brandonsmarathon.com— Steven,? listener/reader of mine, sent me THIS LINK this morning via Twitter. As I began to read that mindless drivel, my jaw rapidly fell open at how...
Nov 3, 2009View in Crawl 4
"All I was saying was that we should celebrate an American marathon champion who has completely been brought up through the American system."What if he was only partially brought up through the American system? What if he only became an American citizen in June? Should we not celebrate it?"The debate currently on the blogosphere is over whether or not Keflezighi should count as the first American man winner of the race even though he was not American-born."No, there is no debate. Blogosphere is calling you out to be an assh**e who calling an American's achievement non-American.This is a reminder for those old enough to remember, MSNBC's headline for Nagano Olympics skating: "American beat Kwan." This is despite Michelle Kwan was born and raised in US, but apparently is still not American enough. A mistake MSNBC apologized but Rovell apparently still have problem grappling.
insightfulNov 3, 2009
"All I was saying was that we should celebrate an American marathon champion who has completely been brought up through the American system."What if he was only partially brought up through the American system? What if he only became an American citizen in June? Should we not celebrate it?"The debate currently on the blogosphere is over whether or not Keflezighi should count as the first American man winner of the race even though he was not American-born."No, there is no debate. Blogosphere is calling you out to be an assh**e who calling an American's achievement non-American.This is a reminder for those old enough to remember, MSNBC's headline for Nagano Olympics skating: "American beat Kwan." This is despite Michelle Kwan was born and raised in US, but apparently is still not American enough. A mistake MSNBC apologized but Rovell apparently still have problem grappling.