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ESPN gets itself sued by not knowing the difference between ‘guerrilla’ and ‘gorilla’
Canada Free Press ^ | 02/15/17 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 02/15/2017 9:20:27 AM PST by Sean_Anthony

Racism everywhere!

You already know that ESPN has fallen very far, from its heyday as the global leader in sports programming to its current pathetic state as a pusher of left-wing social sensibilities that uses sports a foil. ESPN celebrates on-air personalities like Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon and Stephen A. Smith for their courageous liberal pronouncements. (For the record, I love Smith . . . but he is what he is.) ESPN fires conservatives like Curt Schilling who express their opinions, even when they do so off the air and completely apart from their role on ESPN.


TOPICS: Politics; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; canadasucks; clickbait; espn; gorilla; guerrilla; racism
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To: jjotto; discostu

Funny, I used to play a lot of tennis, and we would commiserate about one particular guy who was a good friend of all of us, but he would never engage in a volley to win...he would simply try to get it back to you, and you would eventually become so impatient that would eventually make a mistake!

It used to drive us crazy, but in looking at it, it worked for him! It was just maddening, because you wanted a real volley, and you would instead get “whack! bounce...lob...whack! bounce...lob...whack!...bounce...lob, etc.

We called it guerrilla tactics even back then!

That said, I agree, it reflects on the stupidity of the people filing the suit, and doubly (and entertainingly as well as hilariously, to me) on the liberals at ESPN being hoisted on their own petard!

Kind of like that extremely liberal woman (Paula Deen) on some cooking show who used the “N” word, and no matter how abjectly she apologized, her career as she knew it was over, ended by the liberals who she worshiped.


21 posted on 02/15/2017 9:45:53 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: al baby

“In Mercia? The cocoanut’s tropical!”


22 posted on 02/15/2017 9:46:44 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Sean_Anthony

23 posted on 02/15/2017 9:48:07 AM PST by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Which is funny because there's an MMA fighter that has the nickname "the Killa Gorilla" and there's another fighter nicknamed "the Black Beast" that has a gorilla tattoo on his arm.


24 posted on 02/15/2017 9:52:47 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( More and More Winning! ))))
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To: Sean_Anthony

The left certainly is niggardly with their tolerance these days.


25 posted on 02/15/2017 9:54:31 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Flick Lives

And that phrase also has nothing to do with a larger, stronger, faster opponent charging the net.


26 posted on 02/15/2017 9:57:42 AM PST by discostu (There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run to deep, for such a simple man.)
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To: rlmorel

That is guerilla tennis. And that is also NOT how Venus was playing that match or plays in general. She was charging the net and killing the ball, a style of play that for a white player could easily be described as gorilla tennis. I think he just forgot the 3rd rail was in the building, and probably would have been better served by simply admitting he screwed up.


27 posted on 02/15/2017 9:59:49 AM PST by discostu (There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run to deep, for such a simple man.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Isn’t ESPN hosted by jocks and former jocks?


28 posted on 02/15/2017 9:59:57 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Sean_Anthony

Very similar to the leftist meltdown after somebody said somebody was niggardly (meaning stingy). Leftists are simply not sane.


29 posted on 02/15/2017 10:01:17 AM PST by afsnco (18 of 20 in AF JAG)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

seems a little niggling on ESPN’s part.


30 posted on 02/15/2017 10:05:50 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Sean_Anthony

I thought Kurt Russell and Martin Short had ironed this out many, many moons ago in “Captain Ron”.


31 posted on 02/15/2017 10:11:01 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Sean_Anthony
Back in the 1960s there was a short lived tv show called Garrison's Gorillas about a commando team behind enemy lines during WWII. I guess it was a play on the homophonic guerrilla. It was inspired by the movie The Dirty Dozen. It only lasted one season. Fortunately there was no black character among the main cast. Oh it was broadcast by ABC which runs espn today under the Disney umbrella.

guerrilla: noun...a person who engages in irregular warfare especially as a member of an independent unit carrying out harassment and sabotage


32 posted on 02/15/2017 10:17:20 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

Blame it all on the closed captioning.


33 posted on 02/15/2017 10:23:23 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: al baby
Loved that movie.

"Well, if anythings gonna happen, its gonna happen out there"...

34 posted on 02/15/2017 10:24:22 AM PST by Envisioning (Trump is imposing the people's will on it's government......)
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To: Sean_Anthony

ESPN has got so political I do not watch it. IMHO they can go to hell.


35 posted on 02/15/2017 10:24:39 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: al baby

Guerrillas in the mist.


36 posted on 02/15/2017 10:25:12 AM PST by OLDCU
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To: Envisioning

yup one of my faves if i catch it channel surfing i watch it


37 posted on 02/15/2017 10:48:02 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: discostu

I like seeing em squirm anyway!


38 posted on 02/15/2017 12:35:16 PM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Reminds me of the flap when some “racist” used the word “niggardly” to describe someone.


39 posted on 02/15/2017 1:13:25 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: luvbach1

Ya I remember the uproar over using the word niggardly.

Are some people just always on the lookout for ways to be allegedly offended???


40 posted on 02/15/2017 1:28:29 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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