Titus Ashby is an adorable boy who makes trick basketball shots. He’s appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Show and in viral videos with celebrities such as Bradley Cooper and Channing Tatum. Titus’ father, Joseph Ashby, is a radio host and AmericanThinker.com contributor.
An article at Deadspin titled “Everything That Should Die in 2014” names “The Trick Shot Titus phenomenon” as one thing they’d like to see disappear in the coming year. But it doesn’t stop there, because the article contends Joseph Ashby is exploiting his son, whom the Deadspin dirtbags deride as “Honey Boo Boo with a jump shot.”
@Deadspin's @ToLey88, in his continued push to deprive the world of joy, calls for death of TrickShotTitus phenomenon http://t.co/mKUqlLeH9e
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) January 3, 2014
Tom Ley, a Deadspin staff writer, dumpster-dove through Ashby’s Twitter history and retweeted some things from the past couple of months to “out” the father of Trick Shot Titus as a Christian conservative:
@TheKansasRino It's your contention that homosexual relations are endorsed by God?
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) December 19, 2013
A&E encourages tolerance by telling traditional Christians, "We don't want your kind here." #PoeticIrony
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) December 19, 2013
Obama: I'm so sorry that I shutdown the gov't for three weeks rather than agree to the smallest of temporary changes to this law.
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) November 8, 2013
Those sentiments were enough to earn Ashby the label “awful”:
https://twitter.com/ToLey88/status/419216879677235200
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Ashby responded appropriately, considering the irony:
@ToLey88 You're got me on that. Why, just the other day I used my media platform to rip a two-year-old and his family. #OhWait
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) January 3, 2014
Yes, if we didn’t know better we’d think it was Ashby who referred to a two-year-old boy as “Honey Boo Boo with a jump shot.”
How did Ashby get a radio show, anyway? Because of his trick-shot son?
@ToLey88 @JosephAshbyShow how did this guy get a show? By pimping his kid around like a prize show dog ?
— Yoshi Yamamoto (@the_y0sh) January 3, 2014
@the_y0sh @ToLey88 Had the show before viral videos #AnotherSwing #AnotherMiss
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) January 3, 2014
Another failed assumption.
Limited goals:
https://twitter.com/ToLey88/status/419229702553735168
.@ToLey88 <snort> Right, Your mission in life. <eye roll>
— Bob ن (@BobHicks_) January 3, 2014
@ToLey88 http://t.co/vemwlLSN9v
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) January 3, 2014
Heh.
Here’s Ashby’s discussion with another tolerant lib:
https://twitter.com/Jay_Sanin/status/419217405936549888
@Jay_Sanin Ignored us by appearing in our newest video (at the time) #NiceTry
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) January 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/Jay_Sanin/status/419219270195609600
@Jay_Sanin Besides being irrelevant, that's not even true. #CheckTheTape. You do a lot of parenting, by the way, Jay?
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) January 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/Jay_Sanin/status/419223691755405312
@Jay_Sanin You give me a call when it happens. For now, I'm the dad and we'll both know you're pretending to know what you're talking about
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) January 3, 2014
Since being “outed” as a conservative, the father of “Trick Shot Titus” had a busy day:
Enjoying a lot of liberal tolerance on twitter today. Also, Twitter turns out to be full of parenting experts. #WhoKnew
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) January 3, 2014
https://twitter.com/KSconservative1/status/419227021277818880
https://twitter.com/TheKansasRino/status/419237819890933762
Being a conservative sometimes adds to the fuss.
Here’s one of Trick Shot Titus’s videos:
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