Comments on: Sally Jenkins not offended by Kornheiser comments

By: bobulated

bobulated — Fri, 20 May 2011 02:24:24 +0000

I guess my feeling is when you can’t criticize one of the biggest buffoons in sports ownership because he writes your checks, how can you criticize a guy with a franchise that has been very successful over the last decade?

By: hsirah

hsirah — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:25:56 +0000

Are we living in a world where women have become so soft that they are offended by the use of word “shrew”. This thinking that women are soft by nature should be regarded as sexist in my book.

By: ourbaskets

ourbaskets — Thu, 19 May 2011 13:14:00 +0000

I agree with toonster. His show is very Sienfeldian and wandering. I have always enjoyed TK on the radio as it is not your typical sports show. It provides a good alternative to the same old formulaic show format – which after you have been listening to all day – gets old. He is a doofus not a sexist. And for all you haters – He has been around as a writer, radio, and tv personality for a loooong time. That should say something.

By: Land Snark

Land Snark — Thu, 19 May 2011 13:04:56 +0000

I’m sure someone else has said or thought this, but it bears repeating.

Kornheiser is the punchline. Every word he utters and that face of his that was made for radio.

At one point or another he’ll make another misogynistic comment that will relegate him to the obscurity he deserves.

By: glt1958

glt1958 — Thu, 19 May 2011 13:04:19 +0000

This is the kind of bush league bs that ESPN does all of the time. You guys should strive to be better than that.

By: raiderinpa

raiderinpa — Thu, 19 May 2011 13:00:25 +0000

Korn-holer is a douche… He analyses sports, but what sport did that nerd actually play? Probably a skin-flutist in the band…

By: dg0122

dg0122 — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:43:40 +0000

I’m not offended by Kornholio…more like annoyed by him

By: Chris Fiorentino

Chris Fiorentino — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:43:29 +0000

Lord, I just read her Twitter comments…gag me. Gee Sally, PFT sticking up for women is going against “free speech”? This reminds me of the guy who sees a dude beating the daylights out of his girlfriend and when he comes over to help her, she yells at him to mind his own business.

Mike, sometimes you just can’t win.

By: bobulated

bobulated — Thu, 19 May 2011 06:21:39 +0000

How does Kornheiser pull his lips from around Daniel Snyder’s money teat long enough to say anything coherent?

By: toonsterwu

toonsterwu — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:45:20 +0000

Oh, one more thing, something Sally points out in Dan Steinberg’s blog, which is totally true.

Her exact quote:

“Fifth, nobody has helped and promoted women in sports more than Kornheiser,”

For all his faults (for example, some of his sports commentary can be quite … lame, and well, that’s his profession), he’s been very good about promoting gender equality in the workplace. I think his bantering with women is perhaps viewed by Tony K as a way to treat women as equals – if I’ll call out a guy with far worse comments, why not say the same about women?

By: toonsterwu

toonsterwu — Thu, 19 May 2011 05:39:41 +0000

Couple quick comments –

I do enjoy listening to Tony K, but I don’t listen to him for the sports. I listen for the banter, the discussions, … a Seinfeld-ian radio show in some respects. Just some folks hanging out and talking, and there’s some good stuff about that. ESPN980 knew what they were getting when they brought him back, and it works for his listeners.

Does Tony K cross the line intentionally? No. If he does, should he be called out for it? Sure. The problem is, Tony’s said far worse about male colleagues before. Calling someone mean-spirited or bad-tempered? I don’t know if that cross this line that you seem to be drawing. Perhaps that’s moving the bar. Perhaps we should call out any reporter who says similar comments about male colleagues, but I suspect that PFT won’t spend time on that, because it won’t be viewed as an issue (and if PFT did try to spend time each time a reporter said someone was mean-spirited or bad tempered, well, that’s a heck of a lot of posts). It’s mean, it’s harsh, but I just don’t know if this is an issue, particularly since everyone understands that Tony K has a good relationship with Sally, who comes on the show when she can. Certainly, the relationship between the two shouldn’t reflect upon whether or not something is appropriate. I just think this was blown out of proportion a bit.

By: nyjalleffingday

nyjalleffingday — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:21:13 +0000

WHY

By: mhs8031

mhs8031 — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:34:36 +0000

Thank God for people like Garrett and Jenkins. Refreshing (even though Garrett’s comment was a while back, his attitude is needed today.)

By: Dawggpound

Dawggpound — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:22:04 +0000

Much ado about nothing. Very few of us football fans care what TK has to say let alone if he is still breathing or not. GOODNIGHT CANADA!!!

By: hobartbaker

hobartbaker — Thu, 19 May 2011 02:17:42 +0000

Awesome. Mikey tamed The Shrew!

By: hobartbaker

hobartbaker — Thu, 19 May 2011 02:08:42 +0000

Cosell grew up in an era when such remarks were not considered insensitive. The Slavery Era.

By: rajbais

rajbais — Thu, 19 May 2011 02:00:49 +0000

Tony … just say your wife cheated on you and you’re going to alcohol rehab!!!

By: prior0knowledge

prior0knowledge — Thu, 19 May 2011 01:23:40 +0000

And Mohammed Ali defended Cosell when he got in trouble for that comment.

By: prior0knowledge

prior0knowledge — Thu, 19 May 2011 01:21:29 +0000

Let me exhonorate Cosell for his comment. The receivers were calling themselves “Smurfs” because they were all short. Cosell was getting old. In his excitement, he said something like, “Look at that little monkey go.” I am sure he forgot smurf and just got confused. There was not a racist bone in Cosell’s body.

By: philly1313

philly1313 — Thu, 19 May 2011 01:00:26 +0000

The inital post says “lost” in his back and forth with Irsay were these “sexist” comments. Really? Was the issue somehow overshadowed? Or was it a non-issue in the first place? H. Storm is an ESPN employee…and TK was suspended based on internal standards of conduct regarding the appropriateness of comments made about a co-worker. He wasnt suspended for completely outlandish remarks akin to those made about the Rutgers women’s hoops team a while back which is how it’s portrayed here. If you want to be the PC police and hypohesize on whether or not someone should be reprimanded for comments that no one else has a problem with, ok…but the “reporting” comes off as petty at best and Im still waiting for the point of the story.

By: thetechnocrat

thetechnocrat — Thu, 19 May 2011 00:41:12 +0000

You should also have mentioned that Cosell called his grandkids little monkeys when they would run around. Let’s make sure his intent was that and not what they used to fry him because they didn’t like him. I sure hope you posted my previous comment unlike other times I disagree with writes and their motives here.

By: twindaddy

twindaddy — Thu, 19 May 2011 00:29:53 +0000

I seriously doubt anyone cares what Kornholio has to say. He’s ignorant and boorish. The punchline is that this guy has a job in the media still.

By: yahmule

yahmule — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:58:39 +0000

Cosell didn’t lose his job over the Garrett comment.

By: 1stngoal

1stngoal — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:56:08 +0000

“shrew-like” seems a more appropriate term to describe Kornheiser…

By: hobartbaker

hobartbaker — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:53:18 +0000

Kornheiser may have to join his brother Krusty in the children’s entertainment field. As much as they both hate it.

By: broncotis3000

broncotis3000 — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:35:54 +0000

Kornhole running his mouth again??? Didnt he have a problem with Hannah Storm last year? I think he needs to get laid….

By: jhaugjr

jhaugjr — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:33:11 +0000

If you’ve listened to Kornheiser ove rthe years, you;d know that he and Sally have been slinging arrows at each other like this constantly. They are close friends of many years and like we do with our friends, they get a little harsh with the jokes. Also, he always has female colleagues from the Post on with him who will jump to defend “sistas” in the profession, and that did not happen here. She (Jeannie McManus, i think) knew that there wasa no real animus here.

By: citizenstrange

citizenstrange — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:27:05 +0000

Saying it in private and saying it in a broadcast are two different things.

If Kornheiser said “Sally Jenkins won’t do anything about this because Sally Jenkins is my BITCH!” would that still be OK?

Kornheiser can call her whatever derogatory and foul names he wants in private as long as she is OK with it (and I guess she is) but in the public forum Sally Jenkins represents women in general and he should be respectful.

By: bbb82

bbb82 — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:24:30 +0000

I hate Kornheiser with a passion. How this idiot has a well paying job talking about something he doesn’t have a clue about, is beyond me.

That being said, I really don’t think the guy intended to offend her. Lets just move on.

By: lovesportsandsurfing

lovesportsandsurfing — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:20:05 +0000

Lol