ESPN’s Britt McHenry a ‘sorry excuse’ for a human being, ESPN reporter Britt McHenry is a sorry human being. But the entitled bleached-blond bubblehead clearly does not regret that she inflicted a vicious tongue-lashing on a lowly wage slave.
She’s sorry that she got caught.
By now, even folks who dwell in caves have heard that McHenry is worse than trailer trash. Hey, most people who live in mobile homes display more class than this diva, whose sense of superiority and attachment to mirrors caused her to berate a lady who evidently lacks McHenry’s multitude of large, white teeth.
McHenry, 28, was suspended by the sports network for a week. She should be fired, forced to don a hair net and utter the classic line, over and over: “Do you want fries with that?”
Then again, McHenry’s presence in the fast-food industry would be an affront to hardworking burger-flippers who show respect to fellow citizens.
The sports world has suffered from a plethora of rotten characters, from a serial philanderer (golfer Tiger Woods, 39) to performance-enhancing-drug abusers (Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez, 39, suspended Met closing pitcher Jenrry Mejia, 25) to a gambler (banned-for-life former baseball player and manager Pete Rose, 74).
So how can a TV sports yakker be taken seriously after her vile character has been revealed?
In a video that went viral online last week, the sportscaster can be heard leveling a disgusting rant at Gina Michelle, a single mom of three who works as a clerk at the Arlington, Va., pound to which McHenry’s vehicle was towed.
I’m in the news, sweetheart. I will f- -king sue this place,” McHenry said on April 6 as she paid to retrieve her vehicle.
She proceeded to take digs at Michelle’s presumed lack of education, her body size and dental hygiene.
“That’s why I have a degree and you don’t,” McHenry said in the video, which was edited to display her tirade mostly. “I wouldn’t work at a scumbag place like this. Makes my skin crawl even being here.”
And, “Maybe if I was missing some teeth, they would hire me, huh? ’Cause they look so stunning. . . . ’Cause I’m on television, and you’re in a f- -king trailer, honey.”
Finally, “Lose some weight, baby girl.”
On Thursday, McHenry tweeted out an apology, blaming her bullying behavior on “an intense and stressful moment.”But she did not appear to be stressed-out in the video — just as spoiled as week-old rump roast.
She’s also made no known attempt to apologize to Michelle.
Soon, her fans and friends started tweeting that McHenry was the victim of a predatory business, Advanced Towing.
Really?
After Easter Sunday, McHenry abandoned her vehicle overnight in the privately owned parking lot outside Hunan Number One, a restaurant that’s popular during happy hours, eatery workers told the Daily Mail. After her outburst, a sign was posted on Hunan’s door warning motorists that the establishment “is not responsible if your car is towed from the parking lot . . . Please don’t leave your car here overnight!” the newspaper reported.
Advanced Towing received an “F” grade from the Better Business Bureau, and it gets knocked by many online reviewers, which I think is to be expected for a company that exists mainly to seize automobiles. Some posters on Yelp reported that the outfit is staffed by car thieves who snatch legally parked vehicles.
Earlier this month, the father of a 7-year-old boy suffering from a bad cold walked into a CVS pharmacy to buy medicine, leaving his son in a car and his 17-year-old stepdaughter outside it. An Advanced tow-truck driver hoisted the vehicle with the child inside, but stopped the towing procedure after hearing the boy’s cries. The driver said he didn’t realize a kid was in the car. In December, a woman complained that an Advanced worker towed her car — with her golden retriever inside.
But how does any of this ex
cuse a troll for lashing out at someone she felt was beneath her? McHenry should hook up with hothead Keith Olbermann, 56, who was suspended for a week from the ESPN2 and TSN2 show he hosts, “Olbermann,” after Twitter-slamming Pennsylvania State University students — for raising money to fight pediatric cancer.
No one deserves to be treated like pond scum.
Britt McHenry should be tossed off the air permanently.
Times plays race card on Iran
The New York Times has gone too far. Again.
In an editorial published earlier this month, Times deep thinkers defended President Obama’s potentially disastrous negotiations with Iranian officials, and the tentative deal intended to halt Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.
Newspaper scribes argued that Republican opposition to Obama’s policies smacked of racial animus against the biracial president. The writers even likened anti-Obama fury to claims by some fringe types that the president is not an American citizen and is secretly a Muslim.
I’ve never contended that Obama’s place of birth was anywhere other than in the United States, nor have I written that he’s not a Christian. I’m even enrolled in the Democratic Party. But I think that Obama’s attempt to make nice with Iran threatens the existence of Israel.
The Times tried to shut down dissent by crying “racism.’’
For shame.
Starstruck over ace of clubs
Even a former president can be starstruck.
Jordan Spieth, the humble 21-year-old Texan who a week ago became the second-youngest golfer to win the prestigious Master’s tournament, was doing a round of interviews in New York City when a man tapped him on the shoulder and asked if he’d like to meet Bill Clinton, according to PGATour.com. So he did.
When he emerged from his hotel Tuesday morning, Spieth, who is inspired by his 14-year-old sister, Ellie, who is on the autism spectrum, carried his own luggage and held the door open for everyone else, never once refusing a photo or autograph request, the site reported. Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg scored face time with the young man as Spieth stopped by Bloomberg LP headquarters. He gave 24 interviews in 24 hours, including one on “Late Show with David Letterman.’’
Last year, a few players gave him the nickname Golden Child, which Spieth detests because he was not raised to be egotistical. What a breath of fresh air.
‘Poor’ Gwyn eats crow
Gwyneth Paltrow flamed out on playing poor. The emaciated star, 42, revealed on her Goop.com Web site that she blew Food Bank For New York City’s Food Stamp Challenge after “about four days,” failing in her vow to subsist on $29 worth of food a week for two weeks, in solidarity with folks who receive help from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (formerly known as the Food Stamp program).
She confessed that she chowed down on chicken, fresh vegetables and half a bag of black licorice. (Relax, licorice is virtually free of fat, but high in sugar and devoid of nutrition.) She graded herself with a C- for the brief, heroic effort.
By now, even folks who dwell in caves have heard that McHenry is worse than trailer trash. Hey, most people who live in mobile homes display more class than this diva, whose sense of superiority and attachment to mirrors caused her to berate a lady who evidently lacks McHenry’s multitude of large, white teeth.
McHenry, 28, was suspended by the sports network for a week. She should be fired, forced to don a hair net and utter the classic line, over and over: “Do you want fries with that?”
Then again, McHenry’s presence in the fast-food industry would be an affront to hardworking burger-flippers who show respect to fellow citizens.
The sports world has suffered from a plethora of rotten characters, from a serial philanderer (golfer Tiger Woods, 39) to performance-enhancing-drug abusers (Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez, 39, suspended Met closing pitcher Jenrry Mejia, 25) to a gambler (banned-for-life former baseball player and manager Pete Rose, 74).
So how can a TV sports yakker be taken seriously after her vile character has been revealed?
In a video that went viral online last week, the sportscaster can be heard leveling a disgusting rant at Gina Michelle, a single mom of three who works as a clerk at the Arlington, Va., pound to which McHenry’s vehicle was towed.
I’m in the news, sweetheart. I will f- -king sue this place,” McHenry said on April 6 as she paid to retrieve her vehicle.
She proceeded to take digs at Michelle’s presumed lack of education, her body size and dental hygiene.
“That’s why I have a degree and you don’t,” McHenry said in the video, which was edited to display her tirade mostly. “I wouldn’t work at a scumbag place like this. Makes my skin crawl even being here.”
And, “Maybe if I was missing some teeth, they would hire me, huh? ’Cause they look so stunning. . . . ’Cause I’m on television, and you’re in a f- -king trailer, honey.”
Finally, “Lose some weight, baby girl.”
On Thursday, McHenry tweeted out an apology, blaming her bullying behavior on “an intense and stressful moment.”But she did not appear to be stressed-out in the video — just as spoiled as week-old rump roast.
She’s also made no known attempt to apologize to Michelle.
Soon, her fans and friends started tweeting that McHenry was the victim of a predatory business, Advanced Towing.
Really?
After Easter Sunday, McHenry abandoned her vehicle overnight in the privately owned parking lot outside Hunan Number One, a restaurant that’s popular during happy hours, eatery workers told the Daily Mail. After her outburst, a sign was posted on Hunan’s door warning motorists that the establishment “is not responsible if your car is towed from the parking lot . . . Please don’t leave your car here overnight!” the newspaper reported.
Advanced Towing received an “F” grade from the Better Business Bureau, and it gets knocked by many online reviewers, which I think is to be expected for a company that exists mainly to seize automobiles. Some posters on Yelp reported that the outfit is staffed by car thieves who snatch legally parked vehicles.
Earlier this month, the father of a 7-year-old boy suffering from a bad cold walked into a CVS pharmacy to buy medicine, leaving his son in a car and his 17-year-old stepdaughter outside it. An Advanced tow-truck driver hoisted the vehicle with the child inside, but stopped the towing procedure after hearing the boy’s cries. The driver said he didn’t realize a kid was in the car. In December, a woman complained that an Advanced worker towed her car — with her golden retriever inside.
But how does any of this ex
cuse a troll for lashing out at someone she felt was beneath her? McHenry should hook up with hothead Keith Olbermann, 56, who was suspended for a week from the ESPN2 and TSN2 show he hosts, “Olbermann,” after Twitter-slamming Pennsylvania State University students — for raising money to fight pediatric cancer.
No one deserves to be treated like pond scum.
Britt McHenry should be tossed off the air permanently.
Times plays race card on Iran
The New York Times has gone too far. Again.
In an editorial published earlier this month, Times deep thinkers defended President Obama’s potentially disastrous negotiations with Iranian officials, and the tentative deal intended to halt Iran’s nuclear-weapons program.
Newspaper scribes argued that Republican opposition to Obama’s policies smacked of racial animus against the biracial president. The writers even likened anti-Obama fury to claims by some fringe types that the president is not an American citizen and is secretly a Muslim.
I’ve never contended that Obama’s place of birth was anywhere other than in the United States, nor have I written that he’s not a Christian. I’m even enrolled in the Democratic Party. But I think that Obama’s attempt to make nice with Iran threatens the existence of Israel.
The Times tried to shut down dissent by crying “racism.’’
For shame.
Starstruck over ace of clubs
Even a former president can be starstruck.
Jordan Spieth, the humble 21-year-old Texan who a week ago became the second-youngest golfer to win the prestigious Master’s tournament, was doing a round of interviews in New York City when a man tapped him on the shoulder and asked if he’d like to meet Bill Clinton, according to PGATour.com. So he did.
When he emerged from his hotel Tuesday morning, Spieth, who is inspired by his 14-year-old sister, Ellie, who is on the autism spectrum, carried his own luggage and held the door open for everyone else, never once refusing a photo or autograph request, the site reported. Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg scored face time with the young man as Spieth stopped by Bloomberg LP headquarters. He gave 24 interviews in 24 hours, including one on “Late Show with David Letterman.’’
Last year, a few players gave him the nickname Golden Child, which Spieth detests because he was not raised to be egotistical. What a breath of fresh air.
‘Poor’ Gwyn eats crow
Gwyneth Paltrow flamed out on playing poor. The emaciated star, 42, revealed on her Goop.com Web site that she blew Food Bank For New York City’s Food Stamp Challenge after “about four days,” failing in her vow to subsist on $29 worth of food a week for two weeks, in solidarity with folks who receive help from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (formerly known as the Food Stamp program).
She confessed that she chowed down on chicken, fresh vegetables and half a bag of black licorice. (Relax, licorice is virtually free of fat, but high in sugar and devoid of nutrition.) She graded herself with a C- for the brief, heroic effort.
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