Listen to thewomen: Put Mcdonald on paid leave
More buzz from the story that keeps on keeping on . . .
E-mailers weighed in bigtime on my suggestion that the 49ers should place Ray McDonald on paid leave, and many of the letters came from women. Of the e-mails arguing that my position is misguided, here is the percentage that came from women: zero.
My takeaway: The punching-bag thing is getting old.
Team owners John Mara (Giants) and Art Rooney (Steelers) are “overseeing” Robert Mueller III’s investigation into the Ray Rice video mystery. What the hell does “overseeing” mean? Will they function as bodyguards for the investigators? Blockers? Backup singers?
Supposedly, Mara and Rooney will encourage key NFL staffers not to hide behind lawyers. Sure. When you are being grilled by the former head of the FBI, why would you want to have legal advice on your rights? Don’t lawyer up, folks, lawyer down.
Mara and Rooney are close associates of Roger Goodell. So this investigation will be “independent” of what? Independence?
Another phrase about to be dug out of the old Watergate memory vault: “Credibility gap.”
Apparently there are times when a woman, for her own good, needs to be restrained. One e-mailer wrote of McDonald’s fiancee that she claimed she was abused, “but by all accounts on the scene, (McDonald) used only the amount of force necessary to restrain her, causing her to show marks of bruising.” It takes a caring and gentle man to help calm his woman in times of distress.
One thing I’ve learned: In order to help your debate opponent see the light, it helps to call him or her “hysterical” and “self-righteous,” and remind him he is part of the depraved pagan lunacy of the Bay Area.
My favorite e-mail, the one that convinced me how wrong I was: “You should be writing poetry with your legs crossed.”
Here’s the start of my latest poem: “There was an e-mailer from Nantucket . . .”