so, an NBA referree who gambles and shaves points. bigger story than an AG who lies to congress?

[Lerkfish]

seems to me, in a wierd way, they're similar crimes.

[jobycom]

1. Well, yeah, because there is a chance in Hell the NBA will fire the criminal.

Whereas the AG will serve until the administration leaves office, and will be pardoned of any crimes. Same as every other Bush employee. Nothing to report. They don't make a big fuss when a BushCo servant eats breakfast, why make a fuss when he breaks the law?

[msongs]

3. whereas congress does NOTHING about bush, gonazales, cheney et al nt

[jobycom]

4. Don't turn my post on Gonzales into a Democrat bashing thread.

You want to bash Democrats, you go do it under some other post.

[Faux pas]

2. Gotta pander to the small brained of the country. Of course

basketball is a much more important subject when there's a need to keep the general public uninformed.

[jobycom]

5. All them small brained NBA fans?

[Faux pas]

7. LOL Noooooo, all the small brained who wouldn't think that a lying

Attorney General of the US is important news. I'm sorry, sometimes I tend to express myself in shorthand and expect others to read btwn the lines.

[jobycom]

8. LOL! Gotcha!

:thumbsup:

[Faux pas]

12. Cool, thanks. n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Haven't you gotten the memo? Sports are IMPORTANT, more IMPORTANT

than just about anything else in the entire world.

Sports are the cure for children who are alienated from school.
Sports are the cure for juvenile delinquency.
Not putting your child on a sports team is practically child abuse.
If you're a good parent, you must attend all your children's stupid, boring games and practices, even if it means leaving work early and missing adult events.
The best way for children to spend their summer is at sports camp.
Sports are so important to colleges that outstanding athletes must be given full scholarships, even if academically outstanding students have to take out loans.
Sports are so important that failing students who blow off their professors' advice on study habits will change their diets, change their sleep habits, and spend an hour in the weight room and run five miles a day, just because their coach said so.
Sports are so important that sports statistics are the one exception to the American notion that knowing things makes you a nerd.
Sports are so important that they deserve to take up 1/3 of each local newscast, an entire section of your local paper, and about half-a-dozen entire cable channels, not to mention pay-per-view events.
Sports are so important that cities will spend millions in tax dollars to build stadiums because a profit-making business owned by millionaires threatens to leave town otherwise.
Sports are so important that said stadiums are considered essential to a city's "quality of life," even as schools, libraries, parks, and transportation networks deteriorate.
Sports are so important that Americans who would sit out a full-scale military coup in blissful indifference will take to the streets and riot or celebrate with drunken fervor, depending on how their team did in the national championships.
Sports are so important because they're considered the only road for minority youth to leave the ghetto (never mind that the odds are so bad that they'd actually have a better chance of finding a job in music than in sports)
Sports are so important because they teach teamwork (as if participating in theater or playing in a band doesn't)
Sports are so important that if Karl Marx were writing today, he'd write, "Sports are the opiate of the people."


Lerkfish, you've just to get with the program. All this silly fuss about fascists taking over the government! Let's talk about something really important, like who's going to be in the World Series!

[unpossibles]

9. why do you hate America so much?

just kidding. I can't stand sports - the cult, not the actual activity - for those same reasons and more. I enjoy playing the games themselves sometimes, but do not understand the fanaticism of it all, not to mention the disbelief people have when they find out I don't like The Big Team/Game/Player.

[abq e streeter]

11. Good points of course

but I have also had many occasions in my life where a conservative or apolitical person has been willing to listen to and consider my political opinions based on my surprising them with my interest in , and knowledge of , sports. And that knowledge and interest was my opening. It provided an effective alternative to the constant propaganda that us "libruls" aint like real red-blooded Americans. That's one reason I like Ed Schultz, even though I don't always agree with him ( but reject some DUers claim that he's not really on our side). But I like that he'll talk about football, or huntin' and fishin'... Its important to remind the citizens of fascist-propaganda-soaked America that we're regular folks too.

[bumblebee1]

14. Lydia Leftcoast,

your post reminded me of what John Saunders said at the end of ESPN's Sunday show, "The Sports Reporters." He talked about his recent trip to Europe and Africa. While on this trip, Mr. Saunders spoke about how the rest of the world was so oblivious about American sports and Barry Bonds in particular. My attitude was "Well, yeah!!"

You could have added more. When these athletes are growing up, they learn because you can throw a ball, shoot baskets or hit a ball better than the next person, the world is their oyster. They're entitled to money, shoes, clothes and women. These entitlements can be discarded when the newest model arrives.

Some of these athletes grow up hearing "Yes" all the time. The first time someone tells them "No," it sounds like someone is speaking to them in a foreign language. Michael Vick, et al, are the same "men" who complain about nobody is treating them like a man. Why would somebody treat you like a man when you act like a spoiled brat child?

[Totally Committed]

10. Sorry, Lerkfish, we'd all better get used to it...

The trivializtion of the REAL news by the MSM is here to stay, I think.

I never thought I'd see this day.

TC

[Lerkfish]

13. don't think I'll ever get used to it, or at least I can't condone it.

[Vinca]

15. Neither story is going to make news today because - breaking -

Lindsay Lohan was arrested for DUI again!!! Stop the freaking presses.

[sandnsea]

16. Someone should sit in at MSNBC

and CNN. We can't change anything if people aren't told the truth.

[Supersedeas]

17. the Corp Media has something to sell in additon to Pentagon and Boeing ads