http://nation.foxnews.com/rep-brad-m...d-pull-taliban
At first, I thought this was a "fake news" headline. But indeed, this dude is real. And he is one of the 435 representatives in the US House. Incredible.
http://nation.foxnews.com/rep-brad-m...d-pull-taliban
At first, I thought this was a "fake news" headline. But indeed, this dude is real. And he is one of the 435 representatives in the US House. Incredible.
Don't blame him one bit. I feel the exact same way about Carolina. There isn't a group of people, past, present, alive or dead, that I wouldn't cheer for against Carolina until the basketball game was over. Once the basketball game was over, of course, I'd want most of the heinous people you're probably thinking of promptly rounded up and escorted directly to a maximum security prison. But during the game, go (insert your team of horrible monsters of history here), stomp the Heels.
That's nice, for a congressman to root for the Taliban instead of Duke University. The University that provides thousands of jobs, provides state of the art health care, and a ivy league caliber reputation that draws millions of dollars a year to this state but to hell with us, he'd rather root for a terrorist organization. Nice, very nice.
GTHC.
But it's okay to wish that the University of North Carolina burn for all eternity? The University that provides thousands of jobs, provides state of the art health care, and is regarded as one of the best academic public universities in the country?
Sports often involves more than a bit of hyperbole.
I wouldn't take any of this too seriously. First of all, the Congressman's statement is hyperbole, obviously...I doubt, if he was looking at a KSM and a bunch of confirmed terrorists warming up for a basketball game against Duke, that he'd be excitedly cheering them on. Secondly, there's a big difference between hating a team, or even a fanbase (personally, my loathing is generally much more toward the Tarheel fans than the players themselves, some of whom (ie: Marshall, Zeller, Jamison), I really like), and hating the University. Most people who can't stand Duke basketball simultaneously greatly value and cherish having the University, particularly DUMC, in North Carolina. I'm sure, if a hypothetical vote came down to keep Duke University in Durham or have it shipped up to Richmond, Virginia, the Congressman would vote to keep it in Durham in a heartbeat. And he'd still hope the basketball team lost every game it played.