DISQUS

interlude · 1 year ago

i am actually surprised that ABlog has not covered this:

NBC Censors Sexual Orientation Of Openly Gay Gold Medalist Diver

According to OutSports.com, of the 10,708 athletes at the Olympics this year, just 10 have identified themselves publicly as being gay. Of the 10, Australian diver Matthew Mitcham is the only male gay athlete.

Yesterday, Mitcham won the gold in the in the 10m platform diving event, scoring an upset over the Chinese team, which was heavily favored to win. But as Maggie Hendricks at Yahoo’s Olympics blog notes, NBC never mentioned Mitcham’s orientation:

NBC did not mention Mitcham’s orientation, nor did they show his family and partner who were in the stands. NBC has made athletes’ significant others a part of the coverage in the past, choosing to spotlight track athlete Sanya Richards’ fiancee, a love triangle between French and Italian swimmers and Kerri Walsh’s wedding ring debacle.

In his press interview after the event, however, Mitcham stood with both his mother and his partner, Lachlan, thanking them for the support they’ve provided. Watch it:

Mitcham first came out in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald on May 24. Mitcham said that they couldn’t afford for Lachlan to attend the games, so had applied for — and was awarded — a grant through the Johnson & Johnson Athlete Family Support Program to send him to Beijing.

According to the LA Times, the first thing Mitcham did when meeting with journalists after his win was “hug the reporter who handled the story with particular sensitivity.”

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

NBC uses the Lynn Cheney Book of Etiquette, which deigns anything gay as unmentionable, while ax murderers and rapists are all-American good guys as long as they're hetero.

blackwolf · 1 year ago

Oh, how I wish the MSM would stop Mc"REaltor" dead in his tracks when he makes these kinds of satements.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

McCain: "We didn't have voting records where I spent 5 years!"

ron071 · 1 year ago

Bush-Bites: Your evasion is a poor one. The military records for time before and after are surely the ones which tell the story. Stop using the POW story for all responses and evasions as they are wearring thin. Ask Rudy about his phony 9/11 mantra and how it kicked him in the -----.

blackwolf · 1 year ago

I think one of the bigges mistakes is in having admitted JM was a so-called war hero. There are thousands of heroes that could be so honored. What are the odds that someone graduating at the bottom of his class would be allowed to enter the navy pilot training program! This was only with the help and support of his father and grandfather. I'd love to get the facts on how he was admitted into the program.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Same way W. did. Family influence and now the records have disappeared.

blackwolf · 1 year ago

You know what, this is worth looking bloggin' about. I'm going to do some research and ask around. I'm on to somthing here, and I don't think I'll let this one go.

ron071 · 1 year ago

hawkseye: This repeat of history is frightening! All of the Bush/McSame records seem to go "missing". The Republican playbook will remain until they are clearly exposed for what they are and are soundly defeated.

ron071 · 1 year ago

blackwolf: You already have the answer to your question. Do you recall how Bush got into the Texas Air Guard ahead of hundreds of more qualified applicants? This is McSame, the 95% Bush/Cheney Manchurian candidate. The similarity with the Bush/Cheney years would be astounding if it ever came to pass. Why they would even find another Cheney to run his show.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Didn't Dan Quayle slip-in in front of others, too? He spelled pohtaytoe for them and they took him up to the front of the line.

jr · 1 year ago

McCain sees Vets as a burden taking up resources that could be used to fund anti-gay marriage petitions and bombs to kill Arabs and Persians with

falloch · 1 year ago

This breaks my heart. My dad was a vet, would've been appalled at McPain's voting record regarding veterans, would've voted for Obama. But my dad's dead. My mom will vote for McPain because he 'believes' life 'starts at conception'. and it's hard to convince her that McPain actually believes in nothing but how to maintain his own comfortable living.

ron071 · 1 year ago

falloch: Keep working with your Mom and she will see the overwhelming case against McSame. His record on women is especially tragic when you factor in his comments ( "jokes" ) about women. He's a hypocrite and " believes " only what today's handlers tell him to say. Does Mom like the last 8 years and want more of the same? There is much more than one issue about which a hypocrrite has spoken at a religious venue.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

McLiar just whips out the old POW card and all the other wounded vets can just shut up.

He got his. That's all that matters.

WhoAmI · 1 year ago

So, the new ad features disabled vets talking about how they served our country and now it's time for our country to stand behind them.....why haven't you stood behind us, John McCain? List the ammendments and John McCain with a big red X in the no box.

dad · 1 year ago

same. old. republican.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

58% is a D? How generous of the vets. That's an F in my classroom.

tbhull · 1 year ago

Veterans will get nothing and like it. Remeber McCain had 5 years of nothing as a POW.

interlude · 1 year ago

Obama needs him some POWS on the teevee machine...

RonTunning · 1 year ago

This is a great column and needs to go viral. I've forwarded it to the Obama campaign's Veterans' coordinator and requested permission from the author to publish it on our local Democratic Party's blog on which I'd posted a column a couple of weeks ago that pointed out that McCain was unfit to serve as commander-in-chief. You can read that at http://laconiademocrats.blogspot.com/2008/07/la...

I do believe we need to get this info out to as many people and outlets as possible. Thank you John for steering me to this column by Seth Lovell.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

I forwarded it down to my retired parents in Florida, who I hope will forward it to their retiree friends.

We have to get the older people to learn about this one.

RonTunning · 1 year ago

I agree. People generally are willing to cut him a lot of slack because of his POW experience, which is okay. But it isn't okay to mistake that experience as being sufficient to qualify him to be commander-in-chief, particularly when his overall resume is so abysmal.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

I'm so glad you posted this again. I lost it in the shuffle, and now I can send it to some interested persons.

RonTunning · 1 year ago

Great! Please send it on.

ron071 · 1 year ago

The McCain record on veterans' issues is as good as his record on all areas which impact Americans. Hopefully, this record will become a main part of the campaign. The public knows very little about McSAME-the 95% Bush/Cheney support man.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Nothing like lying to a bunch of vets.

McSlime is getting worse and worse.

LisaLV711 · 1 year ago

That reminds me. What exactly is McCain's record on foreign policy? I mean the media keeps saying he's strong on foreign policy and national security so I ask just what is his record? And being a POW in Hanoi does not an expert make.

hawkseye · 1 year ago

Being a Rethug POW means you don't need no stinkin' badges.

TheoSuch · 1 year ago

For an idea of how the parties vote on veterans issues, see this 2006 posting of DAV's ratings of senators and congressmen, sorted by ratings. With a couple of exceptions, the Republicans are in the bottom 50% and the Democrats are in the top 50%. (And McCain had an even lower rating back then!)