God dammit. I really was going to give Finebaum the benefit of the doubt.
He's completely 180'ed from when he was talking to Lars earlier.
About 5 people have called in bitching about Auburn not contacting parents immediately after the incident.
Fuckwads, first of all, this was not on campus. Secondly, what the fuck would that have done? For parents to be called at 2am to be told there's a shooting in Auburn? Did Alabama parents get a call when those bama players got shot at on the strip? Where was the outrage there?
Then this guy calls...
"Hey Pawwwl. I think we all acknowledge that it's a tragedy, but I think we also have to go beyond that and start wondering, is this a bigger problem at Auburn. You look at Michael Dyer and his testimony about how he was high all the time, and how it was his gun that was involved in the robbery with those other football players. Now you have this. And then this same apartment complex apparently about a month ago, it was reported in the paper that there was a guy there with guns and a pound of marijuana. So at some point you've gotta start looking at the obvious."
Paul: "What's the obvious to you?" there he goes, leading again
Caller: "That there's a problem, either in, or circling around this football team with guns and drugs."
Paul: "Jerry, I don't know how to answer that. And you certainly have stated some facts, and I think we all know those facts. Whether you can connect the dots and blame this or not, I'm struggling to know. I mean, everyone knows the facts here in this case, at least in terms of who was killed and who was injured. We don't know who was at the party. One would assume, and I think it'd be a pretty easy assumption, that other Auburn players were there, but can you connect one dot to the next, and then come to some broad generalization, I don't know."
Caller: "Well, I think you can make a pretty strong case based on what I just said and based on what's being reported that it's there. And it seems like there's a lot of people going out of their way not to state the obvious."
Paul: "(leading again)Why do you think, or why would that be the case?"
Caller: "Well, I can't speak for anybody but myself, but I think they're trying to do damage control to the football team. And the university."
Paul: "Wouldn't be the first time, Jerry."
Caller: "Nope. Sure wouldn't."
FUCK YOU, FINEBAUM. Didn't take long at all for this to take a disgusting turn for the worse.
People have lost their goddamn minds even insinuating that these guys were up to know good by being at a fucking POOL PARTY at an apartment complex. They're supposed to psychically know that some asshole brought a gun and planned to use it on them? Insane that the victims are being blamed here.
I really thought I'd be able to listen today without my blood boiling. I really thought Paul would cull the bullshit, at least for the first day. Nope.