Breitbart ads banned from Teahupoo broadcast at the behest of San Diego shaper Rich Kenvin.
Earlier today, as the Billabong Tahiti Pro skidded to a surprisingly exciting end in smallish grey Teahupoo, the WSL website was festooned in ads for the right-wing website Breitbart.com.
Breitbart, in case you didn’t know, is a news website that really sticks in the craw of Castro-hat-wearing leftists for its pro-Trump, anti-open borders, pro-Israel positions. Its founder, Andrew Breitbart, switched the site from news aggregator to news network a decade ago after a trip to Israel with his co-founder Larry Solov.
Breitbart, Solov? Yeah, both Jews.
“One night in Jerusalem, when we were getting ready for dinner,” says Solov, “Andrew turned to me and asked if I would de-partner from the 800-person law firm where I was practicing and become business partners with him. He said he needed my help to create a media company. He needed my help to “change the world”… We were blown away by the spirit, tenacity, and resourcefulness of the Israeli people on that trip. Andrew could be quite convincing, not to mention inspiring, and I decided right there and then to ‘throw away’ (my Mom’s phrase) a perfectly good, successful and safe career in order to start a ‘new media’ company with Andrew Breitbart.”
Anyway, for a lot of people Breitbart represents the devil, for others its a voice that ain’t often heard.
Richard Kenvin, who enjoys Castro hats and is characterised by Coke bottle spectacles and who once won a pro event at Blacks, is of the former. And when the Breitbart ads started lighting up the WSL site he became terribly upset and loosed his fury on Instagram.
The WSL quickly responded.
Obviously, in that little echo-chamber the response was uniform.
milesjackler Yay! Glad something could be done. Cheers for making the effort
aaronpores Nice job, Richard. A little gumption and a few well-placed words go a long way.
meyerhoffer Yep.
mystic_looch ✌️
jallenz Post of the day.
m_laraghy
will.batman Great job!! @hydrodynamica
arbosurfboards
adamsurfs Thanks for speaking up!
davodenis
sli_boogie Well done @hydrodynamica @wsl
Are you as thrilled as the Rich Kenvin fans?
Or do you think, oowee, can’t a brother have an opinion anymore unless it conforms to strict guidelines as laid down by San Diego surfboard designers?
The WSL, Breitbart, and Kenvin have all been approached for comment.
More soon, maybe.
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I heard marine ply fins aren’t kosher
I gave up watching American sports over a decade ago for that very reason, and a lot of other Americans are dropping football and basketball similarly. I watch(ed) sports as an escape, a place of rest, and I turned it off because it wasn’t.
I thought this whole article was satire!
Boomers(TM): Fighting Satire With Satire
I personally can’t stand a lefty. Coming from that side of the mound their curve balls were so damn hard to hit in little league.
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Breitbart is an obscene hate-fest, a fav of the Alt-right and racists everywhere. Please, let’s not even pretend this is a debate. WSL can choose to sell space to them and I can choose to not watch the WSL… but to pretend that Breitbart is anything other than viciously anti-American is bullshit intellectually dishonest.
“Let’s not pretend this is a debate.” What a way to win an argument. “I’m right. You are wrong and morally reprehensible.” You must have killed it in Phil 101.
Oh fuck you too.
Hey SB, should Derek send you copy before he publishes it? That’ll bring in the readers.
Diversity sensitivity: the certain road to profitability. Great hire, WSL.
Oy vey
Perhaps the best response on this board.
He looks dashing in that new signature wetsuit
This article is fake news. Fuck breitfart and fuck anyone who thinks of anyone as a sub human. I can’t believe all the antifa crap “Soros paying people to riot” (rioting is fun and free), all this, shit. Classic anarchists do it for the mayhem, but don’t be mistaken of many sides we’re NOT on the pussy torch carrying frat boys side. Because anything else is unacceptable with the level of anti Zionism and anti Color that is rising faster than Trump’s erection when he hears “Trump do good”
“Fuck anyone who thinks of anyone as a sub human” and then speaking of others as if they were subhuman.
So . . . Fuck you?
Fuck white supremacist dick bags. Fuck me fuck you, but don’t forget to go fuck yourself
I tried to Turd, but that damn avatar of yours kept popping up in my head, killing the joy.
Christie’s front butt?
Fascist Turd.
Antifa turd
You are? I am diametrically opposed to Antifa.
So, your a Nazi?
1. Eff you.
2. The “Alt-right” are Nazis. Antifa are fascist Bolsheviks. Both want to achieve a marxist workers paradise (socialist and authortarian), but organized around oppositional grievances. I say eff em both and I hope they destroy each other.
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Selfie?
Besides pics of Nazis and dicks your statement is the exact same thing that allowed Donald Trump to become president and Hitler to take power. Not taking a side is not an answer. Your either a Nazi,or your not .
A false dilemma that’s reductionistic, totalitarian thinking. I’m on the side of natural law, individual liberty, civil society and liberal democracy. My great uncle fought the Nazis and my dad fought the Commies. And if I have fight both at the same time, I will.
Day after a contest, not another for a good bit, don’t fall for the trap. Next contest is at the Republican party’s favorite surf spot. More irony.
Nixon reef
They stankkkkk!
“he divorced his wife….”
Meyerhoffer, surfboard design genius, worked at Porsche in Stuggart as his first job. The ironical world we live in.
ouch.
Maybe you mistakenly clicked on the ERBB?
Protestants are such clean living hard workers who shucked the ceremony and excesses of the Catholic church! ! Why pig?
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Oh it’s hard! A tightrope act!