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Posts Tagged ‘basketball’

LAKERS VS. MAGIC

Congresswomen Waters And Brown Go Nuts Over Basketball

Monday, June 8th, 2009


Hey nerds how much do you love NBA Finals season, hmmm? Feast your eyes on this cute thing, which involves two political ladies trash-talking over their basketball teams. Maxine Waters won’t even shake her friend’s hand, that is how serious she is about this dispute. [The YouTube]


NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT

Barack Obama Is Actually President of Basketball, At the White House

Friday, May 1st, 2009


While the rest of you dumb slobs are dying of Mexican Carnitas Influenza, losing your jobs and being forced at gunpoint by census takers to buy a fucking Chrysler, Barack Obama plays sexy basketball with a bunch of hot-as-hell tall girls in fancy dresses. [White House]


GIVE ME FIVE BEES FOR A QUARTER

David Broder Spends Entire Week Filling Out March Madness Bracket

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

We had not read a column by David Broder, “The Duchess” of the Washington press corps, since at least 1943 (”Buy War Bonds, You Chuckleheads” was the topic at the time), but a tipster told us that it was funny today and yeah, it’s very funny today. It is just benign mumbling about basketball and vacations and his hometown with a few perfunctory Obama references for good measure. Yeah. MORE »


NATIONAL DISTRACTIONS

Basketball: Because Feeding Christians to Lions Wasn’t Fun Enough

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

he hath commanded you to complete a bracketIf you just crawled out of a moldy blogger-stained basement like your intern, you will soon discover that there is a basketcrickery or bracketball or somesuch deathsport feud commencing today. No one is going to shut up about it for about a month, so you may as well give in and head to one of the following fine establishments to find out, at the very least, the sport in question. MORE »


HERE IS THIS POST

Obama’s Basketball Bracket Looks Presidential, Too

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

This is just over the top. He even puts a Presidential Seal on it — wait till the election’s over, please? Anyway, to see the whole Presidential Bracket, check out this Washington Post article and READ THE COMMENTS. They are very concerned about the President promoting gambling with this popular American ritual: MORE »


WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Lanny Davis Doing PR For Son’s Book

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Lanny Davis was famous in 2008 for going on the teevee to defend his friends and clients, The Clintons, from the biases of the O-BOTS, and making a fool of himself. Once fired, he would go on Huffington Post or The Hill or Politico and write a column about how Obama was shameful and deserved no delegates because of Common Law. SO WHAT’S HE DOIN’ NOW? Oh just writing hilarious glowing reviews of his son’s book about basketball. It’s part of the Larry Bird-Magic Johnson-rivalry-as-culture-war athletic nonfiction subgenre that examines how white people hate black people and vice versa. MORE »


SPORTS FIGURES ARE IN THE TANK

Important Basketball Person Dean Smith Endorses Obama!

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Look at the cute old man!In North Carolina there is a famous old liberal named Dean Smith, who coached the Tar Heels for a million years before retiring to become a bleeding heart. He has officially endorsed Barack Obama for president which, according to Wonkette reader Kelsey, means “It’s over in NC.” Coach Smith’s exciting email after the jump. MORE »


SPORTS ADDICTS

Barack Obama Plays Basketball, In Denver!

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

He probably looked a lot like thisOne “Washington Insider” and member of a gym that Barack Obama attends in DC told us last night that the candidate is actually kind of a halfhearted “athlete,” and doesn’t even bother running on the treadmill. Instead he walks, like one of the Golden Girls. Anyhow, this morning Barack Obama had another one of his so-called workouts at the Denver Athletic Club, which of course culminated in his sinking multiple three-pointers from Eagleton. [Denver Post]


BIG DONORS

John McCain Is President of Sports

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Gladiatorial combat via golf cartDoes Barack Obama have a “major league sports team owner” problem? It sure looks like it, because he has not raised nearly as much money from this crucial demographic as that other guy, John McCain. McCain has raised more than $3.2 million from major sports team owners and their families, while Barack Obama has raised only $615,000 — despite the fact that Obama is way better at basketball. Too bad Obama is too much of an elitist to relate to simple, working-class multimillionaire sports team owners. [Politico]


SPORTS INJURIES

OMG BARRY HURT HIS HIP!

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Be careful Barry!Sweet Jesus, the news is some kind of slow today. So here’s your latest installment in our Presidential Candidate Physique Watch: Barack Obama has a sore hip from playing basketball in foreign lands! He went to the doctor in Chicago and got an X-ray. Is Obama some sort of secret old person? MORE »


JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITIES

Andrea Mitchell Angry That Press Wasn’t Invited To Obama’s Basketball Game

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

He is so controllingThe Obama campaign is all about IMAGE CONTROL these days and GOOD OPTICS, which is why nobody can wear a green Hamas shirt around the candidate. Now Barack Obama is stone cold ignoring the press on his Middle Eastern Hope ‘N Basketball Tour, leaving it to some military nobody to hold the camera while he shoots three-pointers when really such hard-hitting news coverage should be left to trained journalistic professional nobodies. MORE »