Hail to the R-word, Hail victory!

Well Redskins fans, it’s over. The ruling has been handed down from on high – The Washington Post and USA Today. They’ve got a foam finger for you, but it’s not the index and you’re certainly not #1 to them, and they’re the ones who matter. They’ve decided your team name will change.

They got some help last week from President Obama, who took a break from refusing to negotiate with Republicans to tell the AP, “If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team – even if it had a storied history – that was offending a sizeable group of people, I'd think about changing it.” In other words, if he had a team mascot, it wouldn’t look like the ’Skins’ logo, and Dan Snyder is acting stupidly.

The Post ran the story on its cover page, declaring that “the willingness of the president, the nation's most influential sports fan, to weigh in has raised the protracted debate to a new level of prominence.”

And on Oct. 8, in the Post, Mike Wise, a leftwing opinion hack trapped on the Sports page, declared the name change is a done-deal. “The debate over whether a people are denigrated or honored by the name of the Washington NFL team, like the absurd debate over whether the name is a unifying force, is over.” Because Mike Wise says it is, and everyone is bound by his declaration, even football stars.

“Even if he remains in Washington for his entire NFL career, Robert Griffin III is not going to retire an R-word.” Yes, “R-word.” Wise and others of the “journalist” class like USA Today’s Christine Brennan, have imperiously declared they won’t use “Redskins.”



Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-philbin/2013/10/08/wapo-usa-today-declare-redskins-name-debate-over-0#ixzz2h97PFgCj

Maybe they can just change the image on the helmet to a potato?

When and why did it stop being an honor to have a team named after you??????? This is all so ridiculous.

I saw a comment in one of the DC papers;

Redskins?! For Pete's sake, That's one of the least offensive things in Washington!

WHL wrote:When and why did it stop being an honor to have a team named after you???????  This is all so ridiculous.

Because it's not based on Logic and Reason—it's based on "Feeeeelings".

I think the left uses the same production teams that make the infomercials about the poor starving children and sad eyed animals. Sally Struthers would be proud!

"If you could stop the tears of one aboriginal American wouldn't you?"

WHL wrote:This is all so ridiculous.

Obama has arrested veterans at the Vietnam Wall!

Even more ridiculous is a California bill to have non-citizens being called for criminal court juries!

Presently, an Illegal Alien can become a Court Judge in California.

You need your credit checked before you can sign up for ObamaCare !

Just where is this country headed?

...and why are we in this bucket?

I just heard that the Redskin organization is going to change their name. They have decided to change Redskin to foreskin in order to honor all the -emocrat -ickheads in Washington.

They say that we should be offended by a word that might or might not be offensive to a very small part of our population. How does it make sense to waste time on this?