Why Taking Bob Reilly Seriously Is Impossible
by Luke Thomas on Jun 2, 2009 10:30 AM EDT
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You actually have to hand it to him. The New York State Assemblyman is insanely devoted to being intellectually dishonest to keep this charade going:
"There is overwhelming, widespread opposition to [MMA]," Reilly says. "Many of my constituents come up to say, 'You're doing the right thing. How can we have this?' It's a violent sport that is harmful and damaging. Violence begets violence. It helps create a culture in our society of domestic violence, of bullying, of violence against gays, of illegal gun use. It's the job of state legislatures to pass laws against that sort of stuff, and then we put something like ultimate fighting as our form of entertainment?"
He spins anecdotes like a basketball coach calling out plays, all fervor and gung-ho commitment. He tells the sad story of a man in his district who killed his wife, then committed suicide, another tale of violence begetting violence, though he offers no direct link to MMA.
Emphasis mine.
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and for some reason I want to commit violence against gays too.
(I am being TOTALLY sarcastic)
by polevaultking on Jun 2, 2009 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions
This has been his stance from day one. He provides ZERO evidence that is even LINKED to MMA. I don’t understand how anyone can take him seriously. The only thing that can be going on is that everyone else feels the same as Reilly, but has no valid reason to say MMA should be banned from the state. Those people then ride the Reilly stupidity wagon because… hey, they aren’t saying insanely ridiculous facts, he is.
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WTF
So the man is all for the money that Hockey brings in, even though there is more evidence of violence in that sport, how about football, again, more violence there but the money it brings in, well, we can’t touch that. I’d like for this moron to actually put up hard stats that watching MMA makes someone go out and buy an illegal gun, and then shoot someone. Me thinks Riley would be absolutely shocked at the real numbers.
MMA does make me want to buy an illegal gun.
Or at least when I hear Bob Reilly talk about MMA.
by Razreshat on Jun 2, 2009 11:10 AM EDT reply actions 5 recs
LOL! Rec'd
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by AJB on Jun 3, 2009 2:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Bob Reilly is committing intellectual dishonesty.
He’s either really that stupid, or he’s lying and saying whatever he can to keep a sport he personally dislikes out of NY, regardless of reality. It’s completely unethical of him. It shows a flaw of character that questions any other judgement he makes, regardless of the issue. The day he leaves public office can’t come soon enough.
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Bob Reilly is committing intellectual dishonesty.
This from a politician? What is the world coming to?
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What’s sad is that pud333 is correct, but that we’ve just simply come to expect elected officials to be unethical, self-interested scumbags.
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by AJB on Jun 3, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions
A big chunk of it is just the perception
My girlfriend, who watches boxing with me all the time, just can’t stand MMA, and it doesn’t really have anything to do with MMA now. She grew up in Japan, and she remembers Pride from the early days and whatnot, and the whole concept of beating the shit out of someone when they’re passed out and defenseless just rubbed her the wrong way. Now, even though I tell her the sport has changed and that half the stuff that made her stomach turn is illegal now, she still can’t really stomach it.
I suspect there are a lot of people who have that image in their mind, that MMA is still what it was like before it got cleaned up, and that it’s legalized ‘human cockfighting.’ Most of the people who think that probably aren’t the people who would want to watch MMA to begin with, and thus it’s pretty difficult to change their minds, even if perception flies in the face of fact.
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