"Betamax Columnists" - People Still Think Like This

[Judah Maccabee]

I use the term "Betamax Columnist" like how Chris Rock talked about women who don't perform oral sex in this day and age: It's unbelievable that idiots like this still get press and free reign to spew the most ignorant bullshit:

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertai...icleid=1097247

Choice quotes from the column:

This form of fighting is all but bare-fisted, with less-than-gloves covering the knuckles. Anything including kicking goes. (I suppose eye-gouging might or might not be frowned upon).

Pardon my not swelling with civic pride over one of our own hitting the big-time at last for what amounts to legalized criminality, a plain barbarism that would tend to discourage a pedestal for this man.

And here's probably the most WTF part of all: He asserts that UFC has "peaked" and was sliding back into "bizarre fringe/niche status:"

Leave it to network television to be slow on the uptake, of course. Just when pugilism’s bastard sons, MMA and rival UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), seemed to have peaked - whatever happened to Chuck Liddell? - and started a merciful decent from Next Big Thing back to bizarre fringe/niche status, along comes CBS to help resuscitate a beast better left gasping for breath.

I can respect his opinion that Kimbo is getting a stage more prematurely than perhaps other more veteran fighters, but to say that UFC/MMA is waning in popularity? That eye-gouging MIGHT be allowed?

[DerAuslander]

The writer couldn't be bothered to do any research. I can't be bothered to care.

[Goju - Joe]

Journalism died the day CNN went on air. News became content and facts and integrity went out the window

Get used to it.

[Petter]

You missed the best quote from the article:

We believe what is oft-repeated to be true.

Now there's a lofty standard of journalism!

[PizDoff]

That's a strange article on a site that has hosted Joe Lauzon's TUF blog as well as a few other intelligent articles on mixed martial arts.

[Rivington]

That's a strange article on a site that has hosted Joe Lauzon's TUF blog as well as a few other intelligent articles on mixed martial arts.

Doubly strange, as it's a McClatchy Newspapers syndicated column from, I presume, the Miami Herald (thus the calling Kimbo "our own"), but the Boston Herald isn't a McClatchy property. Must have been a cranky sports editor with an axe to grind and a few extra bucks in budget for tomorrow.

[Kid Miracleman]

Here's the original article from the Miami Herald in its entirety:

CBS is now legitimizing barbaric sport

[Domite]

MMA and rival

[Madgrenade]

MMA is bad. Severe risk of people getting fit and standing up for themselves. Ban it.