Wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t report the news that didn’t wasn’t so flattering to my hometown teams. Here’s some press that won’t be making any Chicago Bulls press releases any time soon.
Of course, it’s certainly not the Bulls fault that a horrible human being of this sort happens to fall into the “big tent” that is their fan base. When you’re a huge international brand like the Chicago Bulls, you’re bound to attract some “miscreants, losers and riff raff” as Keith Olbermann would say.
Or in this case the occasional murderous terrorist jihadist.
ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria are a militant group so deplorable and horrific that even Al Qaeda have distanced themselves from the organization. Yes, Al Qaeda!
And as you’ll see in the clip below from “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart, an ISIS member is a huge Chicago Bulls fans. Or at least his Facebook profile is a big Chicago Bulls fan. Like I told one of my colleagues in the press box Saturday, people are often very different from their social media representation. So social media interaction is always meant to be taken with a grain of salt. Facebook and Twitter interaction is not actually real.
At least that’s what I keep telling myself so that Detroit Pistons fans don’t use this against us Chicagoans.
I do wonder if Derrick Rose and company have seen clip yet.
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