These ladies are not only double gold medal winners, they are just winners.  Classy Americans and patriots. Good on ya, Misty and Kerri.  U S A, U S A...

I said it before elsewhere so I'll say it again here...

Keri Walsh, IIRC, is about 6 foot tall. 

Brains, class, passion...she's really, really tall (sigh)...

I think I'm in love... 

The Olympics are now under way in Beijing.  May the people of Beijing gt thoroughly sick of hearing The Star Spangled Banner.  May the Beijing Olympic Committee run out of U.S. flags for themedal ceremonies!  USA!  USA!!  USA!!!

I'm sure they are in the minority, but....It goes to show you that not all young people are socialists in the making. I know Pres. Bush met with them beofre play started. i'm sure he was just down to earth with them and un-scripted.

Under the communists Keri Walsh would have been a basketball player. Instead she gets to plays the sport she wants to. Just another example of someone thinking on their own and not buying into the MSM mantra about Pres. Bush

That one remark cost us millions of dollars. Every ER in the country was overrun by foaming at the mouth liberals without medical insurance. Just spray them off with clorox and send them back to the gutter. $1200,00 ER fee please.

Old, Retired and glad of it.

Please contact General Mills and ask them to put Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh on the Wheaties box.

some observations:

1.  does anyone feel that NBC presents the viewer a sense that THEY own the olympic games?  they obviously own all the rights to broadcast it in the US, but i feel as if anytime, i'm going to hear dopey bob costas say "the NBC olympics here in beijing"

2. anyone notice when bob costas speaks in his special little lair ... all head-on shots of costas show the grand portrait of chairman mao just over his shoulder ... when the camera pans the whole interview table, it disappears ... as a matter of fact, the background doesn't seem the same at all ... check it out.

3. speaking of costas ... does anyone ever wonder why this clown, in all of his glory, is considered such an "authority" in sports?  it seems like every athlete that wins gold has to report to costas for a mandatory exit interview ... the medalists (only the winners of gold in sports that "matter to nbc" seem to warrant this right of passage) then get lobbed question after question that most of us don't need to hear answered.

4.  its hard to believe that china and nbc aren't in cahoots with this television deal ... i mean seriously, has american television ever presented a single badminton or ping pong (er ... table tennis) match ... now we suddenly get the entire tournament for both which lasts almost an entire week (all china golds of course).  then there is the blow-by-blow coverage of the chinese hurdler's injury only to be disrupted by a picture-in-picture coverage of the first american woman to win gold in the discus ... since 1932 (and she never got invited to costas' digs ... discus throwing to nbc is "not important enough")

5.  the announcers are getting really tiresome ... some of these people really need to shut the hell up.  you can't even get a thought in your head without them telling you the how/when/what/where and why you should feel a certain way when watching these events.  i think michael phelps' accomplishments are phenomenal ... i just don't need an announcer prompting me to think a certain way when i watch a sporting event.  many of the main commentators are NON-ATHLETES.  i recall espn (who probably SHOULD be broadcasting these games) airing live coverage of cal ripkin breaking gehrig's record ... they actually turned their mikes off for some 20 minutes to let the viewers soak up the experience and enjoy the moment in their own way... i'll always thank them for that gracious moment.

6.  why on earth would an american commentator ask a professional basketball player "if he was proud to wear the USA on his jersey"?  what other country on the planet bestows as much glory, money and fame on its athletic stars than this country ... i think collinsworth is still bitter over his "bungles" super bowl experiences ... sorry chris, not every athlete is as shallow as you.

7. lastly ... is anyone waiting for one of the athletes to pop one of the courtside/trackside interviewers in the mouth ... it's bad enough they get in these athletes face seconds after their event ... but they are particularly harsh on athletes that lose.  i've never felt so much pity on an olympic athlete as i did last night when a 16 year old american diver who didn't make the finals was introduced to the "nbc inquisition" and cried the entire time.  for crying out loud people, leave them alone ... we feel their pain when they lose; why rub salt in the wound by making them tell us how bad they feel to an audience of millions?

bottom line ... nbc is too big for their britches when it comes to covering the olympics (or any sport for that matter)... every 4 years we get another giant nbc tent added to the ever growing circus.  the only enjoyable aspect of their coverage are the mary carillo segments on china ... she's got something(s) costas doesn't have ... class ... a college degree ... an athletic background.

I love President Bush and I love Misty May and Kerri Walsh.

Thank you ladies! You're inspirational and beautiful inside and outside.

RRAM Tough! 

These two wonderful ladies are class acts. I've been watching them for about a year. I was gald to see them give a shout out the the President. I also was pleased that Kerri adressed him as "Mr. President." 

Take that, Olbermann. 

That more than makes up for the hours and hours of beach volleyball that NBC inflicted upon us. I like to watch a game or two, but that was too much. Surely, there must have been other events worth broadcasting...

I think they will have great children. Congratulations girls.