Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Cognitive Dissonance

My head is spinning.  I'm watching NFL Live, as Trey Wingo, Mike Golic, and some old dude in a 3 piece suit talk about the gun culture in the NFL.  Sportscasters (especially football), by tone and by training (talk radio ) give off a conservative vibe, but they just spent 3 minutes saying that players "don't need to be carrying guns" and that "it would be a scary world if every other person were packing."  When did these guys turn into gun control advocates?  Also, I've seen it out there before, but it made me think: where is the NRA coming to Plax's support? Dude may have violated a law, but why isn't the NRA taking up his case, challenging the constitutionality of the gun ban? 

Things started making more sense when Trey Wingo fixated on someone who said that Burres needed a gun because he was wearing bling.  Things become clear when white guys get to cluck their tongues about black guys and the "culture."  Emphasized when Trey Wingo just read a transcript from Clinton Portis, unedited for grammatical errors, then finished with a Clinton Portis impression.  

(Cringe)

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