Matt Zemek, blogger for Scout.com, and moral authority to us all, took Notre Dame to task, again, because taking Notre Dame to task is one of the 2 standard ways to ensure a lot of traffic to your “work,” and thus a happy editor/employer. This time, he claims that not only has Notre Dame lost track of its Catholic identity, but Notre Dame is also hurting America. To quote the ignoramus, “The ultimate problem with Notre Dame football has less to do with the institution itself, and much more to do with its violation of fundamental moral principles.” And if I were dumb enough to link to his column, and if you were dumb enough to go read it, this is what you’d see:

So while Zemek is busy blasting ND for hurting America and losing its Catholic Identity, he’s also busy marketing a credit card in the midst of one of the worst credit crisis this nation has ever seen, and a website called “NaughtyOrNice.com,” a matchmaking service that, apparently, is for those who want their sex without all those nasty entanglements like marriage, or, at the very least, commitment, and a video game system that’s helping our already obese society get even sicker while we, as a nation, are in the middle of a health care crisis. I’m surprised there isn’t an advertisement for lawyers who can get dads out of paying child support somewhere on the site. Maybe if I refreshed, there would be a new set of marketing promotions designed to help Zemek with his own Catholic identity or Americans with their morality.
Zemek continues his must-be-drunken rant with doozies like this:
I thought Notre Dame football’s biggest problem all these years was its lack of fidelity to Catholicism. Turns out that the program’s biggest problem was really its use of business methods that have hurt, are hurting, and–if unchecked–will continue to hurt America.
Right. Because “America,” which ND is apparently hurting, is bigger than, “Catholicism,” don’t ya know? This must be true, as Zemek, moral arbiter of Scout.com, spent the first part of his rant establishing that he’s a Catholic, so it must be true.
There’s a bunch of other stuff I could pick apart, like his complete lack of understanding of how a “free market,” actually works, or how investments, like, say, the purchasing of exclusive television rights to ND home games, are made based on forecasting of future performance rather than as a reward for the past. Zemek probably poured all of his money into Wang computers and still thinks it was a great buy. Never mind that after this entire diatribe, Zemek never once points out what team that isn’t already contractually obligated to a television deal via conference affiliation would be more “deserving” of NBC’s investment. I dunno, maybe he had Army in mind.
Anyway, let’s all hope Zemek sleeps well at night, making “money in a sound manner, with integrity and honor.” You know, with those internet banner ads to credit companies and find-sex-now websites that display while he baits people to read his “work.”
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