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News Article Contents
(October 2005)
Olympian Challenges All-Comers
San Diego Union Tribune (April 2004)
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The Media Can't Win Against "The Passion."
La Prensa San Diego (February 2005)
Wright's Serves Food Right: Hormone-Free
La Prensa San Diego (February 2005)
Ancient water supply may save us from future droughts
La Prensa San Diego (February 2005)
Big Wheel Keeps on Turning for Ex-Charger Whelihan
JDHawk.com Exclusive (January 2005)
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The Groz-- PC friendly, but intellectually dishonest
La Prensa San Diego (December 2004)
CV cheerleaders win national championship
The Star-News (April 2003)
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Miracle On Third Ave?
The Ranch (November 2003)
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A Journey of 30 Thousand
Houses Begins with a Single Home
The Lake (July 2004)
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US Navy invades EastLake
The Lake (January 2004)
Magnuson plays Solloto
-- a Star Rising?
The Ranch (January 2004)
The new Bad Boy is
coming
The Lake (January 2004)
Daydreams
The Lake (January 2004)
Meet your neighbor Shelia
Burrell
The Ranch (December 2003)
John Dí Acquisto, the
man who lived his dream.
The Ranch (August 2003)
Lolita's Opens in Sunbow
The Ranch (August 2003)
Greeter Guards -- What
do they do?
The Lake (July 2003)
Bliss-ball
The Ranch (June 2003)
The Heritage Center has
brought the exotic to Otay Ranch.
The Star-News (June 2003)
The Chula Vista Yacht
Club's Juniors Sailing Program
The Star-News (May 2003)
Trolley victim re-visited
The Ranch (June 2003)
GEM
The Lake (July 2003)
EastLake mourns loss
of South Bay Icon
Unpublished
Sars inspires local inventor
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The Groz-- PC friendly, but intellectually dishonest
Media elite, ivory-tower intellectuals, and spotlight grandstanders seem to savor any opportunity to jump on the "I'm cool and courageous because I sling mud at status quo" band wagon.
But more and more, people who take up trendy and sometimes manufactured causes in search of their 15 minutes of adoration, seem less like the martyrs Martin Luther King Jr. and Joan of Arc, and more like the flag-toting self-promoter Don King.
The righteous indignation of such sensationalists is usually directed at a boogieman that only exists in the minds of the romantically inclined -- that is to say, people entertaining notions that somehow they too will be included as a hero of humanity, and their names forever hailed from academic mountain-tops by disciples indoctrinated in the Politically Correct gospel of victimization .
The desire for cheap and easy Kudos seems to have infected radio sportscaster Dave "The Groz" Grosby of Seattle, WA. For just as child-star Haley Osment declared: "I see dead people," in the 1999 movie The Sixth Sense, Grosby could just as well claim extrasensory perception with his ability to see discriminated people -- seemingly undetectable to others.
While conducting his program, Grosby lashed out at an e-mailer who questioned the Inconsistent Quota Logic used by many left-wingers as "undeniable" proof of discrimination of blacks in college football. The discussion was a result of the recent firing of University of Notre Dame football coach Tyrone Willingham. And though Willingham recognized his termination was a result of under-performance, others apparently did not. They cited Inconsistent Quota Logic for the basis for their remarkable conclusion. The Quota Logic was as follows:
Belief 1. There is a disproportionate amount of white to black coaches in college football.
Belief 2. This means there are not enough black coaches at the college level.
Conclusion: Therefore black coaches are discriminated against at the college level.
The e-mailer pointed out that using that same logic one must conclude that white football players are discriminated against too, since there is a gross discrepancy of blacks who play college football when compared to the percentage of blacks nationally. In other words, if whites make up the majority of the national population yet make up less than half of the college football players, then it necessarily follows that white college football players have been discriminated against, and there is an incredible bias towards black athletes.
Though Grosby correctly pointed out that the e-mailer was mistaken in the background statistics used in his observation, Grosby nevertheless refused to address the point brought up by that controversial questioner. The obvious points were both the fallibility of Quota Logic, and the inconsistency in which Quota Logic is applied.
Instead, Grosby resorted to an ad hominem attack on the writer and orchestrated a smear-the-queer airwave assault. The queer, in this case, not being necessarily being a "Queer-eye for the Straight Guy" gay guy -- but a listener with an unpopular view: judging people on their merits of their works, and not on the color of their skin.
The big issue, was whether Quota Logic necessarily equals truth in any assessment without regard to other factors such as merit of one's performance.
The verbal lashing continued as Groz invited his legion of callers to join in and share their contempt. The writer was portrayed as naive and ignorant, as Grosby told his legions what he interpreted the writer was saying in a classic straw-man fallacy. If the writer believed in consistent logic, then he must therefore believe black coaches are not qualified to coach.
The Groz accepted a subsequent caller's praise for "squashing" the writers argument.
Whether racism exists in college football isn't the point. And whether the writer is racist is moot.
If one believes that an injustice has been done, and if one uses a type of logic to support that conclusion, then one must be open, without resorting to name-calling, for anyone else to present a counter-point using that same logic.
But when PC ideology evolves to becomes Fascist-like in its handling of dissenters, when sincere appeals to reason are trumped by appeals to emotions, when name-calling is an acceptable substitute for logical discourse, there is definitely a problem -- not with college football, but with the witch-hunter named The Groz who seems Hell-bent on resurrecting a sort of Salem, Massachusetts, with fuzzy-logic and mob mentality.
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