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Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: June 18th, 2010, 9:01 am
by Liv
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So I've been getting back in the habit of watching Rachel Maddow before I go to bed this last week. I had pretty much given up watching American news and politics after coming back from Europe because it disturbed me so much. Rachel and her amazing staff always seem to find the proof that reinforced my worst fears of America. Last night was no different. It was basically the Republican's views on the World Cup and soccer in general. If it doesn't make you giggle it will make you slit your wrist:

Video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#37769194

More Googling show Media Matters has caught some more quotes:

Glenn Beck: "Barack Obama's policies are the World Cup." In an extensive rant on the June 11 Glenn Beck Program, Beck purported to explain how President Obama's policies "are the World Cup" of "political thought." Beck stated, "It doesn't matter how you try to sell it to us, it doesn't matter how many celebrities you get, it doesn't matter how many bars open early, it doesn't matter how many beer commercials they run, we don't want the World Cup, we don't like the World Cup, we don't like soccer, we want nothing to do with it." Beck stated that likewise, "the rest of the world likes Barack Obama's policies, we do not."

Beck added "those who like the World Cup ... they're the most likely to riot," commenting that by contrast, "I haven't seen the baseball riots." He later said of soccer, "I hate it so much, probably because the rest of the world likes it so much, and they riot over it, and they continually try to jam it down our throat."

G. Gordon Liddy: "Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?" Discussing soccer's popularity in the U.S. on his June 10 program, G. Gordon Liddy asked, "Whatever happened to American exceptionalism?" Liddy noted that "this game ... originated with the South American Indians and instead of a ball, they used to use the head, the decapitated head, of an enemy warrior."

MRC's Dan Gainor: "Soccer is designed as a poor man or poor woman's sport," "the left is pushing [soccer] in schools across the country." Also on the June 10 G. Gordon Liddy Show, Media Research Center's Dan Gainor said, "the problem here is, soccer is designed as a poor man or poor woman's sport" and that "the left is pushing it in schools across the country." He added: "generally football games in this country don't devolve into riots or wars." He later added that the sport of soccer "is being sold" as necessary due to the "browning of America."

Mark Belling: "When you insult soccer you get the same reaction from soccer fans that you get when you insult an aging Democratic senator's hair." On the June 11 edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Mark Belling said, "What I really want to do is make fun of the World Cup, but I'm not going to make fun of the World Cup because when you insult soccer you get the same reaction from soccer fans that you get when you insult an aging Democratic senator's hair, they go nuts and blow it up all out of proportion." Later in the program, Belling said "I haven't talked about the World Cup, I haven't talked about how they're force-feeding this down our throats."

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I grew up playing soccer, I guess I was doomed to be a socialist liberal from the start.

Re: Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: June 18th, 2010, 9:24 am
by Sanjuro
This is nothing more than xenophobia left over from the cold war mentality developed after WW2.

Because we were so dominant after the war and dictated what happened in much of the world (not to mention rather self reliant with manufacturing etc) we could afford such isolationism. Now though, we aren't as isolated with business or personal lives thanks to the internet / improved communication technologies and rely more and more on the international community as a whole so naturally many customs are filtering in.

I used to hate soccer and now love the world cup. The fever over the world cup rivals the Olympics and is bigger in many ways (in my opinion). This is our way of banding together and propping up that superiority complex by maintaining willful ignorance to the game and brushing off the rest of the world because its part of a party we are rarely important in. Sound like anything else we know?

Oh and I couldn't let THIS go:

Glenn Beck:

Beck added "those who like the World Cup ... they're the most likely to riot," commenting that by contrast, "I haven't seen the baseball riots." He later said of soccer, "I hate it so much, probably because the rest of the world likes it so much, and they riot over it, and they continually try to jam it down our throat."


Yuh huh: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lakers-security,0,2879238.story :lol:

Crap, and now we're down by one. UGH!

Re: Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: June 18th, 2010, 2:37 pm
by SouthernFriedInfidel
So Glen Beck likes American sports -- Cheeseheads, NHL ice riots (where you every now and then see something resembling a sport shining through the blood sport on the ice) and NHL hooligans bringing guns to practice?

How surprising...

Re: Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: June 18th, 2010, 8:14 pm
by Sanjuro
Wow wow wow...after this last match, the usa just got a lot of supporters... we were absolutley screwed by the ref on this...not just at the end (when we should have WON), but during the early game as well. Get back to me when a faceball can be a handball.

Both french and south african folks I know are now solidly on the usa's side in this cup! GO USA!!! freck the haters!!!!!

Re: Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: June 26th, 2010, 10:47 am
by Liv
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Re: Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: June 26th, 2010, 2:33 pm
by Liv
German police say an American got so fed up with the constant mosquito-like droning from his neighbors' vuvuzela plastic horns that he threatened to kill them with an ax. cite

Re: Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: June 26th, 2010, 7:43 pm
by SouthernFriedInfidel
Won't be of much interest any more, I expect. Team USA got beat by Ghana today. But at least they made it to the Sweet Sixteen.

Re: Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: June 30th, 2010, 12:19 pm
by Liv
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Re: Republicans Versus The World Cup

PostPosted: July 1st, 2010, 3:50 pm
by Liv
OMFG:

Soccer = Satanic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!