I'm listening to the Adam Carolla podcast and he takes a caller that asks "Is there a product you won't use because the commercial is too stupid?"
Adam says "Yes. The General insurance and Movantik." They play the Movantik commercial, but I can't see it on a podcast, so I look it up. It also brings up a parody of the commercial.
The grunts and groans at a tennis match usually come from the court.
Frances Tiafoe and Mitchell Krueger were in the midst of a Sarasota Open match when the distinctive sounds — one might even call it a racket — of a couple enjoying themselves began floating out over the court. An announcer initially believed the noise came from an adult video on a cell phone, a reasonable enough explanation if the phone was piped through a loudspeaker.
Am I missing something? She asked a legit question, and he treated her like she was garbage not worthy of breathing the same air as him.
[Googled for context]
Ok, this is some bizarre shit. I'd heard of Lavar Ball, and I know he has a son who is going into the NBA draft, and he is selling shoes for something like $500 and is supposed to be an obnoxious prick. A very quick youtube search, and I see this blond woman set off a racially charged conflict. Charlamagne said something like "White people don't get it...," and I actually want to understand what the issue is. Apparently she said some stuff before Ball was on the show, but I didn't see anything remotely targeting Ball's race, just saying he is a domineering father and his kids are terrified of him.
I saw a bit more of the argument between Blondie and Ball, and she pushed a bit, but he was completely dismissive of her, saying she wasn't worth talking to, and she had no right to ask him a question. He was very condescending towards her. He said "if you act like that, something's coming to you," she kind of laughed and said "are you threatening me?" I hope there is more to this, but there are a lot of videos of people claiming this is a major accusation, cloaked in the history of race relations, of white woman falsely accusing black men of rape and violence. Yeah, I get the history of Emmett Till, and the countless times historically black men were beaten or killed for innocently talking to or looking in the general direction of a white woman. I understand the reality behind novels like Native Son and To Kill a Mockingbird, but she laughed at his bluster. Did she later make claims that he physically threatened her or file a police report or something?
In watching/reading some of the comments claiming blondie is racist, I found it hilarious that the people making these claims were extremely sexist in saying the woman had no right to question this man. She is a host on an interview show, FFS.
Re: Random Videos
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 10:27 pm
by Shirley
I was confused at first too. But after reading a bit, I think Ball was actually mad at her for statements she had made about him before he even came on. I didn't see the statements, but the gist of it was she went after him and his parenting a few days before he was on the show. Then, when she chimed in during the interview when he was actually there, he was dismissive of her, saying she shouldn't be talking to him. I think she then later talked about how he had "threatened" her, or something like that. It's that last part that Charlemagne and others responded to - that the critique of a black man (and many felt he was justified) was automatically seen as threatening to a white woman.
Re: Random Videos
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2017 10:38 pm
by Johnnie
Yea, there are plenty of layers to this. I initially only saw the LaVar Ball dismissing her part and thought that was low.
But then the fact that she talked shit about him being a bad parent who intimidates his own son was what set him off when she was actually present and tried talking to him. She's your typical phony.
So everyone with a platform had takes. And Charlamagne, with a huge platform being a radio personality with a book currently out, put Whitlock in a woodchipper over his take on the matter.
Of course this is old news by now, but the Donkey of the Day segment is pretty cool. Tomi Lahren has been it once or twice and Charlamagne went at her too. She responded and looked foolish.
