Posted on 08/27/2008 6:04:05 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
“Barak is the first African-American to be nominated by a major partry in a major country." As if white Americans get presidential nominations in France all the time."
Let's give Matthews the benefit of the doubt here.
Let's say that Matthews really meant to say "Barak is the first Black person to be nominated by a major partry in a major country."
Even then, Matthews' comment would be breathtaking.
And it would be typically liberal.
Matthews is so absorbed by the "historic" nomination of St. Barak the Messiah that he has no doubt forgotten that there are plenty of other "major countries" in this world that have nominated Black people for President.
Starting with Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
Late 80s (I think), Sports Illustrated did a behind-the-scenes expose of ESPN when the network was taking off. A description of Olbermann was not flattering, and the article implied that his colleagues didn’t much care for him. He fussed over his hair, and methodically applied makeup before every appearance.
After he left ESPN and went to network news, he complained in an article how difficult it was to do actual journalism. The hours it took to research something, verify it, re-verify it. Much different than running down the scores. Obviously, he considered this to be too much work, and he’s now doing what he does best: BS’ing.
Chrissy has a hissy?
Maybe, this is from a bio. It doesn’t really tell you anything but it does make you wonder.
“Has never been married and has no children”
Underneath Matthew’s phony persona is one nasty guy. I saw him years ago on C-span talking to a group of young people. He was taking their questions, and he was belligerent and rude.
Why would they pay? San Francisco parades are free.
Another Freeper posting said that he posts and read the Daily Kos while on the air. Many of his comments come right off the computer screen.
Glenn Beck accused him of the same thing.
In a hat tip to political correctness, I remember when at one of the Olympic Games during the 90s, the network (NBC as I recall) told their reporters not to refer to any of the athletes as "black." They were to describe them as "African American." That Olympics, we had African American atheletes from Great Britian, Jamaica, Kenya... It was pretty funny.
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