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April 15, 2007
Post-Imus Reign of PC Terror Targets High School Baseball Coach
Posted by Dave Blount at April 15, 2007 10:41 AM
Heads will roll in the aftermath of Don Imus' trip to the guillotine for calling some basketball players "nappy headed ho's." One example is Dave Austin, formerly the baseball coach for Putnam High School in Connecticut.
In an attempt to motivate his players after a particularly lame practice session, Austin singled out certain players, even comparing the play of one of them to that of girls and — brace yourself — using a homosexual slur.
As with Imus, he was first told he was suspended, then that he was fired, though Principal Bill Barry claims Austin actually "decided to resign."
His resignation is reminiscent of the suicides of party officials under Stalin — the kind where someone falls out of Uncle Joe's favor and gets so broken up about it as to empty a revolver into his own head. Austin puts it frankly:
I was forced to resign. I did not quit.
He's not the only one who isn't happy about it. Sue Gardner, a parent of one of the players, says of the team:
Their loyalty is and probably always will be to Dave. He has done nothing but good for these kids.
Says Chris Roberts, a senior and fan of the team:
The situation is pretty bad right now. A lot of us think it's pretty messed up that the school just threw (Austin) out and didn't give him another chance.
The situation is bad all right — and steadily getting worse. Freedom of speech isn't guaranteed by our Constitution so much as by our national character, which has been so severely eroded by moonbattery that we now have to live in terror of accidentally offending politically privileged groups like blacks and homosexuals.
As for Putnam High's baseball team, it has a new interim coach, who we can be confident will never offend any homosexuals — or win many ballgames. Barry himself has taken over the team.
On a tip from Wiggins.
