Bryant Gumble...IDIOT!!!

Bryant Gumble is a total fool, an idiot for which the word “idiot” was created. In his monologue during the show, “Real Sports with Bryant Gumble” on HBO, he had this to say about the Winter Olympics…

"Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them ... 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…Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won ... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin."

Fine. I’m no fan of the Winter Olympics, either. I’m just not a fan of those kinds of sports, perhaps because I’ve never played them. But there’s nothing “pseudo-athletic” about weaving your way down a mountain at 60 mph on a set of ski’s. I could care less about figure skating, but the skill and athleticism it takes to compete at that level is awesome. I don’t particularly care for classical music, but that doesn’t mean a concert violinist is a “pseudo-musician” simply because I don’t have an ear for that kind of music. You don’t have to enjoy watching a sport to be able to appreciate the talent it takes to play it. Bryant Bumble showed no respect for these athletes and the hard work it takes to make it to the Olympics. In essence he said, “I don’t like the sports you play, so that makes you a “pseudo-athlete”. He makes it sound like every athlete at Turino is a curler. How ignorant can one man be? If there were an Olympics of Journalism, Bryant Bumble wouldn’t even be there. That’s why he’s on HBO, sandwiched between Taxi Cab Confessions and re-runs of Weekend at Bernies.

Oh but it gets better. In his mindless rant he served up this little nugget…

“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.”

For all of us southern redneck conservatives who don’t use fifty dollar words to experess our uneducated opinions, I looked up “paucity”. It means “lack of participation”, as if you couldn’t determine that by the context of his statement. This is to be expected, though. If you put a liberal in front of a microphone or a camera for more than 30 seconds, they’ll play their race card.

I’d like to ask Bumble, “Would putting Michael Jordan on skis make the Winter Olympics watchable for you, or would it make Michael Jordan a “pseudo-athlete”? How would he ‘splain dat?

Let me get this straight. Bryant Bumble hates the Winter Olympics, won’t watch them, questions the merit of the events, refers to the participants as “pseudo-athletes”, and characterizes figure skating as a “kiss-and-cry-sport”. And in the same breath indicates his displeasure that there aren’t more blacks participating in what he refers to as “pseudo-athletic, kiss-and-cry” sports. I wonder what Debbie Thomas and Robin Szolkowy (figure skaters), Herschel Walker, Lascalles Brown, Vonetta Flowers, and Morgan Alexander (boblsed), Shanni Davis (speed skating) and Jerome Iginla (hockey), etc., would have to say about Bumble’s reference to them as “pseudo athletes”. Based on his comments, I can only conclude that Bumble would call these athletes “sell outs” on the scale of Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell. That’s how people like Bumble work. They’ll call your organizations, sports, and institutions racist, but the minute a black person succeeds in one of those “racist” areas, they will be labeled as Uncle Tom sellouts. Bryant Bumble is no friend of blacks, especially those who enjoy success outside of what he thinks is the boundary for black participation.

The point I’m trying to make is this. I have no problem with Bryant Bumble’s ignorance, racism, and disrespect. He’s entitled to be an idiot. That’s his problem, not mine. I could care less. I have a problem with the double standard that exists in the sports media. Bob Costas would be fired on the spot, stripped naked, and burned on the hood of Jesse Jackson’s car if he had said, “the paucity of whites in the NBA makes that league look like an NAACP Convention”.

Think about it.