Calling out Jason Whitlock on his hypocrisy

Tony Dungy did get a pass on that, in fact everyone in the values community has been rushing to buy his book.  This is extremely cynical, but I think Dungy got a pass because the media couldn't make it an ongoing story.  The Reids' story drags on because of court dates, and because his sons are addicts who keep getting into trouble.  The Dungys' story tragically ended very abruptly, so it didn't fit the 24 hour news cycle beyond a couple days.

Whitlock gets way to much of his ideas of police work from "The Wire" (including the Briana Barksdale reference).  There's an obvious reason why the police can't use the Reid sons to get bigger drug dealers: everyone in the world knows those kids were arrested.  Any half-brained dealer isn't going to bring those kids in his or her house, or even have contact with them.    

Thanks for standing up for Andy and Family.  Very well said.

I'm so fed up with all the BS Reid/McNabb bashing going on.  It's nice to see someone show some support for the guy/guys that have given us so much over the last several years.  I love reading from someone that truly knows his sh1t as opposed to some beat writer from Kansas just throwing slop on a paper to meet a deadline and appease his editor.

Saw this comment a while back on a message board after Dungy helped raise money for an anti-gay group:

"A year or so ago when Jamie Dungy, Tony Dungy's 19-year-old son, committed suicide, I was close friends with a co-worker who belonged to Dungy's Northside New Era Baptist Church. Naturally we talked about the tragedy; and I was told that it was understood by some New Era members that Jamie killed himself soon after his father learned that Jamie was gay. My friend didn't don't know exactly what Coach Dungy said to his son, but one can imagine. My friend believes that a beautiful young man took his own life because his father refused to accept him. Ever since then, the sight of Tony Dungy makes me ill. It is one thing to believe homosexuality is wrong; it is quite another to be so rigid in that belief as to refuse to accept one's own son. But to go public with his anti-gay self-rightiousness after what happened to Jamie is absolutely unforgivable."

http://www.bilerico.com/2007/03/dungy_embraces.php

Put that together with Dungy's comment at the funeral:

"I'll always remember him as a sweet, young boy," Dungy said at Jamie's funeral. "But I'll also remember him as that young boy who was trying to change into a man and trying to find his manly identity. That's hard to do today."

I think his comments are spot on, but would have been better if he had left it at "poor black, brown or white people" - OJ was rich and black, and the rich part won out.

I think the drug property seizure laws are unconstitutional and immoral, but they certainly could have been applied here. His kids were running a drug gang out of his house. He HAS been an absentee father. Those are his choices, but I have to imagine if he made $10K a year and lived in North Philly he would have been treated differently by the press, police and everyone else.

I don't know (or particularly care) whether Whitlock got this one right or wrong.  But I do think that you have to at least acknowledge that there are differences between Dungy's and Reid's situations that might justify coming down on opposite sides of the issue.  The single biggest one in my mind is the fact that Dungy's kid didn't live at home, whereas Reid's kids did.  Andy Reid was literally sitting on piles of drugs and guns and apparently didn't know it.  That seems significantly more culpable than Dungy's situation, where his kid was 800+ miles away in his own apartment.  

With all of your points

McNabb was very shaky, yet again.

Westbrook IS this entire team