Hank Haney Suspended In Latest Outrage Mob Absurdity

Last week Hank Haney, on his SiriusXM satellite radio show, opined on the US Women's Open, which took place this weekend, by saying as follows:

Co-host: “This week is the 74th US Women's Open, Hank.”

Haney: “Oh it is? I’m gonna predict a Korean.”

Co-host, laughing: “OK, that’s a pretty safe bet.”

Haney: “I couldn’t name you six players on the LPGA Tour. Maybe I could. Well (He then named Michelle Wie, and pointed out she was injured, and Lexi Thompson) I’d go with Lee. If I didn’t have to name a first name, I’d get a bunch of them right.”

Co-host: “We’ve got six Lees.”

"If Haney is not fired from that job (and his co-host with him) and every other role he plays in golf and the news media by dinnertime Wednesday, then the leadership of the game, the PGA Tour and SiriusXM is condoning racism, sexism and xenophobia while basically telling everyone who isn’t a white male that golf is not the sport for them."

I can't believe I have to say this, but what Haney said wasn't remotely racist or sexist or xenophobic. He just pointed out that he didn't have much interest in the LPGA -- an opinion that Brennan seems to share since she hasn't written about the LPGA all year in her column -- and picked one of a series of golfers, a South Korean, who have dominated the LPGA tour of late, to win the tournament.

And then he was right!

Yet it somehow cost him his job.

You'd think that SiriusXM, the company that pays Howard Stern a hundred million dollars a year despite all the people he has perpetually offended throughout his career, would be above allowing losers like Christine Brennan to impact their programming decisions, but you'd be wrong.

Rather than stand up to an online mob representing a tiny segment of the population -- the vast majority of American sports fans weren't remotely offended by this -- the PGA Tour and SiriusXM capitulated to the losers and suspended Haney.

Even wilder, so many members of the sports media are terrified of the online mob that I'm the only person I've seen on the Internet defending Haney at all.

It's seriously insane.

Indeed, the most incredible irony here is that after the result of the US Women's Open if anyone is owed an apology, it's Haney.

He actually picked the winner, something the majority of LPGA commentators couldn't do.

Maybe instead of trying to take his job, they should give him another one -- lead analyst for the U.S. Women's Open.