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ABC Laments Lack of
Anti-Iraq War Activity at Kent State |
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"Bitterly cold and covered in snow, Kent State seems a world
away from Baghdad. Most students here, and on campuses across
the country, are too busy studying, socializing — even
sleeping, to worry much about the war in Iraq....Such
indifference is surprising at this school, a hotbed of
anti-war protests during Vietnam, and still popular with
liberals....Indeed, most students we spoke with oppose the
war, but believe they are powerless to stop it."
— ABC’s Geoff
Morrell reporting from Kent State University on World News
Tonight, February 26. |
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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 |
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Actor Richard Dreyfuss
Calls for President Bush’s Impeachment |
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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 |
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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. |
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Hardball’s 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. I’ve 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 |
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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, doesn’t 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...."
— MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann, February 6. |
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Clift Castigates Greenspan for
Giving "Green Light" to Tax Cuts |
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"I don’t think the legacy of [retiring Federal Reserve Board
Chairman] Alan Greenspan is finished because the bill hasn’t 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. |
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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 America’s history. Many people in New
Orleans were not happy about it...."
Reporter Steve Osunsami: "Across New Orleans-"
Cindy Galliano, New Orleans resident: "We’re flabbergasted. We’re
insulted. We’re outraged."
Osunsami: "-residents couldn’t believe the President’s speech offered
no new ideas for rebuilding their city."
Galliano: "Last night, the proof was in the pudding. He doesn’t give a
damn about us!"
— ABC’s World News Tonight, February 1.
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