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NBA Finals All About The Refs
So far the NBA finals have been all about the refs. In game one they overturned a charging call against Kevin Durant and changed it to a blocking foul against LeBron James. Durant went on to sink both free throws and tie the game.
Collision Collusion
But charging calls are only reviewable if the chargee – LeBron in this case – is thought to have been in the restricted zone. He wasn’t, but once the investigation was open they went after him for a different violation. His feet weren’t sufficiently planted when he took the collision.
NBA Finals All About the Refs
The NBA issues a Two Minute report on the officials after it’s all over and not reviewable. They say the prosecutors..er..refs got the charging call right. But Draymond Green should have been called for a foul against LeBron with 12 seconds remaining. Not only that, Green committed a lane violation on George Hill’s missed free throw with 4 seconds left.
That’s an opportunity cost of three more free throws for the frustrated Cavs.
Samantha Bee Full Frontal Parts
Saturday Night Live had a Weekend Update sketch in the 70s called Point/Counterpoint. It starred Dan Akroyd and Jane Curtin playing pompous journalists debating the news. And it always degenerated into personal insults. Like this opening rebuttal remark by Akroyd: “Jane, you ignorant slut.”
It was almost as funny as the Claudine Longet Ski Invitational. Lorne Michaels had to apologize for that one.
Crude Crack
And so did Samantha Bee, for a crude crack she made this week about Ivanka Trump. But, like SNL, she’s still on the air. For now.
Roseanne Job Bomb
Roseanne got fired for making a racist tweet. But she didn’t just get herself fired. The intemperate tweeter may have cost hundreds of others their jobs too. She blamed .
Libya Model
National Security Adviser John Bolton likes the Libya model for North Korea Nuclear disarmament. What’s that? When Gaddafi saw what happened to Saddam Hussein in 2003 he cashed in his nuclear chips to George W. Bush and became an ally.
Libya Model
Things went swimmingly for the Libyan mass murderer, for a while. But then U.N. Ambassador Sammantha Power and Secratary of State Hillary Clinton convinced President Obama that regime change would be good for Libya. The result was chaos and Gaddafi was killed.
Hillary summed things up saying, “We came. We saw. He died.” Then she laughed maniacally.
Thank You For Spying
Eric Holder’s Justice Department threatened Fox News Reporter James Rosen as a co-conspirator under the espionage act. Except Holder never really intended to charge Rosen. It was all a pretext to spy on his phone calls and emails to find out who in the government was leaking information to him.
The Obama administration also spied on the phone records of Associated Press journalists.
More Spying
And of course they lied about spying on us too.
This week Joy Behar, of all people, outed James Clapper for spying on the Trump campaign. Clapper claimed Trump should be happy about this because his agent was really spying on Russians.
The Washington Post and New York Times find this explanation perfectly reasonable.
