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Thoughts on the Olympics (a quote from Bryant Gumbel)
"Just the Tip" ^ | February 13, 2006 | Todd Christian

Posted on 02/15/2006 5:07:33 AM PST by DennisR

Mr. Gumbel's statement: “Because [the Winter Olympics] are so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like try not to be incredulous when someone tries to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. 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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bryantgumbel; gumbel; olympics; racism
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Mr. Gumbel - who evidently spends way too much time thinking about skin color - has shown himself again to be the ignorant racist he is by erroneously deriding the GOP for what he perceives as a "paucity of blacks."

Please contact HBO at http://www.hbo.com/apps/submitinfo/contactus/submit.do?title=Real%20Sports&questiontype=realsports to let them know what you think about this.

1 posted on 02/15/2006 5:07:35 AM PST by DennisR
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To: DennisR

The man is a racist....everything is about race to him....He deserves no respect....


2 posted on 02/15/2006 5:10:22 AM PST by PigRigger (Send donations to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org)
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To: DennisR

What a pathetic, little man. His only good role was on Family Guy.


3 posted on 02/15/2006 5:10:40 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: DennisR

Is this for REAL? This is disgusting.

Remember what they did to RUSH over the McNabb remark.

I will contact HBO.


4 posted on 02/15/2006 5:13:27 AM PST by Mayflower Sister (DEMOCRAT: THE PARTY OF COWARDS AND TRAITORS, and I almost forgot... BABY KILLERS)
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He's just over compensating for his lack of black mannerisms.

He is trying to make up for all of the years of ribbing he's taken from black comedians.

5 posted on 02/15/2006 5:13:52 AM PST by guitar4jesus (ISLAM offers no hope . . . Only despair.)
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To: DennisR

I hope Mr. G has given up his bad habit of playing golf at exclusive country clubs that lack racial diversity in proportions reflective of the general population so that he may remain a pure and undefiled example of righteousness to our poor world.


6 posted on 02/15/2006 5:14:39 AM PST by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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And didn't Bryant divorce his black wife to marry a white woman?

Bryant Gumbel was so full of himself on "Today"...I think that's when I gave up watching any of the morning shows.


7 posted on 02/15/2006 5:15:11 AM PST by Maria S
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To: DennisR

"White people like Wayne Brady because he makes Bryant Gumble look like Malcolm X."


8 posted on 02/15/2006 5:15:56 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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So Bryant is saying that blacks are the worlds greatest athletes,that whites simply can't compete with blacks in athletics, and that if you aren't black, you can't be the worlds greatest athlete.

I'm still trying to decide why you need separate men's and women's teams for Curling? If there ever was a sport where you'd think the sexes could compete equally, it would have to be one where you slide rocks on ice.

Rush Limbaugh doesn't like curling, although he did say that it was nice to see women using brooms again.


9 posted on 02/15/2006 5:16:02 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT ("I don't drink coffee")
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So, Bryant, let's take a peek at HBO's biggest shows. Sopranos are not exactly paragons of diversity. Deadwood, #%*#& &$%#% right again. Taxicab Confessions, maybe? Some other shows may have a couple minortities. And gee, isn't the latest lady in your life a white? Dang, Gumby-boy, you have been infected!


10 posted on 02/15/2006 5:16:22 AM PST by pikachu (I must be be built upside down -- my nose runs and my feet smell!)
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Yea Bryant, just ignore the fact that Blacks have reached the highest positions of REAL responsibility in this GOP administration. OBTW, I'm a black man who skis, so there's nothing to prevent black people from coaching their children to Olympic level capability in the next few years.


11 posted on 02/15/2006 5:17:14 AM PST by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

"The broom babes"


12 posted on 02/15/2006 5:17:56 AM PST by Laz711 (The Barbarians are in Rome)
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To: DennisR
Reminding us once again why Gumball is so despised by just about everyone.

Some people just can't resist another 2 minutes of being on the stage.

13 posted on 02/15/2006 5:20:30 AM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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Well, like it matters anyway.. have to listen to the American fru fru figure skater trying to pretend he's some poofer bad ass and going to stick it to the red state republicans.... Of course he got his well worn rectum handed to him by the Russian anyway....

Or have another supposed "bad ass" talk his jackass game, only to watch him get DQ'd for missing a gate.

Hey guys, if you truly are as rebel and tough and all that other crap as you want to pretend you are... shut your damn mouth and let your actions speak for you... of course if you did that... you might actually win.

Trash talk <> Gold Medal... dumbasses.


14 posted on 02/15/2006 5:20:36 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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Well you have the Jamaican bobsled team, some figure skaters...so give kids from Chicago ski passes. Open a curling rink in Philadelphia. Invent a winter sport kids from low income families can get into. Like hickey bobbing on the back of cars. Go down the bobsled chute on Converse sneakers. Slush volleyball. There has got to be a way to make him happy.
15 posted on 02/15/2006 5:20:49 AM PST by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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To: PigRigger

"The man is a racist....everything is about race to him....He deserves no respect...."

You nailed it, he's also a blowhard phoney!!



16 posted on 02/15/2006 5:21:10 AM PST by KenmcG414 (wHAT'ST)
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...despite a paucity of Blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention Howard Dean's gubernatorial cabinet.”

That works.
17 posted on 02/15/2006 5:21:15 AM PST by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: DennisR

What a grumpy, bitter man


18 posted on 02/15/2006 5:21:38 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: DennisR

omg he really didn't say this, did he???????????????


19 posted on 02/15/2006 5:24:49 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: Clock King

Preach it.


20 posted on 02/15/2006 5:26:18 AM PST by RightOnline
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