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11/6/08

Texas Center Buck Burnette Kicked Off Team For Making Obama Assassination Joke On His Facebook Page

Today's Idiotic Facebook Buffoonery Comes Courtesy Of The Texas Football Team

NCAAF, Texas Longhorns, Dumbass, Racism

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I'm not all that old. But I'm about 3 or 4 years removed from the generation that will quite literally put anything up on Facebook or MySpace. Seemingly every week, some idiot gets nailed for leaving either some dumb message up or some incredibly bad photo, and yet no one learns. It just keeps happening. Yesterday of course, it was the Patriots cheerleader, who lost her gig because she had photos up on her MySpace page of herself drawing on a passed guy...who happened to have swastikas on him, and a star of David. Not good.

Well, as I said, no one learns, because Buck Burnette, back up center for the University of Texas Longhorns, put this lovely message up as his Facebook profile message shortly after the election.

"all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse"

Now, that gibberish there could stand for butler, or player, or something else that ends in "er." But, I think we all know what he meant. As you can guess, Mack Brown kicked this &$%*#@)! dumbass off the team instantly. Maybe you can take a guess as to what my gibberish means.

Anyway, Burnette was quick to apologize.

Clearly I have made a mistake and apologized for it and will pay for it. I received it as a text message from an acquaintance and immaturely put it up on facebook in the light of the election. Im not racist and apologize for offending you. I grew up on a ranch in a small town where that was a real thing and I need to grow up. I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok to write that publicly and apologize to you in particular. I have to be more mature than to put the reputation of my team at stake and to spread that kind of hate which I dont even believe in. Once again, I sincerely apologize.

I like how he says "I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok to write that publicly", as if it's still ok to write something like that in private. Way to be Buck.

Either way, let's hope that Buck learns something from this. Also kudos to Mack Brown for laying into this kid and making an example of him. By the way, here was Obama's response.

Texas lineman's Facebook status gets him kicked off the team [The World Of Isaac]

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240 days ago

kantwistaye

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These past 3 days have been a reminder to me of how far we've come and how far we still have to go. Its been awesome and yet sad at the same time.

240 days ago

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kantwistaye wrote:

These past 3 days have been a reminder to me of how far we've come and how far we still have to go. Its been awesome and yet sad at the same time.

I'm in complete agreement.

240 days ago

Jubanator14

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kantwistaye wrote:

These past 3 days have been a reminder to me of how far we've come and how far we still have to go. Its been awesome and yet sad at the same time.

Yeah if you go by the facebook status of my friends, most them think America is going to collapse into itself while burning to the ground all while our values and morals go away and we become a European country. Of course none of them will be here since they all want to move to Canada or Europe where they are more Liberal than Obama but whatever.

240 days ago

Pat

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Rule #1: If you want to be an idiot, stay away from modern technology.

240 days ago

beerstudk

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This kind of actions will cease to be a big deal only when we stop treating them like a big deal.

240 days ago

CalBoomer

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That dude will be lucky if getting kicked off the team is the only thing that happens to him. Threatening the president is a federal offense.

239 days ago

Pat

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CalBoomer wrote:

That dude will be lucky if getting kicked off the team is the only thing that happens to him. Threatening the president is a federal offense.

Fortunately for him, he didn't threaten George W. Bush.

239 days ago

kantwistaye

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Pat wrote:

Fortunately for him, he didn't threaten George W. Bush.

Although I'm sure there have been some threats to him via Facebook.

239 days ago

Jubanator14

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Pat wrote:

Fortunately for him, he didn't threaten George W. Bush.

My freshman year someone at OU wrote on some anti-Bush group's wall that "we should kill Bush and replace him with a monkey, there would be no difference" or something like that and a few days later he had secret service guys knocking on his dorm room for questioning. Let's just say they take any and all threats or semi-threats or joke-threats very very seriously as they should.

239 days ago

jeopardytempest

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(Edited 11/07/08 2:23AM by jeopardytempest)

Seriously? While I will admit I'm mostly Conservative... and that the kid shouldn't be saying that kind of stuff... since when did putting up an offensive comment (that I'm guessing only his friends could see, though it depends on his particular settings) become grounds for removal from the football team. He's entitled to his opinion. I think it goes off the deep end, but yet I wonder if Mack Brown is a supporter of Obama? If it were someone Mack Brown didn't like, would he react the same way. I mean, seriously, we make such a big deal out of such little things any more.

I see a lot of questionable/offensive Facebook status messages. Welcome to the world...

239 days ago

kantwistaye

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jeopardytempest wrote:

I agree that we see a lot of questionable and offensive Facebook statuses, but when you're representing a gigantic university and you use a racial slur and propose assassinating the president-elect you're going to be in hot water. You'd have a tough time keeping a job if your employer found that out.

239 days ago

badsam1956

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What the hell happened with freedom of speech, of being able to express yourself, or living with ridicule from A-holes that look to find something wrong. People can piss in a jar and put a cross in it and call it art, but another person can express themselves and get crap for it. What the hell has this world come to? Looks like if you're of a certain persuasion anything is open to good taste whereas if you're not, then that person is crucified by the same pricks. I have no doubt the inmates are running the asylum now.

239 days ago

kantwistaye

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badsam1956 wrote:

Nobody is saying that he can't say this. Its just he can't be part of the Texas Longhorns football team if he wants to say it. Its his choice. He made it. He couldn't have been, or shouldn't have been, oblivious to the consequences. Its his fault. Also, its usually considered criminal to make threats, particularly to prominent officials.

238 days ago

badsam1956

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kantwistaye wrote:

So as long as you're a Democrat or a nobody, you can be a complete idiot? That makes no sense to me at all. The idea of free speech is being able to express yourself without being censored by the government or society. Say he can, but not be a part of the team, is like saying as long as he is a little drone, he'll be OK. No thoughts at all are required to play a sport. Of course if a player of another race makes racial slurs it's OK then? Both have the right to speak their thoughts and to limit it because of what he does is very simplistic and wrong. How many times have black players pulled bonehead stunts and been kicked off a team? Unless it's criminal, not many. Racism is wrong, but that shouldn't limit what a person says on a personal website. It should be his as well as anybody's right to be open and honest, or be applied to each side equally.

238 days ago

Pat

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badsam1956 wrote:

No one is limiting what he is able to say or not say. They are limiting his ability to be a representative of the University of Texas football team. That's a privilege, not a right.

He has the right to say whatever he wants. And Texas has the right to kick anyone off their team, for any reason they see fit.