Shaq loses Arizona deputy badge over foul-mouthed rap

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Shaq loses deputy badge over foul-mouthed rap

Arizona police not happy about obscenity-laced song about Kobe

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/25354019/

PHOENIX - Shaquille O'Neal will lose his special deputy's badge in Maricopa County because of language he used in a rap video that mocks former teammate Kobe Bryant.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the Phoenix Suns center's use of a racially derogatory word and other foul language left him no choice. Arpaio made Shaq a special deputy in January and promoted him to colonel of his largely ceremonial posse earlier this month.

"I want his two badges back,'' Arpaio said. "Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they're fired. I don't condone this type of racial conduct.''

Shaq was seen in a video posted on the celebrity news and gossip Web site TMZ.com rapping that "Kobe couldn't do without me.'' O'Neal skewers the Lakers' star, with whom he won three straight NBA titles from 2000-2002 while with Los Angeles, for not being able to win a championship without him. (Click to watch the video on TMZ.com.)

[Super Soaker Sniper]

1. I saw the video on ESPN today.

Shaq should be made to suffer for it. Not for the content, but for subjecting the public to such a horrible display of a true lack of talent. It had to be the worst rapping I have ever heard in my life. As some of the cooler folks would say, "Dems rhymes is Busted, Yo!" God! It was awful!

[hlthe2b]

2. So what Lil Deputy is gonna yank the badge off his chest?

That, I gotta see....

[Ptah]

4. The sheriff his own self

JACK KURTZ/The Arizona Republic
Shaquille O'Neal greets Sheriff Joe Arpaio before touring Tent City on Jan. 5, 2006.
On Tuesday, Sheriff Joe lifted O'Neal's special deputy's badge because of language
he used Sunday's rap performance.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Pfft, Shaq did it on purpose. n/t

[Super Soaker Sniper]

5. Since it was a symbolic position

a symbolic stripping of the badges will have to do as no one would want the task of doing it in person.

[ben_meyers]

3. That damned Arpaio! The worst piece of crap Sheriff

in the country.

[AlCzervik]

6. Thanks Amer, i mean mr. Tmz.

:o

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. HEY!

:rofl:

:toast:

[Virginia Dare]

8. But yet, Dick Cheney can tell Senator Leahy to go fuck himself..

on the Senate floor with no consequence. Yep, that makes sense...:crazy:

(Did I mention he also once shot somebody in a drunken stupor?)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. "...a beer at lunch and that had been many hours earlier..."

...and hey, Vice President Cheney wouldn't lie to Brit Hume of Fox News, would he?

:rofl:

VIDEO: Cheney Admits To Drinking Beer Prior To Hunting Accident

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/15/cheney-drinking/

In his interview with Fox News this afteroon, Vice President Dick Cheney confirmed to reporter Brit Hume that he consumed alcohol prior to the shooting incident. Hume reported that Cheney admitted to having at least “a beer at lunch.” Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/15/cheney-drinking/



Transcript:

QUESTION: You asked him about alcohol being consumed on premises.

HUME: I did.

QUESTION: And what did he say about that?

HUME: He said he had a beer at lunch and that had been many hours earlier. And it was dusk, around 5:00 p.m., when this incident happened. And he said that, you know, they had lunch out in the field, a barbecue, and he had a beer. But you said you don’t hunt with people who have been drinking. He said no one was drinking. He said they went back to the ranch afterwards, took a break after that, and went out about 3:00 and so you’re four or five hours distanced from the last alcohol that he consumed. And he said no one was drinking, not he nor anyone else.

This morning, ThinkProgress posed some questions the media should ask about the role of alcohol in the accident.

UPDATE: Mr. Whittington’s doctors “had no comment on whether Whittington’s blood alcohol level had been tested after the accident.”

UPDATE II: On Tuesday, Ms. Armstrong told the LA Times that the hunters drank “Dr. Pepper” at lunch:

The party of 11 hunters set out in two trucks Saturday morning, driving around the mesquite-dotted property and shooting quail until about 12:30 p.m., said Anne Armstrong, co-owner of the ranch. Then they broke for a lunch of antelope, jicama salad and camp bread, washed down with Dr. Pepper.

[Virginia Dare]

13. This sounds like the same b.s. line I handed to my mother in high school..

We were only drinking Dr. Pepper mom, I swear.

Honestly, do they have some 16 year old kid making this shit up?

[lonestarnot]

10. Dan Saban for Sheriff MCC! A real American Law Man!

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

11. didn't hear his rap but

didn't want to. You would think these guys would grow-up.

[lonestarnot]

14. I think Shaq should give it to me!

:rofl: Fuck you Joe!