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Dutch Speed Skating Coach Slams ‘Foolish’ American Football on CNBC
Newsbusters.org ^
| February 20, 2014
| Sean Long
Posted on 02/20/2014 2:56:42 PM PST by Kaslin
Attacks against football might be okay for some, but not for CNBC host Joe Kernen.
When a Dutch Olympic coach blamed American losses in speed skating on football, Kernen responded by passionately attacking speed skating. The Dutch coach, Jillert Anema claimed that football essentially wastes American athletic talent in a sport that sucks.
Joe Kernen responded by saying that he had recently tried to watch speed skating, but was distracted by some paint drying on his wall. Given the choice, he quickly settled on the paint, just watching the paint dry.
Anema told CNBC reporter Michelle Caruso-Cabrera that football was meant to kill each other, to injure each other. He also suggested that the United States would not be able to win speed skating in the future because Americans are so narrow-minded.
Kernen sarcastically asked if the Dutch have Sunday night speed skating where they just watch people go around and around and around. Perhaps, he mused, the Dutch just didnt understand football.
Kernen is well known for his outspoken conservative views. He and compared him to Bernie Madoff and former Enron executive Ken Lay, calling him a charlatan and a villain.
Joe Kernan Defends Football
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:56:42 PM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Watching vs. Doing.
Which camp do you fall into?
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posted on
02/20/2014 2:58:28 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Kaslin
Aren't the Dutch some of the people we had to expend blood and treasure in WWII for the express purpose of handing back to them the very sovereignty they were unable to defend themselves?
Why, yes...I believe they were.
On that basis, I believe we can dismiss this lackwit's comments out of hand, with prejudice.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:02:00 PM PST
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: Kaslin
“Joe Kernen responded by saying that he had recently tried to watch speed skating, but was distracted by some paint drying on his wall.”
Lol.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:03:04 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: Kaslin
I never got interested in skating because I am a heterosexual.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:05:37 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: dhs12345
So - he can change the channel.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:06:46 PM PST
by
Dan(9698)
To: Milton Miteybad
I was in Germany a couple of years back and the customs lady was getting a little snippy. And then she said something about dumb Americans. I was so tempted to remind her that we kicked her country's arse but I didn't. Probably a wise decision.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:07:07 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: dhs12345
Joe Kernen responded by saying that he had recently tried to watch speed skating, but was distracted by some paint drying on his wall. Great response.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:07:45 PM PST
by
A message
To: Dan(9698)
Unless, his wife want to watch figure skating. ;)
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:08:25 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: A message
Exactly. Short, sweet, and to the point. Those are the best comebacks.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:09:26 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: AppyPappy
I never got interested in skating because I am a heterosexual. Oh I don't know there have been some women figure skaters I could get into, but I'll leave the men to the Dutch.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:09:45 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Kaslin
I’m never in the mood to be lectured by a bunch of European snobs.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:10:09 PM PST
by
CommerceComet
(Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
To: dhs12345
You might have pointed out to her that the largest ethnic group in America has traditionally been...ah...well GERMANS...
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:10:57 PM PST
by
TalBlack
(Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: dhs12345
Go to the other room with a TV.
To: Milton Miteybad
I guess it it was winter 1940, the Dutch would have been able to skate away from the Germans?
To: Mastador1
The women are too skinny.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:14:43 PM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
To: Kaslin
Kernen sarcastically asked if the Dutch have Sunday night speed skating where they just watch people go around and around and around. Americans haven't the slightest interest in sports where they just watch people go around and around and around.
Oh, NASCAR. Never mind.
To: Kaslin
look....the difference is that in America we WATCH while a few athletes play football or baseball or basketball....
we're a nation of watchers.....can't get a whole lot of Olympic caliber athletes when you have that...
I'm sure if some of these football players trained solely for speed skating or boxing or hockey, we'd win every Olympic medal count....
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:18:39 PM PST
by
cherry
To: TalBlack
Exactly.
And, yes my ancestors were German.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:20:17 PM PST
by
dhs12345
To: AppyPappy
Lol. Exactly.
My wife is a big fan of figure skating and was complaining that men were just not as graceful as the women. And then I reminded her of the gay skaters which there are a high percentage of. They can be rather effeminate. She laughed.
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posted on
02/20/2014 3:24:22 PM PST
by
dhs12345
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