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Mike Gundy and a Lesson in Liberal Relations

This story is well worth commenting on, following my lengthy break from this column due to technological difficulties.(I need a new computer, since the one I have is an apparent liberal.)

Oklahoma State University Football Head Coach Mike Gundy apparently became a little hot under the collar when sports-info-babe Jeni Carlson, a writer for the Oklahoman newspaper criticized demoted starting quarterback Bobby Reid. Among other things, she critiqued slow starts by Reid, an inability to control his nerves and sundry other things, leading to the head coach of Oklahoma State giving her a tounge-lashing on Monday during his press conference. Of course, thanks to You Tube, video of this spread all over the web, leading the idiot mainstream media to express outrage. From some of the reaction, you’d think Gundy leapt from the platform and clobbered her.


Make no mistake about it, what Gundy did was violate two key commandments in the media.

First, he dared question the omniscience of the idiot media when a know-it-all girl wrote a column about one of his players that she, Jeni, is utterly unqualified to comment on. Regardless of what she says, her column was not about analysis of a football game, but destroying a football player. She cannot comment on what he felt, or the state of his nerves because she has never been on the field in full pads commanding a team. She can compare his performance to others objectively, but to act as if she had an exclusive to the inner workings of Reid’s mind was purely a trademark move of the mainstream media. It smacks of arrogance and the attitude the media has that it’s their entitlement to destroy anyone they so choose.


The second key commandment broken was that he "hit the girl". This is the one that really gets on my nerves. Here’s the deal, "girls" – If you’re going to get in the arena and smack a guy bare knuckles in the mouth, be prepared to be smacked back. You’re asking for it. There would have been little if any commentary had the writer been a man. But when Gundy looked right at her and told her that her column was "garbage" and that any editor that allowed that sort of thing to get out was "garbage", the screeching and howling began. Gundy further challenged her to write something about him or his coaches, but to leave the student athletes alone.


The problem with this situation isn’t with Coach Gundy. In fact, he did exactly what conservatives need to do when attacked by these liberal elitists. He hit back and let them know that he wasn’t going to put up with it, and that he didn’t care what they think. In doing this, Coach Gundy teaches a lesson here. When attacked by a bunch of liberal media slobs, set them back on their heels, put them on the defensive and hold them accountable for their words. Jeni can say what she wants, but I’ll bet that she’ll at least think twice before she does this again. I’m not saying she won’t do it again, but she’d be completely ignorant if she didn’t think twice.


I’m not a clairvoyant, but I am a thinker. Unless I miss my guess, the Idiot Mainstream Media will unleash a fusillade at Coach Gundy, probably led by this screeching idiot Jeni Carlson, demanding an apology from him for treating her so badly and for his outburst. SHE is going to be made the victim, Coach Gundy will be painted as a foaming at the mouth version of Frankenstein and Bobby Reid, the student-athlete who was rabbit punched by this news moron will end up as the cause of it all – at least in the media.


Realistically, here’s how this plays.


One – Coach Gundy, don’t apologize, you did nothing wrong except defend your player and your right to run the team as you see fit and without the input of some airhead who never played the game. You hit back when hit and left Jeni Carlson smarting. You, Sir are a leader and leadership, by it's very nature is often times offensive.


Two – Jeni Carlson – Buck up. If you’re going to get in the arena and play a bare-knuckles game with the boys, be prepared – you are going to hit back. If you can’t take the heat of being part of the media, then perhaps you should apply for a job with HGTV or TLC’s "Trading Spaces". What happened to you is mild as compared to some of the tirades that have been unleashed at the media at the hands of Woody Hayes (of my alma-mater Ohio State) Bobby Knight or Mike Ditka.


Three – To the Republicans, Look at what Coach Gundy did, then do the same thing the next time that some blowhard like Chris Matthews or Tim Russert go after you with their litany of misinformation. Repeat the same action when it’s some brainless fool like John Kerry-Who served in Viet Nam, Jack Murtha or any of the rest of the leftists in Congress smack you, smack them back and make them justify their words. Hold them accountable for their seeming determination to, oh, I don’t know... See America humiliated and defeated for their own political gain perhaps? The last Republican to do whack the Democrats when they acted like this was "B-1" Bob Dornan who is a hero of mine.


You see, what Coach Gundy did is exactly what we as Conservatives have been doing since the beginning of time. We stand our ground and when the liberal kooks among us open their trap with their scripted talking points and theoretical nonsense, we shut them up with facts. Way to go coach! Bob Dornan... we need you now more than ever!

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