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Why I’m Canceling My SI Subscription
PJ Media ^ | 3 Feb 2013 | Andrew Klavan

Posted on 02/04/2013 5:47:03 AM PST by Rummyfan

I am going to let my subscription to Sports Illustrated lapse when it runs out this year. I hope lots of other people will do the same. Like too many other publications, the magazine has become dishonest, dishonorable and even occasionally despicable in its conformist, lockstep left-wing bias. Republican politicians and conservative positions are routinely insulted in articles having nothing to do with either. Yawn-inducing left wing predictability is brought to the discussion of every issue. No SI writer is allowed to disagree with leftism ever. Despite its great photographs and occasionally good athlete profiles, the magazine has remade itself into crap in the name of political conformity.

For me, the Super Bowl issue with its smarmy and poorly reported article on religion in football was the last straw. The article was not an offense to God, it was an offense to journalism. Mark Oppenheimer, a left wing anti-religion writer for the left wing New York Times, among other left wing venues, does the left wing hit job on football players of faith. Not surprisingly, he is also the author of a hagiography of the Christian-bashing gay bully Dan Savage. (This blog has always supported gays and gay rights, but to my mind, Savage has no more place in serious debate than the Westboro Baptist gang.)

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andrewklavan; corruption; fraud; klavan; leftwingmedia; markoppenheimer; mediabias; oppenheimer; si; sportsillustrated
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To: Rummyfan

Congratulations. I haven’t looked at that liberal rag since 1990.

This is a much better mag:

“Independence Sports”

http://tristatemediaonline.com/


21 posted on 02/04/2013 8:16:34 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: ripley

> Based on the behavior of leftists , one can imagine what
> the Bolsheviks were like after they won the Russian
> revolution.

No imagination necessary.

According to a friend of mine who lived the first 25 years of his life in Russia, the Bolsheviks murdered 30 million people in the first five years of the Leninist regime. Kulaks, Mensheviks, faith communities, including observant Jews.

In one Ukranian town, Soviet soldiers lined up confessing Christians and their whole families on the side of a road and shot them all. Hundreds of them. men, women, and children. The surviving townspeople were told not to bury the bodies but to leave them there as a warning to those who would dare to confess Christ.

To this day, when you visit that town, you can see bits of bone and fragments of clothing there at the execution site. The people decided never to bury them so they would never forget the predations of communism.


22 posted on 02/04/2013 10:04:31 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: matginzac
buy Playboy instead, if you must.

Why do either, type "Naked Redhead" in google pics, prepare to be shocked, pleased, outraged it is amazing that women are so anxious to degrade the image of women.

23 posted on 02/04/2013 11:30:06 AM PST by itsahoot (MSM and Fox free since Nov 1st. If it doesnÂ’t happen here then it didn't happen.)
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To: Westbrook

“...according to a friend of mine who lived the first 25 years of his life in Russia...the Bolsheviks murdered 30 million people in the first five years of the Leninist regime...”

Please ask him to share those stories with as many people as possible.

Regards


24 posted on 02/04/2013 1:52:39 PM PST by ripley
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To: Rummyfan
Years ago Rick Reilly in his Back Page column took a pre-Donovan-McNabb gratuitous swipe out-of-left-gield at Rush Limbaugh.
The column caused my Sports Illustrated my subscription to lapse.
25 posted on 02/04/2013 2:41:36 PM PST by Amagi (Obama is never so animated as when he is assaulting the Constitution.)
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To: itsahoot

How low can you go......


26 posted on 02/04/2013 3:18:26 PM PST by matginzac
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To: Rummyfan

Once everyone has a smart phone or a tablet, who will need magazines? Just like homosexuality, the problem will eventually cure itself.


27 posted on 02/04/2013 4:51:50 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

For $9.99 a month, you can have an electronic subscription to 70 magazines, SI included, on your tablet. It’s called Next Issue and it also allows you a year of back issues per magazine.

Best Deal Ever.


28 posted on 02/05/2013 7:38:16 AM PST by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage (Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!)
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