The last time Fox Sports’ Chris Myers appeared in this space, he was all but pleading his afternoon radio audience for an opportunity to personally execute convicted 9-11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaioui. With that unfortunate outburst in firmly in mind, we link to The Big Lead’s quoted transcript from Myer’s Monday afternoon Sports Illustrated podcast filling in for Dan Patrick.
œMy best is and maybe it™s a little corny, but I like it. It™s a great country here. We have disastrous issues where people pull together and help themselves and I thought the people in Tennessee, unlike and I™m not going to name names. When a natural disaster hits people were not standing on a rooftop trying to blame the government, okay, they helped each other out through this.
œMiddle Tennessee where a lot of hardworking, tax-paying, legal American citizens have been affected by the floods and are trying to rebuild their lives and they are helping out and I think that other people around the country, of course the music industry in and around Nashville helping, without making a big deal out of it and I think that™s a good thing.
It’s not merely “a little corny”, it’s downright despicable. Look, I know not everyone is in love with Steve Zahn’s work in “Treme”, but this sort of sloppily coded revisionist history hints that Myers and creeps like him maintain very different standards for who is and isn’t a real American.
(ADDENDUM : Myers’ apology from Thursday of this week : “I would very much like to apologize to the people of New Orleans for the inappropriate and insensitive remarks I made this past Monday. Clearly, these remarks demonstrated poor judgment and I sincerely regret making them.”
Steve Zahn’s in “Treme”? Must’ve missed him.
here’s an idea : trying watching HBO without wearing a blindfold or ear plugs. If you still don”t notice Steve Zahn all over the place, call your cable company!
Any chance you can add a tag to the site like “Chris Myers is a raging asshole”?
Chris Myers has committed crimethink of the first order. Someone needs to send him back to re-education camp. But first everyone needs to engage in our Two Minutes Hate on Myers to make an example out of anyone who crimethinks. Were there different responses to natural disasters in the two respective local communities? To even notice a difference is crimethink and you should be ashamed.
I salute this blog for saying what I didn’t have the guts to pseudonymously post on a blog on the internets, Wait…
Stephen,
I’m not surprised you lack the courage of your convictions to sign your full name. How’s this for “different responses”? Nashville = residents plucked from rooftops, city largely open for business two weeks after the flood, approx. 30 deaths. NOLA – U.S. citizens trapped in inhuman conditions, approx. 1300 deaths. Best wishes to our friends in Nashville, but to compare the level of devastation is selective reasoning at best, totally ignorant at worst.
Myers isn’t merely pointing out an alleged “difference”, he’s diminishing what the people of New Orleans went through, along with suggesting the residents of Middle TN are somehow more hard-working and community-minded. Surely there are ways of encouraging support for Nashville’s recovery without characterizing Katrina victims as those “standing on a rooftop blaming the government”.
“Surely there are ways of encouraging support for Nashville’s recovery without characterizing Katrina victims as those “standing on a rooftop blaming the governmentâ€.”
I don’t think Myers and Stephen imagine there is. This is a perfect opportunity to denigrate a whole community because life is clearly a set of controlled experiments, where the only variables are the different people. I feel bad that Stephen and Myers are persecuted in this experiment called the Internet. But you’ll see, they’ll act gracefully during this time of victimization unlike those rooftop complainers who were so willing to push the blame onto others. They won’t even acknowledge their obvious status as victims, won’t complain about how everyone thinks one way and wants them to think another and that’s so hypocritical and unfair and the Internet is so unfair to people like Stephen and Myers who should have every right to think differently but waaaaaahhh there are people who make fun of their opinions waaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.