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to the tea party crowd repeating some of the usual conservative talking points note if the stimulus package lowered the unemployment rate by two or three points did it really fail and then giving an alternative view of colonial history that made sarah palin look scholarly bachmann has been visiting iowa this winter a sign of the presidential itch that can only lead to more opportunities for her revisionist history i have figured obama would rank as the favorite in 2012 mostly because he has a base of supporters who are loyal and will turn out at the polls when his name is on top of the ballot those same people didn t show up in 2010 but they haven t gone anywhere but after this week obama s chances of reelection just got better posted by budd bailey at 12 40 pm no comments labels state of the union monday january 24 2011 what s next i never told you about my one conversation with keith olbermann it was back in the early 1980 s erik brady of the courier express had written a column about olbermann it seemed that olbermann then of the rko radio network like to collect sound bites of athletes saying you know olbermann s current champion was flynn robinson a basketball guard who had said you know six times in one 10 second actuality that comes out to a you know per second ratio of 6 paul hamilton and i were working at webr at the time paul read the column like i did and said to me i think we can beat that he had interviewed dee hardison a bills defensive lineman in that era and dee was obviously a little nervous about speaking into a microphone we played the tape and sure enough hardison had said you know eight times in 12 seconds including one memorable double clutch you know you know i called erik who wrote another column about how buffalo was you know talking proud about having the record in its midst a short time later the phone rang in the webr office it was olbermann himself who had heard about erik s column and was thrilled to hear about the new champ we chatted for a couple of minutes and it was pretty obvious that this was a nice sharp funny guy at the other end of the phone i played the tape of hardison down the line and a short time later i received a check for 25 from rko i think i bought paul lunch or something with that check it certainly was the least i could do ever since then and it s been almost 30 years i ve been watching olbermann s career from a distance because of that brief connection he eventually made his way into television and earned a job as an anchor at espn there olbermann revolutionized the sportscasting business with his co host dan patrick on sportscenter the two were smart and hip and brought a certain attitude to the show it not only attracted millions of viewers but a legion of young imitators who carry on the tradition today without the smarts olberman and patrick had as olbermann once said he knows that the show will be in the first paragraph of his obituary no matter what he does with the rest of his life i ve talked to a few people who knew olbermann in those espn days and read about others all agree that olbermann was brilliant talented and not particularly missed mostly because he didn t suffer fools gladly and apparently there were a lot of fools out there he seemed on his way to nowhere ville in terms of broadcasting when he left espn and landed with msnbc to do news right in the middle of the monica lewinsky scandal and later jumped to to jump to fox for sports work olbermann came back to msnbc in 2003 and low and behold carved out a new niche for himself at a time when his new network was generally nondescript olbermann slowly turned himself into a raging liberal on the air msnbc became something of a counterpoint to fox s right wing tilt at least during prime time and gave it an identity olbermann s style wasn t exactly in the news tradition of impartiality but it was tough to look away when he was on his special comments were filled with rage and big words that were rarely heard on national television he also took delight in pinpricking that might be far too light a word the actions and statements of people like bill o reilly glenn beck sean hannity and rush limbaugh it did look a little like the upstart trying to raise himself by taking aim at the big kids not that those four don t deserve some criticism i learned that he was starting to make an impact when people started telling me that i looked like him depending on his hairstyle and glasses at a particular moment if anything olbermann s major problem on the air was that he was too intense too committed guests who were on the conservative side were almost never booked and questions were sometimes so loaded that it was difficult for the guests to respond with anything but a repetition of olbermann s viewpoint his reputation got to the point where some people didn t know or forgot about his days as a sportscaster in other words this american life certainly had a second act olbermann was suspended last year for making campaign contributions to candidates a decided bad move for most people in the business then on friday he resigned suddenly and without warning i always figured it might end badly particularly after the suspension and it sure looks like it now many journalists enter the news business because they want to help change aspects of life when they can t they often turn quietly cynical olbermann was never that and his exit certainly was right in character i m not sure what s ahead for olbermann he has tweeted something vague about baseball a first love for him i m not sure if he ll have a third act but i m not going to bet against him either posted by budd bailey at 1 39 pm no comments labels keith olbermann thursday january 20 2011 a split second of fame so let me tell you all about my appearance on mtv wednesday there is a show on that channel called made in this case the focus of the hour long show was a rochester area teen who weighed about 245 pounds the show brought in a personal trainer and had footage of the young woman working out and losing weight the goal lose 25 pounds and run a 5 kilometer race without stopping in seneca falls in december the woman actually dropped 30 pounds to get to 215 so she was ready for the it s a wonderful run in seneca falls which i happened to run when everyone else registered for the race we were told to sign a waiver so that we could appear on television check there were a few cameras around the during the race and we didn t know where any of them were from heck we didn t even know when the show might air today was that day at 4 p m as the race officials sent out an e mail a couple of days ago letting us know it was coming i recorded the show for my wife who wouldn t be back from work yet the seneca falls portion of the show took up about two minutes at the end as i found out while watchign the last 15 minutes live i looked for familiar faces including mine as we had a group of 25 go but it was difficult to pick anyone out i did notice a bright light blue windbreaker from the medaille college race earlier in december go rushing by the screen and that s what i had on but there were a few of them there that day curious i went back and watched the race portions again in slow motion there s a scene of the runners just getting started with the focus on the woman in question suddenly i ruthlessly go running past her for a few moments in stop action you can see me from about my nose down to my elbows the woman is in the front and the focus of attention so you have to treat it like the zapruder film in order to make me out i was wearing an orange big syracuse santa hat for the race as many had silly costumes on for the occasion since i m taller than most of the runners that hat stood out in a couple of other scenes for an even shorter period of time i guess that leaves me 14 minutes and 59 8 seconds to go before i use up andy warhol s 15 minutes of fame what s more i guess i ll have to keep watching mtv now that i ve appeared on it something i haven t done in years but i have one question when does martha quinn come on posted by budd bailey at 12 35 am 3 comments labels mtv thursday january 13 2011 nice and tough dawn hamilton was one of the nicest people around she also was one of the toughest that s not a contradiction dawn who passed away wednesday night displayed both qualities in large quantities throughout her too short life dawn first came into my life when i worked at webr radio she had been the pride and joy of medaille college as i don t think she had a b on her report card while she was there it didn t take dawn long to move up the ladder in the news business not only was she smart but she was so nice to everyone that it was difficult not to like her i m not sure i ever heard her swear and the radio business sometimes gave people reason to do that if they needed one along the way she also showed plenty of interest in the sports field this was in part because she had liked sports since she was much younger i recall her telling one of the sabres of the early 70 s remember those little girls who used to pester you around town for autographs well i was one of those girls i believe the player said something like wow you ve really grown up dawn also turned wandered into the sports office a lot for another reason we had an intern by the name of paul hamilton at the time and they seemed to get along pretty well the younger people at the station all bonded quite well at that time we d sometimes after softball games go over to her house in west seneca dawn was living with her parents who were as gracious and friendly to us as people could be we d hop in the family pool to cool off and sip legal beverages on fine summer days sure enough dawn and paul got married in 1981 you can see them coming out of the church in the picture above the wedding was noteworthy for two reasons one the minister was extremely pregnant her due date was the very day of the wedding everyone sort of stared at her at the wedding wondering if she was going to make it through the ceremony she did two of all things mtv came on the air that day whenever the music channel celebrated an anniversary back in those pre jersey shore days when mtv had relevance in our lives paul and dawn s friends could say oh right it s their anniversary too the tough part about dawn went on display a little too soon in that era for anyone s tastes it s been quite a while but i believe dawn got bounced around in an auto accident the mishap caused some problems that doctors never could seem to completely fix indeed the pictures i have of her from that era often show her in some sort of neck brace she usually needed some sort of special chair to be a little more comfortable at work and had a variety of healing contraptions at home during that time i never heard her complain never heard her discouraged dawn just adapted while she had been a member of the co ed webr softball team for a short time she simply switched roles to scorekeeper if you can make an impression in that job dawn did it she quickly became known as the toughest scorekeeper when it came to earning a hit in the business one time greg mott complained about not getting a hit on a play when i pointed out that the ball went into the glove of the woman fielder and then came out greg replied the ball ripped the glove off her hand shouldn t that be a hit dawn came out to softball week after week on different teams through the 80 s and 90 s to cheer us on often she was our only fan she shared in our occasional triumphs and didn t laugh at least outwardly when our fielders treated the ball as if it were radioactive her level of devotion to paul was obvious and was always returned by him as he always carried a lawn chair and other equipment to the field and tended to her needs the rest of the team being manly men wouldn t have expressed it but appreciated just how loving a couple the two of them were when my softball days ended about 10 years ago due to age and a shift in job hours i stopped seeing dawn on any sort of regular basis what s more when i stopped covering sabre games i stopped seeing paul so news about either of the hamiltons was hard to come by but i did get the devastating news some years ago that dawn had cancer and the prognosis was not good still i knew dawn would attack the illness with a combination of determination and optimism whenever i ran into a common friend or a co worker of hers at wned i d ask about dawn and hear how she was working as regularly as possible and not complaining my last gesture if that s the right word came in the fall when a couple of our former webr co workers went into the buffalo broadcasters hall of fame i asked paul if dawn would be up for attending and he said she was pretty wiped out most of the time by the chemo treatments so i sent along the program from the event hoping it would put a smile on her face from there it was a matter of waiting for the crushing but not surprising news that came wednesday at least she s no longer suffering life it s said isn t necessarily fair and it certainly wasn t for dawn someone that nice deserved a longer fuller life but she d be the first to say no doubt that she had a husband friends and family that loved her and was loved by her dawn probably wouldn t have been interested in trading lives with anyone donations can be made to ebenezer united church of christ or hospice buffalo inc posted by budd bailey at 11 42 am 4 comments labels dawn hamilton wednesday january 12 2011 you idiot back in december of 1976 i was sitting at the press table during a syracuse maryland basketball game at maryland during a timeout hank nichols one of the few officials in america whose name was known to veteran basketball fans because he always seemed to be on television walked over to my coworker with the student newspaper and me during a timeout see that guy a few rows back who has been yelling at me tonight he asked we nodded wondering where he was going with this when maryland plays an acc game in here there are 15 000 fans just like him we laughed and then i asked do you mind nichols replied nah that s what makes it fun sometimes there are a handful sometimes there are thousands but when fans are watching a basketball game in which there are officials and a score chances are very good that there will be fans yelling at the referees in nearly nonsensical fashion i guess i first really noticed this sort of behavior in high school one of the parents of a junior varsity player was one of those loud fans who was sure that the referees hadn t made a good call in their lives what s more his son was at the age at which as my friend glenn described it everything your parents do in public tends to embarrass you that means that the son looked as if he wanted to dig a hole at the foul line whenever his dad called the ref a knucklehead by the way the varsity games which didn t include the son also included some knucklehe...
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