Commentator Bryant Gumbel was right on when, during a recent broadcast he said…
So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.
Bryant was right by Gumbit!
I say that the Winter Olympics is a LOT like the GOP.
The Top 10 Ways the Winter Olympics is Like the GOP–
10. We don’t throw our athletes under the team bus! BTW, what is Paul Hackett doing these days?
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9. Best score wins. No extra points given for nationality.
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8. Guns: Winter sports feature shooting with real ammo. It couldn’t be better unless we got to ski and cut down trees.
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7. People stand for the National Anthem.
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6. Flag trading limited to souvenirs not citizenship.
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5. Men’s luge. Women’s luge. Nothing for transgender.
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4. Sweepers on Curling team have their immigration papers.
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3. Admiration of Roe Vwade refers to the skier from Norway. And his brother, Ingvar Vwade.
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2. Medals are ordered in bulk from Wal-Mart.
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And the Number One Way that the Winter Games are like the GOP…
1. The GOP, like the Winter Games, features us winning!!
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Thank you Mr. Gumbel for helping us spread the word.
Okay. Enough with the FIRST!
Which ones were good?
No fair Mr. Duck!!!!! You can’t call FIRST on your own post!! waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! You’re supposed to alert the media before you do that!!!! wwwwwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!!
signed,
David Gregory,
Jack Cafferty,
Brian Williams,
Elizabeth Varga,
Wolf Blitzer,
Keith Olbermannnnnn
and about the list: they were all unfair, biased, offensive, crude, and vile. Well, at least you haven’t lowered your standards any. Keep up the good work!!!
YAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!
…and about the list: they were all unfair, biased, offensive, crude, and vile..
:: RWD blushes ::
Thanks
Racist. You’re a racist. I’m a racist too.
My favorite races would be luge and skeleton and downhill.
Race.
Racing!
Word Play. I missed that one!
(smacks head)
I laughed at all of them 😀
Bryant is so wrong! Photos don’t lie!
for the summer olympics, they should have an event like the 300 meter dash or so, with a fence and guards in the middle. if you get caught you have to go back and wait an hour. People that make it over quickest win..
Mexicans would win.
Why doesn’t Mexico have an olympic team?
Any Mexican that can run, jump or swim resides in America.
“Flag trading limited to souvenirs not citizenship”
lol!
THAT one was awesome.
From media blogger Ron Franscell at http://underthenews.blogspot.com …
Hmmm. Let the questions begin. The actual transcript has been removed from HBO’s site, but the curiosity remains.
— What do Republicans have to do with this? Are they all white? Are Democrats all black? Is activist-journalist Gumbel showing his own political and racial prejudices?
— What would happen if any white commentator had said he doesn’t watch the NCAA’s March Madness because it “looks like a Nation of Islam convention”? (I find that abhorrent.)
— Despite Gumbel’s viewing preferences, is it really fair to hold the Winter Olympics responsible for geography? After all, the great bulk of blacks outside the USA live in countries where winter sports are alien … or is there some belief out there that an affirmative action-like program is necessary to fix this particular sporting event?
— Why must so many people inject race as a divider when it’s simply not?
Gum-ball is an ASS!
I assumed there were black athletes but temps were so low that everyone was covered in frost.
This list would be hilarious if it wasn’t so true. It makes it rather sad, actually.
And so far as race goes, what about all the yellow people in these events? Chinese commie bastards and Japanese and Koreans? Or do they get to be counted as white too because they don’t have dark enough tans?
Race baiting on an HBO program? Disparaging remarks about the GOP and our country? Claims of racial superiority by a non-white individual supported? All on HBO? Say it ain’t so!
Heh. Gumbel can go french kiss a flagpole in Turin. He’s about as respectable as Barney Gumbel.
Someone please tell Gumby, we don’t give a damn what he thinks!
The sweeper one was my favorite.
And great finish, BTW.
Hey, I care what Gubel thinks. Without him, I might not know just what a racist jerk I am due to the paucity of albinos on my sunbathing team.
How are the winter olympics and the GOP similar?
They both allow Gumbel to open his mouth and prove what an asshat he is.
One way the olympics are like the Democratic Nationial Convention, all but three people are LOSERS.
Ok maybe everyone is a loser, but then it wouldn’t be like the olympics
Too bad Herschel Walker doesn’t participate in the bobsled competition anymore, then we could delight in Bryant getting his arse kicked for calling Herschel a ‘token’ as he most certaintly would do.
Hmmm South Central even North African Olympic Winter Games atheletes not represented enough,just wait until downhill suicide bomb run is an event,we will get gold silver bronze every allah friggrn year.
Ha, thanks… you forgot to mention biggotted and racist in your comments. Oh, and by the way, I don’t know if you have noticed, we are not winning. We are fourth in the medal count. Good one. Well, you really are like the GOP, you don’t have your sources right
Gberger
When I said we were winning, I meant that we’ve won medals.
I didn’t know it was possible to win the ENTIRE olympics. Is it?
Is there some medal given to the country with the most victories?