Folks, he's simply the best in the business. His ability to cut through complex issues to the very simple heart of the matter, combined with his unerring instinct for finding inpeccable sources and getting the goods is unparalleled in the history of broadcast journalism. He has single handedly proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the election of 2004 was fixed by Karl Rove, and that John Kerry won.
Yes, the talented Jim Lampley is being wasted as a sports broadcaster.
Via Say Uncle, I found The Huffington Post, a collection of articles and quasi-bloggish entries by celebrities. I checked out a few of the articles and folks, this is one of the funniest blogs on the web, bar none. I haven't had this much fun since reading the pretentious crap collected by anti-Hollywood sites like Celiberal during the campaign. And now Ms. Huffington has saved the righties the work of collecting all those juicy tidbits by doing the work herself.
Actually, I'm sure she's hired a staff to do the actual typing and stuff.
Anyway, as I was wandering through the entries, including a very interesting one by John Cusack, who memorializes Hunter Thompson by quoting everyone except Hunter Thompson, I stumbled across the one true diamond in a this mountain of coal: Jim Lampley.
At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Election Day, I checked the sportsbook odds in Las Vegas and via the offshore bookmakers to see the odds as of that moment on the Presidential election. John Kerry was a two-to-one favorite. You can look it up.People who have lived in the sports world as I have, bettors in particular, have a feel for what I am about to say about this: these people are extremely scientific in their assessments. These people understand which information to trust and which indicators to consult in determining where to place a dividing line to influence bets, and they are not in the business of being completely wrong. Oddsmakers consulted exit polling and knew what it meant and acknowledged in their oddsmaking at that moment that John Kerry was winning the election.
And he most certainly was, at least if the votes had been fairly and legally counted. What happened instead was the biggest crime in the history of the nation, and the collective media silence which has followed is the greatest fourth-estate failure ever on our soil.
The brilliance is breathtaking, is it not? Forget the pundits; all we had to do was ask the bookies. They never get it wrong, right?
And to think that a man this brilliant is wasting away televising grown men trying to beat each other up for money. It's a national disgrace, that's what it is.
Posted by Rich at May 10, 2005 10:03 AM | TrackBackthere ain't no such thing as a longshot in a 2 horse race dude- most quality horse racing is conducted in blue states (and some that would be if the deck had not been stacked)
Posted by: on May 13, 2005 4:34 PM