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Bryant Gumbel goes racist
World Net Daily ^ | February 17, 2006 | Kevin McCullough

Posted on 02/17/2006 2:47:09 AM PST by beaversmom

Here's a riddle: So if it takes Rush Limbaugh a full week to be booted from ESPN for rather nebulous comments – at best – about black quarterbacks in the NFL, how many times can Bryant Gumbel incite direct racially based "playa hatin" before he gets a slap on the wrist?

Sorry, I now recognize that is a rhetorical question with no known answer. But doesn't it just rub somebody wrong somewhere that Gumbel can echo the thoughts of Hitler and someone barely notices, while fellow broadcasters say far less and receive merciless verbal beatings?

What did he say?

Well for starters he implied that Olympic athletes competing for the medals at the Winter Games shouldn't truly be considered great because not enough of them are black.

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, HBO's Real Sports, Feb. 7, 2006.

But didn't the former Nazi supreme commander used to think of black athletes as superior as well? At least in physical prowess? Sure, he believed they were subhuman, but in reality, he feared a black man's athletic abilities.

Now Gumbel draws a comparison to athletes of other races and assumes, speculates and advances the argument that blacks are in fact superior athletes. Of course, its complete idiocy – but don't tell Emperor Gumbel.

Not that American blacks are drawn to winter sports necessarily, nor do they have to be, nor should they be. The wonderful thing about American culture is that we pretty much get to decide growing up if we would rather kick a soccer ball, throw a football, hit a baseball, or fly through the air on a snowboard – it's up to us. Tim Meadows' old skit on "Saturday Night Live" illustrated this well when he portrayed the lone black man in America who had to have his African-American hockey fix.

Of course, Gumbel's comment was a two-sided jab. And while he attempted to make humor about how much he personally – as a tolerant black man – has no tolerance for "whitey's games," the real backhand is the jab he took at conservatives. Gumbel again fell prey to a classic fallacy – about which liberal black elites are in harsh denial.

More blacks are associating with conservatives now than at any time in history since the end of the American Civil War. (At that time, blacks consistently voted Republican until the Democrats founded the KKK and intimidated them into a voting block used for the Democrats' purposes.)

Gumbel may not speak to average blacks very often from his ebony tower, as he looks down his nose upon the rest of the world. But I do. In New York City, my radio talk-show's audience is roughly 60 percent African American, with numbers of friends telling friends every day.

Gumbel may grumble about the percentage of blacks playing sports at the Winter Games, but what he should be concerned about is why seven out of 10 pregnancies in the black community occur in illegitimacy. And why a higher percentage of those end in abortion than all other ethnicities combined. Maybe Gumbel could explain the effect Planned Parenthood has had on the depletion of the African-American community through its strategic targeting of black neighborhoods. Maybe Gumbel could offer an explanation on why, in doing so, the black population in America is in actual decline. Maybe he could, but I doubt he will.

Of course, Gumbel is not alone. His accomplices in the media cover for him and every other liberal foible because it's not a mistake if a liberal does it. Meanwhile, if Rush Limbaugh makes an observation about black quarterbacks, he's verbally executed for it – in a community that supposedly opposes capital punishment.

And while we're at it, I wonder if Gumbel views the U.S. troops who fight for our freedoms with the same amount of disdain as he does the U.S. Olympic team? After all, both groups are fighting for the qualities and values Americans believe in.

Then again, we wouldn't want to tax Gumbel's paucity of thought on the matter.

(And stay tuned next week when Gumbel unveils his new "Olympic Affirmative Action" plan for desegregating the sport of curling.)

Kevin McCullough is heard daily in New York City, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and New Jersey on WMCA 570/970 from 2-5 p.m. He blogs at muscleheadrevolution.com.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2006olympics; gumbel; hbo
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To: wtp7

So the white Euro players kicked the basketballs into the hoop? Interesting.


21 posted on 02/17/2006 4:13:13 AM PST by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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To: beaversmom
Other people have lost their jobs for similar things why isn't he being fired? Oh, yea hes black, they are allowed to do it... double standard? we report you decide.
22 posted on 02/17/2006 4:31:28 AM PST by Echo Talon
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To: LS
There was such a paucity of whites, that I thought I was looking at Howard Deans DNC wait staff!

Kill A Commie For Mommie
Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes

23 posted on 02/17/2006 4:34:28 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back" -Homers guide to drinking in Springfield)
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To: beaversmom

Jamaican bobsled team bumperooski..


24 posted on 02/17/2006 4:38:29 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: beaversmom; butternut_squash_bisque

Mayor Nagin wants more chocolate in the games too


25 posted on 02/17/2006 4:55:32 AM PST by sure_fine (*not one to over kill the thought process*)
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To: beaversmom
BG brings to mind the old adage:

Tis better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
26 posted on 02/17/2006 5:02:18 AM PST by cgbg (Teenagers sneaking a smoke in restrooms give hope to the future of America.)
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To: ken5050

I looked up the meaning of "gumbel" in my dictionary and it is as follows: gumbel;...adj(L.gumbellius<dumbassious raciousness. To be a complete and simple dumbass with racist views. Usually associated with fired morning show nitwits who haven't the sense God gave a day-old chicken. Can also be associated with third rate sports shows that have little following.


27 posted on 02/17/2006 5:03:18 AM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: beaversmom
What is an athlete? Is running and jumping alone make someone athletic? In other words why is a wrestler not seen as athletic as a basketball player? Hockey is basketball on ice, yet they are not athletic? Why is a black athlete who runs 100 meters really fast a better athlete than a white one who runs 1000 meters really fast? Why did Sports Illustrated put Tiger Woods on the cover one year proclaiming him the Worlds Greatest Athlete when in the years before Tiger golf was barely called a sport. Mike Tyson was a tough boxer but watching the guy shoot hoops was hilarious.

Bryant Gumbell is a moron and HBO should have fired this racist long ago, but at least every person I know knows this already.

28 posted on 02/17/2006 5:04:28 AM PST by normy (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.)
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To: beaversmom
For someone who married a blonde white woman and who couldn't find the hood with a road map, Bryant sure cares about black people. /sarcasm
29 posted on 02/17/2006 5:06:09 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
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To: HEY4QDEMS
Ever wonder why people consider Bryant's brother Greg a class act and Bryant an a$$hole? Maybe its because Greg is a class act and Bryant is an a$$hole.
30 posted on 02/17/2006 5:14:34 AM PST by BW2221
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To: mhking

ping


31 posted on 02/17/2006 5:19:26 AM PST by Tribune7
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To: beaversmom

He has a white wife right?


32 posted on 02/17/2006 5:28:34 AM PST by Steveone (Liberalism is a brain tumor!)
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To: HEY4QDEMS
For someone who married a blonde white woman and who couldn't find the hood with a road map

Gumbel:"the dating pool looks like a GOP fundraiser"

33 posted on 02/17/2006 5:33:59 AM PST by alrea
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To: beaversmom

Of course he left his black wife for a blond white woman. LOL.


34 posted on 02/17/2006 5:35:13 AM PST by veronica ("A person needs a sense of mission like the air he breathes...")
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To: Steveone
He has a white wife right?


35 posted on 02/17/2006 5:43:18 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
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To: Steveone
He has a white wife right?

I forgot to mention, her name is Hillary.
Is that scary or what?
36 posted on 02/17/2006 5:45:33 AM PST by HEY4QDEMS (Learn from the past, don't live in it.)
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To: Past Your Eyes
"My question is: when has he not been a freekin maroon?"

Well, to quote the great Bryant Gumble regarding - uh, the great Bryant Gumble - "What a F.....g Idiot."

37 posted on 02/17/2006 5:55:01 AM PST by Enterprise (The MSM - Propaganda wing and news censorship division of the Democrat Party.)
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To: beaversmom

He allways has been.


38 posted on 02/17/2006 6:03:42 AM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: beaversmom

A racist black man? Shocking!


39 posted on 02/17/2006 6:08:05 AM PST by Vision ("There are no limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence" Ronald Reagan)
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To: HEY4QDEMS

ROFLMAO Hillary!!!!!!


40 posted on 02/17/2006 6:47:36 AM PST by Steveone (Liberalism is a brain tumor!)
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