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"Finally, tonight, the Winter Games. Count me among those who don’t like them and won’t watch them ... Because they’re so trying, maybe over the next three weeks we should all try too. Like, try not to be incredulous when someone attempts to link these games to those of the ancient Greeks who never heard of skating or skiing. So try not to laugh when someone says these are the world’s greatest athletes, despite a paucity of blacks that makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention. Try not to point out that something’s not really a sport if a pseudo-athlete waits in what’s called a kiss-and-cry area, while some panel of subjective judges decides who won ... So if only to hasten the arrival of the day they’re done, when we can move on to March Madness — for God’s sake, let the games begin."

HBO's Gumbel: Lack of Blacks Makes Olympics 'Look Like a GOP Convention'
Posted by Dave Pierre on February 16, 2006 - 00:58.
http://newsbusters.org/node/4057




"George W. is one thing, but as long as the Republican Party -- you noted some of them -- is populated by the Pat Buchanans, the Jesse Helmses, the Jerry Falwells, the Bob Barrs, don’t blacks have a right to be suspicious?"

-- CBS’s Bryant Gumbel to a panel of black men, August 2 The Early Show. [33]

http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2000/best13-15.asp#conservative



“The bottom line is more tax money is going to be needed. Just how much will be the primary issue on the agenda when congressional leaders meet with the President later today....It now seems the time has come to pay the fiddler for our costly dance of the Reagan years.”

— Bryant Gumbel opening NBC’s Today, May 9, 1990.
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/20thnq/anniversaryedition.asp

 

 

“You called Gingrich and his ilk, your words, ‘trickle-down terrorists who base their agenda on division, exclusion, and fear.’ Do you think middle class Americans are in need of protection from that group?”

— NBC’s Bryant Gumbel to House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt, January 4, 1995 Today.
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/20thnq/anniversaryedition.asp




“In light of the new welfare reform bill, do you think the children need more prayers than ever before?”

— Bryant Gumbel to Children’s Defense Fund leader Marian Wright Edelman, September 23, 1996 Today.
http://www.mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/20thnq/anniversaryedition.asp