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Kentucky politician uses Christian Laettner as an insult

By Alexandra Huber

Apr 5, 2013; Atlanta, GA, USA; NCAA basketball former player Christian Laettner speaks during the 75 years of March madness press conference in preparation for the Final Four of the 2013 NCAA basketball tournament at the Georgia Dome. Mandatory Credit: Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 5, 2013; Atlanta, GA, USA; NCAA basketball former player Christian Laettner speaks during the 75 years of March madness press conference in preparation for the Final Four of the 2013 NCAA basketball tournament at the Georgia Dome. Mandatory Credit: Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports /
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A Kentucky politician insults his rival by calling him as the “Christian Laettner of Kentucky politics.”

Are you a politician in Kentucky? Do you want to insult your opponent? Go ahead and call him the worst thing you can think of; Christian Laettner.

Wait, what? Well, that’s exactly what happened.

On Wednesday night, Republican candidates held a debate on a local sports channel. One of the candidates, James Comer, was accused of mentally and physically abusing his college girlfriend in the Louisville Courier Journal. Recently, though, Comer has insinuated that one of his fellow candidates and rival Hal Heiner planted the story.

During Wednesday’s debate, Comer was asked about the allegations against him. In response, Comer, further implicating his rival, called Heiner the “Christian Laettner of Kentucky Politics.”

Sick burn, bro.

Now, it’s obvious what this politician was going for. Kentuckians are not exactly Laettner’s biggest fans. After all, in the 1992 NCAA tournament, he did stomp on one of the Kentucky Wildcats players (for which he was not ejected) and proceeded to hit one of college basketball’s most famous shots to knock them out of the NCAA tournament. Laettner’s Duke Blue Devils then went on to win the National Championship.

Kentucky fans will argue that Laettner should not have even been in the game after stomping on a player. So that huge shot he made? It should never have happened. That has to hurt, sure, but it was more than 20 years ago.

Essentially, though, what Comer is doing is calling his opponent one of the best politicians of all time. Sure, Laettner is surly, occasional rude, and has a raging superiority complex, but he also wins. A lot.

Though Comer might have looked silly to us, the comparison probably appealed to number of his constituents – and that’s the end game.

Laettner, to his credit, had a perfect response to the story.

Insult Laettner all you’d like, but he always gets the last laugh. That’s how it works.

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