As someone who follows sports but only watches baseball with any regularity, there's little about this I find surprising. I've found both Deadspin and Keith Olbermann quite persuasive in their arguments that various parties (including the relevant prosecutors) appear to have been incompetent or willfully negligent.
If tonight's Conan is any indication, he will have more jokes about the NFL's apparent tolerance of off-the-field violence (including murder). David ________________________________ From: PGage <pga...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] More NFL BS: "New" Policy on Domestic Violence Changes Nothing I have not had a chance to read in depth the reactions to the release of the elevator video of Ray Rice punching his girlfriend, but what I have read has left me confused. What about that video is being cited as new evidence that justifies the NFL and the Ravens so profoundly changing their initial judgements? We knew he had punched her in the elevator, we knew that she was unconscious when the doors open, and that he callously dragged her half way out of the elevator. We knew they were the only two people in the elevator. It has always been certain that he punched her in the face/head and that this led to her losing consciousness. We knew it was vicious and ugly and unjustifiable, no matter how much Roger Godell and Stephen A Smith alluded to hypothetical provocations by the girlfriend. This is what the somewhat antiseptic term "domestic violence" means - a man who is almost always bigger and stronger viciously and violently hitting, punching, kicking a woman. Of course Rice should have been more seriously punished in the first place (despite the reports, this is no more a real life time ban than the NFL's "new and improved guidelines" call for; if Rice is so inclined, and maintains a clean legal record, he will be able to apply for reinstatement in 2 or 3 years), but nothing that happened this morning changed anything. Deadspin notes the double talk we have been getting about this from jump street. The NFL spin at first was that if only the public had seen the elevator video, we would understand why they gave Rice such a lenient penalty - implying strongly that the girlfriend had started it and Rice was only defending himself. Now the NFL claims it never saw that video, and now that they have they are shocked, shocked to see that Ray Rice punched his girlfriend into unconsciousness. Bull Shit. http://deadspin.com/someone-is-lying-about-whether-the-nfl-saw-the-ray-rice-1631901404 -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
