Adrian Peterson -- Indicted for Child Abuse

I still feel that people overreact about spanking a kid, but I rescind anything about people overreacting to ap after seeing the pictures and available facts and accusations. Ap is a terrible person and he went far overboard from just a spanking.

 

Add me to the kids that were spanked with a wooden spoon, but what AP did is really fucked up looking at those pictures.

 

Your initial comment mocks the media witch hunt, and though the initial story had all of these allegations in it, the continued witch hunt by the media unveils pictures, which cause you to change your thinking on it? Without that media witch hunt, just hearing about the whipping and cuts wasn't enough.
Seems like the media continuing with their witch hunt is actually necessary, so they can expose the issues to people like you who, without pictures, otherwise seemed perfectly ok with it, and thought people needed to get a life and mind their own business.

 

The media witch hunt can still be ridiculous. Where have those pictures been reported? Seems to me everyone shit themselves about ray rice, but they are sweeping the pictures under the rug no? I haven't seen them reported and shown on any large newscasts yet. If they have let me know, I havent been catching up with each news report on it, but other forums I frequent have been saying they are not on CNN, espn, etc.

At the time I stated those things I had been listening to espn and felt they portrayed the events as less than they were. After seeing the pictures I agreed that it was far too excessive.

Were my original comments Insensitive? Probably. But I didn't know the facts and assumed it was just another spanking story based on what I had interpreted when this first hit espn.

 

There was an article linked in the first post of this thread with the details and pictures of the abuse.

 

I did not click on the link or read it. My information at that time was only what I had heard on espn television. I don't remember much detail and there definitely had been no pictures. So obviously I was wrong and I completely agree that ap went overboard and was wrong.

 

Wasnt the ray rice video all over the news though? As in reported and shown clips on news tv? Why aren't the ap kid pictures being shown? Seems to be being swept under the rug a little bit more than rice was. Why is that?

 

But that's the odd thing, you complain about the witch hunt, but needed them to carry through with it, to reveal pictures, for you to see the seriousness of the abuse. So you benefited, in a sense, from the witch hunt.

Also, in general, I'd say having a strong opinion on a topic without actually reading what's linked isn't the wisest of choices.

 

Why do you need to see pictures, and for the "media witch hunt" to continue to get mad about it?

 

This must be what it feels like to have been a rabble rouser in the ot section. Good to know.

 

I don't, it was simply a question as to why one was aired and the other isn't.

 

I've seen more than I want to of the pictures, so not sure what to tell you.

 

If the pictures can be taken at face value, it looks really bad for AP.

My only caveat is to be careful when dealing with a bitter ex.

 

Now Reggie Bush says he "disciplines" his one year old daughter. I'm not trying to come off as racist, so i apologize if it comes off like that, but is this a cultural thing?

 

The good thing about a story like this hitting the mainstream is it hopefully will scare others who discipline like AP into giving up their violent tactics. Same with the spousal abuse cases, some might claim witch hunt but I I love when these stories are highlighted because it's a chance or some actual change to occur. Maybe Bush or dome other athletes will temper themselves in the future after reflecting on whatever punishment befalls AP.

 

So spanking is now a violent tactic?

 

Is that what I said? I said "discipline like AP".

 

No, there are a lot of morons in our nation.