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Bill Walton apologizes ‘on behalf of the human race’ over UCLA shoplifting in China
Washington Post ^ | Nov. 11, 2017 | Matt Bonesteel

Posted on 11/11/2017 8:44:17 PM PST by Eddie01

UCLA and Georgia Tech finally played their season-opening college basketball game in China after nearly a week of drama surrounding an alleged shoplifting incident involving three Bruins players. UCLA great Bill Walton, who was doing color commentary for the ESPN broadcast, wants everyone to know that the school and everyone associated with it is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very sorry for all of this.

Very.

“I am sad, disappointed and embarrassed. This is a very big deal,” Walton said as the game tipped off late Friday night on the U.S. East Coast. “The noble purpose here has been stained. Our host, Alibaba China, the people, they have been better than perfect in everything. They’ve done everything right to make this all work. Now members of our family have displayed an appalling lack of honor, a lack of respect, a lack of decency by doing something in someone else’s home that they would never do in their own. And I want to apologize right now on behalf of the human race for this travesty.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apology; athletes; basketball; china; ncaa; stealing; ucla
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To: OrangeHoof

Me too. Show them the justice that the weak US doesn’t have the guts to.


81 posted on 11/12/2017 5:37:16 AM PST by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%)
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To: Carry me back

WE know many chinese people. It’s a fact they hate blacks. so it’s amazing that anyone black would buy anything made in china.


82 posted on 11/12/2017 5:46:11 AM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Eddie01
y doing something in someone else’s home that they would never do in their own

LOL yeah right--model citizens
83 posted on 11/12/2017 5:47:00 AM PST by uncbob
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To: Eddie01

Bill thinks it’s a big deal? Funny you should use that term because the little thugs tweeted out that it’s no big deal.


84 posted on 11/12/2017 5:53:07 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: left that other site

He just appropriated my membership in the human race. I’m not apologizing. Let the idiots rot over there.


85 posted on 11/12/2017 5:58:06 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Eddie01

Reminds me of DiFi apologizing for the whole country when that little Chinese fighter jet ‘collided’ with our reconnaissance plane, back in 2000. GWB didn’t apologize, but DiFi, whose husband had business interests in China, apologized for the whole country. I get so tired of Leftists using gross generalizations of our citizenry, instead of blaming the actual perps.


86 posted on 11/12/2017 6:26:13 AM PST by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude
Check out the reviews of Louis Vuitton in Hangzhou (store victimized by the players).

Tommy O'Connor ain't doing them any favors


87 posted on 11/12/2017 6:50:24 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Hey Walton you dumb Bleep

An apology from an amateur like you has no cred

You need the Big Boys the Professionals that know how to do it

CLINTON & OBAMA


88 posted on 11/12/2017 7:54:14 AM PST by uncbob
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To: Eddie01

How soon before rival UCLA fans show up to a game handcuffed wearing designer handcuffs with Chinese menus hanging from their necks?


89 posted on 11/12/2017 7:59:06 AM PST by Rebelbase (There are only two genders. The rest are mental disorders.)
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To: publius911
These pro sports millionaires do not inhabit the left end of the IQ curve...

Uh... are you sure about that?


90 posted on 11/12/2017 10:20:56 AM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Eddie01

LOL


91 posted on 11/12/2017 1:03:22 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Eddie01

Guess the coach forgot the leash for these animals. Maybe the Chinese will do a favor for them and spay these dogs.


92 posted on 11/12/2017 4:59:03 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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