Archive for February, 2006

One Man’s “Feud” is Another Man’s Glory
February 21, 2006

So, let’s sum this up: we have a person in Hedrick who brags and boasts about how he’s the G.O.A.T., is known by his peers as the penultimate diva of his sport, refers to himself in the third person in interviews, and blames the media for putting too much pressure on him to win five gold medals. Yet it’s Shani Davis who is the selfish one, for not taking one for the team?

Well, isn’t the attitude of a team reflective of its leaders, its captains? Attitude reflects leadership, no?

In other words, this whole pout fest is about nothing other than “The Chad” himself. It’s not that Davis didn’t want to represent his country; it’s that Davis didn’t want to help “The Chad” to the five gold medals he was bragging about before Torino 2006. That’s what Hedrick’s so pissed off about.

Hackett Thrown Under the Bus by Democratic “Leaders”
February 14, 2006

This is what I was talking about when I called the “leadership” of this party “yellow”. How do you beg a person to run the first minute, and then throw him under the bus the next, because you don’t think he can win all of a sudden? Calling his donors and telling them to stop donating money? What the hell kind of support system is that? Here’s an original thought: why don’t you jackasses up on “The Hill” let the voters decide who’s more fit to represent the Democratic Party on Election Day? The whole precept of the Senate Democratic “leadership” predetermining who shall and shall not run for office is mirthful and despicable at the same time, because these are the same dopes who can’t decide whether to pick a fight with the majority on substantive issues, and usually won’t 85 percent of the time. In short, this party is starting to royally piss me off.

Let’s cut through the crap: the Democrats didn’t want a guy who was going to run without a script for the U.S. Senate race. Sherrod Brown would stick to the DLC’s “niiice” script, Paul Hackett wouldn’t. The “leaders” got scared at the possibility that a.) Hackett could win the primary, and b.) The Right was going to “swift boat” Hackett. He was too independent for them, and the Democrats want no part of that. Because they’re cowards. If it were up to me, I’d take Reid and Schumer, and all the other yellow Democrats up to Emerald City, and have the freaking Wizard give all of these bozos a heart, a brain, and the nerve (aka: brass balls). Soft, rich, and chewy are for Grandma’s cookies, not for political parties pretending to be an opposition or an alternative to the dominating party. I’m sick of this crap, and I’m sick of the so-called “leaders” in the Democratic Party. Memo to the “leadership”: feel free to call me when you grow a pair.

For BET, No Excuse for Failure
February 8, 2006

I don’t know about the rest of you, and maybe that’s my naiveté, but I fail to see how airing another three hours of music videos while side-saddling coverage to the internet in the midst of that event qualifies as an “informative, enriching…different kind of experience”. I don’t see how the 276,000th airing of the latest Kanye West, Beyonce, or Young Jeezy videos even reaches the region of “informative, enriching experience”. How Lewellen can say that with a straight face is beyond me.

BET screwed up royally by not airing this funeral live. I know, I know—most of the BET apologists will say, “Not everybody wanted to watch that”, “Why can’t we have a different choice?” etc. That is not the point. There are hundreds of channels with hundreds of choices—if you wanted choice, choice is available. The point is that this was a person vital to black history, and the advancement of civil rights in America, and that story needed to be covered. Especially by the networks that allegedly cater to African-American interests. How is it that the person running programming at MSNBC gets the point, and the loser at BET doesn’t?