Comments on: Rob Parker says people took his RG3 comments out of context

By: briggsweatbird

briggsweatbird — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:58:41 +0000

Quite simply, he just does not get it. Never will. I don’t think he cares.

By: backindasaddle

backindasaddle — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:39:48 +0000

A racist has been exposed as a racist. It’s blatant. But ESPN gives him a slap on the wrist instead of firing him. They fired Rush Limbaugh and all he said was that the league is desirous of top notch black QBs. The double standard is as ugly as Mr. Parker’s comments.

By: bulldogmedia

bulldogmedia — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:01:41 +0000

Parker is a racist. It is clear to everyone but ESPN is too scared to take a stance against him. If this had been ANY white guy, ESPN would have canned him in a minute. Incredible and disgraceful.

By: rc33

rc33 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 23:18:44 +0000

Do yourself a favor and quit, Parker. You’ve got zero respect and zero credibility.
And that train’s gone and left the station for good.

By: fdugrad

fdugrad — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:27:24 +0000

How does one take a SPECIFIC comment / point of view such as this one out of context?! Where is the nuance in that statement? Time was passing without further incident, and fading from the scene. All attention is now on RG3 and whether he should have been pulled or not, and Parker opens up the controversy yet AGAIN, bringing the spotlight in his direction one more time. I do not think he is authentically clever do this.

By: urbusted2

urbusted2 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:39:15 +0000

ESPN is telling us that we have to accept people like this if we want to be blessed with their great perspective on sports. It’s time for the monopoly to end. Let’s have some real and genuine competition in sports news.

By: In the Weeds

In the Weeds — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:37:13 +0000

Disney owns ESPN, right?

By: deepbacksidedig

deepbacksidedig — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:15 +0000

Parker still has no clue about the consequences of his own statements. He is not alone, in fact this subject would be a good one to open up on. It is a reverse racism, a cultural pressure, from school, to sports and politics today. The assumption for example, that all blacks should vote democrat. It is the same thing, and many folks are just oblivious to the stereotyping.

This kind of talk, attitude has become common, and it is not cool. Opening up about this issue could be a good thing.

By: ilovefoolsball

ilovefoolsball — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:36:05 +0000

He’s just so misunderstood. Poor man.

By: sjs5y7

sjs5y7 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:14:22 +0000

No, we didn’t take you out of context. You took the question out of context. My god, you took a question that was about why RGIII wouldn’t want to be seen as ONLY a black QB, and questioned his authenticity.

Disgrace. I like FirstTake, because I think it’s actually funny. This is below the bar of that show’s low standards.

By: powayslugger

powayslugger — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:02:39 +0000

Taken out of context… on a television broadcast? Come on now that’s stretching common sense past the breaking point. White guys have been fired for less racist comments.

Rob Parker is a no good piece of work. ESPN should fire him and he should be banished from any job that is related to sports… even cleaning the puke off the stadium floor after a Raiders game is too good for him.

Parker has had several chances to tone is racist act down without success. Face it Rob you have diarrhea of the mouth and you can’t control what comes out of your pie hole.

By: solomon151

solomon151 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:55:48 +0000

“I can’t believe it, Parker said. I mean, looking back at some of the comments, I can see how some people can take it out of context and run with it, but the response, and what happened over the past 30 days and everything was just shocking,” Parker said.
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You can’t believe it, but you understand after reading it how bad it sounds but yet your still shock people was upset?? Ok

By: brownspower

brownspower — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:35:15 +0000

This guy is over the top stupid! he not only didn’t have enough sense to keep his racist mouth shut the first time, he’s now stumbling over the same mistake again! What kind of idiots run ESPN that this hasn’t been put behind us?

By: nflgiant

nflgiant — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:31:38 +0000

Does anyone really care what Parker says?Heck we should be talking about how stupid Mike Shananigans is leaving his franchise QB in too long,when he had a healthy Cousins on the sideline.

By: latchbeam

latchbeam — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:54:55 +0000

Fire him! If he was white he would have been fired immediately… you can’t argue that! There should be no double standards…

By: macneil4025

macneil4025 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:48:55 +0000

Put this in context, Rob Parker is an Idiot!!

By: whenimrightimright

whenimrightimright — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:33:46 +0000

Nah… Your just racist.

By: cowboylover

cowboylover — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:28:14 +0000

Apparently, some people don’t understand the term, “out of context.” It should apply when some words are lifted out of the whole and reprinted or rebroadcast in such a way that truly changes the context of the discussion. Rob Parker (and others) really mean “you don’t get me.” Yeah, we do.

By: metrocritical

metrocritical — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:18:08 +0000

Credit Parker only for parlaying his inarticulate, insightless and immature act to a level of dubious prominence on a network that has eschewed focus on edgy, honorable journalism in favor of bombast and b.s.. Parker’s sorry act once sullied the pages and airwaves of Detroit media and routinely brought embarrassment to his various employers. Although Parker aspires to the role of cultural gadfly, he doesn’t have the talent to get any further than household pest. One can only hope that 2013 will finally bring burial to a career that began rotting soon after it hatched.

By: keepingitrealdumb

keepingitrealdumb — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:11:43 +0000

wow .. how dumb is this guy? out of context? you can only take printed words out of context .. perhaps some spoken words.

but this was a video .. we all have seen the full video .. so what ‘context’ is he talking about?

By: miguel3557

miguel3557 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:10:31 +0000

So, rather than own up to his poor decisions, this guy tries to con everyone into dismissing his faux pax as our fault, for somehow confusing what he had to say because it was “out of context.” What this moron tries to do is add insult to injury and to everyone else’s intelligence in a vain attempt to con his way out of his racist remarks.

Why he still has a job remains a mystery. Racist remarks should not be tolerated in the 21st Century regardless of the race of the speaker.

By: classicrocktennisfan1977

classicrocktennisfan1977 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:02:33 +0000

Say something stupid: check.
Public Relation Firm’s apology: check
30 day vacation: check
Contends we the public take things out of context: check.

Not really surprised at all, by Parker. Shock columnists knows which buttons to push to illicit a response. That is why we are here(on a forum) to give them (Parker, Bayless, et al.) the attention, they so desire. It’s all about the Nielsen meter. How to move the needle.

Controversy sells. You will get the folks who love to watch the show (Springer audience). You get the folks who can’t stand it. Watch it as well, to see what other things the big oafs will say next.

The H.R. department at the mother ship is as useless, as a man with severe tonsillitis at a hot dog eating contest. Look at how long they kept Salisbury employed, after his cell phone hijinks. Any normal place, he would have been fired with cause like Rob the Village Idiot.

By: 2ndaryinsanity

2ndaryinsanity — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:01:11 +0000

Will someone please tell this idiot it isn’t possible to be taken out of context when you say it on a TV show?? A real journalist would know that. He is a racist…and one of the worst kinds, because he attacked a fellow African American. In the past, ESPN has fired white men who made racist comments. A 30 day suspension is not acceptable. PERIOD.

By: warewolf94

warewolf94 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:48:01 +0000

What is this “cause” he’s speaking of? He should be kicked off of TV and radio for good

By: indycolt45

indycolt45 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:34:24 +0000

Of course he’s surprised. He’s an idiot.

By: eatitfanboy

eatitfanboy — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:31:02 +0000

And now he should be fired.

He was given a 3o day suspension after his apology. In my book, saying later that you were “taken out of context” constitutes a rescission of that apology.

Thus, ESPN should rescind their suspension and replace it with a termination.

By: stevent92

stevent92 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:25:37 +0000

Always easy to blame “other people” that “take things out of context” when you make a stupid statement.

By: amoses74

amoses74 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:24:54 +0000

ROB PARKER is a racist. His whole statement was racist. racism isnt reserved for different races!

By: rockthered1286

rockthered1286 — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:21:01 +0000

It’s like flipping someone off and saying “no you took that the wrong way!”

By: lostsok

lostsok — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:15:18 +0000

I have to question whether Parker knows what the word “context” means.