The Trump Presidency Ocho :: It Can't Go On. A.K.A. We All Gotta Duck / When The Shit Hits the Fan

Indeed.....But her emails....

The House Oversight Cmte told the White House today that it has obtained evidence that White House officials—including Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Steve Bannon and K.T. McFarland—used private email accounts or messaging apps to conduct official business. https://t.co/654lR0H0i4

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) March 21, 2019

 

Go to a MAGA site, as I did, and they've all compartmentalized this. Hillary should be in jail. Why? Well, they'll talk a bit about Benghazi, but some of 'em realize that that was investigated forever and a day without finding anything. So they default to the emails.

None of which matters when Trump and his ilk do it.

That's a good job of compartmentalizing.

 

From December, but still relevant

Blake Griffin being called "boy" by a fan is what understandably ignited past altercation.

➡️ https://t.co/ER5XljCQ3x pic.twitter.com/46n1xKKHZT

— Ball Don’t Lie (@Balldontlie) March 19, 2019

 

With a hood??

 

I always find it jarring when a Brit soccer announcer calls a player “boy.”

 

I remember way back when an English coach. Jimmy Gabriel called his team "lads." Big headlines in the Seattle times.

Strange people you Yanks.

Mind you it really was jarring when American tourists would talk about Fanny Packs.

 

And introduce themselves as Randy.

Then again, it’s jarring for Americans when a hooker wants a “******” (translated to be a certain rugby player wants a cigarette).

 

MAGA!

 

That never made me look up. Granted I don't know that the Brits don't use the word the way American conservatives mean it when they refer to Black men, but I've never heard that they do.

 

They use it for any young player, Black, White, brown, whatever.

 

Exactly.

OTOH, the American sports commentators know the history of the word as it relates to Black men, so they avoid it pretty much completely, as they should.

Cue conservatarian toothgrinding about being cowed into tiptoeing around words...

 

Cept for Howie Cosell back in the 80s

 

I don't know what it is Cosell was thinking about.

 

He claimed to have used it before that.

Half the country hated Howie & the other half put up with him. Not sure I ever met anyone who said "he's a great broadcaster that really adds to the event"

 

But he was a household word (to some degree because of Ali). And a great foil to Meredith, IMO (I was a bit too young to really analyze it). Gifford must have been pulling his hair out at times.

I never hated his delivery and I didn't hate him when he slurred Garrett. Neither did my dad. But he had to go.

 

If you think it's just American conservatives using slurs, you're really limiting your sample size. See: Mary Ann Lisanti (D-Harford) Maryland House of Delegates

 

Or how bout you Brits smoking fags?

 

...just because I don't talk about it here doesn't mean it doesn't concern me.

I'm-a start being libertarian like that

 

Howard Cosell was annoying as hell, and I can only imagine what a pompous windbag he must have been like in person. That aside, he was probably the first sports journalist who brought up much larger questions about sport in society, and much more than whatever was going on down on the field. He often commented about race in sport, labor issues, and a whole bunch of other things that blurred the lines between sport and real life. Of course, you can't compartmentalize them, but for the most part, it was before he came along.

The moment I absolutely knew I was destined for the lucrative profession of soccer journalist in America was when I was in high school. A bit of a long backstory, but I had written a very polite letter to the Detroit Express, asking if I could interview their star player Trevor Francis when he came to town. They were very nice about it and I got to meet him.

I asked hard-hitting questions like, "Of all the people in the US, who would you most like to meet?" I figured he'd answer someone like President Carter, Farah Fawcett or some other hot babe movie/TV star or maybe a rock star.

His answer? "I'd like to meet the bloke who stole my new leather jacket. When I find him, I'm gonna kick six shades of crap out of him!"

That was a mic drop before that expression was even invented!

 

I blame Cosell's comment about there shouldn't be a silent moment in sport that's why you have comms. Silence is waste.
Watching footy in England sometimes the One comm would let the play speak for itself for 10s of minutes at time. Recognizing that the viewers understood the game.
Nowadays in any sport there are 2 to 3 comms who just don't shut up for a moment. Telling you what you've just watched.

No wonder Ali kept stealing Cosell's hair piece.