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DEL.ICIO.USToday’s must-read: McCain’s hate affair with ‘ultimate’ fighting
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The New Republic has a revealing piece on Republican presidential presumptive John McCain’s love affair with the gentleman’s art of boxing, and his moral outrage over today’s no-holds-barred — and highly televised — substitute.
Here’s a taste:
John McCain has made plenty of political enemies in his day, but among the most surprising is Eddie Goldman. The New York resident doesn’t fixate on McCain’s position on campaign finance, or his religious views, or his support for the Iraq war.
What upsets Goldman is the way John McCain treated ultimate fighting.
Yes, ultimate fighting—that no-holds-barred hybrid of boxing, wrestling, and martial arts immortalized in the hit movie Fight Club. Ultimate fighting sprang up in the early 1990s with a flurry of neck chops, spleen blows, and roundhouses to the face.
Goldman, a longtime sports commentator, was an early fan and evangelist; McCain was an early and vociferous critic. He condemned the sport as “human cockfighting,” leaned on cable companies not to televise it, and sought to ban it nationwide. “It’s an abuse of power story!” fumes Goldman. “The vehemence of McCain’s position had no rational explanation.”
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By theo
July 29, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this
Big Mac is against everything.
By CM
July 29, 2008 8:21 PM | Link to this
Sure there’s a rational explanation. McCain’s rich wife inherited the country’s biggest Busch distributorship. Budweiser, a Busch product, was the primary sponsor of big time boxing. MMA was a threat to boxing. Do the math. MMA is established now and Bud is now a major sponsor of UFC, and guess what, McCain doesn’t seem to be against MMA any more. Do. The. Math.
By hammerfist
November 23, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this
i dont like mccain becuase of this s**….is its true haha