Of AZ Law Football Player Tells Media: ‘I’m a Football Player It Doesn’t Matter What I Think’

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Of AZ Law Football Player Tells Media: ‘I’m a Football Player It Doesn’t Matter What I Think’

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

As “Dirty Harry” Callahan said, “A man’s got to know his limitations.” Well it looks like Jets Quarterback Mark Sanchez knows his and his limitations are that he’s a football player, not a politician.

Like the lemmings they are, the left-wing Old Media asked this football player what he thought about the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law. His reply was admirable.

“When it comes to politics, my candid answer is, I’m football player and it doesn’t matter what I think,” he said in a transcript provided by the New York Jets. “The most important thing is you see both sides. I haven’t read the legislature, so I won’t pass judgment on it.

Would that more entertainers, singers, actors, sports folk and other such uninformed folks would keep their completely irrelevant opinions out of the public square.

It is usually so painfully obvious that these sort of people who have spent their whole lives single-mindedly striving for excellence in a single field of endeavor have NO clue about history, politics, philosophy, or anything outside their field of work – much less any ability at introspection. Yet they seem to think that because they have achieved some amount of fame for their chief interests or work, why just everyone wants to hang on their every word. The fact is, people should simply shut the heck up if they don’t have an informed opinion.

Sure, if you are an informed leftist like few of these Hollyweird nuts are (informed, I mean, not just leftist), speak your mind when the conversation comes to politics or philosophy. But if you haven’t taken any real time to investigate the subject, please have the common courtesy to keep your half-sentient thoughts to yourself.

Certainly everyone has a right to speak out regardless of foreknowledge of a subject. This is America, after all. But please do think of others won’t you? And kudos to this sports dude for doing that. Would that more people in the public spotlight would be so thoughtful.

Now, I can hear what some of you are saying…”well, YOU ain’t so thoughtful, Huston. You open your big mouth all the time!” Au contraire mon frère (in this case, that’s Frenchie talk for “blow me, pal”). Yes I ramble on and on every day here, but I do NOT ramble about things I’ve never really tried to read up on. For instance, I never discuss evolution vs intelligent design. It isn’t because I have no opinion it’s because I don’t have enough info at my fingertips to discuss it properly. I also never talk sports. I hate sports and know precisely nothing about them… well, except that I hate them. I also avoid hard science stuff because I’ve never really researched any particular scientific field. Well, there are a lot of things I never discuss on the blog because I just don’t have enough knowledge about it to be conversant. And so, I extend the kindness to readers not to write about what I’ve never had any in depth interest in.

Sadly, we see all too many “famous” people imagining in their arrogance that just any old blather that comes out of their pie-hole keeps the rest of us on the edge of our seats. Would that more of them would emulate Mr. Jets football dude, indeed.

Thanks to JammieWearingFool for finding this gem.

Power_System_Oper

“A man's got to know his limitations”

So true as in the case of Arizona Commisioner Pierce who tried to pull off a bluff with his hole cards showing. What a dufus for suggesting that the contracts for electrical energy delivery from Arizona to California might be altered when in fact California utility companies have vested ownership rights in the generation plants which are located in Arizona.
mightysamurai

Flagged for threadjacking.
King Homer

I love it when the lame stream media gets an answer that is totally out out of phase with the agenda they are trying to push. Some athletes aren't as dumb as they look even though they are supposed to have a 'college' education. (That's debatable at times too)

They stand there with the frazzled, black-faced, deer in the headlights look holding an Acme package that just blew up in their faces. Simply hilarious!

I was also told that you shouldn't discuss politics and religion among friends….

Now, I can hear what some of you are saying…”well, YOU ain't so thoughtful, Huston. You open your big mouth all the time!” Au contraire mon frère (in this case, that's Frenchie talk for “blow me, pal”)

Speaking of hilarious…. coke on the monitor moment….
Power_System_Oper

Porr mIghtysamuri .Still reduced to responding with his childish knee jerk reaction of attacking the messenger when he cannot refute the message.
http://twitter.com/warnerthuston warnerthuston

Ooops… was I too flippant there? LOL
smalldreams

He may not think his opinion matters, but at least he realizes he should READ THE LAW before having an opinion on it in the first place (a terrific idea ignored by most people who oppose the law… and probably several who support it).
Toastrider

Are you naturally stupid or do you train with Joe Biden?

The discussion is 'football player smart enough not to spout off about political controversy' not the ever-increasing feud between Arizona and Retard Central, aka California.
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

Two things about Mr. Sanchez's statement really shine through for me:

1. The man has some self-discipline. Even though he's in an 'attention whore' position, like all public people are, he doesn't give in to that ever-present temptation to hold forth on any/everything just because he can. I don't know a whole lot about the rest of his life and public persona, and he may be a horrible attention whore in other respects, but in this situation, he exercised considerable restraint in not taking the easy way out and putting his opinions out there.

2. He didn't make it all about himself. Instead, he actually tried to point people back to making their own assessment of the law based on their own reading of that law. That was very un-'attention-whore'-like behaviour on his part.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C2UYYYSPBB7S3NC3NQ7NOJFLME Peter

It's called an equivalency. Perfectly legit point except to those people it makes toast of.
Vegeta1

It's called trolling. It's what liberal idiots do when they've proven that the are a) morons and b) only here to disrupt.
TheDickNixon

the message is that you endorsed and stated you were voting for Obama under one of the eight sockpuppets you ran here:?
sim427

Those who support it, have better exposure. I've heard the bill read and discussed section by section on Glenn Beck, Hugh Hewitt, and Bill Bennett. I've seen fairly detailed breakdowns with legal professionals representing both sides on virtually every Fox program, and all of the right blogs I hit have the bill excerpted, cited, linked and generally in your face proving there is nothing sinister hidden within it -especially
when the bill is compared to the stricter and more easily exploited federal law.
mightysamurai

Flagged for laughably poor spelling and grammar.
King Homer

It was classic, can I use it or is it under copyright?

MSNBC News Flash: Arizona Law 'Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant'
(Doh!)
UFKA_Smithwick

Odds are that he has a more nuanced understanding of the bill than our current government.

At the very least he is on par with them.