Posted on 03/12/2008 5:38:07 PM PDT by presidio9
Why does every sportswriter think they are political geniuses?
What’s particularly weird is that the News has been giving him a soapbox in the front pages for a few years now. From there, his “columns” use Don Imus as his go-to sage. Even back when I was growing up and he stuck to sports I thought he was the worst writer in town. Must be the BC “education.”
Lupica is way, way out of his league. He sounds like a child.
C'mon Mike .. even a savvy Sports-writer like you who's been around the block a few times knows that Jimmy Carter and perhaps George H.W. Bush were the worst Presidents of his lifetime, not to mention his hero, B.J. Clinton. /SHEESH!
There’s always been a connection between sports and politics...Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hammill both started out as sportswriters...but at least they could write.
Lippman: So have you ever done this kind of work before?
George: Well you know book reports that kind of thing.
Lippman: What do you read?
George: I like Mike Lupica.
Lippman: Mike Lupica?
George: He’s a sports writer for the daily news, I find him very insightful.
“Why does every sportswriter think they are political geniuses?”
Exactly. It’s just another person standing on their soapbox. I would love to ask him what should have been done after 9/11. And, if Iraq was not a problem why was Clinton routinely dropping ordinance on them. And why is it the president’s fault that people made poor choices when they took out mortgages. It’s so easy to be a Bush basher.
Well, in Michigan we have to suffer with Mitch Albom.
Well, gag me with a spoon!
Because most of them suck at writing about sports which they never played and get paid big bucks to be preening a..holes. So they figure if I get paid this well for not knowing what the hell I’m talking about I may as well become a political pundint and really showcase my ignorance.
So Mike, could you please, um, elaborate on which of President's Bush's or John McCain's economic policies "have record numbers of people in this country swallowed whole by their own mortgages and walking away from their own homes?"
While you're at it, can you tell us the difference between the whole war in Iraq (which one Democrat candidate approved and one might have) and the Troop Surge (which one Democrate candidate might have approved, and one opposed)?
Then tell us how the 2006 elections relegated Bush to the scrapheap, but 2000 did not do the same for Clinton. Or was the Clinton presidency already a total failure by that point?
This is the only thing that makes any sense in Lupica's article, and that ain't saying much.
What a goofball bore.
Carter was the WORST BY FAR.
Even in retirement, Carter continues to show his incompetence, immaturity and lack of patriotism. Loser then, loser now, loser always.
Just like you Mikey.
He "grew up black"? How so? After his black father ran out on him and his white mother when he was a toddler, he was raised by his white mother and his white grandparents, who had plenty of money and sent him to the best schools. Looks to me like he "grew up white in America".
Lupica is a such a little prick. I wish we could put Barack Obama into one of those Star Trek "holodecks" to demonstrate how nightmarishly he would have responded to the 9/11 attacks. Unfortunately we would have to find out FOR REAL, as we did with Jimmy Carter--who was the actual "worst President of my lifetime, and yours".
Or perhaps Professor Lupica could tell us which of Clinton's "policies" were responsible for cutting the NASDAQ index in half on his watch.
I heard that. Listening to Frank Deford pontificate on NPR requires a major barf alert. (I know, I know.....why am I ever listening to NPR in the first place. I honestly don't know....maybe for the same reason I go to the zoo.)
He writes as though he knows all about the Democratic Convention in 1968.
How can he not know how horrible it was , FOR ALL OF US, during the Carter years?
Bill Clinton must be his hero, which shows what an idiot he really is.
He was a bad sports writer — he’s worse as a political analyst.
Go away Mike.
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