Hater Tuesday: The Wrath of Lebron
As if it wasn’t enough for Lebron James to have one biblical attribution, now Dave Zirin has him getting all Old Testament on fools, doling out smiteful dunks on the false idols of sports and politics. If you’re not up on Dave Zirin’s blog, The Edge of Sports, I highly recommend it to all those who like their sports analysis sprinkled with progressive politics. In his latest post he asks his readers who Lebron James should smash on next based on James’ recent statement in Maxim magazine that he would enjoy dunking on the former POTUS, George W. Bush. While applauding Lebron’s courage to make some kind of a political statement, Zirin still thinks W an easy target, so he makes his own recommendations for who Lebron should serve next. His list includes many public figures who certainly deserve some karmic whoop ass - for example, Judge Keith Bardwell, The Louisiana Judge who refused to marry a mixed race couple claiming “I’m not racist I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way.” No doubt, that dude needs to get dunked on. And here’s one of my favorites, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones:
1 – Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. His new 1.15 billion dollar stadium in Arlington comes complete with cage-dancing cheerleaders, the widest flat screen television in the world, and special “party pass” tickets so people can stand outside the stadium and watch the game through osmosis. Jones took $350 million of public money to build Cowboy stadium in a state where almost 1 in 4 children live in poverty. Even worse, Jones believes that just because he knows how to fleece the locals, he also possesses the know-how to draft players, hire coaches, and play General Manager. Keep in mind that the last quarterback to win a playoff game for Jerry Jones was Troy Aikman in 1996. Jones needs to get dunked on now.
Couldn’t agree more. However, Zirin thinks that our current Commander-in-chief deserves to get posterized by LBJ too. While Obama has been too much of a pass first point guard his first ten months in office and definitely needs to start shooting more, I wouldn’t give him the gas face just yet (gas face? - see Paul Pierce’s expression in photo above). There’s a whole gang of world leaders and Tea Party supporters that need to get tea bagged by Lebron before Obama does. And that’s not to mention one or more Bay Area sports franchise owners as well. If Lebron, like some vengeful god, could bring shame upon the wicked with righteous dunking, who would you pick next to get his wrath?
M. Meschery
I’d line up Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and (say) three or four other malicious and largely predjudicial AM radio hacks and have Bron Bron give ‘em one of those multiple tea-bagging deals from around the free-throw line or so…
Comment by admin | 10.27.2009 | 4:02 pm