The massacre, in which 58 people were killed by an affiliate of Al Qaeda, paled before the worst spectacles of violence in Iraq.
Carlos Queiroz, then assistant manager, told him it was "the worst imaginable spectacle" and in that moment Ferguson resolved that Keane, the rock on which United's success had been built and a hero to the fans, needed to be sold.
For many of the corporation's cultural arbiters it is an institution at best problematic (trying to maintain freshness in the face of unbending "tradition") and at worst an embarrassing spectacle they would privately prefer to do away with (vulgar audience displays of jingoism and boorishness).
Still, the worst thing about Spectacles is Snapchat.
The worst thing about Spectacles is how closely tied they are to Snapchat.
I think at best it was an amusing spectacle, at worst it helped to again push the cause of progressive politics to the margins".
For us, the worst part of the whole spectacle was that the contestants could not ask the bachelor any questions, which even he humbly apologized for.
Worst of all was the grotesque spectacle of the Frey men parading Robb Stark's mutilated body with Grey Wind's head stitched on top.
This brings me, in a roundabout way, to the horror show at Madison Square Garden, where Steve Mills, Anucha Browne Sanders and Isiah Thomas have treated a national audience to a spectacle that combines the worst elements of BET, Imus and "The Office".
Since Qaddafi makes the ultimate ideological decisions, the spectacle calls to mind the worst aspects of multiparty democracy, albeit without parties or democracy.
