Mike McGavick’s nightmare became reality yesterday, with the Iranian national soccer team tainting the hallowed name of Nuremberg’s Frankenstadion in their World Cup opening match. Despite McGavick’s impassioned plea to ban the Iranians from international competition, (gasp) soccer was played, and on the very field where the Hitler Youth first learned to goose step. A foreign policy disaster if I ever saw one.
Of course nothing quite pumps up national pride like getting your asses kicked by Mexico, who outscored Iran 3-1 in their World Cup opener. This puts Iran into last place in Group D with 0 points and a -2 goal differential. If Mexico goes on to beat Angola on Friday and Portugal dispatches Iran on Saturday (and the smart money is on both), the Iranian’s World Cup hopes will once again be dashed before they finish the opening round.
If only Mike McGavick were in the US Senate, this foreign policy fiasco would have been avoided.
Perhaps McGavick should have suggested that we boycott the World Cup if Iran is there — or did he? Then he could join the Jimmy Carter Useless Boycott Hall of Fame. Or maybe it really was the Olympics boycott instead of the Afghans that defeated the Soviets in Afghanistan? At least we could have avoided that nasty defeat by the Czech Republic today if we weren’t there.
McGavick’s next move:
Get Carrot Top banned from the Oscars!
Omigod! If Iran gets eliminated, their team will be executed, their leaders will commit suicide, and the entire country will engage in prolonged fasting! Soccer is serious business.
McGavick may have missed his calling as a standup comedian. His television commercial wherein he derides partisanship and speaks of the need to work together dropped me to the floor. Any Republican who can keep a straight face, and speak coherently with his tongue buried in his cheek, while dissing partisanship has some true comedic skill. I do wonder, however, if McGavick’s highpitched squeal is the product of trying to act serious while spewing nonsense. He’ll need to work on dropping his voice a bit to perfect his act.
McGavick is a ridiculous person. He’ll next be calling for an embargo against Stankonia, and other made-up nations.
McGavick is a ridiculous person. He’ll next be calling for an embargo against Stankonia, and other made-up nations.
Bill O’Reilly says he read about Stankonia in the “Paris Business Review.”
Perhaps McGavick was just trying to channel his fellow “big hat – no cattle” Republican, Jack Kemp.
In 1986, Congressman Kemp opposed a resolution promoting the U.S. playing host to the 1994 World Cup. On the floor of the US House of Representatives he argued: “a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.”
Yeah, tell that to all of us taxpayers who subsidize those US sports teams’ stadiums.
Bill O’Reilly says he read about Stankonia in the “Paris Business Review.”
Probably right after he told the world that Anne Coulter doesn’t lie :-)
More snide dorky anti-Republican drivel. I’m not surprised, as I heard you on KIRO yesterday and your show stunk up the place, except for Chris Van Dyk. Do you really think calling Tim Eyman an ass is cute?
You call Eyman gutless but you don’t have the guts to invite any other conservative guests. Why don’t you invite McGavick and give him a chance to respond? Afraid he might actually take you up on it?
Bush is squandering 667 barrels of oil to hug Reichert. Burner didn’t need any oil to hug a rabbit.
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Why shouldn’t we be snide to you uneducated, unwashed, illiterate fucks? You’re snide to us. Do you have a patent on snide? Seems to me there’s enough snide to go around so everybody can have some.
Great idea Goldy. Invite Alaska’s Senatorial candidate Mike McGavick and ask him about all the big oil and insurance money he’s taken and then ask him why more republicans aren’t pro-choice like him. I love it when the GOP partisans attacks Dems because of their position on abortion then blindly vote for pro-choice GOP candidates like Guliani, Ahhhhhhnold, Snow and others. Hypocrite – yep that’s the word I am looking for.
Brilliant retort, Rabbit. Thanks for proving my point.
rightwinger@13 Don’t get your knickers in such a twist. You come on a liberal blog and complain about snideness. If our average poster went to the minnow’s pathetic little blog, he would be censored You are so
sillyfucked-upignoranttruly ill-informed.Hmm, must’ve used the wrong html tag for strikeout. . . oh well, it works for me this way too.
Yeah Goldy, why don’t you invite some Republicanst to your show? Or do you value the sound of one hand clapping?
You wingnuts have lots of pulpits . Goldy has a lot of people to put on the air, and will produce good radio
Goldy did invite a republican – that coward Timmy Lieman didn’t show up. That’s probably what will happen most of the time. Unless they’re on Faux News or right wing hate radio, the rethugs don’t like to be involved with media. Unless they own the ball field, they hate to play!
Einman is as much a Republican as he is a 7th Day Adventist or Orthodox Jew. He is a registered opportunist.
rightwinger @ 9
“I heard you on KIRO yesterday and your show stunk up the place, except for Chris Van Dyk.”
Really? I thought Goldy was a very good host, and Eli Sanders was very good, but that Chris Van Dyk was stammering, incoherent, unprepared mess. His segment dragged whenever he was talking. Although he apparently likes to laugh.
“Do you really think calling Tim Eyman an ass is cute?”
Considering the history of that naming, I think it’s pretty funny.
“You call Eyman gutless but you don’t have the guts to invite any other conservative guests. Why don’t you invite McGavick and give him a chance to respond? Afraid he might actually take you up on it?”
Ummm, it WAS his first show you know. You might give him a few before he gets Senatorial cadidates on.
You’d think I could close a tag.