Free Times compromises liberal beliefs, ends up with egg on its face?

Rare for liberals to throw in with the
convention of college football. It's noticeable
when the left compromises and it backfires. 

Suffering from anemia, as many uber-liberal publications are, Columbia's Free Times became a victim of fate, last Thursday.

The leftwing weekly chose to try to parlay college football fever into some much-needed ad revenue. To do that, Free Times ran a photo of a bunch of Gamecock cheerleaders, with the title: “Great to be a Gamecock.” The subhead read: “Photos capture spirit of Columbia's gameday culture.”

Surely Free Times had no idea the Gamecocks would get thrashed by Texas A&M, and any rah-rah sentiment by the media would be met with disgust.

The irony of it is: liberals, like those running Free Times, had to have a dilemma. Normally they would hate the Southern white-male redneck persona (as they see it) of Gamecock football. But on the other hand, the money those rednecks part with, pays for the education of many “underprivileged” players and turns some from the sub-culture – they exploit - into icons and millionaires.

Not only that, it's the “ball” that “foots” the bill for all of those court-ordered Title IX (non-revenue sports) scholarships for females.

So what a juxtaposition for a liberal weekly newspaper, printed a day before the A&M Massacre, in hopes of capitalizing on that which they hate.

Now remember, heretofore, Free Times biggest score was when their ace reporter took out REPUBLICAN Lt. Gov. Ken Ard for spending his own money, in a way the government had forbidden.

Free Times' Corey Hutchins graduated to the Huffington Post for his Watergate-esque dispatching of Ard. Hutchings was also the reporter who balked on the infamous Danny Frazier recordings, presumably because the name of top Democrat Steve Benjamin, Columbia's mayor, is mentioned in the indictment-yielding dialogue.

At any rate, you have to laugh when you see liberals swallowing their bitterness-based principles for profit, only to have it backfire, and ad insult to their injury.