Thursday, January 05, 2006

Post Punk

The latest installment of NewsBusters' series on political bias in sports coverage features the Washington Post columnist Joel Achenbach, who, apropos of University of Texas quarterback Vince Young's performance in last night's national-championship college-football game, wrote on his blog that Young

did the impossible: He not only took his team from 12 back with only 6 minutes left, he kept me up past midnight. This hasn't happened in years. Young also got me to root, secretly, for Texas in those final minutes. You can't root openly for Texas, even in the privacy of your own living room, because of the, you know, political associations. Let's not get into that. --  For Washington Post Columnist, Vince Young Trumps George W. Bush
The real story of course, is the atmosphere in the WaPost newsroom that  allowed Awkkenbach to let that roll off his fingers without a thought.  In times past he's the guy told a "Rastus and Liza"  joke at an NAACP convention because , hell, everyone he knew just loved them.
1/05/2006 06:16:00 PM 1 Comments

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Anonymous said...

eeewwww. is that a puddle of diarrhea under that puke (i mean punk)? Nice touch, Rodger.
What happened to sports being one arena where you could escape from politics to? We watched that game to the finish. And guess what? This household was cheering on TX. Duh? NOt because it's was Bush's territory. We just don't care for USC. joyce

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