"You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don't like gay people and I don't like to be around gay people. I'm homophobic. I don't like it. It shouldn't be in the world or in the United States."

Hardaway also went on to say if he found out a teammate was gay he would ask for the player to be removed.

"I'd ask him to get traded. Something has to give," Hardaway said. "The majority of the players would ask for him to be traded, or they would want to get traded. Or just buy him out of his contract and let him go."

Hardaway was quickly punished by the NBA, which banished him from several All-Star game appearances and completely detached themselves from the ex-player. Realizing this would effect his wallet, Hardaway has apologized twice, the last time on Sunday.

I dont hate gay people, Hardaway said. Im a goodhearted person. I interact with people all the time. ... I respect people. For me to say hate was a bad word, and I didnt mean to use it.

That was very bad.

Well, that is sort of an apology. But who is worse, the guy who says comments like this, or a conservative talk show host/movie reviewer/twunt who backs Hardaway up?

Enter Michael Medved, a man who called Captain America a traitor and could not have supported the Iraq war more. Medved is now taking up the cause and breaking down why Tim Hardaway is right, only he decided to take down fat chicks along the way.

"Tim Hardaway (and most of his former NBA teammates) wouldn't welcome openly gay players into the locker room any more than they'd welcome profoundly unattractive, morbidly obese women. I specify unattractive females because if a young lady is attractive (or, even better, downright 'hot' most guys, very much including the notorious love machines of the National Basketball Association, would probably welcome her joining their showers. The ill-favored, grossly overweight female is the right counterpart to a gay male because, like the homosexual, she causes discomfort due to the fact that attraction can only operate in one direction. She might well feel drawn to the straight guys with whom she's grouped, while they feel downright repulsed at the very idea of sex with her."

UmumIuhokay.

When Hardaway says I hate gay people what he suggests at the deepest level is that he feels revolted by the very notion of same-sex eroticism and that hed prefer not to face the distraction of such thoughts in the locker room or on the court. In this sense, the reluctance to team (in athletics or the military) with announced homosexuals isnt bigotry, its common sense.

Wow, what an articulate and thoughtful statement. I know when Im on a basketball court I dont want to be distracted by thoughts of a penis entering a soft anus. I think this debate is over.

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

FEB 21, 2007 07:13 PM

SmellsLikeSciFi

Houston, TX

April 2004

FEB 21, 2007 07:40 PM

Michael Medved's statements are completely illogical.
So, by his reasoning, if there were a gay man on court (god forbid GUARDING Tim Hardaway or any other homophobe) instead of Tim daydreaming about Wilt Chamberlain laying pipe to hordes of women in a very manly and NON-HOMOSEXUAL way, he'll be forced by some will of the gay-ness that's oh so painfully close in proximity to instead automatically daydream of sweaty, man-on-man backboard banging while driving to the hoop only to dunk on the poor bastard with a TOTAL !FACIAL!

*actual basketball terminology.

Priest_

USA

January 2007

FEB 21, 2007 08:11 PM

When you watch basketball, you see a lot of guys backing up, sticking their asses out while the guy behind them bends over them and throws their arms up.

Now.. maybe I'm weird... but that looks a lot like dry-butt-humping to me. Just cause they're dribbling a ball while they do it doesn't make it any less gay.

finklestein

Morocco

December 2004

FEB 21, 2007 08:13 PM

bean said:
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Curse you, you beat me to posting the link. His deep, gay, astro-laugh at the end is a fucking riot.