Outnumbered Hosts Reduce Terry Bradshaw to Speechless Mush over Redskins Controversy

For reasons that somewhat pass understanding, Terry Bradshaw was the #oneluckyguy on Fox’s Outnumbered this morning, a happy coincidence as the major story of the day was in his NFL wheelhouse: The Trademark Office’s vacating the Washington Football Team’s six Redskins trademarks.

Bradshaw began by conceding he wasn’t as smart or informed as his co-hosts du jour, but had been studying up.

It didn’t help him. Bradshaw tried to defend the Trademark Office’s decision, said Redskins owner Dan Snyder had overplayed his hand, and argued that other team names like Trojans and Fightin’ Irish were not in danger as there was no group offended by them — all as he fielded rebuttals from both couches about political correctness, overreaching bureaucracy, market forces, Harry Reid’s emotional opportunism, and so forth. He then compared the term “Redskins” to the n-word, which got him in trouble with Kennedy, who told him he was “minimizing” the impact of the latter slur.

By the end he was back to looking as though he’d gotten off at the wrong bus stop. “Look, I’m a farmer down in Oklahoma,” he said.

Thus began another episode of Outnumbered, which functions the way several other Fox commentary shows do: A weaker straw person is brought on to voice the opposing opinion, that person is destroyed in a ritual performance, and the whole thing is thus labeled a “fair and balanced” debate.

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