The Daily Journal is reporting a scuffle between Chip Pickering and the coach of a team playing against Pickering’s son’s team, and that it will all end up in Madison City Court.
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Chip Pickering vs. Soccer Coach throwdownDecember 7, 2009, 3:10 pm | Category: Random Firings |
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Chill, Chip.
I was amused that the city judge is Dale Danks.
… In other news, tomorrow apparently sees Conrad Black’s appeal of his “honest services fraud” conviction argued at the SCOTUS — a criminal offense of some interest to this blog in the past.
PLEASE ALLOW ME (an archconservative) be the first to state that Chip Pickering’s behavior was utterly despicable. There’s no way I can see any justification for becoming involved in a physical alternation with a man wearing a neck brace in front of a car full of 10 & 11-year-old soccer players.
Well, the neck brace part is one side’s version of the story, to be entirely fair.
To be entirely fair? Give me a break. Why would the coach lie? He didn’t even know who that violent man was. Regardless of the whether he was wearing a neck brace, if Pickering laid one hand on him and pulled him out of his car, he is guily of assault. I’d say the coach was acting in self-defense.
Belle, I am not going to try to explain “fairness” or “one side of the story” to you. If you need the explanations, then they are probably outside my power to provide.
Can hubris + smugness + wealth + a sense of “well-connected” entitlement = “uncontrollable crying” jags at an early age that morph, in adulthood, into assaults on the weakest of the unwashed masses? If so, the landed gentry, when venturing out of their gated communities, should restrict their assaults to those who wear neck braces — the rest of the unwashed masses have been known to mop the streets surrounding soccer fields with the arses of the landed gentry.
Having been a “soccer Dad” or “spectator Dad” several years ago, I have witnessed similar incidents before involving parents and coaches. Even normally mild-mannered parents will occasionally have moments of “temporary insanity” when they perceive their kid to be wrongfully treated or deliberately physically injured. The instinct to protect your child is strong and will rear its head in a split second given the right stimulus. And this is especially true for divorced Dads (and Moms) who don’t get to see their kids as often as they would like due to child custody arrangements —they may even be overly protective in a subconscious attempt to overcompensate for their absence from the everyday lives of their child. The younger the child, the more this type of scenario comes into play.
The article does not explain why Hester, the opposing team’s coach, would be verbally abusing Pickering’s child, nor the age of Pickering’s child. And while “verbally abusing” may have been Pickering’s spin on it, I find it difficult to understand why the opposing team’s coach would be saying anything remotely hostile to a child on the opponent’s team.
I am not saying this to defend Pickering, as I don’t know all the facts and am fairly indifferent about him —don’t know him and he was not my Congress critter. But, there is always two sides to every story. And if Hester did verbally abuse the Pickering kid, then he was in the wrong as well, neck brace or not —that may be why he was in the neck brace to begin with — he very well could have previously gotten his ass whipped for being a jackass. HA.
Thad Cochran/Tom Waits:
As if the fact Trent Lott and John Lennon have the same birthday is not enough, here is more proof there is nothing to astrology:
Thad Cochran and Tom Waits have the same birthday (today).
John McCain criticizing Thad Cochran on Meet The Press:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23S33KrO5s
Tom Waits on The Mike Douglas Show in 1976:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAzhm1YBBY&NR=1
Off topic, I know, but I’m trying to not think about Chip Pickering.
I hear ya, Chico. *My* b-day is the same as Sid Vicious’s.
I think that’s the point where the astrologers start looking at the year, hour, and minute, and desperately distinguishing accordingly.
Chip Pickering = In a downward spiral
May be overcompensating just a little . . . then again may be completely justified. I wonder who represents him in Municipal Court in Madison.
I’ve coached 20+ youth sports teams between my three kids and this isn’t as unusual as you might suspect. Only a couple of times have I seen it actually get physical, but the jawing can be unreal. I agree with AFOTL about the “normally mannered” Dad AND MOM fits of temporary insanity. Some of the least likely to explode have the most memorable lapses; absolutely no sensitivity for the kids around, most of who are extremely embarrassed by their parents’ actions. It’s really sad and in my experience both sides of the argument are wrong. If either party would shut up, it wouldn’t escalate – neck brace, politician, town mayor (in one memorable tirade) or not.
Soccer is the problem. It brings out the worst in people.
If you say so, Poorboy. Soccer just puts me to sleep … bought as exciting as curling.
This may be Baker Donelson’s big break into municipal court.
But I bet they go local – Tommy Savant?
Maybe Chuck McRae has signed up Hester for the civil suit…
Savant’s a good guy and would make an excellent choice! While we’re speculating, how about Merrida Coxwell?
Ben, So true. Soccer is not a sport.
Soccer has to count as at least half a sport, since it involves a ball, but no stick.
Nick Walters hired Cliff Johnson and I am 98% sure they are ideological opposites. Who knows, maybe Chip will hire Ed Blackmon.
Soccer has to count as at least half a sport, since it involves a ball, but no stick.
That makes basketball half a sport. Which I can see. Too little happens in soccer, and too much happens in basketball. “Oh, man, did somebody score while I got up?”
“Soccer has to count as at least half a sport, since it involves a ball, but no stick.”
That also makes football half a sport.
Back to the issue.. does anybody know or care to comment on what was actually said to the little tyke. What sparked this off anyway?
Here’s what a couple of people who said they were there had to say:
stanby69 wrote:
Maybe the representative was upset by this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/12/08/cheating.spouses.lawsuits/index.html
This blog’s hero Mr Steffey comments.
I have nothing to say about the gentleman from more south MS. Just reading the noose.
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Dale Danks cut quite the figure sweeping his floor-length cape across the stage as Mordred in a Jackson Little Theatre production of “Camelot” around 1970–
Pickering now says, in a Shelia Byrd-written story published in The Daily Journal today, “I’m willing to sit down with Mr. Hester at any point, any place, resolve this, shake hands and set a good example… Instead of lawyer-to-lawyer, I’d like it to be man-to-man, shake hands and move on.”
Jeez, reckon why Chip wouldn’t want it to go to court? Why would he want to “move on” And this latest family values Republican hypocrite is willing to actually to speak publicly about setting an example for kids?
This stinks right down there with when Pickering, another no-military service Republican, played dress-up in a military uniform (a la draft-dodger George W. Bush) and put pictures of the act on his Web-site.