THE NYT/AUGUSTA THING
Lots of people (particularly Raines-haters, you know who you are) are criticizing the New York Times' campaign against the Augusta National Country Club for their policy of not admitting women as members.
The conservative Raines-haters (Kaus, Sully, etc) charge that this is a politically-correct crusade guided by the extreme agenda of the lefty ideologue Raines. But I don't listen to them, they're obsessed with the NYT because they are inferiority-complex conservatives of some sort.
The critiques that do interest me, however, are those of sports columnists. Their arguments against the NYT center around two points:
1) Tradition
2) We're talking about a country club for the super-rich, and whether or not they should allow super-rich women to become members, so this isn't exactly an everyman (or everywoman) issue.
As to point #1, get over yourselves. Of all types of journalism, it is sports journalism that has the most ignorant allegiance to tradition. If the flagstick for the 18th hole at Augusta had the stars&bars on it, sportswriters would leap to its defense, citing "tradition", or worse, "heritage".
Point #2 has the potential to be a valid one, but consider the old Vulcan proverb: "Only Nixon could go to China". Augusta gets a lot of exposure every year, and it would be nice to see the higher-ups in the "ism-belt" set a good example for once. You conservatives believe in trickle-down economics? Well howabout trickle-down tolerance?
Lots of people (particularly Raines-haters, you know who you are) are criticizing the New York Times' campaign against the Augusta National Country Club for their policy of not admitting women as members.
The conservative Raines-haters (Kaus, Sully, etc) charge that this is a politically-correct crusade guided by the extreme agenda of the lefty ideologue Raines. But I don't listen to them, they're obsessed with the NYT because they are inferiority-complex conservatives of some sort.
The critiques that do interest me, however, are those of sports columnists. Their arguments against the NYT center around two points:
1) Tradition
2) We're talking about a country club for the super-rich, and whether or not they should allow super-rich women to become members, so this isn't exactly an everyman (or everywoman) issue.
As to point #1, get over yourselves. Of all types of journalism, it is sports journalism that has the most ignorant allegiance to tradition. If the flagstick for the 18th hole at Augusta had the stars&bars on it, sportswriters would leap to its defense, citing "tradition", or worse, "heritage".
Point #2 has the potential to be a valid one, but consider the old Vulcan proverb: "Only Nixon could go to China". Augusta gets a lot of exposure every year, and it would be nice to see the higher-ups in the "ism-belt" set a good example for once. You conservatives believe in trickle-down economics? Well howabout trickle-down tolerance?
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