Cowherd...

[SunsetBengal]

All I can say about Cowherd is that when you speak with that condescending tone, from your high radio pulpit for so long, sooner or later, it's going to bite you in the ass.  I have passively listened to Cowherd for years, not because I think he's great, but because his show was sometimes interesting.  Actually, mostly for those times when he had to admit "when Colin was wrong".

Cowherd would frequently interject his political view into the sports show, something that I always knew would lead to his undoing.  So, now the many times admitted, social liberal, has put his foot in his mouth, for the same sort of attitude that he purportedly stands against.  Personally, I think it's pretty damned funny, in a dark irony sort of sense.

What say you?  Were his comments mentioning the Dominicans as bad as they're being made out, or has the entire PC movement, with it's "gotcha" type of witch hunt moments, really gone too far?



http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2530784-colin-cowherd-espn-part-ways-after-comments-on-dominican-mlb-players?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=programming-national

Quote:Cowherd came under fire Thursday when discussing the complexity of the game of baseball. 
"Like I’ve never bought into that, 'Baseball’s just too complex,'" Cowherd said, according to the New York Times' Richard Sandomir. "Really? A third of the sport is from the Dominican Republic."

Then the obligatory retraction..

Quote:I could've made the point without using one country, and there's all sorts of smart people from the Dominican Republic. I could've said a third of baseball's talent is being furnished from countries with economic hardships, therefore educational hurdles. For the record, I used the Dominican Republic because they've furnished baseball with so many great players.

I understand that when you mention a specific country, they get offended. I get it. I do. And for that, I feel bad. I do. But I have four reports in front of me ... where there are discussions of major deficiencies in the education sector at all levels. ... It wasn't a shot at them. It was data. Five, seven years ago I talked about the same subject. Was I clunky? Perhaps. Did people not like my tone? I get it. Sometimes my tone stinks.
I think when you host a radio show, just like Jon Stewart hosts a show, I think sometimes I bring up stuff ... that makes people cringe. I'm not saying there's not intelligent, educated people from the Dominican Republic. I cringe at the data too.

As much as I really don't like Cowherd, I have to say that he doesn't deserve the heat he's catching for making those "remarks".  I say the PC movement needs to be curtailed;  It's now to the point where not a single race, creed, color, Nationality, or culture, can be mentioned without it being someone searching for something to get upset about.