My Emily Litella Moment
During the bomb scare this week in Times Square, I had to admit that the anti-Obama crowd was right: Our president was showing an alarming lack of leadership. I came to this conclusion after listening to news reports that “the president is busy on the golf course.”
This was an awful development. He was playing golf during a possible terrorist attack?
“Obama is taking a tour of the golf course,” a TV anchor informed me. And then I realized my Emily Litella mistake. Obama wasn’t touring the “golf course. ” He was touring the “gulf coast,” in the wake of the oil spill.
As Emily would say, never mind.
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Sports writers are not to be trusted. Now that Lawrence Taylor (above) is in trouble again, I am hearing professional jock sniffers talk about what a horrible person he is.
Decades after revered Yankee Mickey Mantle retired, we found out what a drunken jerk he was. Here in Minnesota, Kirby Puckett was baseball’s “ambassador” of good will — until we found out, years later, that he was busy chasing his wife around the house with a chain saw.
Sportswriters won’t tell you about any of this misbehavior until after a) the jock is traded to another city; b) the jock dies or has been retired for many years; or c) said misbehavior can no longer be ignored.
But times might be changing, thanks to the Internet and cell-phone cameras. Just ask Josh Hamilton (bottom), who can no longer enjoy a night out on the town without some bozo posting pictures.
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