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Professors Upset over Musburger´s ´Extraordinarily Inappropriate´ Comments
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/14/2013 10:45:14 AM
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| Journalism professors at colleges and universities, including the University of Alabama, did not appreciate ESPN play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger´s observation during last Monday´s BCS championship game telecast that Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron´s girlfriend, a former Miss Alabama, was beautiful. Sue Carter, a professor of journalism at Michigan State, told the The New York Times it was "extraordinarily inappropriate to focus on an individual´s looks," and that Musburger´s comments were a "major personal violation." Carter made these comments even though Katherine Webb, whose beauty Musburger praised, has said she was flattered by the comments.
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Comments: Oh puhleeze. Those idiot "journalism" professors should be more concerned about the total bias and corruption in the media. I don´t hear them criticizing the outrageous racist remarks from those at MessNBC.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
dipi, 1/14/2013 10:46:35 AM (No. 9115548)
Get over it you lib idiots~!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 1/14/2013 10:47:15 AM (No. 9115550)
Speaking of political correctness, all these "Journaliam Professors" need to get laid and it shows.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
rburns, 1/14/2013 10:49:07 AM (No. 9115554)
Hahahaahahahaahahahahaha! Who gives a rats butt what the libs think?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Screwgun, 1/14/2013 10:50:33 AM (No. 9115558)
I´ll bet those outraged professors don´t look like Katherine Webb.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 1/14/2013 10:51:48 AM (No. 9115560)
You have to wonder if the vast majority of the complaints of the impropriety of Musburger´s comments are coming from those who would never receive comments like that themselves.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Screwgun, 1/14/2013 10:52:35 AM (No. 9115565)
I was right!
http://cas.msu.edu/about-the-college/contact-us/faculty-and-staff-directory/86-sue-carter
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mitzi, 1/14/2013 10:56:19 AM (No. 9115577)
I also googled Sue Carter and can completely understand her complaint about focusing on someone´s looks.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
farmwife, 1/14/2013 11:01:52 AM (No. 9115597)
Oh, for the love of God! What is wrong with these people? It´s ok to use the most obscene language to describe someone you disagree with politically, but don´t you dare care someone ´beautiful´! Sick, sick, sick!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Blue Hen1, 1/14/2013 11:07:46 AM (No. 9115612)
Only as Robin Williams calls them, "Women in comfortable shoes" would care about Musburgers statement
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoDeacs79, 1/14/2013 11:11:15 AM (No. 9115623)
Jennifer Greer is worse than Sue Carter. In the immortal words of Barney Fife, "Andy, if you flew a quail through this room, every woman in it would point!"
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 1/14/2013 11:12:25 AM (No. 9115628)
Someone break it to these professors that Ms Webb is involved in - wait for it - BEAUTY pageants! Their heads might explode!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MarkTwain, 1/14/2013 11:14:15 AM (No. 9115632)
Typical liberal reflex action. It´s not fair bringing attention to a pretty girl when there are so many dowdy hags wedged into their lofty Chairs of Journalism, nursing their bitter resentment at the cruelness of being born. So rather than trying to better themselves, they reflexively tear down everything around them that reminds them of their flaws.
"If thine eye offends thee, pluck it out."
And at the end of it all Katherine Webb is still a pretty girl and journalism professors are outed as the shrill hectoring harpies we always knew they were.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ton-O-Bricks, 1/14/2013 11:14:24 AM (No. 9115635)
Checked out a pic of Professor Carter. You guessed it. Frumpy and dumpy.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
The Architect, 1/14/2013 11:19:12 AM (No. 9115652)
Fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw, 1/14/2013 11:21:29 AM (No. 9115659)
How someone looks is the first thing liberals report on as if its important or as if they even could report the truth about it. How many stories has there been on the first ladies dress or other, all lies by the way?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 1/14/2013 11:23:15 AM (No. 9115669)
A risible reminder that it is the universities that are the authors of all our woe. American universities have become the enemies of America. Unless the universities are recaptured from radicals and reformed, matters are bound to go from bad to worse.
This case shows us why it was a mistake to categorize journalism as a professional discipline rather than a trade. There is really nothing for people aspiring to a PhD in journalism to learn or to teach, so they stuff their heads and the heads of their students full of politically correct straw. The same is true for education. There is absolutely no justification for a PhD in education of journalism. Creating these bogus distinctions means generating mountains of intellectual rubbish of no value to anyone, and a kind of compost pile on which weeds and poisonous plants of all kind sprout and thrive.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JustCause, 1/14/2013 11:24:33 AM (No. 9115670)
Sounds like the Journalism Professors need to Grow Up.
The scary part is that they are the ones who fill our kids with juvenile values.
The juvenile values lead to a reporter who actually has the thought to contact them for their opinion.
I guess I´m Old School - I would describe Miss Alabama as Pretty, also. Sue Carter, not so much.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/14/2013 11:31:48 AM (No. 9115692)
More PC Bullying!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W, 1/14/2013 11:40:11 AM (No. 9115715)
And her opinion of Kathy Griffith/Anderson Cooper behavior on CNN on New Years Eve?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Calico Al, 1/14/2013 11:42:01 AM (No. 9115721)
I remember when they were really upset when B J Clinton thought a Mummy was a hot chick.s/o
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Tusker, 1/14/2013 11:46:09 AM (No. 9115735)
The Taliban has spoken.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Raristotle, 1/14/2013 11:53:06 AM (No. 9115748)
The annoying thing about this whole stupid affair is that Miss Alabama--the girl who Musburger drew attention to--her job is to be pretty. It would be like my telling a friend about a doctor, "He´s an excellent surgeon". Miss Alabama is a participant in a beauty contest. To draw attention to her looks is precisely what is supposed to happen.
The folks complaining have an issue with a society that actually favors good looks.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
JAN, 1/14/2013 12:02:57 PM (No. 9115774)
Libs are so ugly, inside and out.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/14/2013 12:16:29 PM (No. 9115790)
Musberger innocently provided the left with another weapon to use in its War on Men. From now on, we will never have ESPN or other network camera focus on an attractive female, whether in stands or as an on field cheerleader. Instead, we´ll get close ups of Rastafarian braids, body art and post-play celebratory dance moves. Remember, leftist outrage is far stronger than a law suit or TV ratings.
Worse, we´ll soon have "minders" of male announcers in the booth. These minders will be former female athletes with gym teacher hairstyles, mannish voices and jockish terminology who discuss in unwanted detail how the shooting of the player´s brother drove him to wear diamond ear studs.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Whitty, 1/14/2013 12:20:33 PM (No. 9115797)
Yep. When I was in college the Feminazi movement was stretchin it´s wings and my observation was 99.9% of the women in the class looked like they got beat with an ugly stick and came back the next day asking for another whooping!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/14/2013 12:31:58 PM (No. 9115821)
#20, don´r forget how President Clinton drooled over that tall girl bb player.... He practically unzipped his pants.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Dante, 1/14/2013 12:38:24 PM (No. 9115834)
Must make Sue sad that the boys look at Katherine and don´t look at her.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 1/14/2013 12:44:31 PM (No. 9115851)
Look, Lustberger is a creep. He was acting like a creep. There was no reason for that creepy network to make the Miss Alabama the big story that night. Yes, shes hot. She was sitting on her derrière watching her boyfriend. Big fat hairy deal. How about a little privacy you creeps at ABC/ESPN?
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
KingBubo, 1/14/2013 1:02:02 PM (No. 9115897)
#28, partially agree with you. I am sure she will parlay this into more money. She is a beauty queen, her looks define her more than anything besides her thoughts on world peace. Lustburger was creepy old man, but the game was not compelling.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
god of irony, 1/14/2013 1:04:02 PM (No. 9115904)
Really?! This was the breaking point to spark their outrage?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan, 1/14/2013 1:28:44 PM (No. 9115961)
RE #´s 28 & 29 and the journalism heifers:
In the immortal words of Sgt Hulka:
"Lighten up, Frances!!!"
I´m a woman. She´s a beautiful woman. I´m not offended. Neither is she. Get over yourselves.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Roll Tide, 1/14/2013 1:31:23 PM (No. 9115970)
WHEN will we stop hearing about this? I grew up in Alabama--where every DAY in school was a beauty contest and the high points of the year were the school-sponsored "Beauty Walks," and such. Church was a fashion show. To be complimented for one´s beauty is the highest compliment a Southern lady can receive, and what a large percentage of the young southern female population works so HARD to receive and LONGS to hear.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Kristen, 1/14/2013 3:01:26 PM (No. 9116135)
I don´t hear her going after HLN where Nancy Grace and Jane Velex keep breathlesslyrepeating dozens of times that the victim/perp/some other woman is just so very beautiful.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
hot coffee, 1/14/2013 4:21:06 PM (No. 9116259)
Big thumbs up to #31!
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
ktwo, 1/14/2013 4:43:50 PM (No. 9116314)
If we don´t stop climate change these incidents will become more frequent.
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