Espn, Fire Dana Jacobson!!!!

[Mortimer]

They should have just slammed her on the table...yanked her dress up and given her a taste of what she is spewing.

You know...grabbed her by the hair and bellowed.......HOW DO YOU LIKE IT...WENCH?





You can't mess with degenerates like her.

Let her know she's nothing more than an animated blow up doll.

Irish is heading down that slippery slope of crashing through the gates of a North Dakota militia.

[Mortimer]

And then let the harlot know if she ever comes back....why there's more waiting for her where that came from.

[MaTH716]

Those roasts are all no holds barred events. Nothing is out of bounds at those things. Did she go too far? Maybe, but who cares she is a nobody, and if she gets fired who will even notice?

[hi_im_god]

here's the link.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/l...-7429056c.html

she was booed off because she wasn't funny. apparently neither is charlie weis.

amazing a throw away line at the end of the article winds up being the headliner to ndguy.

maybe it's just you people hate. it's probably your overwrought attention whoring and misrepresentations to create the illusion of a controversy.

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

here's the link.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/l...-7429056c.html

she was booed off because she wasn't funny. apparently neither is charlie weis.

amazing a throw away line at the end of the article winds up being the headliner to ndguy.

maybe it's just you people hate. it's probably your overwrought attention whoring and misrepresentations to create the illusion of a controversy.

To answer Hossy's question; You would know if Jesus was pissed

[trifecta124]

If she had said f*** muhammad they would have cut off her head with a rusty butter knife by now.

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

here's the link.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/l...-7429056c.html

she was booed off because she wasn't funny. apparently neither is charlie weis.

amazing a throw away line at the end of the article winds up being the headliner to ndguy.

maybe it's just you people hate. it's probably your overwrought attention whoring and misrepresentations to create the illusion of a controversy.

It's probably because you're a boorish asshat.

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by trifecta124

If she had said f*** muhammad they would have cut off her head with a rusty butter knife by now.

That is very true......the real savages

[IrishofNDMan]

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Why the Long Face?
It should probably go without saying that, being an ND alumnus and all, I'm not a big fan of Deadspin. The poor dears have Irish Issues, and as such, don't draw my interest all that often.

But one of their reports the other day crossed over into one of my favorite topics, EsPN. They got some more info on "First Take" anchor Dana Jacobson's drunken ramblings on stage during the roast of Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic a couple weeks ago. To save you actually having to visit the site, according to them, Ms. Jacobson had a few choice words to say for some in attendance, physically and spiritually:

"F!@# Notre dame"
"F!@# Touchdown Jesus"

Not exactly original, but not earth-shattering either. She's Michigan born and (horse)bred, so I imagine her parents were probably teaching her that prenatally with the whole earphones-on-the-tummy thing.

"F!@# Jesus."

Screeeeeeeeeeeech Hold on thar, Baba Looey. That's a horse(face) of a different color.

Now let's get some stuff out of the way quickly. I'm not the type who gets offended by religious slurs. I figure if people are that ignorant, they probably lead a pretty meaningless life anyway. I'm also not the type that takes everything ... hell, anything at all ... Deadspin says as any kind of Gospel (no pun intended), so I'd prefer a report from a reputable news outlet before lighting any torches.

I am also, however, not a big fan of hypocrisy, as my previous writings have laid out. And if this is what went down, our friends at the World Wide Lushes, er, Leader, are wading in that pool up to their necks.

First off, word is they're trying to suppress any and all video from the event. Granted, according to reports, the roast itself wasn't received all that well, and I can understand not wanting evidence of poor production circulating around. But here we have the lead anchor of one of ESPN's more prominent programs slurring her slurs on the dais at a public event. Jimmy the Greek got pilloried for life for making his remarks in a restaurant after a couple drinks, and that video got more circulation than the Zapruder film. This woman was on the mic in Atlantic City. Should the public not get a chance to hear her in all her (drunken) glory disparaging one of the world's leading religious figures? EsPN is always so quick with the video when someone else is the focus of the tragedy, comedy or perfidy. I guess when the foot's on the other hand, their perspective changes a little.

Second, I realize Catholicism is, along with obesity (and ugliness, for that matter), one of the world's few remaining acceptable intolerances to most. But here we have a sports reporter of the Jewish persuasion allegedly flipping the bird verbally to Christians everywhere at a public event, and the silence about it is deafening. If Charlie Weis had used his time on stage to say "F!@# the Torah", or if I suggested on this blog the Prophet Muhammad do something anatomically impossible, we'd be (rightfully) drawn and quartered on the 11 o'clock news and everyone would be falling all over themselves to decry such hateful bigotry. But this one, no, we're going to keep that quiet. After all, she was drunk (I missed the part where they tied her down and poured vodka down her throat against her will) and it was a roast and people get inappropriate at roasts and blah blah blah. If this isn't a big deal, fine, but then the next time someone says something that offends a different major religion, I expect the same radio silence.

Third and finally, hearing this story, I can't help but hearken back to December of 2004. Notre Dame had just fired an under-performing coach who had proven he couldn't get things done for the program either on or off the field. But EsPN (and their Mouse owners) got it into their little heads that ND was a racist institution because that coach was an African-American. So they led the charge on this vacuous story, even though they had no evidence anyone at the school had a racist agenda, and refused to reconcile that alleged agenda with the high graduation rates for African-American athletes the school has. Now we have one of their anchors engaging in bigoted behavior in public. Where is their outrage? Where are the talking heads calling for Jacobson's termination? The University of Notre Dame was declared guilty as charged for much, much less.

I really don't care whether or not Jacobson is fired. I've watched her show once or twice, and if they weren't willing to fire her for something meaningful like her not being very insightful or entertaining, it'd be dumb to do it now. Allegedly, she's sent a long letter of apology to Charlie Weis, and since he was there and not me, that would probably suffice. But the raging hypocrisy of EsPN's behavior here is yet more evidence of their sizzle-not-steak mentality ... a mentality contributing to the dumbing-down-to-a-sound-byte of American society. The less that network is watched, the better off we'll all be, so anything that makes them uncomfortable is A-OK by me.

[MaTH716]

This sounds like a job for:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1311/...cd73a353_o.jpg

[Mortimer]

Draw..but don't quarter.




Then let some of the more desperate locals have some fun.

[Mortimer]

Finally...make her" mimic" one particularly bad scene from Bad Lt.



On national tv.....






....with Tony Clifton playing the role portrayed by Harvey Kittel .

[Mortimer]

Wok good.

[Danzig]

altho what she said may have offended some, i don't see why there should be a cry for her to lose her job over it. that's ridiculous. why anyone should lose employment due to a lapse in judgement, involving something away from work, is beyond me.

i'm offended at how offended some people get.

[JJP]

I wonder what would've happened had someone made an anti-Semitic joke to Jacobsen.

Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

Irish you should fly a plane into her.

I dont use the LOL thing.

But I got one of those laughs
where no sound comes out.
I just kind of make this creeking noise.

It hurts my abdomen.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

From my interpretation of Jesus - he seemed the type who'd probably love nothing more than to be F---ed.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Are you guys being serious right now? It was at a roast. Have you ever seen a roast? They're all jokes. Are you seriously offended by someone saying F-Touchdown Jesus?

100% correct. Apparently ND has never seen a roast.

[docicu3]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

From my interpretation of Jesus - he seemed the type who'd probably love nothing more than to be F---ed.

Drugs you know there are stories about he and MM that would lay creedance to this....

On the subject of Dana I am shocked nobody has a link to the monologue off a bad camera phone or it's equivalent. At the risk of being called sexist I place this behavior at the M and M roast in the same category of former teacher Deb L from Fla who apparently has a thing for intimacy with very young boys....her lawyer got her off because "We can't send a young woman like that to maximum security prison it is inhumane"....so she did no time and society buys it while a guy guilty of those actions gets a roommate in a small room .

If a guy did what Dana did who was a male ESPN counterpart he would be looking for the Harold Reynolds version of "How do I get a job after I've done something stupid" Dana went over the PC line by miles and suffered no consequences roast blue or not.....