Gregg Easterbrook has been saying some controversial, and stupid things as of late. The whole "No doesn't always mean No" idiocy. And his column about Jews and movie violence.
Apparently, Disney, in the form of his employer at ESPN, has decided to can him. Not only that, but in possibly a fit of pique, have erased all of his TMQ columns. They are gone. All of them.
I can see if Disney wants him canned, but to erase him so thoroughly...Kevin Drum uses the word "Stalinesque". It's a good one. "1984ish" might be another. There's a latter day Winston Smith, dutifully erasing every TMQ column, or reference to TMQ, that ever existed on ESPN's website.
Only Google cached versions remain.
He brought it on himself, sure, and its disheartening and depressing. But his imbecilic political comments aside, I LIKED his football stuff, even though its gotten more self-indulgent ever since it left Slate. The likelihood of it showing up somewhere else in the future, though, are pretty damn slim. And that's a shame.
Posted by Jvstin at October 18, 2003 9:50 PM