CNN Breaking: Marge Schott Dies...

[Cooley Hurd]

Fmr Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott has died...

Marge Schott, controversial Reds owner, dies

[devilgrrl]

1. Hey Margie! Don't forget to say hello to Strom Thumond down in hell for us

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[Cooley Hurd]

8. Wait till Reagan dies...

Then it'll get UGLY here... :(

[Tempest]

9. I won't be around

The tone at DU has gotten as bad as Free Republic in most threads.

I already decided not to renew my membership here and will only come around to check on latest news stories.

[shanti]

13. ya think?

the freepers will be out in record numbers!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. I've been waiting for that day myself.

I'm partying like it's 1999 all over again. No not that bad but I won't share any tears for that son of a bitch.

[mobuto]

14. Were their words for her

as favorable as her words for Adolf Hitler?

[Tempest]

21. Favorable as her words for Adolf Hitler?

Talk about distorting what someone has said.

Schott, a German, made the statement that Hitler was good for Germany at first. She also added that he went crazy with power (or some such).

Care to provide proof that Hitler wasn't good for Germany at first?

You can't, because technically, he was.

[hyphenate]

28. I agree

But it's not really a PC position. After having studied Germany and its history at length, I found that Hitler brought the country back from the brink of catastrophe after WWI. It's the primary reason why most Germans supported him, and they still supported him after things started getting ugly, because by then, they were in too far and too deep to get out.

However, we don't have to like him to say that and we don't have to live with that choice. Some people will condemn anyone who in any way supports that position.

[progressiverealist]

2. one less racist in the world.

Say hi to Strom indeed.

[Raster]

3. ding dong the bitch is dead...good riddance

[Scairp]

30. She was a miserable old bag

I grew up near Dayton and I can safely say that Marge Schott was the most hated person in the state of Ohio. She almost single-handedly ruined the most venerated baseball team ever.

[proud2BlibKansan]

31. I was in Cincinnati

about ten yrs ago and a sports store was selling t-shirts that said "Schott Happens". Hilarious.

[kaitykaity]

4. Marge and Leni Riefenstahl and swap stories and have

'kaffee und kuchen'.

Buh-bye.

[wicket]

5. My gramma always said...

My gramma always said that if I didn't have anything nice to say to not say it all. I usually ignored that, heh, but this is one of the cases I'll bite my tongue.

[saltpoint]

7. Marge was racist as everyone on this thread says --

-- she was -- a cultural dinosaur, no question. But the Sports Illustrated article was a smear job. One of the shabbiest pieces of journalism I've ever seen. No fan of Marge, I think the males who owned ballclubs should have been held to the same standard by that S.I. article. They weren't.

[progressiverealist]

10. Al Campanis was equally racist and will land in the same ring of hell as

Schott

[saltpoint]

12. Thank you, progressiverealist --

-- I was thinking of ol' Al when I typed my response.

(And a few others besides out Oakland way...)

[saigon68]

33. They were both THROWBACKS

to the simpler times --ie; the 1850's ---before the slaves were freed.

[Loonman]

11. "Men who wear earrings are fruits"

Nice knowin' ya Marge.

On second thought, no.

[maveric]

16. She would pass out Nazi armbands at cockail parties,

and refer to her black players as "Million Dollar Niggers".
Fuck her and I hope she burn for all eternity.

[Loonman]

17. They gonna bury her at a crossroads?

How much cremation gas does it take to make that much shit burn?

[Sandpiper]

18. When you get to hell

Say hello to George Wallace and Strom Thurmond.

[CO Liberal]

20. At Least George Wallace Learned His Lesson Later In Life

Something Marge and Strom never learned.

[maxsolomon]

19. marge was 100% ignorant

she didn't mean ill. she really didn't. she was raised 100% bigoted german catholic cincinnati.

she said things my irish cincinnati grandfather said. she was just naive enough to say them to the national media. conservative, segregated cincinnati, ignorance & money are a terrible combination.

let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

RIP marge, may you find enlightenment.

[FredScuttle]

25. no need to apologize for racists...

"She didn't mean ill?" A middle-aged woman in 1992 refers to two black players on her team as "millon dollar niggers" and you think she didn't mean ill? What planet do you live on?

[maxsolomon]

27. now, i live on a different planet than she did.

she lived in cincinnati her whole life. where do you live? not cincinnati. you forget that rascist terms like nigger, kraut, mick, dago, kike, etc. were used by every class of people, rascist, bigot, or not, before ww2. my grandfather called his best friends krauts, kikes & dagos. in cincinnati, that era lasted until, hmmm, probably 1970.

i don't excuse her predjudice, but you're expecting too much of that generation. thankfully, they are nearly all dead.

[Democat]

22. She wasn't a racist, she was "tough-talking"

Read the articles about her death, they portray her as a "tough talking" woman, not a racist.

[Skittles]

23. she was a nasty piece of work

VERY racist, very ugly.

[PurityOfEssence]

24. It's a dark day

(pun intended) for supremacists everywhere...

[Sean Reynolds]

26. How about we focus on the good things....

Like the fact she gave MILLIONS to children and pet causes.

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/03/03/loc_schott.kids.html

[Avalon Sparks]

29. True, Sean R.

Tax records reveal that Schott donated millions of dollars to charities that help educate, nurture and provide children with a safe place to play. St. Ursula Academy, the Dan Beard Boy Scout Council, St. Rita School for the Deaf, the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families and the Greater Cincinnati Girls and Boys Club: All were beneficiaries of her altruism.

[Changenow]

35. On the top of that list is St. Ursula Academy, a very exclusive

prep school. Her contribution helped to keep rich girls, whose parents can afford outrageous tuition, even more coddled. The other charities on the list are worthwhile but it is interesting that she was most generous to an institution that keeps the riffraff away from the privileged.

[Piperay]

32. She gets NO RIP

from me I won't be a hipocrite...one less racist. :evilfrown:


Please excuse any spelling errors, spellcheck not working for me today. :-(

[belle]

34. GAH! that FACE!

They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but in this case...yeeessh.