May 30, 2013 · 2:38 PM

A Catholic, a Southerner and a douchebag in a bow tie walk into a bar…

In this PC age, how Gordon Gee still heads a major state university is a mystery to me.

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56 responses to “A Catholic, a Southerner and a douchebag in a bow tie walk into a bar…”

  1. RomanDawg
    May 30, 2013 at 2:49 PM

    His wives make up a majority of OSU’s Board of Regents….

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  2. 81Dog
    May 30, 2013 at 2:53 PM

    substitue “Muslim” for Catholic, or “gay person” or “African American” and Gee would be out the door so fast it’d make his bow tie unravel. If the president of Notre Dame made a crack about Mormons, he’d be out in a flash. But I guess as long as Gee’s slurring Catholics, he’ll get a wrist slap. As a Catholic, I dont care if Ohio State keeps him; sometimes it’s better to keep the douchebags where you can see them.

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    • Dawg in Beaumont
      May 30, 2013 at 3:04 PM

      So true, although I think it is still largely acceptable to make cracks about Mormons. There are certain groups among those in academia that it is still acceptable to ridicule simply on the basis of their identity with that group. Southerners, certain religious denominations (definitely not Islam), etc…

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      • Dog in Fla
        May 30, 2013 at 4:15 PM

        “There are certain groups among those in academia that it is still acceptable to ridicule simply on the basis of their identity with that group. Southerners, certain religious denominations (definitely not Islam),”

        On the other hand (the one that was not cut off), were it not for the Islamists, there would be no one to make fun of while people-watching during long layovers in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport

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        • 81Dog
          May 30, 2013 at 4:21 PM

          of course it’s ok to make fun of ignorant Southern folks. I mean, from the lowliest dockworker with a sixth grade education to Joy Behar, they all know they’re just stating the truth, right?

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          • Kobe
            May 30, 2013 at 4:53 PM

            Yes, of course, you’re all right. Muslims are just so immune from criticism and jokes in this country. Also, they totally hate us for our freedoms and we never did anything to them and why oh why does everyone ALWAYS pick on us poor ole southern white boys! Life is so unfair…

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            • mwo
              May 30, 2013 at 5:04 PM

              I’ll tell you why everyone ALWAYS picks on us poor ole southern white boys, for the same reason UGA licks himself – because they can!

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            • Dawg in Beaumont
              May 30, 2013 at 5:09 PM

              Not trying to speak for 81Dog here, but my statement above was specifically speaking to academia (since that is the world Gordon Gee is in). There are different acceptable groups to mock based on the work/social community you are a part of (definitely some of those communities would encourage Islam mocking), but it has been my experience after over a decade in academia that the groups I listed are definitely permitted to mock and Islam is definitely not permitted to mock(not saying I want it to be).

              I don’t really mind the mocking either way, but I do enjoy pointing out hypocrisy.

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            • 81Dog
              May 30, 2013 at 5:57 PM

              Unless Gordon Gee is a Muslim, your example is…..stupid.

              Nobody said Muslims were immune from criticism. What I said was that if some academic, bow-tied, arrogant know-it-all university president decided to make a “little joke” about Muslims, or gays, or blacks, he’d have been ridden out of town on a rail.

              Speaking as a Southern white boy who’s also a Catholic, I could give a rat’s ass what Gordon Gee thinks about me. He doesn’t define me, nor do his simple minded stereotypes; that’s kind of the point here, sparky. He’d have gotten a lot more than sensitivity training if he’d skewered one of the darlings of the academic hoi polloi. Picking on stupid ignorant Southerners (notice Gordon didn’t identify what race Southern folks did, and neither did I) is still ok, ditto Catholics (regardless of race, also, I might add). Feel free to misinterpret my point until it fits your narrative, though.

              I hope you aren’t a UGA grad. I’d hate to think we’re turning out people that dumb these days.

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              • Dog in Fla
                May 30, 2013 at 7:00 PM

                “A Roman Catholic, a Tiger and a Devil walk into a bar…” at Happy Hour, order shots, don’t tip and laugh about how this week’s Gloom, Despair and Agony is Regrettable, Wrong and Hurtful and Terribly Disappointing.*

                The high-fives about who has the best publicist don’t last for long because there will be new victims next week. There always are. Most likely, it will be the Southerners who, from a century and half of being oppressed and mocked by Northerners mostly from the Catskills, are best known for simultaneously trying to occupy all three legs of the victim rescuer perpetrator triangle. The main competition for the Southerners next week for the Most Offended Award will be an Imam from Detroit and Joy Behar.

                * A University of Notre Dame spokesman says disparaging remarks by the president of Ohio State University aimed at the school and Roman Catholics are “regrettable.”

                http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/52048465

                Tiger Woods brands Sergio García’s remarks as ‘wrong and hurtful’

                http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/may/22/tiger-woods-sergio-garcia

                Nick Saban ‘Terribly Disappointed’ By Devil Remarks

                http://www.sportsworldnews.com/articles/2349/20130517/nick-saban-terribly-disappointed-devil-remarks.htm

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                • Cojones
                  May 31, 2013 at 10:44 AM

                  Did you hear the one about Joy Behar (not sure what her transgression is other than being honest and forthright) and an Imam walking into a Detroit bar…..oh….you have?

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      • gastr1
        May 30, 2013 at 5:28 PM

        Oh yeah? Which ones?
        In academia, specifically, now, and please cite your examples.

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  3. Anon
    May 30, 2013 at 2:54 PM

    OSU and the Big Ten have academic integrity?

    Remember, their athletes ain’t go there to play school. Classes are useless.

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  4. PTC DAWG
    May 30, 2013 at 3:12 PM

    I want my FREE TATTOO!!

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  5. theconstitutionalbully
    May 30, 2013 at 3:42 PM

    Really, these comments are not worth the conversation. We still have free speech here in America.

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    • 81Dog
      May 30, 2013 at 4:17 PM

      “Free speech” under the US Constitution means the GOVERNMENT can’t (generally) limit your right to speech, even on controversial topics. It doesn’t mean private citizens can’t call you a dumbass when you say something stupid. It also doesn’t mean you can say whatever you want,. whenever you want, about anyone you want, with no convsequences. If you say something ignorrant, you are fair game for those who want to mock you for it

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      • Dawg in Beaumont
        May 30, 2013 at 4:41 PM

        Well said. It is a huge pet peeve of mine to confuse “Freedom of speech” with “Freedom from being mocked for stupid as hell speech”

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        • theconstitutionalbully
          May 30, 2013 at 5:16 PM

          Yeah that’s how they phrased in the Constitution!!!

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          • Dawg in Beaumont
            May 30, 2013 at 5:18 PM

            I really don’t think you understand my point. I intentionally wrote “Freedom from being mocked for stupid as hell speech” in a non-constitutional style to show that is exactly what you are not protected from. But by all means, throw in a few more exclamation points, that’ll show em!

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          • cube
            May 30, 2013 at 5:25 PM

            You should stop the Q-tip when there’s resistance.

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          • 81Dog
            May 30, 2013 at 5:59 PM

            English isn’t your first language, is it? Are you really this dense? Open a book sometime, and get someone to help you with the big words.

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          • Gravidy
            May 31, 2013 at 8:55 AM

            Let me see if I can help you out. You are free to say most anything you want, and I am free to say I think what you said is stupid. Fortunately, it works both ways, or it wouldn’t really be “free speech”, would it? Got it now?

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      • Dog in Fla
        May 30, 2013 at 7:36 PM

        “Free speech” under the US Constitution means the GOVERNMENT can’t (generally) limit your right to speech, even on controversial topics.”

        Except when they specifically decide to limit a lot more than just speech

        http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/29/imprisoned-cia-torture-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-pens-letter-from-loretto/

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        • 81Dog
          May 30, 2013 at 8:16 PM

          ooooooooooooooooooo k. Seems like a perfectly legitimate reporting job to me. I’m amazed at the awesome power George W Bush still apparently wields five years after he left office. How does he manage to get away with it? It’s probably Cheney, isn’t it? Thanks for opening my eyes! Clearly, the takeaway here is that the First Amendment means anyone say whatever they want without being criticized, and Gordon Gee is a victim who is just trying to enlighten the masses about the evils of Catholicism and the SEC. Please accept my abject apologies.

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          • Dog in Fla
            May 31, 2013 at 3:22 PM

            “Seems like a perfectly legitimate reporting job to me.” It’s all a set up. He’s imaginary like the Notre Dame player’s girlfriend.

            “How does he manage to get away with it?” Obama is too chickenshit to have him prosecuted and imprisoned.

            “It’s probably Cheney, isn’t it?” It’s always Cheney whose toxicity is well beyond remediation.

            “Thanks for opening my eyes!” You’re welcome.

            “Gordon Gee is a victim who is just trying to enlighten the masses about the evils of Catholicism” Really? The Catholic Church should take in a Joy Behar minute what a known loudmouth college president says about a priest at Notre Dame as being its worst case scenario any day over what the actual worst case scenario for the Catholic Church is.

            “and the SEC.” I hate it when someone uses hyperbole describing someone’s reading and writing skills, such as, “English isn’t your first language, is it? Are you really this dense? Open a book sometime, and get someone to help you with the big words.” You have entered the world and mind of G. Gordon Gee. Do not adjust your settings.

            “Please accept my abject apologies.” While I don’t think they are really and truly are abject, I’ll accept them anyway because that’s just the type of hail fellow well met guy I am.

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      • Hayduke
        May 30, 2013 at 11:23 PM

        “If you say something ignorrant …. ”

        See what he did here?

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  6. Dog in Fla
    May 30, 2013 at 3:54 PM

    “Gee is undergoing a ‘remediation plan’ because of the remarks.”

    G. Gorden, a prolific fundraiser and non-stop booster club speaker with whom even Nick the Devil Himself is dissappointed, is given advance Procedure for Remediation of Contaminated Properties flow chart to study for enhanced re-education training that he will be subjected to in basement room of Schmidt’s Haus of Sausage and Fudge compound in Germantown sector of Columbus

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  7. Mayor of Dawgtown
    May 30, 2013 at 4:56 PM

    “,,,how Gordon Gee still heads a major state university is a mystery to me.” Come on, Senator. We had Mike Adams. How long did it take to get rid of him? Frankly, every time I’ve met a university president I’ve come away unimpressed. Third raters who learned how to play academic politics is all they are. If they had to make it on merit in the private sector they all would starve.

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    • cube
      May 30, 2013 at 5:16 PM

      I was right with you until that last sentence Mayor. I agree that many of these university presidents are political opportunists and not all that impressive but I’d also say the percentage of people just like them in similar positions in the private sector is just as high. Well…maybe not just like Gee…but just like Adams and some of his ilk. The large corporations are full of them.

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      • Mayor of Dawgtown
        May 31, 2013 at 9:39 AM

        Sadly, cube, you are correct. I live in a world where you eat what you kill. What you described above is , at the core, what’s wrong with business in the United States. Sometimes these clowns end up being put in charge, too. Just ask Merrill, Lynch.

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  8. TennesseeDawg
    May 30, 2013 at 4:57 PM

    … the Southerner ducks

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  9. Mike
    May 30, 2013 at 6:38 PM

    I haven’t scrolled down to read the comments section in many months (not to say I haven’t read many, many of the posts). I’m sorry I decided to choose this posting’s comments to begin reading them again.

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    • 81Dog
      May 30, 2013 at 8:19 PM

      Come now, Mike. Don’t just sniff disapprovingly at “the comments.” Please share what you find objectionable. It is unclear what the nature of your displeasure is. Perhaps you can enlighten us. What don’t you like? Lessons on the First Amendment? People who disapprove of ignorant statements about Catholics and Southerners? Inquiring minds want to know!

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  10. Hogbody Spradlin
    May 31, 2013 at 7:41 AM

    This is the angriest thread I’ve seen in 6 years that didn’t lapse totally into politics.

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    • AthensHomerDawg
      May 31, 2013 at 8:33 AM

      I concur.
      “Before I speak I have to have something important to say.”

      Coming from a very varied background myself I generally keep my thoughts to myself unless asked. Dad, a Southern Baptist, mom raised by a Presbyterian minister, father in law a Catholic from Ohio and a NY born mother in law, the daughter of a Jewish immigrant. My sister’s first husband was a Mormon. Her second husband was not. I was raised in a Baptist church and my wife attended Catholic service until college. Since we dated in HS I have attended her service with her. We have a Mezuzah on the door frame of our house, which occasionally draws a comment from guests. I have attended some interesting family affairs. Everything runs pretty smoothly except with some of my wife’s cousins. They are avid Notre Dame fans. They don’t cotton to me. 😉

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    • 81Dog
      May 31, 2013 at 9:27 AM

      It always happens when someone with a bow tie starts runninghis mouth. 🙂

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  12. Cojones
    May 31, 2013 at 11:17 AM

    Looks like Gee is maintaining the great Tressel image of OSU.

    Don’t know if many of you have listened to lyrics from the Broadway hit “Hair” that was popular years ago, but you should do yourself a favor and listen to “The United States of Love” sung by an African American that contains every epithet known and pronounced about African Americans. It serves as an innoculum to racial slurs when it hits your senses. We need such a song for Muslims and Arabs in order that everyone can get their prejudicial shit immunized to no expression .

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    • 81Dog
      May 31, 2013 at 12:46 PM

      I dont think the problem is so much that the targets of Gee’s lame attempt at humor had their feelings hurt. Speaking for me, my feelings weren’t hurt at all. The problem for me is I recognize what a hypocrite Gee is (with his $64,000 budget FOR FREAKING BOW TIES LAST YEAR. Excellent use of taxpayer money.) If one of his professors had made the same joke about a “protected class”, I am sure Gordo would have denounced and fried that person quickly. He just gets to make a half hearted apolpology and move on.

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      • 81Dog
        May 31, 2013 at 12:48 PM

        “Fired” rather than fried. I’m sure Gordo wouldn’t fry anyone, though he probably would consider having them flambaed, perhaps with a nice olive oil based sauce.

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        • Cojones
          May 31, 2013 at 12:56 PM

          “Fired”, “Fried” – it works both ways. Did I ever tell you why the camel is labeled “The Ship of the Desert”?

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