By Jayar Jackson
Every time a big championship game is played, I wonder what it would be like to watch it with a person not involved but very personally invested in the outcome. When Lakers head coach Phil Jackson won his 9th NBA Title as a head coach in 2002, tying legendary coach Red Auerbach's number of titles, I wondered what Auerbach was saying and thinking as the man he openly criticized as a head coach was accomplishing what he had sole possession of.
When Peyton Manning watched the Super Bowl this past season, what thoughts did he have about his conference rival Patriots going against his younger brother's Giants? Sure, he gives glowing answers to the media when they ask him about the respect he has for the guys representing
Now that former Lakers star and avid trash talker Shaquille O'Neal has voiced a few of his thoughts about Kobe Bryant's recent NBA Finals loss at the hands of the Boston Celtics, I can take one person off my "I Wonder What He Was Saying" list.
A video surfaced at the beginning of the week showing Shaq in a
"Once again it's time to get braggadocios, the tall human being and that's right, Shaq-a-tocios, check out my lyrical slam slam, watch me flip flam flam, I re-frack the crim-clanks, I biggity bitch the bam bam"
aren't exactly lyrically killin 'em in the streets.
As he ripped into
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You can disagree with the insensitive timing; only a week after Kobe suffered the devastating loss in his MVP season, disagree with the vulgar words, which everyone should just calm down and finally get used to, but you can't fight the fact that this has rebuilt the excitement NBA fans have to see these two rival teammates go up against each other again next year. The season just ended and I'm already looking forward to November just to see how this will play out on the court. We have the never ending antics of Shaq to thank for that; people love him when he's talking for their side, but hate him as soon as he's against them. Just ask Lakers fans, that's some effective trash talking.
And I'll admit it, I had Shaq's album back in '93. The truth shall set me free!
Reader Comments ( Page 3 of 3)
31. wow Klaven:
I am the nazi huh. You sure you really want to execute Osama. He hasnt even been tried, charged, anything. Talk about presumption of guilt.
Man, really has been a bad day. You must be the nazi. execute the guy without a trial: presumption of guilt. Hell, according to private he hasnt done anything. You really are american.
Lets see if I have the score right.
unborn children: kill them
terrorists : dont
child rapists: dont
bin laden: kill him without trial.
Instructions are very easy. If you dont understand the dosage just ask the pharmacist.
german guy at 9:55PM on Jun 25th 2008
32. LoL Clif, you think you're going to lure me into an all night pissing match with your twisted delusions of reality; forget it, I'm going to bed. You're a Cenk pawn Clif, I won't oblige you anymore tonight, this good conservative worked hard today to support your dead ass. You're a drifting hopeless caricature of fanaticism. A radical tsunami of contradiction & to reach you would be against the laws of physics.
Let me know what Ginsburg thinks about your idea of justice,, you're a joke Clifford....
Bobby at 11:04PM on Jun 25th 2008
33. A "drifting hopeless caricature of fanaticism"? I don't even know what that means. And I think I'm with Cliff on the Bin Laden thing: I vote for one shot and one kill. Saves time, money and space.
Terrorists like Osama should be given the same mercy they give the folks whose heads they lopped off and bodies they blew up with bombs and airliners filled with exploding aviation fuel.
No Habeus Corpus for these international thugs and savage barbarians who live by no rules and no credo except to kill "infidels" to please their moon-God, Allah. Ask the family of Theo Van Gogh, savagely, horrifically murdered by an Islamic radical in the Netherlands.
Dave at 12:04AM on Jun 26th 2008
34. Dave your not following the argument or you would know that we were mocking clif klaven.
he likes to argue for the rights of terrorists and calls people racist when they point out his hysterics. We were just pointing out his blatant hypocracy.
and he can be on the wrong end of the debate about gun control tomorrow too. that will be hillarious to see what kind of fantasy spew from his and privates mouth.
you just got plain bitch slapped today klaven, worse than usual. bobby jindal says he wants a word with you after class.
german guy at 12:29AM on Jun 26th 2008
35. german guy, you really write like a repressed homosexual.
But you're currently foaming at the mouth, denying that your post was racist.
Well, here are your own racist words.
punk-ass wrote...
Oh, and one more thing, this Javar is a loser. I thought Cenk was worthless. "We should calm down and get used to his lyrics." Affirmative action is alive and well on the aol. Atleast this time he didnt quote that bastian of goodness within the black community, Whitney Houston, with a "hell to the naw" like the last article of his I read.
Move his worthless ass back over to the black voices section where the readership actually enjoys that nonsense.
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Captain Negative at 1:18AM on Jun 26th 2008
36. Dave,
I realize it's hard to follow the content of these posts at times. Just for the record, I never stated that I wanted anything other than for OBL to swing from the gallows. This is why Clifford & most people on these boards disagree. Clifford has the propensity of distorting facts. Picture the face of a caricature waving in & out like in a funhouse mirror, this is my view of Clifford.
Clifford is a staunch advocate of Habeas Corpus given to terrorists, so be it, the Court has spoken. Perhaps ask Clifford how OBL will draw a different distinction from anyone else considered "human" & not given his day in court if captured alive. What the left doesn't understand is the "can of worms" they've opened with justice for all,, even for someone like OBL...
Bobby at 5:37AM on Jun 26th 2008
37. You're a Cenk pawn Clif, I won't oblige you anymore tonight, this good conservative worked hard today to support your dead ass.
xxx
Bobby, you'd have to explain how you think you do that.
You keep trying to delude yourself that you're on moral high ground, but that is a self-generated delusion, Bobby. I'm debt free and pay my own way. Perhaps you do, perhaps you don't.
As we've already establised, bobby, you are 100% behind Bush and Busher.
You have no way at all of selecting only foreign born people for denial of habeas corpus. This isn't arguable. There are already cases on the books of U.S. citizens being denied the right of habeas corpus under the Military Commissions act.
To review, bobby, you're trying to say that the 17% of you who support destruction of habeas corpus and the bill of rights, and who believe that Osama bin Laden isn't any threat to us and is neutered are somehow loyal americans.
No. You're not conservatives either.
I'm sorry, bobby, but if you put profit over patriotism as your party has done for thirty years, I can't regard you as any kind of mainstream American. I go back farther than that.
To put it as simply as I can, people like you are trying to defend the idea that our nation and its citizens exist to serve the global economy.
I and other democrats believe instead that the domestic economy exists to serve our nation and its citizens. We base this in our history and the content of the constitution.
You on the other hand have to go through quite a few convolutions to try to rebadge yourself as loyal to America when to you, she's for sale.
I don't care for your loyalties, bobby, and the more you try to defend them, the more you separate yourself from the 83% or more of Americans who respect Rule Of Law and our history as a nation.
No, bobby, you're not conservative, and with every post your loyalty to your country becomes further subjugated to your agenda.
You should value your freedom more than you do. Counltless American patriots from every war fought and died to maintain the very freedoms you wish to destroy.
You can use all the fuck words you want, bobby. It doesn't put a dent in the truth of that statement.
Nor does it cast you in a very manly personal light.
Giving up your civil rights out of cowardice or the fear of confronting terror is simply NOT anything Americans have ever stood for.
I would vote for ANY democrat over a republican if we were faced with war because the democrats are the war party and always were. They raise taxes to support domestic manufacture of war machinery and don't borrow from ideological enemies to finance what war profiteers won't contribute. That formula has worked.
Republicans have never met with wartime success because they fail to take the necessary steps to ensure victory.
If you are as fearful as your arguments hint, you will be better protected with an empowered government that can nationalize a critical industry that decides its profit is more important than national defense.
Republicans won't do that.
You can vote how you want, bobby, and if fear or the need for privatized despotism resonates with you, you have rights brought to you by 200 years of liberalism and the death of every american patriot to vote against your and your country's interest.
But I hope instead you come to your senses, bobby, and come back to America.
Clif Kuplen at 12:49PM on Jun 26th 2008
38. Clifford has the propensity of distorting facts.
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I haven't distorted a single fact, bobby. You're too used to being a dittohead.
Reality and you don't match up very well. I've already told you that habeas corpus violations of American citizens are a matter of fact.
The distortion would be your continued insistence that bush and busher have not done this to an american citizen, bobby.
Clif Kuplen at 1:01PM on Jun 26th 2008