modern parlance. what about him is thuggish? he had dread locks. he s loud after a game. the adrenaline is pumping. he s just made the biggest play of his life. he s screaming, everybody is screaming, all over the field. a microphone is shoved in his face. nothing about that says thug, but thug become s place holder for n word and monkey. he made that point today. he said in hockey games, they just go out on the ice and fight each other but no one is attacking them as a thug. he wasn t throwing a punch to anybody. i think we have to be careful about the proliferation of the word thug in kind of modern media. we throw it around as if it s something honestly, with social media, there s little that any of us can do. ignorant people are going to resort to these kind of offenses. i m sure you get racial offenses, because i know i get
people say things that they would never say to your face. it s interesting to me the willingness of people to go on social media to do this, even under their open names. i bring this up, asu at a fraternity at asu, they had a party called mlk black day party. in which they dressed like hip-hop clothing, doing gang signs. one white girl was drinking out of a watermelon cup and they posted these pictures on instagram as if this was normal behavior. that s just plain old stupidity. the twitter reaction was amazing. i m not going to pretend i was watching a football game on sunday night. i was watching downtown abby. as was i. twitter just exploded. i thought it was a new mayor in new jersey coming out with a rant against chris christie. and everybody just had to give
of the country. 50 s and 60 s all the way from texas through dixie land down through florida and up through the mid atlantic. 56 currently in new york city. later today, 67 out at laguar a laguardia. warmer here in the new york city if you re near a tanning booth. 83 looks like it will be the daytime high in memphis, tennessee and if you re out in denver, colorado, mile high, your highs will be 56. time for a little sports action now, brian? let s talk a little bit of baseball. phillies pitcher cole hamils admitted he beamed bryce harper at the age of 19 as an old school way of welcoming him into the league. but major league baseball hitting back with a five-game suspension for hitting the youngster. he ll also be find. hammels hit the nationals rookie in a game on sunday night, you may remember for no apparent reason. knicks fans forget about phil jackson or john caliparri. it appears, according to the new york daily news , the knicks have found a new head coach. like the old coa
everyone seems to count out mike huckabee but he is still maintaining a national profile and he s on tv every week and still makes a lot of speeches. he s as plugged in in the social network as sarah palin. he enjoys what he s doing right now on television. still, he s a quiet contender. this is a guy that came out of no where in 2008 and developed a real base, is charismatic and quietly waiting in the wings with the national profile to jump if the time s right. good poll to start the morning off for us. the company, thank you very much for that. a.b. stoddard, robert costa. ed rendell made big headlines for his wuss comments after the nfl postponed the eagles game on sunday night. what happens when politicians and sports mix? just days away from new year s eve. the biggest party in the country. i ll talk about carson daily about what he has planned in time s square. it s going it be fun. [ male announcer ] we touch a lot of things
this ad. and i think the most important issue we are looking at, at the women s media center and all of our partners who have been engaged in this campaign, to really talk to cbs and the nfl and the super bowl advertisers about this ad, is the agenda of the organization behind the ad. bill: are we crying wolf before we see it, though, chad? i haven t seen it, and it is great publicity, by the way for the game on sunday night. i mean, should we be offended? i don t see how we can be feigned offended and it may be a pro family message and we are celebrating the life of tim tebow and from a faith based perspective on how he has impacted his community and i think it something we should embrace and encourage our young people to engage and utilize their platform, than for other things, other than a paycheck. bill: and there is no place, she