Blaze TV host Jason Whitlock said there is an obvious sense of entitlement among current and former athletes these days.
“The Fearless” host directed his comments Friday toward former NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III who posted a tweet reacting to a recent welfare scandal involving another former quarterback, Brett Favre. In the tweet, Griffin compares that scandal to a sex scandal involving Celtics coach Ime Udoka who was suspended for the entire upcoming season for having a consensual relationship with a team employee.
Griffin stated, “If you’re more upset with the Ime Udoka situation than you are with Brett Favre stealing millions in welfare money from the poorest people in our country in Mississippi, then you are part of the problem.”
Whitlock said that sports fans are fascinated by the Udoka story because the situation feels “unprecedented.”
“Based on what we’ve been told so far, we’ve never seen an organization torch a successful head coach over consensual sex a week before the start of training camp,” he said. “Add in Boston’s celebrated status within the NBA and the Udoka story captivates the way daytime soap operas and the daytime soap opera marriage of Luke and Laura did 41 years ago on General Hospital.”
Whitlock added that the daytime soap opera craze that ended more than a decade ago has been replaced by talk shows that rely on messy reality TV storylines.
“RG3’s real agenda is to deflect attention away from a black public figure caught with his pants down,” said Whitlock. “This is the national pastime of Twitter and corporate media pundits chasing likes, retweets, followers, and racial virtue courtesy of the app’s rigged algorithms.”
Whitlock asserted that Favre’s situation has much less to do with race than sheer weakness and entitlement.
“Look, Favre has hundreds of millions in the bank. He’s weak, he’s a man. There was an opportunity to take advantage of the situation and he jumped on it, weak dude,” he added.
