While Rupe’s Stateside troops brace themselves for the tide
of legal actions and law enforcement enquiries to cross the North Atlantic, the
hacks at one of his papers have not been helping matters. At the New York Post, a tabloid which by pure
coincidence has acquired some of the characteristics of the Sun, sports writer Phil Mushnick has set
off a storm of protest after recent comments on the Brooklyn Nets.
Jay-Z
The Nets’ franchise is part owned by one Shawn Corey Carter,
to which the first response might be “So
what?” until one refers to him by his stage name of Jay-Z. The now
legendary rapper has long ago made his fortune, and has diversified into clubs,
clothing, and yes, pro basketball. But Jay-Z is clearly not admired by
Mushnick, who laid into his relationship with the Nets this week.
This is what Mushnick wrote in his
Equal Time column for the Post yesterday: “As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z
to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as
the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new ‘urban’ home —
why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment?
Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the
New York N------s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B----hes or Hoes.
Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be Jay-Z
hip? Then go all the way!”
This precipitated immediate and sustained condemnation.
Mushnick was called
out for being blatantly racist, and moreover questions were asked as to how the
editorial staff at the Post let the
comments through. But others were not surprised. Keith Olbermann, long time
sports commentator before he turned to mainstream news and politics, sparingly
commented that “Mushnick profanes our
country”.
And when another
Tweeter asked Olbermann what the chances were of Mushnick being employed next
week, he
replied “It’s the NYPost. They’ll
probably give him a raise”. Indeed, the Post’s
editors have confirmed that they have no issues with Mushnick’s comments, while
he has been in full victimhood mode elsewhere.
“Jay-Z profits from the worst and most
sustaining self-enslaving stereotypes of black-American culture and I'M the racist?” he
told Bob’s Blitz. With friends in
the newsroom like Phil Mushnick, Rupert Murdoch is in no need of more enemies. Isn’t it strange how he attracts folks like
that wherever he goes?
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