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Weir's Second Career? Budding MSMer Opines Against Iraq War
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 02/20/2006 5:10:19 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
February 20, 2006
Things didn't work out well at the Olympics for Johnny Weir, the flamboyant American figure skater. Favored to take home a medal, he finished a disappointing fifth after a very rugged long program.
But Johnny shouldn't feel too bad. When he hangs up the skates, there could be a promising second career for him . . . as a member of the liberal media.
Interviewed on CBS' Early Show this morning, Weir explained that he knew he wasn't at his best on the day of the long program, and in particular wasn't "feeling pretty." Then, waxing philosophical, he noted that things aren't always perfect. If they were, Michelle Kwan would be skating, and "we wouldn't be in Iraq."
This isn't Johnny's first foray into political opinion at these Olympics. As NewsBuster David Pierre has pointed out, Weir has been seen sporting a Soviet Union retro jacket and has been heard to inveigh against "Republican-style people."
Hmm. With Katie Couric rumored to be moving to the CBS Evening News, there could be an opening at Today, Johnny!
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Delaware; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2006olympics; 3dollarbill; earlyshow; homoiceskateralert; iraq; johnnyweir; johnnyweird; olympics; pretty; rottentwinkie; usteam
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Olympic ping to Today show ping list.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:11:04 AM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:12:01 AM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(DO NOT read to the end of this tagline . . . Oh, $#@%^, there you went and did it.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
"we wouldn't be in Iraq."
I can't argue with that. In a perfect world we wouldn't need to be in Iraq.
But the world isn't perfect...
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:14:15 AM PST
by
DB
(©)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I guess Saddam wasn't "feeling pretty" when he got captured either...
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:16:36 AM PST
by
ISonnet
To: All
Here-s-s-s-s-s . . . Johnny!
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:17:13 AM PST
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Watching the Today Show Since 2002 So You Don't Have To.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
What's so flamboyant about Weir?..... I thought everybody important was a homosexual... Lincoln, Shakespeare, Jesus, Alexander the Great, St.Paul, the entire country of France, everybody on the "design" side of HGTV, all the cool people in high school, all the priests...
Reagan's son, Streisand's son, Cher's daughter, Cheney's daughter, all male figure skaters, ballet dancers, set designers, and finally any single male that has track lighting and loves show tunes.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:17:21 AM PST
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: Dick Vomer
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:28:24 AM PST
by
buckeye27
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Nothing like being a loser both on and off the ice.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:30:28 AM PST
by
EricT.
("I reject your reality and substitute my own."-Adam Savage)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:32:38 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Meep Meep)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The first time that I knew anything about this guy was a few days ago when NBC interviewed him. He is an American, and I was prepared to support his medal bid. However, he started of at the beginning of the interview dissing Southerners and Republican-style people. Since I fit both categories, it caused me to opine, why did this guy just turn over half the people in the country against him? Answer, the same reason that Streisand, Baldwin, Dixie Chicks, Madonna, etc. did. They hate it that most NORMAL people in the country support the GOP. As a Southerner who has lived outside of the South for several years, I am used to the snide comments (it was really bad 30 yrs ago). The South routinely supplies a disproportionate share of the US military. Of course Weir has no idea how important it is to defend America.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:37:15 AM PST
by
StarFan
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Didn't he wear the warm-up jacket with "CCCP" emblazened on the front?
Typical left wing socialist!
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:45:08 AM PST
by
newfreep
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Interviewed on CBS' Early Show this morning, Weir explained that he knew he wasn't at his best on the day of the long program, and in particular wasn't "feeling pretty."Hey, let's just tell it like it is in athletic terms. The kid choked.
With respect to his most likely lifestyle, he may choke again a time or two.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:45:48 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Alan Simpson: "All you get is controversy, crap, and confusion from the media.")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Why does that prissy face suddenly remind me of Ron Junior? Maybe he thought if he expressed his anti-American feelings, it would help him out with the judges. Instead he got back his bad karma. LOL @ him.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:46:29 AM PST
by
daybreakcoming
(If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. A. Lincoln)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Weir has been seen sporting a Soviet Union retro jacket and has been heard to inveigh against "Republican-style people." The little odd kid must have been hanging around with Brian Gumball.
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:47:41 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Alan Simpson: "All you get is controversy, crap, and confusion from the media.")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Is he in third grade? How cute?
;-)
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:48:29 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Alan Simpson: "All you get is controversy, crap, and confusion from the media.")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Loser is a Democrat....not much of a newsflash there.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
02/20/2006 5:49:00 AM PST
by
Mo1
(Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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