Roger Dodger?

 The Ben Roethlisberger saga is probably just beginning but for some in the media, it is not moving fast enough. Jemele Hill, of ESPN, believes that Roger Goodell is being more reserved in his approach to the allegations against Big Ben than he has been with other black NFL players (Mike Vick, Adam Jones, Tank Johnson, and Chris Henry).


I have written previously about how I was shocked that victims rights groups had not stepped up and used the media coverage after the Roethlisberger incident to get their agenda across.

Jemele Hill is, in my opinion, the worst kind of sports writer. Goodell is not perfect and perhaps he should suspend Roethlisberger for "determental behavior", but her article seemed to defend those players action in a "backhanded" method. 


Each of the players I mentioned above had be charged, indicted, or jailed for a crime. Roethlisberger has yet to reach that category. 

If people want to be judged on a individual basis, then they shouldn't be so critical of a employer that seems to being trying to do just that.

 


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All Dogs Go To Heaven

While I was in bed the other night, my wife asked me, “Where is the outrage in the Ben Roethlisberger case, like there was in the Michael Vick case?”

Well I decided to do some my award winning journalism (Google searching) and find the venom being spewed in the direction of Mr. Roethlisberger. When typing in his name and “women's groups” along with “victims rights groups” into the search engine, I found............ a TMZ article on how all of the alleged victim's sorority sisters had taken down their Facebook and Twitter pages. Nasty stuff, huh?

Do we really live in a time when as a society when are quicker to react to the plight of dogs than we are to be distraught by the thought of 6' 5” 240 pound man “allegedly” throwing around a 20 year old girl?

I don't know if Big Ben is guilty or not.  But not one group or organization using this as an opportunity to teach and reach? Much more shocking and sad than another drunken night club incident.

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