Hank Haney suspended in the latest Absurdity Mob scandal

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Last week, Hank Haney, during his SiriusXM satellite radio show, gave his opinion on the US Women's Open, which took place this weekend, in these terms:

Co-presenter: "This week, Hank, the 74th Women's Open of the United States."

Haney: "Oh that's it? I will predict a Korean. "

Co-host, laughing: "OK, it's a pretty safe bet."

Haney: "I can not name six players on the LPGA Tour. Maybe I could. Well (he then called Michelle Wie, and pointed out that she was hurt, and Lexi Thompson) I would go with Lee. If I did not name a name, I would have many. "

Co-host: "We have six Lees."

The sports media have outraged the indignation of pearl clerics, indignant forever. How does Haney dare to make these comments, they cried as they fell stunned on their fainted couches?

Except that South Koreans dominate the LPGA.

If Haney had said that the Boston Marathon would take place this weekend, "I will take a Kenyan to win", would anyone have been scandalized? Or if he had said about the US Spelling Bee, which also took place last weekend, "I'll take an Indian to win", would anyone have been upset? Kenyan marathoners and Indian fencers dominate their respective competitions. Like the South Korean golfer at the American Women's Open, where South Koreans have won eight of the last 12 openings.

In fact, on Sunday, one of the Lees, Jeongeun Lee6, as she knows it on the tour, is a number that followed her name, which won this year's tournament.

Lee6 is known as Lee6 because, and I did not make that up to you, there are six golfers on the LPGA tour, named Jeongeun Lee.

Yes, all six have exactly the same name and surname.

Can you imagine if there were six Phil Mickelson on the PGA Tour? Would it be racist that somebody say, "I will take one of the Americans to win. Give me one of the Mickelson to win the US Open. "

Of course not.

It is not racist to note the success of a particular group of people in a sport, especially when connected to the country of origin. If anything, it's a compliment.

If anyone who was doing sports radio in Brazil was learning that the Winter Olympics were starting and that he was asked to predict who would win in snowboarding, he replied, "I'm going to take the ice cream." "One of the Americans" – we won all the medals in snowboarding so far. – Would any one require his work, especially if Americans winning many gold medals bore the same name?

It's just absurd.

In fact, it is high time to distract the crowd from the targets they are trying to attack and ridicule the former leaders of the perpetually indignant brigade.

Consider, USA Today, one of the three largest newspapers in America, published an article by Christine Brennan asking that: Hank Haney will be fired from his job and will never be allowed to play golf on a golf course in the world after these comments.

Seriously, Brennan wrote this.

Here are some quotes from his opinion column:

"If Haney is not fired from his post (and his co-host with him) and all the other roles that he plays in golf and the media from here on Wednesday night, the Game direction, the PGA Tour and SiriusXM tolerate racism, sexism and xenophobia, while essentially telling all non-whites that golf is not their favorite sport. "

Is this the reality?

How is the Haney breed considered here? Had the same comment been made by an Asian, Hispanic or black man, would Brennan have quoted his race at the same time as his comments?

Of course not.

So, is not it racist of her? She judges Haney in a pejorative way based on her race, which is, you know, racism.

In addition, Brennan wanted Haney and his co-host to be fired for all their roles in golf for that. For any of them, correctly predict who would win the tournament lightly?

What if Haney is not a big fan of the LPGA?

It is not sexist to prefer men's sports to women's sports.

Many sports fans, men and women, prefer men's sports to women's sports because male athletes are bigger, stronger and faster than their female counterparts. If that annoys you, blame biology.

You can also demand that women's tees be removed from the golf course and play golf in exactly the same way as men do.

Like many of you, I'm a fan of the NBA, but I'm not a fan of the WNBA at all. In fact, I can hardly name six players from the WNBA. But if I knew that the best players from WNBA came from Croatia and I was asked on the radio who I think would win the WNBA MVP, I laughed and said that I was taking a Croat to win, is it sexist, racist and xenophobic?

Of course not.

All this tumult is absurd.

But that's not all.

Not content to call his post, Brennan also demanded that Haney be banned from all the world's golf courses:

"If there is a golf club in the country (let's say the world) that allows Haney to set foot on his property after this abominable exchange, this club asks all girls, women and people of color of To go play one of dozens of other sports, they can play for life, not golf. "

Good heaven.

She really wrote that.

She demands that armed guards prevent Haney from playing golf anywhere in the world.

Do they have publishers at USA Today? Obviously not. Because if they certainly did, at least one person might think it was worth pointing out that Brennan was not just asking that Hank Haney be fired from his job – which was pretty ridiculous – she also demanded that he not never allowed to land. a golf course all over the world again.

I mean, it's absolutely crazy.

The third largest newspaper in the country is calling for a golf specialist to be banned from all golf courses around the world because they do not like what he said about golf?

The only people who could read this column and be impressed were the North Koreans, since what Brennan advocated here was a totalitarian dictatorship of golf.

Maybe Kim Jung Il will offer her a job in the Pyeongchang Gazette, where she can write on the golf courses of the dear leader, those on which he gets a hole in a hole.

All because Haney has the nerve to let us know that he does not care about the LPGA.

So what? Haney is like most American sports fans.

The NBA and PGA outperform the WNBA and LPGA by around 50-1.

And do you know who are most female sports fans?

Men!

Plus, do you know who else is not a big fan of the LPGA? Christine Brennan. According to her history archive page, she has not written any article on LPGA golfers this year.

In the meantime, she has written dozens of articles and columns on the PGA Tour. And you know about almost all these columns? American men.

It seems pretty sexist and xenophobic Christine Brennan to write only on male golfers on tour.

In fact, according to its own criteria, given its focus on American men and the exclusion of golfers, why should not a golf course in the world even let it set foot on the course?

I suggested to Brennan to come to my radio show and defend her insane opinion on Haney this morning, but you'll never guess what she had already done on Twitter:

I can not believe I have to say that, but what Haney said was not racist, sexist or xenophobic. He just pointed out that he was not much interested in the LPGA – an opinion that Brennan seems to share since she did not write about the LPGA all year long in the his column – and chose one of a series of golfers, a South Korean. , who recently dominated the LPGA Tour, to win the tournament.

And then he was right!

Yet it cost him his job.

One might think that SiriusXM, the company that pays Howard Stern $ 100 million a year despite all the people he has consistently offended throughout his career, would be more than letting losers like Christine Brennan influence their decisions to programming, but it is. false.

Rather than stand up to an online crowd representing a small group of the population – the vast majority of American sports fans were not shocked – the PGA Tour and SiriusXM capitulated to the losers and suspended Haney.

Even more savage, so many sports media members are terrified by the online crowd, and I'm the only person I've seen on the internet defending Haney.

It's really crazy.

The most incredible irony here is that after the result of the US Women's Open, if we have to apologize to someone, it's Haney.

He actually chose the winner, which the majority of LPGA commentators could not do.

Maybe instead of trying to take his job, they should give him another one: the chief analyst of the American Women's Open.

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