Charles Oakley, One rule for the elite and one for us

[liberty]

So, I imagine that Barkley screams racism and the guy gets fired for doing his job. Liberal elite can do what ever they want and the rest us have to put up with it?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/rep ... spartandhp

Madison Square Garden security chief Frank Benedetto has been fired over Wednesday night’s incident involving former Knicks star Charles Oakley, DNAinfo New York reports.


MSG executive chairman James Dolan fired Benedetto Friday morning, according to the report.

Oakley was arrested Wednesday night and charged with four misdemeanors after an altercation with arena security during the Knicks’ game against the Clippers. Oakley was reportedly yelling at Dolan, with whom he has a longstanding feud, and was asked to leave. When Oakley refused, he was forcibly removed from the arena.

[wesw]

I gots to go with Oak on this one......

if they put up with spike lee s yapping, then they should be able to handle the Oak.

I don t like heckling, but talking shit is part of basketball, always was.

it s the same on the playground.

[Long Run]

Dolan is widely considered as one of the worst sports team owners anywhere. Oakley was known for his work ethic and being a good teammate. I'm leaning toward Oak until there is real evidence to the contrary (and so are most people).

[Lord Jim]

So, I imagine that Barkley screams racism and the guy gets fired for doing his job.

Lib, I believe you mean Oakley, but I understand the mistake...

All those black basketball players named Charles look alike...

And the Liberal elite had nothing to do with Benedetto's firing...

In fact he was fired because security didn't remove Oakley sooner:

Dolan said Oakley “came to the Garden with an agenda,” and critiqued Madison Square Garden staff with not ejecting the ex-player from the arena sooner.

“I think Charles should’ve never made it to his seats,” Dolan said, suggesting Oakley was inebriated at the time.

“From the moment [Oakley] stepped into the Garden, he began with this behavior — abusive behavior, disrespectful behavior, stuff you don’t want to say on the radio,” Dolan said. “And it just accelerated all the way down to his seats and ultimately to the confrontation with security,”

“Clearly our staff could see that,” Dolan added. “Were they intimidated and that’s why they didn’t do anything? I don’t know. The right thing, if everything had gone well, he never would’ve made it to his seats.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ear ... 30e3cd4c84

[Bicycle Bill]

I gots to go with Oak on this one......

if they put up with spike lee s yapping, then they should be able to handle the Oak.

I don t like heckling, but talking shit is part of basketball, always was.

it s the same on the playground.

Tell us again, what do you/did you do for a living?  Then ask yourself how you'd like it if some sidewalk supervisor was all up in your grille about the way you held your hammer or drafting pencil or double-clicked your mouse.  Maybe you worked on a factory assembly line fastening the bumpers onto cars and someone on the sidelines kept hollering "Right-tighty, lefty-loosey!" at you all the time?  I'm pretty sure that after a while you'd get pretty damn pissed off about it too.
But according to you, when it comes to sports because they paid money to watch them do it it's OK for the guy with the courtside side to get on some ball player's case.  I suppose you also think that it's OK to interrupt a Broadway production, or stand up and shout out spoilers during a movie, or talk all the way through an orchestral performance too because "I paid for my seat!".

You make me wanna puke all over again.

-"BB"-

[wesw]

well, he wasn t messing with a ballplayer, he was ragging on the owner.....

second, I said I don t like heckling, but I spent many years on the courts at pemberton playground and people on the sideline, and the court, talk shit...., constantly,,,,

if you make a few steals or block a few shots oe make a few shots, or you bone somebody back who has been boning you....

...well, all of a sudden your the man and they heckle the guy who s ass you are busting...

spike lee is the little sawed off bastard that heckles the players, and he is the knick s little hero.

reggie miller shut his little ass up tho, by playing ball...., serious ball.... that is the cure...., winning.

have you ever even watched a basketball game?

or do you think that all those "porch monkeys" should be sent "back to Africa" too?

moron....

take a shot motherhummer, I ll smack that shit back so hard that you ll have Spaulding printed on your forehead.....

that s what you ll hear on the ball court.....

part of the game.....

airball....airball.....airball........

[Bicycle Bill]

Tell us again, what do you/did you do for a living?  Then ask yourself how you'd like it if some sidewalk supervisor was all up in your grille about the way you held your hammer or drafting pencil or double-clicked your mouse.

Answer the phuquing question, arschloch, instead of tap-dancing around it.

-"BB"-

[wesw]

you rode the short bus, didn t you?

[Bicycle Bill]

you rode the short bus, didn t you?

And now comes the ad hominem attack.
Even if I had, they at least managed to teach me how to spell, capitalize, and when and where to use punctuation.

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

Wes has made it quite clear that he would have a difficult time finding his way to the short bus, let alone actually getting a seat...

[liberty]

All those black basketball players named Charles look alike...

You know better than that.

[Lord Jim]

You know better than that.

Yes, indeed I do...

[Long Run]

You know better than that.

Yes, indeed I do...

Sarcasm smiley MIA?

[Lord Jim]

You have to go back to the original context...(Which lib left out):

So, I imagine that Barkley screams racism and the guy gets fired for doing his job. Liberal elite can do what ever they want and the rest us have to put up with it?

Lib, I believe you mean Oakley, but I understand the mistake...

All those black basketball players named Charles look alike...

[MajGenl.Meade]

I'm still puzzling over the subject title.

Apparently The Dr. Witness Roundmound Shaq (good point, LJ) was arrested.

So is lib suggesting that the elite get arrested while "we" get away with it?

Who is this "us"?

[rubato]

I am fascinated by the use of the word "elite" which, being undefined, becomes a garbage word for "we hate them" without saying who "they" are.

They have managed to invert the meaning of elite from someone who is exceptional in a good way like an elite athlete, elite scientist, intellectual elite, elite musician &c. to something bad.

Republicans are so gullible.



yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

And as I pointed out earlier rube, it's also possible for a person, (such as, well, yourself) to have an elitist attitude without actually being an elite anything....

[Burning Petard]

Sort of like the progression during my lifetime, of the words 'gay' and 'liberal' 'and 'gender'

snailgate

[rubato]

And as I pointed out earlier rube, it's also possible for a person, (such as, well, yourself) to have an elitist attitude without actually being an elite anything....

You would know better than most.

yrs,
rubato

[Lord Jim]

Yes, indeed I would...

I've been observing you for quite some time...