March 09, 2008

Even the sports media is biased!

Then again, it is where moonbat Keith Olbermann came from. ESPN.com's "Page 2" segment discusses "rewriting" various moments in sports history, but it just can't resist including one non-sports moment:

On Saturday night, the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat will replay the final 51.9 seconds of their Dec. 19 overtime game.

The Hawks believed they won that game 117-111, but commissioner David Stern overturned the result because Atlanta's stat crew incorrectly disqualified Miami's Shaquille O'Neal after his fifth foul.

Never mind that Shaq has since been traded to the Suns for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks. Never mind that the Hawks have since acquired Mike Bibby. Confused?

Nevertheless, this got us to thinking that as long as we're fixing one injustice, we might just want to keep rewriting various moments in history.

  • The 2000 U.S. presidential election: The former owner of the Texas Rangers won, courtesy of the Supreme Court, and then was re-elected. If you need to ask why we need a do-over on this one, you've just returned from being abducted by aliens. Welcome home.

Oh, but of course. The old canard that the SCOTUS "gave" George Bush his victory. I bet ESPN would have included a bit on the Florida State Supreme Court "giving" Al Gore the 2000 election win if the SCOTUS had stayed out of the whole matter. Yeah, right.

And where's the inclusion of the "do-over" for the 1960 election whose popular vote was a hell of a lot closer than 2000's? How silly of me. That winner was a Democrat!

Posted by Hube at March 9, 2008 11:55 AM | TrackBack

Comments

I've always hated when someone is given a victory based on the mere fact that they got more votes than anyone else in the race. How is that fair?

Posted by: Paul Smith at March 9, 2008 01:19 PM

This is just setting the stage for reversing the Patriots' Super Bowl victories, and for keeping Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens out of their respective Halls of Fame.

Posted by: G Rex at March 10, 2008 12:29 PM

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