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Geek Icon George Takei Owns Tim Hardaway

By Great White Snark | February 23, 2007

Question: What is the best way to respond to a famous basketball player who decides to use his access to national airwaves to promote his raging homophobia?

If you’re CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, or any of the other platforms for Ken-and-Barbie-doll talking heads, the answer is to try to make it into a serious matter of discussion and debate, as if Jesus himself had come back to declare that, yes, indeed, Britney Spears’s shaved head (golly and gasp!) is the first sign of the Apocalypse.

But that’s not the right answer. Tim Hardaway is just some overtly ignorant dude who plays basketball pretty well (from what I understand). He can’t offer us any new insights on anything that actually matters. Why give his ridiculous opinions a stage? If Tim Hardaway announced that he had developed a comprehensive Middle East peace plan while sitting on his big leather sofa during halftime of Madden on Xbox, would we have to hear about it on the news??

Tim, I promise we’ll call if anyone needs help with a hook shot or wants to know how to put together a really nice peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. You know the kind. The ones where the jelly is spread so evenly that it doesn’t quite seep out the sides. Yeah. Perfect. I hear you’re really good at making those.

Leave it to a raging queen (George Takei… but you can still call him Mr. Sulu) to figure out how to properly deal with this clumsy bigot: Milk this laughingstock for every joke it’s got.


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    2 Responses to “Geek Icon George Takei Owns Tim Hardaway”

    1. Wavatar nickolai Says:
      February 23rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm

      tim hardaway was my favorite basketball player, and I’m dying to hear his middle peace plan.

      And FYI Jojo, he was known for his clutch 3-pointers and his killer cross-over, not hook shots.

      George Takei is gay?!

    2. Wavatar NinjaJJ Says:
      October 14th, 2009 at 8:38 pm

      Wow Geogie can own some homophopes

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