On the “Rubin Report” podcast last week, BlazeTV host Dave Rubin had an honored guest to interview, that of NBA hall-of-famer Charles Barkley. As usual, Charles Barkley did not pull any punches and was his usual opinionated self. First of all, this NBA hall-of-famer railed against the cancel culture that is so prevalent nowadays and he also took some shots at his cowardly “bosses” at TNT for being a part of the “Woke Brigade” and allowing it to ruin his job.
“You can’t even have fun nowadays without these jackasses doing their level best to get you canceled and things like that,” Barkley told the hosts of WJFK-FM’s “Grant and Danny.”
Barkley said that one of the things that he was ordered not to do was to make jokes about the “big ass” women he was encountering in San Antonio, Texas both as a player and then as a commentator. “I didn’t call anybody personally fat in San Antonio. All I was doing was just making a joke,” he explained.
“Listen, all I’m trying to do is just hang on for another couple of years until I’m 60, and then frankly, these people can kiss my ass, because I’m only going to work until I’m 60,” Barkley stated.
“That’s all people ever talk about behind the scenes now, like, ‘yo dude, you ought to be careful of going in this direction’. I’m like, ‘yo man, oh brother, we can’t even have any fun any more.’ We’ve had a lot of fun all these years, and now, all of a sudden, in the last year and a half, it’s like we see everybody is trying to get everybody else fired and this really sucks. But unfortunately, I mean it’s been happening for a couple of years now. It’s like if people disagree with you, it’s like a terrible thing and they’re going to try to get you fired and try to come for your head, you know, and just like that, a lot of our bosses are cowards.”
I think Sir Charles makes some valid points here. What do you think?