OT Don Cherry fired
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If he was upset with immigrants, he should have just bludgeoned one with a hockey stick. They probably would've only suspended him 5 games.
For being generally unlistenable and loud around for 20 years -
Sounds like they finally found a reason
There's only so long you can be a di**head til someone important notices.
I'd like to think it was more of a "Lifetime Achievement Award" than for simply the latest in a line of constantly stupid comments by him.
The man is in constant need of attention. Just look at his suits. Always seemed like a cranky old bastard to me.
Depending if and only if -- he drew blood...
His shtick was funny back in the day...hating the Euro/Rus players in favor of the Canadian players. But I think it was him who said Steve Yzerman was the best in the league at the time (over Mario). Come on. Really? Stevie Y was great, but come on. Its Lemieux! I think he was your syndicated modern day in the early 90s Mark Madden. Lol
It was a joke about how hockey discipline works
He hated on French Canadian players just as much as he did Russians and Eastern Europeans. When Cherry owned an OHL team he refused to have any European players on the team, they won 16 games over 3 seasons.
Why is Wile E. Coyote able to run on thin air until he looks down?
Being a hero to liberals is not what I meant by public figure but nice try. Public figure in this context is having a job where the general public listen to you.
He also hated on Americans for a long time.
Before the Penguins won the Stanley Cup in 1991, he predicted the Bruins would beat Pittsburgh because Pittsburgh had an American goalie (Tom Barrasso) and American goalies didn’t have the character or emotional fortitude to go all the way to a Stanley Cup.
Poor Don Cherry. He obviously bears absolutely no responsibility for what happened to him.
You make one minor mistake where you didn’t even specifically drop an N-bomb or an epithet for Middle Easterners or Southeast Asians and everyone freaks out.
Sure, what he said was almost certainly xenophobic and/or racist, but for an 85 year-old, he you have to admit that he coded himself pretty well.
This is definitely not a story about a celebrity with too much power who finally went to far. This is clearly about the liberal mafia. People cannot be held responsible for their own words and actions. It’s clearly conspiratorial.
Also, I will grant you that over the years he’s been really ugly when it comes to Europeans, Americans, the Québécois, and really every other group that wasn’t English speaking white men from Canada, but so what?
This is clearly all part of the great liberal political correctness conspiracy. Now, they’ve obviously targeted the hockey community.
You make one minor mistake where you didn’t even specifically drop an N-bomb or an epithet for Middle Easterners or Southeast Asians and everyone freaks out.
Sure, what he said was almost certainly xenophobic and/or racist, but for an 85 year-old, he you have to admit that he coded himself pretty well.
This is definitely not a story about a celebrity with too much power who finally went to far. This is clearly about the liberal mafia. People cannot be held responsible for their own words and actions. It’s clearly conspiratorial.
Also, I will grant you that over the years he’s been really ugly when it comes to Europeans, Americans, the Québécois, and really every other group that wasn’t English speaking white men from Canada, but so what?
This is clearly all part of the great liberal political correctness conspiracy. Now, they’ve obviously targeted the hockey community.
Not the Penguins but KBL nearly did under (Canadian) Bill Craig. Ultimately, I always thought it was a negotiating ploy by Cherry, but good for him.
Jagr’s agent had a hand in nixing it because Cherry scrutinized Jagr relentlessly.
You know, if Cherry just stuck to praising veterans (or talking hockey) instead dehumanizing people, he’d still be employed
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Laugh out loud funny every time a white guy whose party controls five sixths of the federal government cries his eyes out about how oppressed he is. Soft as baby ish.
Like I said, I think it was more of a Lifetime Achievement Award. It was just decades of stupid, and most xenophobic statements. In the past they were laughed off. And in the past they were harmless. Now? they are still harmless, but you just can't say those things out loud, on public airwaves anymore. And when you have that resume of crap behind you, it was a matter of time.
Personally? It was the rantings of an old man. People would have survived his comments, there were no real victims. But that is not what our society is about now is it? It is "striketh them down so we can feel good about ourselves". Didn't Barack Obama just have some comments in regards to this and people need to stop doing these things because they feel they have the superior moral position?
Personally? It was the rantings of an old man. People would have survived his comments, there were no real victims. But that is not what our society is about now is it? It is "striketh them down so we can feel good about ourselves". Didn't Barack Obama just have some comments in regards to this and people need to stop doing these things because they feel they have the superior moral position?
He didn't deserve being fired. What he said was true. Soft.
There are about two dozen or so people from El Paso who would have disagreed with those sentiments
What did he say that was specifically true?
I ask that not to be a smart Alec, but rather because I honestly had a hard time following precisely what he was saying there.
It came off to me like he was trying to be critical of Canadian immigrants without coming right out and saying it.
That’s fine, I suppose. I’m sure he’s certainly not alone in that view – particularly among people of his generation.
Also, everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion. That’s part of what makes cultures like America and Canada so wonderful. People are pretty much free to do and say whatever they want to do or say as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else.
My problem with Cherry is that I think he’s a coward. If you’re not going to stick to your guns, why then go down that road in the first place?
It’s not like he was caught off guard and asked a tough question during a dinner, like Jimmy “the Greek” Snyder; or asked a difficult question on a live broadcast, like Al Campanis.
Cherry’s comments were prepared remarks during a segment that he does every single week during what is basically a softball segment. This would be the equivalent of Martha Stewart dropping an N bomb during a cooking segment on the Today Show.
there’s just no reason for it whatsoever and the only reason you would even consider going down that path is sheer arrogance. Whatever, he wasn’t pushed into saying anything he didn’t want to say. Ron MacLean doesn’t exactly ask gotcha questions. He’s slightly less controversial than Tony Dungy.
What I haven’t been able to figure out, and which no one has adequately explained to me, is why did he do it in the first place?
If you feel strongly that immigrants are not properly amalgamating to your culture, and you feel like it needs to be addressed publicly then come out and say it!
Don’t do a lot of huffing under your breath with weird eye rolls while you drop a lot of “those people” references on your television audience. Come out and be a man and say exactly what you have to say.
Otherwise, keep your trap shut!
Then, you can bitch about it to your cigar chomping buddies at the steakhouse after the game or torture your wife with it in the dining room the next night.
The problem for people like Don Cherry is they want to have things both ways. They want the freedom to be as nasty as they want to be to whomever they want to be nasty towards, and for whatever reasons they deem necessary, but they don’t want the consequences to go along with it.
Nope!
Sorry, but it doesn’t work like that, even for a broadcasting legend like Don Cherry.
That’s why people always cry about political correctness. They want to be classist or racist or sexist or homophobic or transphobic or nasty some “others” type group for one reason or another, but they don’t want the social repercussions that come along with it.
You know what I call those folks?
Snowflakes.
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Why does he even bring that up on a hockey show? Immigrants honoring Canadian troops? What does that have to do with hockey?
I've always gotten a good laugh out of his rants, but I always wondered why he wasn't on wrestling instead.
In Cherry's view NHL jobs IN THE USA should belong to red blooded, Canadian boys, preferably from non French speaking areas!
hockey is an American sport. sick of these Canadians coming down and taking our jobs. oh and poutine is terrible..
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