CR Dunbar's Olympic Sized Bits and Pieces

• The announcer yelled, "the Canadians are coming!" That's funny.
• MSNBC is feeling uncomfortable with all this American flag waiving.
  

Why hasn't Olbermann joined his fellow NBC sportscasters?

• Wikipedia was unhelpful in explaining the difference between Downhill, Super G, Super Combined, Giant Slalom and Slalom skiiing. I'm starting to doubt it as a viable source.
• More skiing, more figure skating, more curling. Anything new left? Bobsledding? Are they too going to start from the juvenile post?
• I know how Bode Miller feels. When I have the perfect Blood Alcohol Level, I am unstoppable too.

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"Nitwit" Bloggers

Former Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnacle thinks that you bloggers are nothing but "nitwits at home with computers" who think you're "part of the news media." Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart later agreed with his assessment.

Well, in a sense I'm glad to see that it's not just the sports reporting oldheads that feel that way.



UPDATE: the chief points out that Barnacle knows a thing or two about "sloppy" and "lazy" journalism, having been fired by The Boston Globe for plagiarism almost 10 years ago:

Just a week after fending off demands that he resign amid charges of plagiarism, Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle quit Wednesday as questions were being raised about two more of his columns...

The contrite columnist admitted at a news conference that he had been "sloppy" and "lazy" in writing the column with the Carlin jokes but maintained that he was not guilty of plagiarism. He said he hadn't read the Carlin book, although he had recommended it to viewers during an appearance on a Boston TV station.

the chief notes, that "You're not a member of the news media until you've been busted for plagiarizing, like some sort of secret handshake." (He wouldn't know, because he's in the basement on his little computers).

Barnacle vs. Libeling