Other than ESPN, who respects him? Other than ESPN, who admires him? He’s garbage.

Anyone recall his gawdawful combover he trotted out for like 15 years? It involved 3 or 4 crusty reddish hairs carefully placed across a pasty barren scalp.

Talk about shamefully misguided desperation.

Who is in charge of casting at ESPN?

You are a better than this. I know with a lockout looming and your self admittance that traffic to the site has decreased , you would probably resort to desperate means to stay relevant. I wish that a journalist would not have to compromise on his or her integrity even in bad times.

Although you probably don’t care but Dan Steinberg has excerpted Sally Jenkins response on his Washington Post blog.

“No, I was not offended. First of all the word shrew is an extremely mild term to me, especially compared to many e-mails from readers I’ve received. Second, I myself am concerned that I’m piling on the owners, which was Tony’s real point and an absolutely valid one. And third, I was raised by a father who proudly hung a letter on his wall from Notre Damers calling him a son of a bitch. Fourth, who cares. Fifth, nobody has helped and promoted women in sports more than Kornheiser, and personally no one has taught me, promoted me or cared about me more than Tony Kornheiser. ”

I think every man makes mistakes and you made yours in this instance. You can win a few hearts by owning upto it and apologizing to TK and Sally Jenkins

Seriously though, what a dumb story.

Sorta like calling a loud and obnoxious guy a meathead.

Anyway, TK is a hack – plain and simple. He should not get any airtime in any way, shape, or form.

sallyjenx
Tony Kornheiser is a bounder, a cad, a rake. He’s also my friend of 30 years. Stand down.

sallyjenx
Anyone wishing to attribute thoughts to me should probably call me first. It’s called journalism.

sallyjenx
I mean you Pro Football Talk.

sallyjenx
Paging PFT. Please pick up the courtesy phone. My phone still isn’t ringing. Dead…total…silence. How bout this. Maybe I should call YOU.

Dude, haven’t you figured this out yet? It’s not about arguing the points of an issue. It’s all about assaulting the character of the individual saying it.
In ’94, the issue wasn’t about whether O.J. Simpson actually killed a woman, it became whether Mark Fuhrman had ever used the “N” word at any point in his life.
Our Prez is in office not because of the issues, and certainly not because he had any kind of a resume that indicated he could handle the gig.
Hope and Change and Bush sucks.
BOOM. Elected.

Probably the smartest thing said on this blog in months.

1. Kornheiser WOULD use these terms against other people – male or female. Have you listened to his show?

2. As mentioned in another comment, there’s not going to be a backlash by Jenkins. She and Kornheiser go way back to when they both worked at the Washington Post and she still appears as a guest on his radio show. He praises her columns as much as rips them.

3. That’s a BIG stretch to claim he was being sexist. Yes, hysterical may have originated as being connected to the uterus, but do you really think that’s where Kornheiser was going with that comment?

Honestly, it doesn’t even feel like real sports news anymore. Just regurgitated gossip and a whole lot of immature instigating.

I guess this is what happens when you allow a sport network, ESPN, that started off as pure comic relief to becoms so big and powerful that it now dictates how sports news should be presented.

Scary!!!

We need to preserve individualized insults. We can’t even say retarded anymore.

Wait, a second, did I just class-discriminate by calling him first-class?

And that’s the point. Free speech used to be free. If somebody disagreed with you they’d present a logical argument against your position and you could have a debate. And when it was over even if you still disagreed you could still be friends. Now anything you say that’s remotely controversial is labeled racist, sexist, or one of a hundred other “ists” or “obes” to get you to shut up. And if you won’t, you’re sued, fired, or worse.

There are (fortunately) not very many men (or even women for that matter) who are “shrew-like” but they do exist in BOTH genders. The word shrew may well be applicable to only one gender, but he didn’t actually call her a shrew, he just said she was acting like one. Whether she is or isn’t is beside the point, he’s allowed to have an opinion even if we disagree with it.

Heck even Rashard is allowed to have an opinion (where it’s opinion, at least, instead of blatant stupidity and need for education into rock-solid iron-clad fact). Punishing them for displaying their opinion publicly when it embarrasses their employers is understandable, but we must never forget they are still allowed to have an opinion.

And unfortunately I’ve known MANY men who are (or have at times behaved like) hysterical idiots. So I can’t consider the last word — whether true in this instance or not — that big a deal.

Take your lumps, Tony. You insist others do when your throwing jabs at them.

Sports would be much better off without Tony Corn-holer!!

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/06/08/aaron-rodgers-calls-tony-kornheiser-stupid-dumb-and-terrible/