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Originally posted by Andy W.:
I'm sorry but this is another sign we need to cut Puerto Rico loose. They take everything they have for granted and continue to bash the US. The dont't want to be a state because they'd have to pay taxes but the continue to enjoy our welfare.-Andy
Nah Andy, no reason to punish other nice PRs because one of a$$hole. I am sure not ALL PRs think the way that jerk does.
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Agreed, Puerto Rico is a great place with great history and great people. Bashing the place would be just like bashing the whole of America for.... George Bush?.. nah, that's too touchy, let's just say it's the same as us stereotyping Muslims for the irreverent actions of a few crazy people.
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Guess somebody spanked the little s.o.b. At least he apologized, whether he meant it or not. Maybe next time he'll do more research before writing something so ridiculous.
Associated Press
AMHERST, Mass. -- A University of Massachusetts at Amherst graduate student has apologized to Pat Tillman's family.
Rene Gonzalez wrote a column for the campus paper saying the football player-turned-soldier who died in combat in Afghanistan wasn't a hero -- but rather a "G.I. Joe guy who got what was coming to him."
Gonzalez did not respond to telephone and e-mail messages left Thursday by The Associated Press, but in an e-mail to Boston's WBZ-TV, he apologized to the Tillman family "for all the pain that my article has brought them."
Gonzalez said he was trying to convey that Tillman's celebrity came into play when the former Arizona Cardinals player was labeled a hero.
"I felt that his celebrity had been a factor in American society calling him a 'hero,' and I felt American society had arrived at that conclusion without much thinking, but rather as some sort of patriotic 'knee-jerk' into hero worship," he wrote. "That was my point. I did it [admittedly] in such an insensitive way, that the article was not worth publishing."
UMass president Jack Wilson issued a statement saying the comments in The Daily Collegian on Wednesday were "a disgusting, arrogant and intellectually immature attack on a human being who died in service to his country."
The newspaper's editorial board ran a letter to readers in Thursday's edition saying Gonzalez's views do not reflect The Collegian's opinion.
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just heard about his attempted "take back" of his article this morning on the radio.
The DJ's were making fun of him for being a hypocrite and suddenly losing his huge nuts.
He shoulda thought about the death threats BEFORE he submitted that article.
If you want to shock people with your words, be prepared for the consequences, and still stick to your original words, pu$$y.
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Originally posted by Renee:
"I felt that his celebrity had been a factor in American society calling him a 'hero,' and I felt American society had arrived at that conclusion without much thinking, but rather as some sort of patriotic 'knee-jerk' into hero worship," he wrote. "That was my point. I did it [admittedly] in such an insensitive way, that the article was not worth publishing."
He could have easily made his point in another way. He wanted to cause trouble and it probably jumped up to bite him in the ass.
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