Short Note: The Latest Doublethink and Crimestop from ESPN (Antoine Wright’s Intentional Foul of Carmelo Anthony)
May 11, 2009 by dwil
This from Chris Broussard on OTL:
“Carmelo Anthony initiated as much contact as Antione Wright!”
and…
“You wouldn’t have heard any complaints from Dallas if Anthony missed the shot.”
Broussard and Vincent Thomas the resident Slam magazine cool-cat, slickster also released referee Mark Wunderlich from responsibility for blowing the call by saying the Antoine Wright “did a horrible job” of committing a foul on because he didn’t foul Anthony hard enough and put his hands up afterward.
They – ESPN producers, reporters, and talking heads – really need to stop this bullshit.
Also…. Jeff Van Gundy, on Mike and Mike this morning said no one should assume that Rick Carlisle said nothing to the officials about his team committing an intentional foul. If Carlisle did inform the officials and there was no call – Carlisle did his level best not to go completely off on Wunderlich in his press conference, so he may well have omitted informing the refs so they could further save face, it makes Wunderlich’s error even more egregious.
Maybe Wunderlich needs to take a Wonderlic test to find out if he’s truly capable of officiating under playoff game stress?
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Definitions of “Doublethink” and “Crimestop”:
In Orwell’s prophetic tome, 1984 doublethink is also called “reality control.” It where a newsperson holds and presents two contradictory thoughts at once and voices them to the public.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary carries the term:
dou•ble•think (’d&-b&l-”thi[ng]k), noun, Date: 1949 : a simultaneous belief in two contradictory ideas.
“Crimestop” is a reason for the act of doublethink. According to Orwell, crimestop is:
“The faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In short….protective stupidity.”
It where a newsperson holds and presents two contradictory thoughts at once and voices them to the public.
Example: Jason Whitlock’s duel memories of All-Star weekend two years ago.
of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. In short….protective stupidity.”
-an excerpt from ESPN’s mission statement?
Excellent point by Jeff Van Gundy! I would much rather hear the opinion of someone like Van Gundy who is one of the better NBA analysts than Mike & Mike and the other talking heads they trot out. The league said the ref blew the call, nuff said! I personally think the ref made the right call by letting the play continue but no way should Wright be thrown under the bus.
Sadly, fellas, I’m a long-suffering UVa fan. And stuck on a UVa fan-board with a lot of bow-tie wearin’ busters that suck Rick Carlisle’s johnson on a daily basis.
Is there ANYTHING, in print, that confirms that Wright or any other Mav spoke to the official before the play about their intent to give a foul? Please post the link here because all UVa fans are under the impression that Carlisle is not to blame here, and the buck stops with the guy in the suit and the dry-erase board.
I think this bitch-assed attempt by the media to villianize Wright is just messed up. Next thing they’ll say he’s fundamentally unsound and he came from a single-parent household.
Damn des!… LMAO!
mactown, Phil-
I cannot believe Wright is getting crushed for this. Look, a foul is a foul and if the ref missed the call, then he missed the call. But this b.s. about Wright?…. And Phil, the next thing you know after the fundamentally unsound and came from a single-parent home talk will whispers of a positive drug test!
Then he’ll be called a thug!! Wait a minute, that probably was the first thing they called him.
We know the second thing they called him
Does Wright have tattoos? Braids, perhaps? Not worthy of being a Baird man.
UVa fans, honestly, need some Frank Slade in their life. Talk about delusional.