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Posted
Feb. 21, 2005
Olbermann Raises Gumbel's "Paucity of Blacks" GOP-Olympics Slam
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Keith
Olbermann: "Sports is so often a barometer -- even a harbinger
-- of race relations in this country. A prominent TV journalist
like Curt Gowdy [meant to say "Bryant Gumbel"?], a long time NBC
sportscaster, said he had no interest in the winter Olympics in
part because of, quote, 'a paucity of blacks that makes the winter
games look like a GOP convention.' It was Bryant Gumbel in the
latest episode of his HBO series, Real Sports, that premiered
about two weeks ago. On the subject of the Winter Olympics, Bryant
was identifying himself as among those 'who don't like 'em and
don't watch 'em.' He mentioned sports based on judging, not on
game results, he pointed out that many reporters don't understand
some of the exotic sports nor care about them between the
Olympics. And then he played an unusual race card:"
Video of Gumbel from the February 7 Real Sports on HBO:
"Tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don't like 'em
and won't watch 'em. In fact, I figure when Thomas Paine said
'these are the times that try men's souls,' he must have been
talking about the start of another Winter Olympics. Because
they're so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all
try too. Like try not to be incredulous when someone attempts 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."
Olbermann: "As the transcript of that inched its way around
the Internet, Gumbel was attacked by far-right bloggers. Rush
Limbaugh accused him of calling the Republican Party 'totally
racist,' which I don't think he said. A writer at the right-wing
Web site NewsBusters noted Gumbel's remarks 'perfectly sums up my
feelings regarding the Olympics.' But the most far-reaching
reaction to what Bryant Gumbel said, Shani Davis of Chicago, son
of the South Side who ran home to avoid being beat up by gangs and
other toughs as a kid, winning the gold in the men's thousand
meter speed skating, the first African-American ever to win a gold
in an individual Winter Olympic event. Putting Shani Davis aside
for a moment -- he lives in Canada, many of his American teammates
barely know him -- what about Gumbel? Did he get a pass? With the
exception of Shani Davis was he right?"
-- Keith
Olbermann, on the February 20 Countdown
Posted
Feb. 20, 2006
Actor Richard Dreyfuss Calls for President Bushs Impeachment at
National Press Club
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Unless
you are willing to accept torture as part of a normal American
political lexicon; unless you
are willing to accept that leaving the Geneva Convention is fine
and dandy; if you accept the expression of wiretapping as business
as usual, the only way to express this now is to embrace the
difficult and perhaps embarrassing process of impeachment.
-- Actor
Richard Dreyfuss in a speech at the National Press Club, Feb. 16,
2006
Posted
Feb. 16, 2005
Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics "Look Like a GOP Convention"
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"Finally
tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don't like 'em
and won't watch 'em. In fact, I figure when Thomas Paine said
'these are the times that try men's souls,' he must have been
talking about the start of another Winter Olympics. Because
they're so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all
try too. Like try not to be incredulous when someone attempts 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."
-- Bryant
Gumbel, host of HBO's Real Sports, February 7.
Posted
Feb. 15, 2005
Hardballs Chris Matthews Asks if Media Are Playing Down
Cheney Hunting Story
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I
don't know about you David and Dee Dee, but you're press experts
and I don't know if you were shocked like I was, this was bottom
of the fold in the New York Times and the Washington
Post yesterday. Ive talked to experts, they can't believe
that the papers treated this as such a light issue. It only moved
up to the top of the fold front page today in both of those
journals. I find that interesting, I want to talk to you when we
come back. Has the press been playing this down, this story?
-- host Chris Matthews to Dee Dee Myers and David Gergen, MSNBC,
Hardball, Feb. 14, 2006.
Posted February 6, 2006
Olbermann: "Doesn't that Mean the President Should Be Impeached?"
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Keith Olbermann:"If the Republican Chairman of the Senate committee
investigating the wiretaps says the wiretaps were illegal, and the President
says he personally authorized the wiretaps, doesnt that mean the President
should be impeached?...Not to put too fine a point on this, but if the
authorization of wiretaps without warrants is indeed illegal, as its critics
say it is, has the President committed an impeachable offense?"
Former Nixon aide John Dean: "Well, he certainly has...."
MSNBCs Countdown with Keith Olbermann, February 6.
Posted February 4, 2006
Clift Castigates Greenspan for Giving "Green Light" to Tax Cuts
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"I dont think the legacy of [retiring Federal Reserve Board Chairman] Alan
Greenspan is finished because the bill hasnt yet come due for those tax cuts
at the high end that he gave the green light to and testified on Capitol Hill
that we had such a big surplus, that the surplus was worrisome. That was not
based on fact. That was based on fiction....The tax cuts would not have gone
through if Alan Greenspan had not blessed them."
Eleanor Clift on the February 4 McLaughlin Group.
Posted February 1, 2006
ABC & CNN Showcase Complaints Bush Slighted Katrina Victims
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Co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas: "The [State of the Union] speech was
practically over before the President mentioned Hurricane Katrina, one of the
worst natural disasters in Americas history. Many people in New Orleans were
not happy about it...."
Reporter Steve Osunsami: "Across New Orleans-"
Cindy Galliano, New Orleans resident: "Were flabbergasted. Were
insulted. Were outraged."
Osunsami: "-residents couldnt believe the Presidents speech offered
no new ideas for rebuilding their city."
Galliano: "Last night, the proof was in the pudding. He doesnt give a
damn about us!"
ABCs World News Tonight, February 1.
Posted January 31, 2006
Matthews: Bush a Phoney on "Civility" Since He "Jammed" Iraq Vote
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"What did you make of the Presidents appeal for comity, for civility?...Back
when he wanted something, you could argue, in the worst way, which was
authorization for possible military action against Iraq, he jammed that vote
right up against the election of 2002. That wasnt a very civil thing to
do....Was that a civil move?"
MSNBCs Chris Matthews to Sen. John McCain during live coverage of the State
of the Union, January 31.
Posted
January 31, 2006
CNNs
Amanpour declares Iraq war a disaster
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Christiane Amanpour: We have to have an independent eye on
these conflicts. The war in Iraq has basically turned out to be a
disaster And journalists have paid for it, paid for the privilege
of witnessing and reporting that. And so have many, many other
people who have been there. And I think that's terribly, terribly
difficult for us. And unfortunately, for some reason which I can't
fathom, the kind of awful thing that's going on there now on a
daily basis has almost become humdrum. So when something happens
to people that we identify, like Bob and like Doug, we wake up
again and realize, no, this is not acceptable, what's going on
there. And it's a terrible situation.
Larry King: Well said.
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Exchange between CNNs chief international correspondent,
Christiane Amanpour, and Larry King, CNN, Larry King Live,
Jan. 30, 2006.
Posted January 29, 2006
Schieffer: U.S. "Losing Moral High Ground?" & Touts Gas Tax Hike
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"Lets talk a little bit about this whole idea of eavesdropping without court
orders....Do you believe that there is anything that a president cannot do, if
he considers it necessary, in an emergency like this?"
"When we see some of these horror stories about torture, about things that
have happened in some of these prisons, do you worry that maybe were losing
the moral high ground in some way?"
CBS anchor Bob Schieffer in a pre-taped interview with President Bush
shown on Face the Nation, Jan. 29.
Posted
January 20, 2006
CNN: Bin
Laden Tape Released in Time to Help President Bush?
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The last time we got a tape from Osama bin Laden was right before
the 2004 presidential election. Now here we are, four days away
from hearings starting in Washington into the wiretapping of
Americas telephones without bothering to get a court order or a
warrant, and up pops another tape from Osama bin Laden.
Coincidence? Who knows?
--
Jack Cafferty, The Situation Room, CNN, January 19, 2006.
Posted
January 10, 2006
Belafonte
Calls Bush Greatest Terrorist in the World
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Harry Belafonte: "No matter what the greatest tyrant in the
world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says
[possible edit jump as video switches to crowd shot and then back
to Belafonte], we're here to tell you: Not hund
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