Eisner's got to go

It disturbed me, and I know that it’s wrong that it did, but nevertheless -

I was watching the LAL playing the Sacto Kings on ESPN tonight. Halftime rolls up, and one of the ABC/ESPN/NBA “I love this game!” spots comes up. ‘Cept it’s the guys from “The Queer Eye”.

Redemption comes, though, with McD’s running an “I’m loving it” spot featuring folks playing hoops on rollerblades.

My gripe: I don’t associate these guys with much except snide comments and the people they like to sleep with. Someone decided that it would be fashionable to have gay folks on TV, much like Al Jolson decided that it would be fashionable to dress up in blackface and sing “Mammy”. The “Fab Five” are having their sexuality exploited - they’ve got a show because they are gay, and happen to be designers, etc, rather than having a show because they’re good designers who happen to be gay. The show plainly discriminates against straight men, too, implying that we’re all a bunch of out-of-touch slobs. How long would a show where five upper middle class men who gave career advice (including dressing, diction, and grooming) to low-income men last?

Why does political correctness need to creep into sports? For the longest time, sports were a happy oasis, where excellence was rewarded, weakness was analyzed, and there were sill winners and losers. Then ESPN fires Easterbrook and Limbaugh (He was probably a mistake in the first place), and the whole climate in TV sports has changed completely. The BCS fiasco this winter kind of gels the entire fiasco - Oklahoma needed a second chance after choking in the Big 12 championship, they’d played so well until then, and they were really trying hard.

Yeah, but OK still choked to K State. Done and done.

I’m such a dinosaur.

Posted by jank at January 16, 2004 11:20 PM