From The Sports Curmudgeon

I liked what he had to say today...

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It is not often that one of our politicians says something that is insightful, analytical and accurate at the same time. Therefore, let me congratulate Governor Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii for these words on the subject of paying the NFL to hold the Pro Bowl game in Honolulu:

“You can’t do things like give 4 million bucks to a $9 billion football industry and not give any money to children. You’ve got this spectacle of these multimillionaires and billionaires out there arguing about how they’re going to divide it up, and then they come and ask us to bribe them with $4 million to have a scrimmage out here in paradise. We’ve got to get our values straight and our priorities straight.”

After he said that, someone challenged those remarks saying that the Pro Bowl attracted about 20,000 visitors as fans and generated lots more spending by those fans than $4M. The governor then got it right a second time when he said:

“Please. We’ll get more out of civil unions in a weekend then we’ll get out of those guys.”

Those Military Baggage Fees: Bad Journalism and Bad PR, Not Bad Ethics

A right of center, (but typically right-on) blog that I visit fairly regularly posted this yesterday.

From : http://ethicsalarms.com/

"The 24 hour news cycle and blogger feeding frenzy often produce snap ethical
judgments that defy the facts, logic, and fairness. Today’s example: the
supposed “outrage” of Delta Air Lines making Army reservists returning from
combat in Afghanistan pay excess-bag fees. A Colorado soldier posted a YouTube
video complaining that their unit had to pay $2,800 for extra checked
bags, and you would have thought the airlines made the soldiers fly while
strapped to the wing. “You’re not going to believe this!” said “Fox and Friends”
goof Steve Doocy, introdoocying the story as if it was an act of domestic
terrorism. There were similar expressions of horror on CNN’s Headline News and
on the local news in Wilmington, Delaware, where I was staying yesterday while
doing a musical ethics program for the Wilmington Bar. And yet…
Delta did
nothing wrong or inappropriate."

I tend to agree.

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