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Outrage at ESPN host who suggested women should try not to 'provoke' men into beating them...
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Posted on 07/26/2014 2:47:00 PM PDT by TigerClaws

An ESPN host has been taken to task by one of his own colleagues for comments he made during a discussion of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice's two-game suspension for allegedly knocking out his fiancee.

The punishment has been criticized as too lenient for such an act, but Stephen A. Smith made an ill-advised attempt to come at the issue from both sides during a First Take segment Friday.

Ray Rice was captured on camera knocking his then-fiancee (now wife) unconscious at an Atlantic City casino and dragging her limp body from the elevator.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2706350/ESPN-host-subject-withering-Twitter-backlash-colleague-suggesting-women-try-not-provoke-men-beating-them.html#ixzz38c6eYUAC Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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To: DIRTYSECRET
Ike Turner got a bad rap as well.

Don't know about that or this Rice character but Stephen A is getting a bad rap. He should, however, taken his own advice and kept his mouth shut.

21 posted on 07/26/2014 3:14:51 PM PDT by Stentor (Maybe the Goldman Sachs thing is just a coincidence. /S)
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To: TigerClaws

Nothing wrong with that he said.

Nothing....


22 posted on 07/26/2014 3:17:49 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Sherman Logan

Well, that explains my previous post. I will never understand people being addicted to getting beat up. You cannot get any more pathetic than that.


23 posted on 07/26/2014 3:18:10 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Praise to the Lord the Almighty the King of Creation)
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To: TigerClaws

It’s amazing how ESPN managed to get so many morons together in one place.


24 posted on 07/26/2014 3:18:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Womans Be Thinkin’ Too Much.”


25 posted on 07/26/2014 3:23:38 PM PDT by beelzepug (You can't fix a broken washing machine by washing more expensive clothes in it.)
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To: TigerClaws

What do you say to a woman with two black eyes?

Nothing, you’ve already told her twice.


26 posted on 07/26/2014 3:23:54 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: TigerClaws
Used to be a time when, right or wrong, a man could speak his mind freely. He might take some heat over what he had to say but nobody ever denied him the right to say it.

Nowadays, we have these "witch hunts" against anybody who says anything at all that might be controversial or considered "politically incorrect."

If I recall correctly, this nonsense started back in the 1980s when Howard Cosell made some innocent comment on Monday Night Football about a black football player breaking loose for a touchdown and all hell broke loose. Soon thereafter, you had others run out of the business for not being politically correct on TV (oddsmaker "Jimmy the Greek" comes to mind).

Are we a better society now than we were back then? I'm not so sure. Up until the mid 1980s, I saw race and sex relations improving and it seemed that racism was about to go away for good. Now I feel like I am on eggshells whenever I am around black people or women in the workplace because I don't want to inadvertently offend them and have my career ruined.

We are not as free as we used to be.

27 posted on 07/26/2014 3:26:44 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: TigerClaws
So that's why the NFL suspended Mrs. Rice from attending games. :)
28 posted on 07/26/2014 3:27:05 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: yarddog
I knew a long time but retired small town police chief. He once told me that a lot of women would purposely push their husband until he finally lost control and hit them. Then they would take him to the cleaners.

Women's Lib: what horse manure.

29 posted on 07/26/2014 3:27:12 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: GeronL

I agree.

A lot of women seem to be of the opinion they are beyond reproach simply becuase they are female. I personally know of situations where the female deliberately pushed the male (especially when they know which ‘buttons’ to push) to the breaking point for various reasons. Those reasons ranged from simple revenge to looking for a litigation payday.

Generally, hitting a nerve like he did usually means the truth was told, and some people can’t handle the truth, so they try to destroy you instead.


30 posted on 07/26/2014 3:27:16 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: TigerClaws

Ladies/women with a modicum of, certainly with a lot of, class know that a gentleman, especially a man with physical strength combined with strength of character, raised by a god woman of a mother, would never just not ever hit a woman, under any circumstances.

Those are the guys ‘who have luck’. Everyone else is a d

Ask any special ops guy


31 posted on 07/26/2014 3:30:50 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Sherman Logan

Let me say first, some guys have an insane hair trigger temper that is set off by, pretty much, Nothing. OTOH, an ex friend’s ex hub has said (she divorced two others for hitting her) “I never hit her myself, but i can see why some others would”.


32 posted on 07/26/2014 3:32:24 PM PDT by Bethaneidh
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To: All

the whole premise is that the women who are supposedly strong enough to be a police officer and take down bad guys,
or fight in combat roles, or go toe to toe in boardroom brawls, in actuality need special protections.


33 posted on 07/26/2014 3:35:10 PM PDT by willywill
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To: MichaelCorleone

Domestic violence laws have nothing to do with domestic violence. They are about control. About women being in control of men and cops being in control of both.

What ever happened to assault and battery if a woman is beaten by her husband/boyfriend?


34 posted on 07/26/2014 3:36:25 PM PDT by saleman (?)
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To: TigerClaws

He was talking about how black women need their ass beat sometimes, or maybe just jacked up a little. What’s a black man to do? Show her the pimp hand that’s what!!


35 posted on 07/26/2014 3:40:27 PM PDT by tupac (the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe)
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To: TigerClaws

I was going to say...imagine if Skip Bayless had said it.


36 posted on 07/26/2014 3:41:40 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: RichInOC; TigerClaws

Skip Bayless? ESPN employs that hack fraud??


37 posted on 07/26/2014 3:43:20 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

Yeah, he does point-counterpoint with Stephen A.


38 posted on 07/26/2014 3:44:55 PM PDT by RichInOC (...Phi Kappa Sigma, Beta Rho '87..."Is this right?" "Try not to drool so much at the end of it.")
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To: Balding_Eagle

Today is my last day with Comcast. I won’t be tempted to watch ESPN anymore. I’ll be using an antenna. Anyone have any recommendations?


39 posted on 07/26/2014 3:51:45 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (Liberals were raised by women or wimps. And they're all stupid.)
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To: willywill

Sounds a bit hypocritical, that’s for sure. Or is it more like creating an environment where ‘heads I win; tails you lose’?


40 posted on 07/26/2014 3:58:45 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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