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The saga of Caleb Campbell, who went from being a P.R. plum for West Point to being a P.R. nightmare for the entire armed forces, has been a big story in NFL circles. It’s now getting attention beyond the sports world.
CNN.com has a lengthy item regarding the presto-chango routine that was pulled on Campbell this week, with his permission to play pro football suddenly revoked on the eve of training camp.
The item was written by CNN.com’s Pentagon correspondent. And, frankly, the lack of NFL expertise shows. The article lists Campbell as a first-round pick in the 2008 draft.
He wasn’t. Campbell was selected in round seven, making the story far less dramatic than it would have been if Campbell had been one of the first 31 names called this year.
We could write more about the situation, but we’ve got a PFTV segment on it. And since it’s Saturday, you can watch it without worrying about that skank in the next cubicle complaining to the boss.
July 26th, 2008 at 11:50 am
In the end it was wrong to do to the kid. If they wanted to change the rule, theh they should have done it from that moment on, with Campbell being “grandfathered” in under the old rule. It’s also wrong to the Lions who wasted a draft pick, albeit a 7th, but still a draft pick. Unfair all the way around…
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July 26th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Ha! I don’t think I’ve called anyone a skank since I was fifteen!
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July 26th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Typical CNN. They report whatever they want as the facts, knowing that most people won’t bother to check them.
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Only in America do we whine about living up to our responsibility. I don’t care how big a blunder it was to tell him he could play in the first place. Let it go!
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Nobody said he was talented.
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
I hate that damn skank in the next cubicle!
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I am the boss, and I punish the skanks that tattle!
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July 26th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
What about the skank in my bedroom?
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July 26th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Well thats almost true…. Shouldnt bosses take Saturdays off….That would make life so much easier….
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July 26th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
You won’t get in trouble if you use headphones, but just be on the lookout from behind.
I onetime got caught when I was looking at Lara Logan photos after the news of her, uh, pregnancy in Iraq came out (Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS) . I said it was for purely journalistic reasons.
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July 26th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
CNN runs these kinds of stories because they are extremely anti-US and anti-military. Remember it was CNN that was televising what enemy snipers were seeing as they were picking off our soldiers…
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July 26th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I’m not really going to get into this, other than providing the following mathematical relations:
Anti-war =/= Anti-America
Anti-war =/= Anti-military
By believing the opposite, you prove you are nothing more than some mongoloid being spork-fed misinformation by FOX while you sit in front of a chessboard playing Whack-a-Mole.
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July 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Thank you, Roast Beef. People seem to confuse the two way too often and it irritates the hell out of me.
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July 26th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Roast Beef: This has nothing to do with being anti war. This has to do with a kid who signed an agreement to join the military, for which he was given a free $250,000 education. He now has to fulfill his commitment. That is what it’s about.
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July 26th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
“Skank in the next cubicle”
Friggin Hilarious.
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July 27th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
bondem777: I was replying to foosballking.
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July 27th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Roast Beef,
CNN showing snipers killing our soldiers IS treasonous. They have a track record of being both anti-US and anti-war…exclusively (that means one without the other - I’m sure you’d need help judging by your advertised level of logic) and that was my only point. It wasn’t a statement about who’s for or against the war. But your response infers you’re probably one of the those that has no problem with treason OR our soldiers getting killed. Take your personal invective and shove it with that spork you think everyone else uses…
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