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CBS Roots for Team USA to Fail at Olympics: ‘Humble’ Arrogant America

July 26th, 2021 12:56 PM

According to CBS guest William Rhoden, the arrogant Team USA teams to be “humbled” and maybe losing several medals at the Olympics is the way to do it. Appearing on CBS This Morning, Monday, the liberal sports journalist derided the opening ceremonies as too nationalistic, saying that they reminded him of “white nationalism.” 

NYT Sportswriter Makes Left-Wing Cut onto QB Cam's Racism Bandwagon

February 1st, 2016 8:34 AM
New York Times sportswriter William Rhoden jumped on the latest leftist bandwagon on Sunday, heartily supporting controversial comments by the Super Bowl-bound Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton. Newton was quoted in the Charlotte Observer accusing critics of his showboating post-touchdown antics of being racist. It’s been twenty-eight years since Doug Williams became the first black…

NYT Columnist: America ‘Can’t Continue To Be Addicted’ To Football

September 10th, 2014 10:53 AM
In the wake of new video surfacing showing former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice hitting and knocking his wife out, many in the media have been quick to indict the NFL as fostering a culture of violence. During a Wednesday morning appearance on CBS This Morning, "New York Times" sports columnist William Rhoden blasted the NFL and argued that any player, even those who have not been convicted of…

MSNBC’s Capehart: Tolerance ‘Should Not Be a Two-Way Street

May 13th, 2014 5:19 PM
Liberals often say they’re big on tolerance, but apparently tolerance must flow only one way – toward liberals and their favored identity groups. So says MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart. Appearing as a guest on Monday’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Capehart rebuffed the idea that supporters of Michael Sam, the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL, should have to…

Esquire’s Pierce Asks: Why Doesn’t NBA Punish Owners Who Oppose Ga

April 30th, 2014 1:33 PM
Donald Sterling, the beleaguered owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, has been banned from the NBA for life. But for some in the media, the league's disciplinary action is something that should be pursued against socially conservative owners by virtue of their political beliefs. [Video below. MP3 audio here.] Take Esquire political blogger Charlie Pierce, for example. Appearing as a guest on…

NY Times Columnist: Every Newsroom or Stadium Press Box Without a Blac

April 30th, 2014 7:49 AM
On NPR’s race-matters talk show “Tell Me More” on Monday, host Michel Martin discussed the Donald Sterling scandal with New York Times sports columnist William Rhoden, announcing he had written the book "Forty Million Dollar Slave: The Rise, Fall, And Redemption Of The Black Athlete." Rhoden used the Sterling scandal to thump a tub for racial quotas in journalism. He claimed that every time…

NYT Sports Columnist: Redskins Name Change ‘Has To Start With Us In

October 28th, 2013 5:26 PM
Like the steady beat of a drum, the liberal media’s war on the Washington Redskins’ name continues. On Saturday’s CBS This Morning, co-anchor Vanita Nair broached the topic during a discussion with The New York Times sports columnist Bill Rhoden. Nair asked if the Redskins might really change their name, and Rhoden replied with certitude, “Oh, they’re going to change it. And I think it has to…

NYT Sports Columnist William Rhoden Wishes NFL Would Ban Gun Ownership

December 5th, 2012 11:10 AM
On MSNBC's The Ed Show Monday night, New York Times sports columnist William Rhoden defended NBC sportscaster Bob Costas's controversial comments, made during halftime of an NFL game Sunday night, on the murder-suicide committed by Kansas City Chief player Jovan Belcher, even agreeing to the idea that the NFL commissioner try to ban players from owning guns. Costas had quoted an anti-gun…

CBS Blames Jovan Belcher Murder-Suicide on 'Gun Culture' in NFL and U

December 4th, 2012 2:20 PM
Jim Axelrod filed a completely one-sided report on Tuesday's CBS This Morning linking the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide to a lack of gun control inside the NFL  – and in the country in general. Axelrod turned to only pro-gun control advocates as talking heads – Brady Center flack Marcellus Wiley, NBC's Bob Costas, and New York Times sportswriter William Rhoden. Rhoden blamed the widespread…

N.Y. Times Opposes Fines for F-Bombs -- Unless the Gay F-Bomb Is Invol

April 15th, 2011 7:20 PM
Back in 2007, The New York Times was delighted when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the TV networks and against FCC fines for fleeting profanities on broadcast TV. "If Bush Can Blurt Curse, So Can Network TV," the Times wrote in its Page One headline. But in 2011, when gays are outraged that NBA star Kobe Bryant was caught on television during a game mouthing the "gay F-…

'Today': NY Times Goes to Bat for Bonds

August 8th, 2007 8:04 AM
When New-York based "Today" went looking for a local sports reporter to defend Barry Bonds the morning after he set the career home run record, it didn't turn to the New York Post, whose headline this morning reads JUNK BONDS: ‘SULTAN OF SYRINGE'. Nor was it likely that the designated hitter would be someone from the Daily News, whose back page screams "King of Shame." Instead, "Today" looked…