Popular NYC Sports Writer Attacks ‘Phony’ & ‘Dull’ Eric Cantor for Criticizing Protesters
- Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:15pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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One of the original ”ESPN: The Sports Reporters,” and synonymous enough with New York to get a name-drop on Seinfeld, Mike Lupica has been a columnist and sports reporter for the New York Daily News since 1977. Lupica is known for his wacky sense of humor on display during his daily radio show on 1050 ESPN Radio, and has caught the attention of The Blaze before when mixing his admiration of left-wing politics with sports coverage. And now he’s a it again.
Lupica opened up his Monday column, entitled “Phony Eric Cantor Praises Tea Party Movement, But Criticizes Occupy Wall Street Protesters,” with this gem:
“Here is a phony named Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, a dull young congressman clearly aspiring to be an even duller presidential candidate someday, calling the Occupy Wall Street people a ‘mob.’”
For the rest of the column, Lupica repeats ad nauseaum the same argument, worded one way or another, that Rep. Cantor is wrong to condemn the Occupy Wall Street movement but support the Tea Party:
“So if you’re mad at Washington in general and the Obama administration in particular, that is healthy dissent and democracy in action and God bless America, at least according to young gun Eric Cantor. But if you are angry and loud and broke and yelling about Wall Street and living in a park across from the World Trade Center, yelling about the 1% in this country who have theirs and screw the other 99%, then you are a threat to everything good and decent in America.”
Lupica defends his assertion that Cantor is wrong for calling the disorderly crowd of people a “mob” by citing a single interview with a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran who occupied the Brooklyn Bridge last weekend. The vet claims the group has a clear message that is in the form of that question “Where are the jobs?”
Instead of questioning the veteran on why he blames Wall Street for low job creation, or why he thinks occupying the Brooklyn Bridge will help answer this problem, Lupica closes his article with:
“Eric Cantor’s such a great American, he should go looking for the old guy in the tweed cap out of 111 Corps and tell him he’s with the mob now. Herman Cain, another rough, tough Republican who says these demonstrators are ‘anti-American?’ He should go looking for Johnson, too.”
Taking the Paul Krugman route, Lupica leaves no space for comments, but allows readers to express their opinion through a poll on the article page at the Daily News website:
The feedback from Lupica’s own readers based on poll results at about 11:00 a.m. speaks for itself:
We all witnessed how ESPN reacted to Hank Williams Jr. expressing his political opinions in a public forum. Considering Lupica’s comments, you have to wonder if the network might reprimand him, too.
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Comments (94)
Vechorik
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:04pmI agree, Eric Cantor is the dumbest person on Fox.
I agree with Judge Napolitano (disagree all you want), but stand firm in these peoples’ right to protest. It’s their Constitutional right.
News flash: Fox News STOLE the Tea Party
Tea Party Split: Sarah Palin and Ron Paul discuss Israel/drugs/more
/watch?v=VEl5r1aHWP4
Chinese invade Texas: /watch?v=BHrkc6EB6h0
Report Post »LOJ
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:11pmQuit trying to distract people from the real issues….The mission of Radicals is to destabilize America with riots, just like they are destabilizing the Middle East! Its tough when your true mission is exposed and you can’t squirm out of the truth any longer! The truth is the truth no matter who speaks it…and it is not going to be covered up!!!
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:21pm“Eric Cantor is the dumbest person on Fox”?
Flush out your headgear or get a neurotransmitter implant because Eric Cantor is a Congressman who is occasionally interviewed on Fox.
Classic left-wing dishonest tactic of injecting subliminal falsehood into a right-wing blog. This is the kind of garbage that will keep us at odds with each other forever. How can you debate with a dishonest opponent?
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:23pmI like and admire Eric – grateful he spoke up – more need to and don’t. God bless him.
Report Post »I also agree with the Judge about it’s their right to protest, etc. Eric and others who are stating the reasons & opinions why they‘re protesting aren’t saying they shouldn’t have that right. They have a right to state their opinions too.
BelowAverageJoe
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:25pm@Vechorik, you do realize Eric Cantor is a U.S. Congressman and not a Fox personality?
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:29pmDifferent name, same crap.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:33pmEric Cantor is the dumbest person on Fox?????
When did Cantor become a Fox contributor?
Soros is going to want his Troll money back from you.
Report Post »We the people of the republic
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:37pmGo man go! tell all your troubles to us… having nightmares again troll? YES WE ARE HERE! AND WERE GOING NOWHERE.
Report Post »WE ARE THE TEA PARTY!
DON’T TREAD ON US.
Change is coming alright… change back to our founding fathers intent.
53%
mad_hatter
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:38pmFunny, so did Nancy Pelosi. She repeated the lie about Tea Partiers spitting on a Congressman and then she praised the protesters and yet forgot that a few months before she said that she was worried about the language of the Tea Partiers and the riots that it will cause… ( http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/pelosi_teaparty_ows.html ) sorry no riots. But these guys are rioting in the street as she praises them.
Report Post »capecodsully
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:39pmVECHORIK – Typical liberal, dumb as a brick, no idea what’s going on in the world around them, and vote for Obama. But you’ve given us all a good laugh, thanks.
Report Post »bandi9
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:39pmi was thinkint the same thing Taxpayer,lol. On FOX? God, please help these numbnuts idiots.
Report Post »mad_hatter
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:39pmThen again I am completely supportive of what Cain has been saying about the protesters… stop being so jealous and get a job: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/oct/cain_ows_obama.html
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:07pmVechorik I will pray for you. As for Eric Cantor who is not a Fox news contributor has it correct. Lame sports writer is dead wrong.
The differences between the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street
1. Tea Party member go home at the end of the day
2. Tea Party members don’t get arrested.
3. Tea Party member pick up after themselves.
4. Tea Party members don’t picket businesses or people.
5. Tea Party members bathe regularly.
6. Tea Party members have a clear message.
7. Tea Party members don’t insult or threaten other people or groups.
8. Tea Party members use port-a-potty to do their business.
Should I go on? As opposed to
1. Occupy Wall Streeters camp out and don’t go home
2. Occupy Wall Streeters get arrested.
3. Occupy Wall Streeters make a mess and never clean up after themselves.
4. Occupy Wall Streeters picket, people, banks, and businesses.
5. Occupy Wall Streeters don’t bathe and stick to high heaven.
6. Occupy Wall Streeters don’t know why they are protesting.
7. Occupy Wall Streeters insult people and threaten people who disagree with them.
8. Occupy Wall Streeters use the streets to do their business.
Now tell again how the Tea Party and Wall Streeters are the same?
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:09pmFrom ESPN? … nuff said…
Report Post »Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:15pmbwahahaha. We talking about Eric the congressman or Eric the FOX guy? Man I bet someone wishes they could delete their post. Vechorik, hum sounds Russian…
Report Post »JRook
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:26pm@LOJ Get real its not the truth because GB says it and the lemmings here repeat it 2,000 times. Eric Cantor is about as anti-American people as one can get. And yes he is dumb.
Report Post »Lumbar Spine
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:31pmSure, LOJ…and Obama’s the radical in chief, right pushing for riots? Yep, there’s nothing any President wants more than rioting in the streets…that really helps his chances for re-election.
Does anyone here ever exercise his God-given powers of reason? The attempts at logic are mind-numbing.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:35pmVECHORIK,
You’re an IDIOT!
Eric Cantor is a politician. He has NOTHING to do with FOX News.
There is no excuse for your post. NONE! GOOGLE Eric Cantor you dolt!
So…, Did you send your comment for The Blaze straight from your laptop, while your derriere was planted in the park waiting for your special “Vegan” meal because you have food issues, at that stellar Wall Street protest?
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:44pmGood grief. How many people does it take to tell the guy he made a mistake? You act like a pack of hungry wolves piling on. Do you think with a single brain? btw V, I agree, the people have a constitutional right to assemble and Fox did co-opt the teaparty, as did Dick Armey and the Kochs. Look it up
Report Post »Fly Old Glory 24/7 365
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:49pm@ TIFOSA: We can’t help ourselves. We love to jump all over you left loons. You really need to go away. You are beyond annoying. You are full of crap and you spew nuttin but ignorance. Really gettin tired of you losers. Someday the Blaze will have a block ppl we don’t need to hear from and you will be on the top of the list. Other than that, you have a good day and enjoy the atmosphere there in the park at the OWS rally.
Report Post »EddardinWinter
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 8:06pmFirst of all, they have every right to protest, but I have every right to mock and ridicule these clueless drones. That said, I do support their right to do so. Second, Eric Cantor represents my district (7th VA) and while he may be accused of lawyer-speak, he certainly is not stupid.
Lupica on the other hand isn’t even a marginal sports expert. He is a New York only franchise homer, and simply does not understand half of the sports he reports on (look at him, you can tell he never played any sport). I guess he figures he can butcher politics and sports equally, and so he has.
Vechorik shot his mouth off here, and will get pummeled repeatedly and deserves to hear every word of it, get your facts straight or get embarrassed! Every time he posts from now on, when I see it I will remind him of his erroneous ways. Stick to the New York times with Lupica, Vechorik, you’ll do better there. Facts are too easy to check, and the audience too nimble to let lies and errors fly.
I’ll be seeing you, if you don’t abandon this identity in shame….
Report Post »DIS3
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:02pmBlaze staff. Why don’t you stop- adding things and fix what you have. I have filled out the form 5 times and still have not received the newletter. You do n ot provide the results of the survey and given your audience it’s self serving. You are begining to lose me. FIX WHAT YOU HAVE!
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:11pmlol!!
Report Post »VTDave
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:55pmwaaahhhhh…..
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:01pmHmmmm…has anyone ever heard of a 111 corps? I‘m thinking it’s either made up by this bozo or the supposed Viet Nam vet. Does the dipwitch mean III corps? A veteran would give at least his military branch or Division designation, not the Corps area where they operated.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:58pmEmail this jackass and let him know what you think:
Report Post »lupica@1050espn.com
tifosa
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:29pmJust what everybody needs, foul-mouthed blazers threatening with their big guns and vilifying because they disagree. The guy has a right to his opinion.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 7:14pmANONYMOUS T. IRRELEVANT,
Thank you ! I did E mail him.
C’mon Blazers do the same. It does no good to rant here. E mail him your opinion. Flood his E mail.
Cantor is one of the few good guys in D. C.
Report Post »Ernesto
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:57pmDoes he write his stories from his mama’s basement.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:56pm“The vet claims the group has a clear message that is in the form of that question “Where are the jobs?”
Report Post »———————————————————–
In THAT case, I will say it again. They are protesting in the wrong place. It should be 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
progressiveslayer
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 5:47pm@ Anonymous Yes they should be but what I’ve seen and heard from that crowd their intelligence is sorely lacking.Do they have the right to be idiots ? Yes but they don’t have the right to trash every place they go to,they‘re being used by the communist Soros and don’t even know it.
Report Post »Buddyc
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:55pmThe lower Obama sinks in the polls the nastier Lupica gets.
His role model is the king of nasty people, Roger Ebert. In fact they look and act alike. He likes to attack women like Bachman and Palin. The normal cause hatred of women is “being rejected by the mother figure”. Just one look at Lupica tells you why his mother rejected him. He is not exactly and man type that women might admire.
SOme would say he was “little man” syndrome. Not me, I just think he is woman trapped in a man’s body and that is the source of his hate.
Report Post »NewLife56
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:52pmESPN??? Shouldn’t this guy follow Hank?
Report Post »mils
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:14pmWE AGREE!!! ESPN????
who cares what he says????
all these liberals are acidulous and dont’ realize they are tearing our country apart…
GO TO OBAMA’S HOUSE AND PROTEST..HE’S YOUR ENEMY!!!!
No one is listening to me..obviously.
ESPN>>> WOW..
Although…wall street is a bastion of crap…
Report Post »doublee
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:51pmLuppy’s just jealous because Cantor is about 2 feet taller than he is. I now have zero respect for this pipsqueak!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:45pmYeah…a lot of Napolean in lupica.
Report Post »Viet Vet
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:48pmThe poll is not active. And when you click on it, it takes me to all kinds of other places.
Leftists/anti-Americans are sure not going to find fault with these reprobates attacking Wall Street. Those “people” are marxists, communists, anarchists and with the normal substantial sprinkling of useful idiots. And just like their 60′s hippie marxists, communists, anarchists and useful idiots, they are very base and filthy miscreants.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:08pmThat was a screen shot of Lupica’s poll from the NY Times. Did you read the story? It said Lupica leaves no space for comments, but allows readers to express their opinion through a poll on the article page at the Daily News website.
Report Post »But don’t feel bad, I clicked on it before I read it also :-)
tifosa
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:54pmhahahahaha VietVet, I look forward to the next time you call me stupid. :P
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on October 11, 2011 at 1:41am@Tiffy
Are you not supposed to be part of the “tolerant” left?
Report Post »ooskerDoo
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:47pmHis poll is no longer on his website. Hmmmm, why is that?
Report Post »Jerbear1098
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:46pmWho owns ESPN? Humm??????
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:44pmWETHEPUBLIC:
Report Post »Your a nutcase. Why do you post that blog on every story? It‘s a bunch of Obummer’s crap. You need a job.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:44pm.Who cares what a NY sports writer thinks?
I’ve learned to think for myself.
Report Post »Buddyc
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:59pmHe wants to be a news commentator but if that is what he called himself he couldn’t get into the mens locker after the game to watch them shower. That is too much of a thrill for him to give up. He loves seeing what a real man looks like. Something that perhaps his wife might enjoy seeing.
Report Post »DNC TALIBAN
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:42pmFirst if this sports writer guy had a clue as to why those people are there in the first place maybe he would have a point, but he’s an idiot, I never herd of the guy, but then again I’m not in NY.
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:39pmThe people protesting are cut from the same cloth as Lupica – he’s just like them. Most are educated beyond their capacity, although in Lupica’s case, he’s just a sports reporter – not too high on the ladder. He may have found his niche – the batter gets three strikes or four balls, and there are seven ways for a batter to get on base.. There are three outs per inning, & nine innings per game. Not too tough – Lupica might be up to that.
Report Post »Gashouse Gorilla
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:37pmOne other thing, I KNEW it was Lupica just from reading the headline, LOL!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:47pmHe kisses her on the strikes and she kisses him on the balls.
Report Post »Gashouse Gorilla
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:37pmLupica is a hack, always will be a hack, and needs to be kicked in the balls on a regular basis. Typical limp wristed wuss who never played sports but feels he has the right to criticize those who have and do play sports. Oh, and he’s a RACIST for calling out Herman Cain. What a schmuck!
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:43pmHe never made it to school with his lunch money!
Report Post »Obama_Sham
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:36pmLOL @ Lupica
Stick with the crayons and coloring books… Lupica a “sports journalist”… LOL… Now that is funny…
Report Post »TruthHurts
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:34pmLupica is a hypocrite, he will praise these protestors, but here is his article on the Tea Party from last year. The man is a joke:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/03/29/2010-03-29_hate_just_drips_from_tea_party.html?page=0#ixzz0jZTaqCVm
ESPN needs to fire him… but won’t.
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:41pmDon’t forget espn gave us that has been from msnbc, so what could we expect?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:33pmHey guy, don’t quit your day job, if you still have one.
Report Post »Locked
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:29pmThe poll makes me laugh. Also makes me remember that time that The Blaze had a poll and then closed it because some European bloggers had a ton of people swing the result from the uber-conservative opinion to uber-liberal one. Ah, internet polls… good times.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:44pmIt wasn’t European bloggers, it was a Wisconsin college professor who did it.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 4:16pmEuropean blogger……..Wisconsin college professor……..is there a difference? :-}
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:28pmLupica will be the new Bill Kristol after this thing explodes .
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:25pmPresident Obama’s agenda is entering its final phase! http://commonsense21c.com/
An economic crisis, ending in violent chaos is the prescription for replacing a Republic with a Dictatorship. Since taking office, Mr. Obama’s agenda has been a blueprint for establishing that economic crisis.
That agenda is approaching completion. The economic crisis is almost upon us and the civil unrest to justify a declaration of martial law and suspension of the Constitution has started with the “OCCUPY WALL STREET” campaign.
On February 24, 2011 President Obama informed Congress that he would not enforce the laws that he disagreed with. Thus, Mr. Obama declared himself a Dictator? Is this our new form of government? A Dictator does not require the approval of Congress! Dictators don’t resign and dictators don’t allow free elections! The “OCCUPY WALL STREET” is the beginning of the final step to consolidate tyrant’s power!
The American Revolution has not been in such danger since the War of 1812, will we allow the tyranny of King George III to return under new management?
Report Post »paulusmaximus
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:35pmI wish I thought Your summation was wrong and 12 months ago I would have called you a nut, wish I still could!
Report Post »As for Lupica never heard of him before, must be on in the afternoons when no one is watching, but I never watch espn any way.
I.Gaspar
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 2:19pmLupica.
Report Post »Stick with sports.
You‘re not very good with that anymore but at least when you analyze jocks you don’t come off as a 100% a-hole.
bandi9
Posted on October 10, 2011 at 3:41pmi always thought he was somewhat of a jerk, and not funny.
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