For what I wrote that started this whole... by Gregg Easterbrook

Writer Writer Author Writing journalist

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

- Gregg Easterbrook

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May Nothing People

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Acting

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Present Now People

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Day

It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Sports

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Numbers

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

- Gregg Easterbrook

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