Hockey icon Don Cherry fired
for immigrant comments
ESPN,
by
Greg Wyshynski
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
11/11/2019 4:41:20 PM
Don Cherry, an iconic Canadian hockey commentator, has been fired by Sportsnet for his on-air remarks on Saturday that alleged that the country's immigrants don't properly honor fallen soldiers. Cherry, 85, used his "Coach's Corner" segment on "Hockey Night In Canada" to criticize individuals who didn't wear poppy pins leading up the nation's Remembrance Day. The pins are sold by veterans groups and are worn to symbolically honor those who served. "I live in Mississauga [Ontario]. Very few people wear the poppy. Downtown Toronto, forget it. Nobody wears the poppy. ... Now you go to the small cities. You people ... that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MarkTwain 11/11/2019 4:51:54 PM (No. 232441)
What a jerk!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 11/11/2019 5:12:54 PM (No. 232456)
What am I missing? The article cites no mention by Cherry of immigrants specifically, just his disdain for those who won't wear the poppies. There is a slim chance the reporting is crap.
FWIW, FTA -- Cherry refused to apologize. "I have had my say..."
Cherry has a long history of the unacceptable.
FTA -- Cherry drew ire from viewers for saying, "I don't believe women should be in the male dressing room," in reference to female reporters.
I'm swooning here. But thanks for a voice of reason in Canuckistan, Mississauga Mayoress (I assume) Bonnie Crombie -- "We're all Canadians and wear our poppies proudly..."
What?! Cherry just said you all don't so huh?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Clinger 11/11/2019 5:15:31 PM (No. 232460)
Come on down here Don we still honor the truth and respect peoples right .......never mind no we don't, not sure where you and go and not face the tyranny of "social justice." We were the last beacon on the hill but for the time being we have blown it. Whether or not its irretrievable is yet to be seen. I'll get back to you in November 2020.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bldrrepub 11/11/2019 5:20:13 PM (No. 232463)
The CBC has been trying to get rid of "Grapes" for a while. Recently though, he's been not quite as sharp as he's been previously. Still, a crappy thing to do.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Krause 11/11/2019 5:21:58 PM (No. 232467)
The controversy is what now?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Northcross 11/11/2019 5:23:44 PM (No. 232468)
Don. Don. Don. You are not allowed to speak the truth. You should have known that.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
droopydog 11/11/2019 5:36:12 PM (No. 232474)
This guy is 85, still working, probably loves his job--probably keeps him going, and some PC creeps come along and toss him out like an old shoe. It's such a strange and disturbing time.
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Yeah, let's talk about Junior Trudeau wearing blackface.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/11/2019 6:19:57 PM (No. 232507)
The worst thing about this incident is that Don Cherry was right! The PC crowd just does not want to hear the truth.
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Few new immigrant populations, especially of “questionable” status give a rats posterior about their host country. Stay where you were and make YOUR country better. Assimilate or go.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 11/11/2019 6:51:18 PM (No. 232533)
Guilty of truth telling.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Peaches 11/11/2019 8:16:19 PM (No. 232586)
I love, love, love Don Cherry and this makes me furious!
Evil Canadian leftists finally got their wish. I hate them for it.
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Almost nobody in today's "diversity is our strength" Canada has a clue what those poppies are about or would care if they were told. Cherry is a leftover from a different Canada. There is little evidence most Canadians have any real longing for that older Canada which makes the 85 year old Cherry an anachronism. Too bad too because the old Canada wasn't such a bad place, but time moves on and today's "Canadians" think of it more as a geographic location rather than a nation they are attached to by blood or history. The population today consider themselves global citizens and any sense of tribal alliance is anathema.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/11/2019 9:53:22 PM (No. 232626)
I'd never worn a poppy pin in my life until I went to Canada and saw everyone wearing one. We can all be unified on that one issue, remembering our veterans.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 11/12/2019 1:19:05 AM (No. 232671)
We are going insane just a little bit more every hour as people around the world. An evil is covering us like a black cloud. Where freedom and discussion of issues reigned supreme, we now have instant triggering and destruction of people for one comment! If I don't like what you said or disagree with you, I will destroy you! When did civility leave? Was it when the DemocRATS thrice denied God at their convention...or has God lifted the protection upon our nations due to the slaughter of millions and millions of babies in the name of the "rights" of the mother? Things are NOT going to ever get better from here as we descend into a pit of mutual hate and intolerance for our fellow man (and we grind our teeth even calling then our fellow man)! I'm glad that I'm 65 years old. I do not want to see this country in 30 years. I don't want to see it in 5, but will be too old to do anything but protect myself and mine. Our youth are mostly lost to the lure of a Communist/Socialist ideal of equal redistribution of wealth to all...blind to the fact that a strong man always arises in this system and then people start getting sent to camps or they are tried and sent to gulags. LA and SF will be excellent places for these as FEMA sweeps the streets clean of all dissent from "Dear Leader" whomever that becomes. Sunny prospects...no?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ebenezer 11/12/2019 9:00:26 AM (No. 232851)
I live in Tennessee, one of the reddest of red states, and I haven't seen a single person wearing a poppy or giving them out. On my street of 25 houses, only I and one other person displayed flags for Veterans' Day. It's sad that even here, these traditions are largely forgotten.
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85 year old is not 'woke' enough for today's Canucks.