The media backlash over Dan Snyder’s lawsuit against the owners of the Washington City Paper has been swift and condeming, but it all really came to a head last night during WUSA9’s late local news broadcast. The station’s Sports Director, Brett Haber, dropped some damning commentary on Snyder’s case, calling it “trumped-up,” “repugnant” and a “classic case of bullying and a man stepping on the First Amendment rights.”

“This isn’t Russia,” said Haber. “You don’t get to stifle what the media says, just because it paints you in a negative light.”

And about Snyder’s claims that the City Paper’s illustration of him in horns and facial hair was anti-Semitic? “Speaking as a Jew, that’s baloney,” Brett Haber said.

“The truth that Snyder fails to grasp is that the only way to stop being portrayed as such an unlikeable figure,” concluded Haber, “is to stop acting like one.”

Well said, Mr. Haber.