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After reading the article, and in the interest of ideological consistency, I've come to the reluctant decision that I also don't want Justin Trudeau to host Coach's Corner.

Ah yes, that veritable tome of moderation and sober reflection that is the Toronto Sun. Surely they've approached this issue from a place of objectivity.

I'm with Herman. Eastasia really goofed by drafting Bracco. Luckily Eurasia steered us towards Sandin.

I generally don't like to be one of those "logical fallacies" guys but slippery slope arguments are considered fallacious for a reason. It removes the concept of judgement and caution, not to mention moderation, from the equation and disregards the reality that any step could be on a "slippery...

Ah, that noted bastion of progressivism and liberal thought. Big Business.

We could talk for days as to why it's a facile comparison but, again, the aim is to change the subject and we should not do that.

Yes. It really is unfair how Cherry got fired after this, his very first time offending people.

Albert Einstein on Socialism: https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/

Well, it's not really an argument being made in good faith. Whataboutisms aren't meant to be serious, thoughtful points. The aim is to distract and change the subject.

Right? And since when under capitalism do people get treated so harshly by the whims of their bosses? What, just because Cherry is potentially less profitable to Sportsnet after this(maybe even net unprofitable) he's all of a sudden treated with disdain? Despite being treated well while it was...

Insincerely, I suppose. People make insincere apologies all the time to get out of trouble. Heck, I'm sure Sportsnet would have even been ok if he'd given one of those lame "I'm sorry if anyone was offended by what I said, that wasn't my intent" non-apologies. Point being that it wasn't really...

Like I said earlier, I think they'd have let Cherry himself skate with a half-hearted apology. People may complain about him getting fired for offensive remarks or PC culture or whatever other made up nonsense but I think the stark reality is he's only losing his job because of a completely...

I'm pretty sure Conservative isn't a race of people so...no?

Snowflakes A Play in One Act by Nik Bethune (Enter Stage Right, a Don Cherry-type figure) Don Cherry: Not enough of you are wearing a patriotic symbol. By not wearing this symbol that I prize so greatly, you are being disrespectful to this country. If you don't display sufficient patriotism...

I genuinely wonder when it is people think that a hockey commentator could say whatever he wanted without consequence.  If anything, back in the day, broadcasts would have been more tightly controlled to make sure that the people on it talked about, you know, hockey.

Honestly? I would be shocked if that were true. I bet they just asked him to apologize and he refused which led them to this.

I was going to say that I wondered if a decision had been made but that they wanted to wait until after today to do it. Kind of wild though. As much as I think it's overdue, I legitimately have never watched HNIC without Cherry on Coach's Corner in my life. End of an era, I guess.

Those would be three fairly big reporters to tweet out something without being pretty sure of their sources but I will believe it when I see it for sure.

This was really a brave choice on Sportsnet's part. Cherry's very popular but racism has no place on a hockey broadcast. Maybe that stuff would have been ok in the past but not now in 2003.

They can. They won't have the same options in terms of using the money as they would have in the off-season but it's still a way to go.