Can you feel the love already? Mike Reynolds of Multichannel News magazine reports that the flagrantly liberal Bryant Gumbel will have a chance to celebrate the life and times of president-in-waiting Barack Obama, specifically his Hoop Dreams era:
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) will talk hoops on the upcoming edition of Home Box Office's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
In the Emmy award-winning show’s 133rd edition, Obama, in a segment called for “The Love of the Game” discusses how basketball helped shape his identity. During his interview with Gumbel talks about childhood, his high-school years on the Punahou School basketball team in Honolulu, and the pickup games he’s played since then, as important connections to his life today.
The program bows April 15 on HBO at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).
Will Gumbel be able to resist painting Obama as a political Dr. J? Perhaps the last time we noticed Bryant opining on sports and the news, it was this little gem from the Gumbel file:
"Two weeks after his acquittal, we’ll see how O.J. Simpson is still being treated as if he were guilty." – October 16, 1995 Today.
Or:
"I said to somebody that if O.J. killed his first wife, Marguerite [who is black], and her friend, then do I think George Will and William F. Buckley would have written about it? No way. Not on God’s green earth. They wouldn’t have even noticed." – In a Los Angeles Times Magazine profile, January 12, 1997. (Brackets theirs.)
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Youth
April 3, 2008 - 13:57 ET by iveseenitallIt's an appeal to the blacks (it's their game) and it's an appeal to the youth. The youth! As Agatha Christie (1972) wrote about "youth":
"Youth urged on. Youth chanting slogans-- that sound exciting, though they don't always know what they mean. So easy to start a revolution. That's natural to youth. All youth has always rebelled. You rebel, you pull down, you want the world to be different from what it is. But you're blind too. There are bandages over the eyes of youth. They can't see where things are taking them. What's going to come next. What's in front of them. And who is behind them, urging them on? That's what's freightening about it. You know, someone holding the carrot to get the donkey to come along and at the same time there is something behind the donkey urging it on with a stick."
This was about the Hitler Youth, and the Russian youth later on-- chanting, perhaps, "Yes We Can". Beware Obama (and George Soros)!
NEVER, NEVER trust a "liberal"
More substance from the
April 3, 2008 - 16:12 ET by mattmMore substance from the Left.
Expand entitlements, raise taxes, retreat in the WOT and talk a little B-ball. (Oh yeah, play the race or sex card at every opportunity)
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." - Ronald Reagan
Just another friendly venue
April 3, 2008 - 14:20 ET by general companySaw Bush throw out the first pitch at the Nats brand new stadium the other night. Then he went upstairs and talked Baseball with Joe Morgan and Jon Miller. Bush knows his Baseball, bet Obama knows jack about B-ball.
BTW, Bush even called Chipper Jones homer, first one ever at the new ballpark. Kinda cool I thought.
"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest". Mark Twain
It Would Be More Fun
April 3, 2008 - 14:25 ET by CaringwhiteguyIf Bryant had Hillary as a guest to talk a little hoops. I imagine she'd tell him she was a Yankees fan.
I wonder if Obama would like
April 3, 2008 - 14:44 ET by Roger the ShrubberI wonder if Obama would like to sniff Michael Jordan's underwear, just like Cuba Gooding, Jr?
Well, he sure as heck can't throw a bowling ball
April 3, 2008 - 15:14 ET by JayTeeyou would think he would be able to throw a Black ball and knock down those White Pins . . . you would think.
I hope
April 3, 2008 - 16:24 ET by IamTinmanBarack played basketball better than he bowls.
Bryant Gumbel is an absolute waste of perfectly good airtime.
Yes BG is wasted air time,
April 3, 2008 - 16:30 ET by Clear thinkerYes BG is wasted air time, but Obama is wasted hope.
"Abstain from McCain"
Wait a minute...
April 3, 2008 - 18:34 ET by Uncle DonBryant Gumble is still around? You mean Greg Gumble don't you? Bryant Gumble hasn't been around in a long time...he's the looser from a long time ago, isn't he?
Bryant Gumbel is terrible
April 3, 2008 - 20:15 ET by Captain KirockA bit off subject here but has anyone seen Bryant's work on the NFL Network? It is absolutley terrible. I never really cared about him before, but when he attempts play-by-play for the NFL, I cannot stand to listen to him.
By contrast, his brother Greg is outstanding.