in despair a lot when reading them. Idiocy on paper at its finest. (well, on screen for me). This one isn't the dumbest I have read, but still dumb enough. keep 'em coming!
Re: Re: Re: Soccer Bashing in the New Republic Can't you sort of assume that since it's a 4-month old article, it's not terribly relevant? Didn't you think that someone might have posted it when it was something remotely resembling news? Haven't you gotten the hint from the many, many people who have told you to quit incessantly whining about "soccer-bashing?" Wouldn't anyone with the slightest degree of reading-comprehension abilities read the article and realize it was freaking SATIRE? Shouldn't you give some serious thought to either growing up or going away?
The sad thing about this is that it is NOT satire. Its a typical Republican (by that I mean racist, xenophobic, and stupid) talking.
This isnt satire at all. This is the typical republican thinking that makes America hated all over the world.
Yeah, we're all racists! Just ask Senator KKK Byrd and Al Gore's daddy who didn't have the backbone to vote for the end of segregation. Thankfully the people of America had enough of your crap, and that's why we have a Republican majority in the House of Reps. and Senate. Not to mention President Bush. Anyway, like the others have said. Your brining back a dead horse from the dead nd giving it a butt kicking.
Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket. 1. As anyone who's ever bothered to actually read the bloody thing knows, the New Republic is a more or less liberal magazine. 2. Jonathan Chait is a well-known liberal commentator. Do a search for "Chait" on the New Republic website and read some of his other articles if you don't believe me. 3. The article used a tongue-in-cheek response to a spirited pro-soccer article which had appeared in that same magazine the previous week as a means of mocking negative political advertising. And, yeah, it's funny if you understand the context. But even you guys (who clearly understand very little) had to ask why, if the point of the article is "soccer-bashing," he doesn't even mention the sport until two-thirds of the way down. God help us if you ever get your mitts on a copy of A Modest Proposal... 4. While this article is a very very dead horse, I feel that this is a valuable object lesson for US soccer fans. Part of why the sport is singled out for ridicule in this country is because a vocal minority of fans are so freaking touchy every time they percieve an insult, whether or not the insult is there. We soccer fans with IQs larger than our hat sizes are lumped in with whiny fools, who become our spokespeople. I don't want you, falcon6, or anyone else who has utterly freaking missed the point to be my spokesperson. You're hurting the game. Cut it out.
Dude, you are way too smart to be on here. Way too smart. Until we stop caring who likes us, we won't be liked.
Why should we? We're as much tax paying Americans as they are. We should let our voice be heard just like they do.
I'd pay extra in taxes to make sure your voice is silenced. If you don't like what they say, then don't listen. Their right to free speech does not imply your obligation to listen. Sachin
...and just like they bully wins when you go running to the principal, the "old line soccer haters" win when we whine incessantly. Hey everybody, look at the reaction I can provoke!