More stupidity revealed as people try to act "politically correct"

I'm sure everyone recalls Oscar Pistorius - the guy who ran the 200m on blades in the Olympics with folks championing the idea that it was totally fair that he used those blades because he had no legs....and that this is the social equivalent of being fair......................................... Well - Pistorius never came close to winning or medalling at the Olympics...and now he is competing in the Paralympics in London........ BUT -- after Pistorius lost the 200m to another guy wearing almost identical blades in the London Paralympics...he accused the other guy of... cheating because he had an unfair advantage - the other guy had better blades! http://www.kmbz.com/-Blade-Runner-Oscar-Pistorius-Loses-Race-and-Says-/14142572 ........................................... http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Paralympics+2012+Oscar+Pistorius+cries+foul+after+200m+loss+Alan+Oliveira/7181555/story.html ........................................... "After losing..Pistorius told British broadcaster .."We are not running in a fair race here." Pistorius insisted that there was an issue with large prosthetics lengthening his Brazilian competitor's stride. ...I do believe there is an issue here." ....Oliveira, 20, caught Pistorius in the final 20 meters of the final race last night, marking the first time Pistorius didn't win a 200 meter run. "He's never run a 21 second-race and I don't think he's a 21-second athlete,'' Pistorius had said. "I don't know how you can come back, watching the replay, from eight meters behind on the 100 to win. It's absolutely ridiculous." ............................................... So....Pistorius is complaining because the other guy with NO LEGS used the blades to nab a clear advantage that helped him run faster? I find these comments interesting and hypocritical because Pistorius is saying that the blades do have the capability of giving the user a significant advantage and an advantage big enough to help a guy win. Here's a picture of the two guys and their blades....... http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02327/Alan-Oliveira_2327648b.jpg ........................................................ Next time some guy will show up wearing 6-ft blades! But I think this shows that anyone using any mechanical or unnatural equipment might be unfair because it could give an advantage. If the guy can't even win his own race against people just like him using blades, then he has no right to complain if he & his blades get banned from a race where the other competitors aren't using blades. What a whiner - but then I guess karma is a ***** - as all those who claimed Pistorius was gaining no advantage by using the blades - will now have to eat their words if indeed they see that even Pistorius himself is claiming the other guy gained a distinct advantage by using his blades!!!! BTW -- notice all the other guys in the race who have one normal leg and who use a blade on their other leg................ clearly the one legged guys are are tremendously slower than the guys with TWO blades - thus even more proof that the blades are a HUGE advantage. I wonder if in the name of "PC" we'd let some paralyzed guy do the high jump with a huge helium balloon attached so that he cleared a 25 ft. bar?? .................................................................................................................... Here is my ranking of the Top 10 All Time Bozo Sports Stunts - in the name of political correctness....................................................................... Hon. Mention - because it wasn't really a "stunt" was the televised PBS documentary when the Women's Dream Team Olympic basketball team warmed up before the 1996 Atlanta Olympics by scrimmaging a rag-tag, pieced together scout team of guys off a military base near Atlanta... but they got pounded and beaten so badly that one starter got hurt and was unable to compete in the Olympics - a couple others were carried off the floor but not hurt badly, and there was an uproar that caused the documentary producers to remove that part of the film and never show it again! One other Honorable Mention - Bobby Knight doing that stupid, scripted, rehearsed, "Knight Court" show on ESPN to get a walk on player who was inconsequential to his team but it gave Knight the chance to display his arrogance and selfishness nationally. TOP 10 10. Nancy Liebermann playing on the Washington Generals against the Globetrotters ......................................... also.........Nancy Libermann competing on the old TV show "American Gladiators" and getting knocked out of the competition right away. ......................................... 9. Michelle Wie trying to compete on the men's tour - she came in dead last and didn't make the cut virtually every time - kind of embarrassing since her "handlers" had said she would compete with the top men! ......................................... 8. The NBA Pacers drafting Ann Meyers then actually signing her to a token $50K contract and giving her a tryout - just to cut her as if it was ever serious ......................................... 7. UConn arranging for the hobbled Nykesha Sales to score a point is a rigged & orchestrated set-up play in a real Big East game - that even took the actions of the other players to pull off the stunt - just to get Nykesha's name in the record book. ........... http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/25/sports/college-basketball-sales-is-given-free-shot-and-sinks-it-for-record.html ......................................... 6. Male to female sex change golfer Mianne Bagger playing on the Women's PGA Tour and becoming a total flop. She was never any good anyway but the LPGA removed the phrase "female at birth" from their bylaws! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mianne_Bagger ......................................... 5. The Coors Light Colorado Silver Bullets - team of all femaile BASEBALL players - trying a tour where they played male baseball teams and getting rocked even by 13 and 14 year old amateur players! ......................................... 4. Katie Hnida playing college football .then whining after she fails miserably at it and filing a lawsuit saying she was discriminated and harassed. ......................................... 3. Letting the Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius actually compete in the Olympics as if he didn't gain an advantage from those blades. ......................................... 2. Letting sex change Richard Rasskind/Renee Richards compete as a woman in tennis. As a male she wouldn't have even been able to win a 50-year-old bracket in a Pekin, IL city tournament...but as a "woman" after a sex change she was abvle to compete with the top women pros in the world. Hmmm...how much does that tell you about the difference in level ofplay between the top men & top women. But not as much as the next one tells you...... ......................................... 1. Billie Jean King acting like she actually accomplished something significant by beating a washed up old man who didn't rank anywhere in the Top 1,000,000 male tennis players. Is it really any kind of accomplishment at all that the top woman player in the world can beat a guy who wouldn't rank in the top 1,000,000 men and who was Medicare age? The efforts of those to push their PC agenda will always keep us in stitches.