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ESPN show host says "eye for and eye" is southern culture

Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:12 pm
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:12 pm
Radio host Collin Cowherd said that Tony Stewart hitting Kevin Ward is just part of the," eye for an eye" culture that permeates the south. I'm expecting vast protest and a future firing in the works for such stereotyping. Right!


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But blame the South? That’s the gist of radio host Colin Cowherd’s characterization of the sad events at Canandaigua Motorsports Park on Saturday night. “It’s really, really part of the South,” the ESPN Radio host opined Monday of NASCAR. “And it’s an eye-for-an-eye culture.” Cowherd imagines that the culture that birthed stock-car racing in America instilled a “settle the score” mentality in the sport and its relatives, which ultimately led to Kevin Ward Jr.’s death underneath a sprint car this weekend.
Posted by Asgard Device
The Daedalus
Member since Apr 2011
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:13 pm to
Are you outraged?
Posted by TT9
Global warming
Member since Sep 2008
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:15 pm to
I hate that fricking troll.
Posted by Volmanac
Nashville, TN
Member since May 2009
7733 posts
Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:23 pm to
Cowherd is trolling. It's what you have to do to get ratings nowadays.
Posted by WinnPtiger
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:32 pm to
I listened to his whole show that morning. Nothing he said was out of line
Posted by OleWar
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Member since Mar 2008
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:34 pm to
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But it’s still silly to blame the South for New Yorker Kevin Ward Jr.’s death under a Hoosier's wheel in the Finger Lakes region of the Empire State. All serious people know it’s George W. Bush’s fault.


This article ends well.
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
58394 posts
Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:36 pm to
" southerners need to stop clinging to their guns and bibles"
Posted by SpidermanTUba
my house
Member since May 2004
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:38 pm to
It is a bigoted remark.
Posted by onmymedicalgrind
Nunya
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:48 pm to
And you sir just threw a couple more dollars into Colin's bank account. Well done.
Posted by Diamondawg
Mississippi
Member since Oct 2006
32514 posts
Posted on 8/17/14 at 8:55 pm to
If Cowherd understood the Bible he would know that Stewart would have to have been killed by Ward for it to be an "eye for an eye"
Posted by Jcorye1
Tom Brady = GoAT
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:05 pm to


It's Cowherd, he says a lot of dumb shite.
Posted by Strannix
District 11
Member since Dec 2012
49158 posts
Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:22 pm to
His comment doesn't even make sense, Stewart wrecked Ward, how is it an eye for an eye if he runs over him afterwards??
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
63742 posts
Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:25 pm to
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Radio host Collin Cowherd said


Stopped reading right there. If you want to find an example of something that compares to what you view as unjustified bitching about stereotyping, or that's comparable to anything really, Cowherd is just a horrible example, analogy, whatever, to use.
Posted by theunknownknight
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
57495 posts
Posted on 8/17/14 at 9:55 pm to
"Eye for an eye" is a saying that, contextually, promotes mercy.

Americans are ignorant.
Posted by Hater Bait
Tuscaloosa & Gulf Shores
Member since Nov 2012
2872 posts
Posted on 8/17/14 at 11:02 pm to
I'm pretty sure I read about an "eye for an eye" in an old Jewish text.

I doubt the media has any idea about Jewish culture though.

Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
124656 posts
Posted on 8/18/14 at 5:33 am to
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ESPN show host says "eye for and eye" is southern culture
I guess that is not a suspendable comment, but "What I’ve tried to employ the female members of my family — some of who you all met and talked to and what have you — is that ... let’s make sure we don’t do anything to provoke wrong actions, because if I come — or somebody else come, whether it’s law enforcement officials, your brother or the fellas that you know — if we come after somebody has put their hands on you, it doesn’t negate the fact that they already put their hands on you," gives a commentator a week off.
Posted by catholictigerfan
Member since Oct 2009
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Posted on 8/18/14 at 8:35 am to
Posted by Ghostfacedistiller
BR
Member since Jun 2008
17500 posts
Posted on 8/18/14 at 4:40 pm to
1. This happened a week ago.

2. I don't anyone gives a shite overall, however, in the context of our current climate is interesting how this is a non issue.

3. The bigger issue is ESPN, a network which most of us are familiar with as we all likely came to this board for college football, and the news media in general. They suspend what, 4 hosts recently for far less than this, a blanket assessment of a region, yet no reaction. Speak with your pocketbook and don't stand for a bunch of arse clown news monitors determining your values.
Posted by Tigah in the ATL
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2005
27539 posts
Posted on 8/18/14 at 6:14 pm to
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"eye for and eye" is southern culture
Tony Stewart isn't southern
Posted by Revelator
Member since Nov 2008
58394 posts
Posted on 8/18/14 at 9:36 pm to
I wonder if Cowherd would describe the people of Ferguson as," eye for an eye" types?
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