Conservative Basher Charles Barkley on DUI Arrest: All I Really Wanted Was Oral Sex

NewsBusters ^ | January 1, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

When last seen in NewsBusters, former NBA star Charles Barkley was in the midst of a conservative bashing spree as you can see here smearing Fox News with this quote:

“I watch CNN, they’re not f***ed up like Fox,” Barkley told B&C. “They are a mouthpiece for the Republican Party. I watch [Fox] a couple times when there is someone I want to see on there. But they’re corrupt."

This was on the heels of Barkley bashing conservatives a few months earlier on CNN bashing conservatives as "fake Christians":

Hey, I live in Arizona. I have got great respect for Senator McCain. Great respect. But I don’t like the way the Republicans are taking this country. Every time I hear the word "conservative," it makes me sick to my stomach, because they’re really just fake Christians, as I call them. That’s all they are. But I just — I’m going to vote Democratic no matter what.

[Mannaggia l'America]

(Smerconish endorsed Obama... and I haven't heard five seconds of his show since)

Same here. About the only thing I still listen to on 1210 is Rush and Dom G.

[Right Wing Assault]

Yeah, I remember Rush liking Chow Bowkley as at least somewhat conservative some years back. I guess he wasn’t tough enough to hang in their against all the libs around him.

[Jvette]

When my son was young and a growing basketball fan, I remember King Charles saying that he was not a role model. He wasn’t then and he sure isn’t now. There was no mention of a wife, and was the woman a hooker?

[YdontUleaveLibs]

Didn’t you mean was the hooker a woman?

[Stepan12]

He was probably framed by a whiteman. Or maybe Barney the Dinosaur framed him for Barkley beating him up on Saturday Night Live.

[cricket]

Almost satire; if were funny rather than just plain sick. . .

[Natural Law]

News flash......there is no correlation between the ability to “play in the paint” and IQ. If not for basketball Barkley would be nothing more than obsolete farm equipment.

[Armedanddangerous]

I wasnt aware that there was a bad one;

[Jvette]

Thanks, that gave me a good laugh!

[Jim Scott]

I don't give a rap about Charles Barkey's moronic opinions on any issue, much less conservatives. His DUI was likely well-deserved but we know he'll pay a fine - chump change to him - and slither away from any real criticism. Hey, he's a famous athlete! The man is clearly less than intelligent, despite his one-time prowess playing basketball. Is this a surprise to anyone? I doubt it.

Unfortunately, this is what happens when, as a nation, we put too far too much emphasis on sports and the men that play these games as adults; the 'professionals'. We spend hours watching them play their games, making the sport an 'industry' that can pay these athletes embarrassingly huge sums of money to, basically, entertain us. Then we're offended when some of them become arrogant and obnoxious, especially post-career, like Barkley, and spout leftist drivel as if they had the slightest semblance of a clue about whatever they're babbling about.

I suggest we ignore rich-but-otherwise-inconsequential over-the-hill athletes who say stupid and offensive things and act like low-life hoodlums. I'm sick of them.

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only thing I still listen to on 1210 is Rush and Dom G.

Me too, my friend.

Bill Bennett is certainly a good guy, but his radio show is a little slow sometimes.

If some Philly radio station would come up with a dynamic conservative morning talk show in the 6-9am slot, they would clean up.

Smerconish had been defrauding listeners for years with this "I'm a Republican" crap.

In 2006, he totally ambushed Bucks conservative Republican congressman Mike Fitzpatrick with dozens of smarmy gotcha questions, trying to paint Fitz as a heavy handed civil rights violator out-of-touch Bush sychophant ....

During candidate debates on his show, Smerconish gave the red carpet treatment to liberal Democrat candidates like Patrick Murphy, a liberal, homo-education supporting, tax hike supporting, troop insulting Obama suck up to the max.

It was disgusting in the extreme.

Fitzpatrick is the most honest politician I've ever known. Proud conservative values. Low tax, open space supporter, proLife, never dealt with smarmy lobbyists, GREAT constituent service for ALL.

Yet Smerconish joined the national media jerks in full throated attacks against everything conservative.... the War on Terror, etc... and actually claimed Obama's claim to "invade Pakistan" was credible.

Guess you can tell I'm still disgusted.

[laotzu]

obsolete farm equipment

Har!! Good one.