Ok so this could have gone in the other sports forum, but since it's about political correctness/the state of our great nation, I thought I'd post it here.

 

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/foot...ex.html?cnn=yes

 

To me this is incredibly sad. The guy is just stating the truth: that some crimes just simply get a slap in the wrist and others don't. Instead of sticking up for himself this guy is forced to apologize for what he said and get kicked off a sports show to boot. So two questions for the board:

 

(a) Is he right? Would it have been better if Vick was charged with raping a woman, in terms of how a professional sports commissioner would respond with punishment?

 

(B) When are we going to get tired of the apologizing, rehab visits, etc and stop forcing jagbags to act a certain way so that the 'public' stops viewing them as jagbags? Seriously, it's getting to the point where someone should copyright a book detailing exactly what to do and what to say after X offense. What? You were caught in an underage orgy with coke? No problem. Just apologize and say you were molested as a child and have been fighting addiction ever sense and will immediately check in to rehab to fix yourself. Done.

The sports reporter is apologizing for being right.

 

If Vick had been charged with rape, this wouldn't be as big a deal at all.

 

Not much happened to Kobe after all.