Posted on 01/30/2006 2:10:49 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein January 30, 2006 - 17:05
Liberal media bias isn't limited to news reporters. At least when it comes to the Boston Globe, it clearly extends to the sports department.
Boston Globe sports reporter Dan Shaughnessey just completed an interview with the edgy Jim Rome, host of the eponymous 'Jim Rome is Burning' on ESPN. The topic was Detroit's worthiness as a Super Bowl site. Shaughnessey vigorously defended Motown in these terms: "Detroit is a real city. You can get the New York Times here."
In closing, Shaughnessey took a gratuitous swipe at recent Super Bowl host city Jacksonsville, calling it a "yahoo town" that should never have been granted hosting privileges.
Aside from the blatant blue state/red state bias, should Shaughnessey be faulted for failing to disclose that the Boston Globe is largely owned by none other than . . . the New York Times?
ESPN/NewsBusters ping to the Today show ping list.
And what does someone from Boston have to be arrogant about? Kerry, Kennedy, the Big Dig, Logan Airport?
Detroit is a sh!thole. I know, I once lived there.
Read some history, we have a lot to be proud about.
As for arrogance, Boston liberals are a variety i pray few of you have to deal with daily, as I do. That this boob Shaunnesy could talk this way is no surprise. He's a sports reporter who sucks up to managment and then gets on the radio every day with Mike Barnicle and thinks that means he knows anything about politics. He gets all his news from Imus.
But seriously, folks--he's a freakin SPORTS writer. This is America, we can say what we like. Who cares if some aged jock mentions the NYT? Are we that overly sensitive?
Of course, we've got Mitt, the Sox and Pats, the North End, and people who don't marry their sisters.
Here, the weirdos marry their brothers... ;)
So - the NY Slimes is available in New Fallujah? Color me impressed. I can just imagine the success they are having there.
-The Super Bowl has been homogenized. Here in Jacksonville last year was the NFL sanctioned "NFL Experience." It was the gathering place for those who weren't drinking. For those who were, there was a central gathering spot across the river. We don't have the strip clubs other cities have, which I think was a source for concern for the writers.
Detroit will have the same gathering places, and they'll do fine.
I see CHB strikes again. From getting his kid an internship with Tom Werner to smearing Theo Epstein to talking liberal trash, is there nothing he can't do?
Yeah, well, these smug reporters had better not stumble out of their "Green Zone" one night....
You can get the NY Times in Trumansburg NY. Big whoop.
Who reads hard copy papers anymore, anyhow? Dan can get read his precious NY Times anywhere in the world if he knows how to punch a few keys on a computer.
Shaughnessey's comment had to be one of the more glaring examples of MSM elitism and bias directed toward the Sun Belt and middle America at large.
In a professional chock-full of with whiny white liberal turds (and angry black liberal turds for that matter), Shaughnessy is one of the king turds.
The whole sports reporter world can sod off as far a I am concerned. I don't read their tripe anymore.
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