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Friday, December 30, 2011
Boomer with Attitude Kasey Kahne: Douche Nozzle of the Week
Posted By John Grooms on Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:00 PM
A few years ago, Creative Loafing ran a cover story on the “new, young hotties of NASCAR,” featuring a profile and cover shot of driver Kasey Kahne (pronounced “Cane”). I was editor at that time, and so it’s my duty today to apologize for ever having given publicity to someone as obviously prone to douchebaggery as Kahne proved himself to be on Tuesday, when he went tweet crazy.
Kahne tweeted that he saw a mom breastfeeding in a supermarket, and that he found it “nasty.” He also tweeted, “I don’t feel like shopping anymore or eating.” The comments caused a shitstorm of replies to Kahne, including this woman's observation: “I hope someday you have a kid and someone tells your wife that feeding your child looks nasty.” Kahne The Charmer dug himself deeper into the mire, replying, “And your [sic] a dumb bitch.”
Today, Kahne is apologizing big time and all over the map, “explaining” that, of course, women have a right to breastfeed and I was out of line, blah-blah-blah, and other my-publicist-is-making-me-say-this kind of things. To which this writer says, “Grow up, you sad, hung-up jerk. The culture went through the debate on public breastfeeding some time ago, and your sixth-grade comments show how narrow your little world really is, notwithstanding your success at driving fast and turning left."
To sort-of quote the late, great Amy Winehouse, “What kind of assholery is this?”
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this made me laugh out loud. riddle me this: why are the good looking ones always so dumb?
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Using the word "douche" to attack someone for attacking breastfeeding? The author is so stupid he doesn't understand the irony in that.
No, I don't understand the irony in that, Mallard, why don't you explain it to me? Since it's nowhere near irony, I imagine you can't, unless you have a mistaken idea of what irony is. I'm not attacking douching as a practice, but KK was attacking breastfeeding, so, um, where's the irony again? Sorry to belabor a minor point by yet another internet troll, but I'm not going to take being called "stupid" by some halfwit trying to make a smug joke when he doesn't even know what he's talking about. So, really, MF, explain away, enlighten us to whatever new definition of irony you think you've come up with.
@ John Grooms, I'm sorry that I'm not a wordsmith at your level, otherwise I'd be able to speak in eloquent terms such as "douche nozzle".
Happy New Year and go fuck yourself. With a douche nozzle.
I can only imagine the source of repulsion of Mr. Kahne. In the world of NASCAR, there have been several rumors about Kahne's sexuality and the nature of his close friendship with one of his male staff members. Had he seen a man "breastfeeding" maybe his reaction would have been different.
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