According to TPM, it isn’t just bitches and hoes for the C-Street Gangstas:
Former Congressman (and C Streeter) Chip Pickering is reportedly under police investigation for his involvement in a brawl with a rival youth league soccer coach.
Apparently, police were called to Liberty Park in Madison, Mississippi, after Pickering and coach Christopher Hester came to blows when Pickering confronted Hester over the treatment of Pickering’s son.
The kicker? Hester claims he was wearing a neck brace at the time of the incident.
Thug life. I wonder if they have prison tats and flash gang signs?
demkat620
He should run for the Senate. He’ll fit right in.
arguingwithsignposts
Hey, JC, it’s hard out here for a pimp.
LanceThruster
For this crowd, “turning the other cheek” means making sure they get a shot at the other side of the guy’s head they’re pummeling.
aimai
Why is this guy a former? He sounds like an all star member, to me.
aimai
Zifnab
@LanceThruster: I thought it was in reference to the mug shot.
paradox
We both love that movie, and I was thinking just the other day it was about time to watch it again.
I still have my rescue story to send in, John Cole, man I can’t believe what a successful publisher you now are. Please stay well.
DougJ
For this crowd, “turning the other cheek” means making sure they get a shot at the other side of the guy’s head they’re pummeling.
He could find that it means something altogether different in prison.
Moonbatting Average
Hey big momma I’m leavin’ you
you look like a horse and you gargle Lavoris
But don’t worry
Don’t have no remorse
Even Marie Osmond is getting a divorce!
-Opus
cmorenc
I’ve refereed competitive-level youth soccer for many years, and used to coach it as well. The better coaches keep their head about how they treat referees and their own players, but there are an inevitable, unfortunate percentage of idiots and assholes who take as their models the too-often atrociously behaved pointy football and basketball coaches seen on TV all the time. We refs call these kinds of coaches “Stanley Screamers”.
These kinds of men shouldn’t be allowed within a mile of coaching kids. As a ref, I have to deal with them all too often, and usually I can keep a lid on them without throwing them out, but not always.
cmorenc
BTW, which ones are “Stanley Screamer” assholes doesn’t really have much to do with politics, other than the fact that a fair number of wingers are Stanley Screamer asshole personalities. But usually, national political inclinations DO stay out of youth sports, fortunately. Soccer club politics are vicious enough.
Just Some Fuckhead
Can’t automatically side against the Republican here since these kiddie coaches are usually saddled with their own set of personality issues.
DougJ
What kind of a real Murkin lets his kid play soccer anyway?
Prattlehorn
Megahellaprops for the awesome Breaking Away ref.
That is all.
arguingwithsignposts
@cmorenc:
Not always refs. I recall covering a h.s. baseball game where a parent thought the ump made a bad call. He berated the ump for several innings until the ump turned around and threw him out of the stands. Real a*hole. This was a small school, too, so it was doubly uncomfortable.
bago
Dickcember is just beginning.
GregB
In related news, in Missouri, the former GOP house speaker has been charged with assaulting a woman.
Grand Old Pimp Hands.
-G
Mike P
Can we get some Bulworth up in here?
arguingwithsignposts
@Mike P:
Loved Bullworth, and also Bob Roberts. Both creepy for different reasons.
JenJen
I’m a bit taken aback that you passed on an opportunity for a “I wonder if he just got signed by the Bengals” joke.
calipygian
So just about every member living at C-Street has done something stupid and super un-Christian. Except Inhofe.
How much you want to bet that Inhofe is keeping a bunch of 10 year olds chained to the walls, naked?
smiley
People like Pickering are also the ones who rail against “political correctness” and the “everyone wins, they all get a trophy” approach to children’s sports. Maybe the coach simply said to Pickering that his kid just wasn’t good enough.
Martin
What’s the over/under on the statement “Do you have any idea who I am?” being uttered during the altercation?
And TimF will probably ignore this, but this is right up his photoblogging alley: http://www.treehugger.com/galleries/2009/12/the-unbelievable-world-of-snowflakes.php
Magic Pony Jobs Plan
And all the evil librul media been calling them party of no ideas.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/12/07/cantor-jobs-climate/
calipygian
“Political Correctness” is just code for “I’m an asshole who’s pissed I can’t just belittle people anymore”.
danimal
@calipygian: Inhofe gets his jollies melting the polar ice caps.
calipygian
If I heard that during a confrontation, it would just make me hit harder.
Annie
“According to TPM, it isn’t just bitches and hoes for the C-Street Gangstas…”
I think for once I have been rendered wordless….
Tsulagi
Yeah, the sign of the cross.
dcBill
Seems to me that you probably shoulda used the “assholes” tag on this one.
Ranger 3
Wow. They’re almost as bad as Raiders fans. By the way… didn’t the Raiders win this Sunday. I think so, hmmm, who did they beat.
Ummm… it was, uhhhh… some crap team, I can’t remember.
Steeplejack
@JenJen:
I think a little piece of Cole broke inside yesterday when the Steelers lost to the Raiders.
(And kudos to you for not rubbing it in.)
Suzan
Thugs amuck.
I want to see them in lineup. Naked.
Thanks,
S
Thug life. I wonder if they have prison tats and flash gang signs?
asiangrrlMN
@arguingwithsignposts: It’s MUCH harder being a ho.
This C-Street Mafia shit really depresses me because it underscores what SOME people can get away with in our society.
The Tim Channel
His political life was blown to hell when his extra marital relationship with one of the Creekmore girls went public. I was working for the Creekmore’s (Cellular South, etc.) at the time that the affair was still covert.
Let’s just say that they have a much higher standard for their employees than their children.
Enjoy.
psycholinguist
I heard about this from my buddy who was at the game in Madison, and yes, the dude did have a neck brace on. He said it was one of those funny ass fights where they were taking these big ole round-house kind of swings at each other, and then they ended up rolling around on the ground kind of pinching and puffing. Real fights are pretty funny unless one of the guys actually knows what he’s doing, then they can be pretty brutal. This wasn’t one of those times. He did say the coach was a real jackass with his players, so the “stanley Screemer” theory may have some merit. And Chip Pickering is pretty much a joke in Mississippi.