Bye-Bye Bryant: Highlights of Gumbel s History of Liberal Bias

I will never forget when Bryant was on Today, and Pat Buchanan was running for President (I think the second time). Apparently, Pat had been doing the shows every week during the election. Bryant had been on vacation the week before, and Pat said "Welcome back Bryant" and Bryant said "Wish I could say the same to you sir." I was not a Pat supporter, but you can bet I made a bee line to the phone and called NBC to complain about the unprofessional, blantant bias. Of course, everyone complained about Bryant and it never did any good.

Ha! I remember years ago, when he was a local Los Angeles sports-TV guy.....Mrs. Batavia (total babe) and I had seats on the "club level".....Bryant Gumbo spied her, while I was in the Dodger Dog line, and made a 'big-shot' beeline right in her direction.......just then, I got my change, and headed in the same direction; Gumbo saw what was coming and did a quick 'quarter turn' - without missing a beat - onto some other 'mark'......what a pussy! "Big black (??) guy has to abort his takeoff when a skinny white guy hones in".....what a hoot.

...organize a mass of leashed dogs to piss on his grave...

You, sir, may duly count on me, Husky Dawg that I am, to point wet nose northward toward the great northern forests, whilst I lift my southeastern hind leg and take long pee-pee on his grave. Plus, you needn't even bother to leash me, as I will do it willfully. And gleefully.

Goodbye Meester Gumball, you execrable snot!

Although I hardly ever watched the guy, I have two Gumbel bumbles that no one has yet mentioned. (I know, there are so many!)

#1: Circa 1990, Gumbel hosted a TV special called The R.A.C.E. It was a race-hustle, in which two pseudo-scientists came up with a test of one's racial attitudes, which they gave the acronym, R.A.C.E. Gumbel's compadres, who insisted that the test was morally neutral, administered the test to a number of guests, including conservative Boston University President John Silber. Silber shocked Gumbel by giving all the "correct" answers to the test. Silber, who in addition to being a brilliant guy with cojones grandes, is a political philosopher, turned the tables on Gumbel & Co., asking, "But if the test is morally neutral, how come you keep praising me for the answers I'm giving?" Neither Gumbel nor his cronies had any answers for Silber's question.

#2: During the 1996 campaign, with the lack of professionalism that would turn out to be his hallmark (like I said, I almost never watched the guy), Gumbel frequently spoke insultingly of GOP candidate Bob Dole. I was sure that a white host engaging in such on-air political baiting would have been forced to apologize, been suspended, and possibly fired. But after some of Rosie O'Donnell's escapades, I'd better amend that to "a white, heterosexual, able-bodied male" host.

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