It's like a reverse Anne Frank thing

[Yuri-G]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shu...urn=nfl-wp2225

Tiki Barber puts his foot in it again with ‘Anne Frank’ comment

By Doug Farrar
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While brother Ronde appears to be the very soul of dignity as he continues his future Hall of Fame career down in Tampa Bay, former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber managed to offend quite a few people with a recent comment. Explaining the media scrutiny he's received since he left his pregnant wife to be with his 23-year-old girlfriend, Barber told L. Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated that he moved into the attic of his agent, Mark Lepselter, to escape prying eyes.

"Lep's Jewish," Barber allegedly said, "and it was like a reverse Anne Frank thing."
Um, yeah. A millionaire pro football player comparing himself to a teenage Jewish Holocaust victim is going to go over about as well as Adrian Peterson's recent "modern-day slavery" comment, but at least Peterson had a bit of context with which to defend himself. Barber's comment was thoughtless at best and asinine at worst. It's certainly the wrong step to take as Barber tries to rehab his image in the wake of professional and personal failures, and as he tried to convince people that he's got a legitimate future in the NFL as a comeback story.

Barber was never known as the most tactful sort; it's well-known that his way of doing things put off some of his old teammates, especially when he questioned the leadership of the Giants quarterback as a member of the media as opposed to a guy in the locker room who would have to answer for his words. And his concept of himself as a future media magnate hasn't gone as expected. But this is a larger bump in the road. Judging from initial reactions, Barber will have quite a time living this down.

"Holocaust trivialization continues to spread and finds new ways and expressions that shock the conscience," Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League said. "Tiki Barber's personal behavior is his business. But our history and experiences are ours and deserve greater respect than being abused or perverted by Tiki Barber.

"The analogy to Anne Frank is not funny, it is outrageous and perverse. Anne Frank was not hiding voluntarily. Before she perished at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she hid from the Nazis for more than two years, fearing every day for her life. The Frank family's experiences, as recorded in Anne's dairy, are a unique testimonial to the horrors of the Holocaust, and her life should never be debased or degraded by insensitive and offensive analogies."

Lepselter defended his client, according to Pro Football Talk, by claiming that Barber was trapped in the attic for a week, and mentioned that Barber was the guest of Israel's president five years ago.

Most people will ring up a "No Sale" to that, though. I don't believe it's anyone's contention that Barber was actually trying to compare his situation to Anne Frank's. But if there's one thing people need to learn when they're in the public eye, it's that the life of a celebrity doesn't have an "off" switch. If you want your words in the public record, you have to watch what you say at all times. Especially when, like Barber, your history makes you a less than sympathetic character.

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curious what BG thinks. honestly, I don't find the comment all that offensive, but maybe I am just desensitized.

[Acturus]

Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League said

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"The analogy to Anne Frank is not funny, it is outrageous and perverse. Anne Frank was not hiding voluntarily. Before she perished at age 15 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she hid from the Nazis for more than two years, fearing every day for her life. The Frank family's experiences, as recorded in Anne's dairy, are a unique testimonial to the horrors of the Holocaust, and her life should never be debased or degraded by insensitive and offensive analogies."

No, Tiki Barber's analogy to Anne Frank is not funny.

This article, however, I find to be quite humorous.

Professional atheletes should have a "no talk" clause in their contracts. The overwhelming majority of them are morons.

[Headspace]

Loooooool

K-ROLD

[Correction]

Jews are the new blacks, offended at every little thing someone outside of their ethnic circle says about jews.

[tyven]

tiki barber is a full metal cunt

[Yuri-G]

@ correction: that's kinda how I see it. it wasn't a smart or funny thing to say, but it's not like he's denying the Holocaust or something.

must suck for the cool jews. I know how they feel; I get the same way every time GLAAD gets their panties in a twist.

[Cream Soda]

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[Mizango]

Tiki Barber is and always will be an idiot. He went from playing with the Giants and fumbling 5 times a game, to being a boojie ass nigga sitting on the Fox News couch with Kilmeade and Doocy. Fuck Tiki, hes an idiot.

[Jicent]

Wow, people are way to sensitive these days. He just made a comment about something that happened over half a century ago and people are offended. Yes, the holocaust was a terrible thing to happen and I hope something of that scale never happens again but really, why make a big deal about an off color comment?

[tyven]

imo the story isnt about what he said, its about who said it. im guessing you are not very familiar with tiki and his numerous blunders

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k5y...QqN#from=embed

[Yuri-G]

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I laughed and cringed at the same time.

[Jicent]

Yeah tiki is a dumb ass. Just look laugh and forget about it.

[Acturus]

Wow, people are way to sensitive these days. He just made a comment about something that happened over half a century ago and people are offended. Yes, the holocaust was a terrible thing to happen and I hope something of that scale never happens again but really, why make a big deal about an off color comment?

You think that's bad, the Jews still hate all that slavery nonsense that happened to them in Egypt from like a million years ago. I heard they even wrote a book about it.

[elison]

lol jews

[Cream Soda]

Before salvage's drop rates were adjusted, we used to call the best zone Jew ngr remnants (aka silver sea). Ngr cause the long version is not allowed unless in spam

[Jicent]

You think that's bad, the Jews still hate all that slavery nonsense that happened to them in Egypt from like a million years ago. I heard they even wrote a book about it.

The movie was better.

[tyven]

i'ma tell yall like i told spam. if the jews would quit being such pretentious assholes they wouldnt get put through all this shit. but everything is all ME ME ME. CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE CHOSEN ONE. GENTILE GENTILE GENTILE

[Ragnell]

I wish I had tiki's money

[Day]

Stupid basketball players

[Acturus]

Reverse Anne Frank sounds like a sex position:

It's like that thing where you and a girl with a big nose have sex in an attic when other people are in the house, and you cover her mouth so that no one downstairs can hear her cum.

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