People often say that conservatives aren’t funny. In all honestly, that’s probably true. We need to look no further than Stephen Colbert, a caricature of conservative talking heads who nonetheless inflamed prominent conservatives who really should have known better, to say nothing of the rubes at home who didn’t get…
California Governor Jerry Brown today signed into law the California Racial Mascots Act, banning, among other things, the epithet “Redskins” from use as a school sports team name or mascot throughout the state.
The real ideological battle in the Republican primary will not be over taxes, or foreign policy, or immigration. Rather, it is a contest to find who will capture the valuable “Racist Hick Football Fan” demographic.
California legislators are considering a bill that would prohibit public schools from having the racial slur “Redskins” as the name of their school mascot. What next—the acceptance of Galileo’s heresies? It boggles the mind.
Ed Gillespie is the Republican candidate for Senate in Virginia. On Monday Night Football last night, he ran this campaign ad vowing to oppose attempts to make the Washington Redskins change their name.
Matthew McConaughey, actor, chest-thumper, and true detective, has done some serious ethical calculus regarding the name of Washington D.C.'s football team. And after weighing the history of "redskin" as an ethnic slur against the "little bit of fire and some oomph" the team's emblem brings, he's made his final…
Last week, the Daily Show's Jason Jones brought a panel of die-hard Washington Redskins fans face-to-face with some of the many Native Americans offended that the team won't stop clinging to its racist branding. It went exactly as you would expect.
The four diehard Washington Redskins fans who had signed-up to defend their team's name on the Daily Show surely knew that they were in for some jesting, but they were not prepared for the ambush that awaited them.
The Washington Post editorial board announced today it will stop using the word "Redskins" to refer to DC's professional football team.
Finally, white people have the non-native American mascot they deserve.
Today in the Washington Times—a conservative paper you forgot existed—columnist Michael Taube asks a simple question regarding the NFL's Washington "Redskins": "Why not the Washington Reagans?" Indeed, why not?
Even an unscientific ESPN poll tells an enduring truth sometimes. Apparently the only places where a majority of hypothetical Washington NFL fans really couldn't brook a hypothetical name change for the team are the deep South and Utah. Maybe that changes if we leave a link to the poll here.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office cancelled the trademark for the Washington Redskins' name on Wednesday because it's "disparaging." Thankfully, top conservatives on Twitter have plenty of ideas for the football team's new name.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark office ruled today to cancel the trademark for the Washington Redskins' name, citing a law that prohibits trademarks that may disparage people or bring them "into contempt or disrepute."
The Washington Redskins—the team of choice for dumb, angry white men—may be a racist disgrace, but let's not forget that they're also a case study in hilariously incompetent propaganda-mongering.
This week, fifty U.S. senators signed a letter urging the Washington Redskins to change their name, because it is a "racial slur." Needless to say, conservatives are outraged. If you start doing away with racism, where does it end??
Charles Krauthammer is a conservative columnist with a permanent sourpuss etched into his self-impressed face. He is not a sports columnist, okay? Yet he has managed, quite impressively, to come up with the single most inane solution yet for the "Washington Redskins" name controversy.
Racist sports-team names really do divide us. Before ESPN's Rick Reilly stood up for using "Redskins" and denounced the current "wave of PC-ness," Sports Illustrated's Rick Reilly denounced "Redskins" as one of "the antiques of that old racism."
At least two-thirds of Washington, DC residents are racist.
Dan Snyder, wealthy scoundrel and owner of an awful football team whose name is a racial slur, is able to blow countless hundreds of millions dollars on high-profile free agents who immediately become bad at the sport of football upon cashing Dan Snyder's check. But oddly, he is not wealthy enough to buy one decent PR…
