Craig Carton DESTROYS "Patently Stupid" Caitlin Clark Column & Plaxico Burress Debunks Sweatpants Myth!

**Craig Carton** (0:00)
All right, Carton Show, Big Mac. Arguably the single dumbest column in the history of sports reporting and journalism was authored by USA Today's Nancy Armour. Okay, she's a columnist for USA Today, and she was writing a column about Indiana Fever's all-star guard, Caitlin Clark. All right, obviously, the only basketball player. Very popular subject. Any of us have ever cared about, right? And while I don't like watching women play sports, that's my own personal thing outside of the Olympics, and I respect the fact they are good athletes and all that stuff, it's just not my cup of tea. She wrote a column that was one of the most patently stupid and offensive columns that I think I've ever read, at least the excerpts of, in my entire life. She was talking about Caitlin Clark's, you know, verbal complaints to the referees about non-calls, bad calls, all those types of things that basketball players complain about, obviously, throughout the course of the game. Okay? And Nancy decided to take those complaints of hers and make it into a racial issue. And I'm just going to read this to you because it's fascinating how USA Today could employ somebody so stupid.
No, I mean that, like, and I like pandering to a group of people, I suppose, that she thinks they're now going to read her future comms, okay? She actually brought up the memory of Emmett Till, okay?
Because I guess the All-Star game was in Chicago, the WNBA All-Star game was in Chicago. And brought back that disgusting racist attack that took the life of Emmett Till all those years ago.
She writes that there's a white nationalist faction to Clark's fandom. Well, just stop right there. As if people that are suddenly watching the WNBA are only watching it because they're white supremacists is essential. She's alleging that, right? Yeah. And she says that white people's interest, I'm paraphrasing, in Clark, now I'm quoting her, is deeply, deeply problematic. Made even more so because the WNBA is made up predominantly of black women, many of them queer, her word not mine. Okay?

**Chris McMonigle** (2:27)
Okay.

**Craig Carton** (2:28)
When Clark claims fouls that don't exist, when she goes on profanity-laced tirades at referees, those racists see her as a white woman in need of saving and then take matters into their own hands.
Let that sink in. She is claiming that white racists will now attack black people because Caitlin Clark is complaining about a foul in a basketball game.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:02)
That's some leap.

**Chris McMonigle** (3:04)
Right?

**Chris McMonigle** (3:04)
That is some leap.

**Craig Carton** (3:06)
Like, let that sink in for just a second. Then she goes on to make her social point in an article about Caitlin Clark. It shouldn't need reminding this country has an awful history of black people being harmed, even killed, in the name of defending white women.
The irony of the WNBA's All-Star game is that it's happening this weekend in Chicago, the hometown of Emmett Till, who became an icon of the civil rights movement after his tragic murder. There's a local art gallery currently hosting an exhibit. Imagine what his life would have been had he not been lynched by your clan members and white and racist, right? So then she goes on to say this, while it's incumbent on the WNBA to do more to protect its players, apparently not their white players, only African American gals at play, and here's another, this line, there should also be an expectation on Clark to recognize the broader implications of her actions being weaponized, period stop.

**Chris McMonigle** (4:14)
For, for arguing fouls.

**Craig Carton** (4:16)
Yes. So in other words, Nancy Armour happens to be white, just for context of this, thinks that Caitlin Clark shouldn't complain about bad calls or non-calls because there's a racist watching the game who's now going to attack an African American because they think Caitlin Clark is being wronged. What?

**Chris McMonigle** (4:37)
Yeah, that's hard to wrap your mind around.

**Craig Carton** (4:40)
You think?

**Chris McMonigle** (4:41)
That's a bit of a leap.

**Craig Carton** (4:42)
Yeah.

**Chris McMonigle** (4:43)
Why?

**Craig Carton** (4:44)
And the USA Today printed this. They read it first.

**Chris McMonigle** (4:50)
She has become-

**Craig Carton** (4:50)
And they printed this.

**Chris McMonigle** (4:52)
She has become such a lightning rod. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable how you can shape your opinion on so many different things, politics, race. Like, Caitlin Clark and her playing in the WNBA has become some sort of like baseline for an argument in any direction you want to take it.
It is fascinating.

**Craig Carton** (5:13)
This might be the single dumbest column ever written in the history of journalism.