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Topic: Washington Post apologizes for ´asking
Redskins fans to burn their sofas
after the big game and send
them the videos´ |
Washington Post apologizes for ´asking
Redskins fans to burn their sofas
after the big game and send
them the videos´
Daily Mail [UK], by Beth Stebner
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Original Article
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 12/31/2012 8:16:57 AM
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| The Washington Post has apologized for asking Redskins fans to burn couches at the end of Sunday’s game and send their videos to the news outlet. A writer for the Post Sports twitter handle wrote on Friday: ‘If you light your couch on fire after the Redskins and Cowboys on Sunday night, do us a favor and send us the video?’ Later that afternoon, they offered an apology, saying that it was interpreted as ‘condoning irresponsible behavior. We encourage fans to act responsibly.’ Furniture burning following a Redskins game is a tradition among the Washington team’s most devoted fans.
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Comments:
Somewhat misleading. The fans were asked to send their videos of burning sofas, sure, but there´s an "If you light your couch" in there, not a "Will you light your couch?". Still it does tend to encourage fans, probably with more than a little alcohol affecting their brains, to commit dangerous behavior.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Periwinkel, 12/31/2012 8:23:29 AM (No. 9091080)
Redskins´ stadium is located in Prince George´s County just outside DC. The area is about 60-75% low-income, low information, low intelligence blacks who wouldn´t need much encouragement to burn their own homes for entertainment. They surely can´t afford the tickets to the Redskins games.
Encouraging these people to destroy property (theirs or that belonging to others) is the height of irresponsibility. Something akin to yelling fire in a crowded theater. Shame on the WAPO!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mickeymat, 12/31/2012 8:47:05 AM (No. 9091119)
That´s silly. Liberals by definition cannot engage in dangerous, irresponsible behavior.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
NYBruin, 12/31/2012 8:56:39 AM (No. 9091144)
The kind of people who would torch their sofa after a football game are likely not WaPo readers!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JAN, 12/31/2012 8:57:09 AM (No. 9091147)
Don´t folks in the ghetto have couches on their porches....
This was bigotry 101
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby, 12/31/2012 9:09:46 AM (No. 9091183)
See, Football Games lead to arson and violence. So, are the games going to be banned? Or are the sofas?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Nimby, 12/31/2012 9:11:09 AM (No. 9091186)
See, Football Games lead to arson and violence. So, are the games going to be banned? Or are the sofas? Maybe we should ask for the resignation of the idiots in WaPo?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 12/31/2012 9:24:53 AM (No. 9091212)
Prince George´s County voted 91% for Obama this past November.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
maggie2u, 12/31/2012 9:53:12 AM (No. 9091264)
Did they advise the fans that before setting their sofa´s on fire, to remove them from their homes?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly, 12/31/2012 11:19:32 AM (No. 9091436)
#9
You beat me to it.
I didn´t know there were that many WVU grads in the DC area.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
italianlooks, 12/31/2012 12:02:07 PM (No. 9091555)
I am sorry makes it all go away...REALLY!
Put this in the corner with "Revenge,there will be blood in the streets, we know where your daughter plays soccer" out of the mouth of liberal!
Will they ever just go away?
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