Opinionated Sportscaster Obediently Drops Democratic Keyword
I am a sports fan, and since I work from home, I often play sports talk shows on the TV as background noise. My wife and I are also old movie fans, so we may have a movie on from the 30s or 40s. On those days when sports are predominately on, it will usually be Colin Cowherd’s show, followed by a show called First Things First, which Nick Wright hosts.
Before I get into the real issue, let me offer a word of advice to Fox Sports One. Wright is a talented and knowledgeable host, but the endless discussions about everything Kansas City Chiefs in general, and Patrick Mahomes specifically, is literally nauseating. The volume of conversation on those subjects is bad enough, but the arrogance in the way that Wright delivers them is forcing the channel to be changed. Believe it or not, my wife used to look forward to the show. She referred to the guys on it as her nephews, but Wright has changed that. We thought it was a national show, not a local Kansas City homer production.
Meanwhile, Cowherd, who is an obvious liberal, has given us a peak into one of the Democrat keywords that we can expect to hear a lot of as the election approaches. That word in all of its forms is “joy.”
On two different shows within one week, Cowherd displayed his leftist lean. While at first talking about the Olympics, he digressed into talking about politics.
“It’s an election year, and increasingly, we’re being fed doomsday scenarios, and people want to be happy.”
“People are putting down their phones and turning on something that makes them feel happy. Caitlin Clark, Copa América [soccer], the Summer Olympics. Americans are much more united than anybody on their iPhone would acknowledge, but that’s hard to sell. We really want the same things, but we watch different news channels for it. People are tired of the angst.”
Then This:
“This weekend, I turned on CNN. I didn’t plan to, but they had a Kamala Harris special; it was like two hours. What I noticed between her and the other guy running is she smiled a lot,” Cowherd said, comparing Harris to Donald Trump.
“She was happy, she laughed, it wasn’t constant finger-pointing and grievance. And I found myself sitting there for two hours; it was kind of uplifting. It didn’t really matter because I don’t know much about Kamala Harris other than what I read, but it was like uplifting. And that’s why I watch so much of the Olympics.”
Cowherd’s confession that he was uplifted by watching Harris cackle and laugh is telling. Harris treats everything like she’s a six-year-old at a birthday party. At some point in her life, someone told her that if she didn’t have anything intelligent to say, she should cackle, which explains why she is guffawing 90 percent of the time.
Cowherd doesn’t discuss anything factual. The “angst” he mentions is directly linked to the Biden-Harris administration. For instance, he has frequently stated that the economy is fine and booming. He lives around Los Angeles, so either he is deliberately deceitful, or he is so out of touch with what is happening in the country that his ignorance is glaring. People are struggling as inflation inches up. Food, gas, clothing, and the cost of everything else are straining American’s pocketbooks. Maybe the view from Cowherd’s cocoon is all sunshine and unicorns, but denying reality doesn’t enhance his show and diminishes his credibility.
Later in the week, he dropped in another wisecrack that again displayed his prejudice for the liberal viewpoint. He was discussing how introductory news conferences can be telling and used Nick Sirianni’s, the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, as an example of a bad one.
After playing about a 30-second clip of the news conference that Sirianni stumbled through, the camera returned to Cowherd, who was shaking his head and saying that’s enough. He then stated, “That makes JD Vance sound like Shakespeare.”
What makes this particular Cowherd comment so shamefully nauseating is that Harris is famous for spewing nonsensical word salads between cackles every time she opens her mouth. JD Vance, on the other hand, wrote the best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” that later became a hit movie that was directed by Ron Howard and starred Amy Adams and Glenn Close.
Cowherd is opinionated and speaks with authority even when he is wrong. I have heard him make many comparisons and blatant statements that would be believable if you didn’t know better. Cowherd can get away with his liberal statements because the MSM leans hard left overall. However, we don’t tune into sports shows to hear uninformed talking heads misleading people with their political views.
Perhaps Cowherd should imagine our country being taken advantage of if Harris ever had to sit down with Putin, Xi Jinping, or Kim Jong Un. There wouldn’t be party hats, and it certainly wouldn’t be a laughing matter.
Cowherd’s show can be entertaining; just take everything he says with a grain of salt.
