r and r part 2
I assume that this is not an elliptical reference to me.
Somebody has revealed that my reference to how often Journolist involved gossip and sportschat was part of a coordinated effort to cover our tracks, since other people from the list have been saying the same thing.
In fact, all those threads about basketball and the World Cup were themselves part of the grand plot.
Ah hah! The True Colors of the Liberal Elites are showing. As everybody knows, Soccer is gay, anti-American, and Socialist.
Also the Campaign for Peace and Democracy is a Communist Front Group.
I bet they were all rooting for North Korea in the World Cup.
Y’know. There has been news about the North Korean soccer team. There’s a rule in sports that it is better to be the team that loses the Conference Championships than the Championships — better be third than second, if nothing else the team will be a trendy pick for the sports prognasticators at the start of the next year.
North Korea was essentially the thirty-second best team in a tournament of thirty-two. In their case, it probably have been better if they were the thirty-third best team in the World.
North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of “betraying” the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports.
The entire squad was forced onto a stage at the People’s Palace of Culture and subjected to criticism from Pak Myong-chol, the sports minister, as 400 government officials, students and journalists watched.
The players were subjected to a “grand debate” on July 2 because they failed in their “ideological struggle” to succeed in South Africa, Radio Free Asia and South Korean media reported.
The team’s coach, Kim Jong-hun, was reportedly forced to become a builder and has been expelled from the Workers’ Party of Korea.
The coach was punished for “betraying” Kim Jong-un – one of Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il’s sons and heir apparent.
Italy had a similar thing happen to their team, though quite a few degrees short of this.
August 8th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Attention Fred Olliver:
JOKE. JOKE. JOKE.