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Fox's Gutfeld Scores Direct Hits on Costas Hypocrisy, Whitlock's Bigotry, Media's Predictability

By Tom Blumer | December 05, 2012 | 09:44

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In a video posted at the Daily Caller by Jeff Poor (HT Hot Air), Fox News's Greg Gutfeld went after Bob Costas's opportunism and hypocrisy on gun rights in the wake of the Jovan Belcher tragedy. He also took on Jason Whitlock's inexcusable characterization of those who believe that the Constitution's Second Amendment means what it says and insist that our government to continue to act as if it does as racists.

The video and a transcript follow the jump (internal links added by me; bolds are mine):

Jimmy Fallon Sings Pearl Jam Tribute to Jeremy Lin

By Noel Sheppard | February 24, 2012 | 14:05

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You Pearl Jam/Knicks/Jeremy Lin fans are going to absolutely love this.

On Thursday, Jimmy Fallon did a truly fabulous impersonation of Eddie Vedder in an hysterical tribute to Linsanity (video follows with absolutely no commentary necessary):

NYT's David Carr, Who Called Midwesterners 'Low-Sloping Foreheads,' Cries Racism Over Lin Headline

By Clay Waters | February 21, 2012 | 14:45

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Veteran New York Times media reporter David Carr’s Monday column self-righteously attacked an unfortunate headline on an ESPN mobile website, “Chink in the Armor,” that was widely interpreted as a purposeful slur on the ethnicity of benchwarmer-turned-NBA-sensation Jeremy Lin: “Media Hype For Lin Stumbles On Race.”

Giving no benefit of the doubt to the ESPN editor, who has since been fired, Carr declared the headline one of myriad “underlying racist tropes that still lurk in the id of American sports journalism.” This lecture comes from a reporter who last year characterized Midwesterners as folks with “low-sloping foreheads,” akin to cavemen.

SI's Peter King 'Amazed' That Jeremy Lin Was 'Peppered With Slurs' By Opponents and at Ivy League Road Games

By Tom Blumer | February 20, 2012 | 15:54

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During his first hour today, Rush mentioned the reaction of Peter King at Sports illustrated in King's "Monday Morning Quarterback" collection to a paragraph in the magazine's cover story on Jeremy Lin, the New York Knicks' point guard who has broken through from obscurity to phenom during the past two weeks. What King wrote is indeed an interesting giveaway of what I believe is a common but unsupportable media perspective, namely that students at and graduates of elite upper-echelon universities like those in the Ivy League are presumptively free of overt racism, because, well, they're all so enlightened.

Uh, no. As Pablo S. Torre reveals in said cover story:

Will on Lin-Sanity: 'Nice to See Harvard Produce Someone Who’s Not a Net Subtraction From the Public Good'

By Noel Sheppard | February 19, 2012 | 14:22

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When asked his opinion of New York Knicks basketball sensation Jeremy Lin, George Will said on ABC's This Week Sunday, "It’s nice to see Harvard produce someone who’s not a net subtraction from the public good" (video follows):

AP Reports on Only One of Two 'Chink in the Armor' Jeremy Lin References at ESPN

By Tom Blumer | February 19, 2012 | 12:14

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Late Saturday morning, a brief, unbylined Associated Press item ("ESPN sorry for offensive headline on Lin story") reported that "ESPN has apologized for using a racial slur in a headline for a story on Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin."

The racial slur in question involves using "Chink in the Armor" to headline a story posted on the network's mobile website after the Knicks lost Friday night to the lowly New Orleans Hornets, ending a seven-game winning streak. The text of ESPN's apology and discussion of the AP's protective oversights follow the jump:

Lin-Sanity: Morning Joe Runs 28 Clips of Knicks Player

By Mark Finkelstein | February 15, 2012 | 12:17

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The MSM loves Jeremy Lin for now.  But how long before he gets the Tebow treatment? Check out the video of the opening of today's Morning Joe.  In just over two minutes, the show ran clips of Knicks player Jeremy Lin hitting a three-point buzzer beater last night . . . no fewer than 10 times.

But Morning Joe was far from finished.  I counted a total of 28 Lin clips during the course of the show. Donnie Deutsch opined that "this is one of the few things where the 1% and the 99% can agree."  Mike Barnicle later expressed a similar sentiment.  Clearly the Lin story is moving America.  But query how long he will remain a uniting figure should the MSM, as in the case of similarly-inspirational Tim Tebow, start mocking his devout Christianity? Video after the jump.