Obama’s Cool Wingman: Duke’s Reggie Love
College Basketball, Politics May 27th. 2008, 1:15pm
At the risk of getting all political on a Tuesday … many folks seem to be enjoying this New York Times BJ profile on Barry Obama’s “cool” buddy, former Duke basketball player Reggie Love. “Mr. Love is raffish, always joking with the Secret Service, offering closed-fist high-fives to members of the news media … [In Indiana] he helped out when the senator did not want a second Budweiser, taking it off Mr. Obama’s hands.” Also, he’s an internet legend for passing out at a frat house and getting the treatment. Hey, look on the bright side – at least he didn’t pick Laettner or Wojo.
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May 27th, 2008 at 1:18 PM
What would the reaction be if this were Clinton’s ‘body woman’?
She would be getting destroyed.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Obama and a Duke guy hanging out?
Another reason for me to add to my list of why I don’t like Obama.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Did you decide to print this today, the day before MikeNYC comes back? Slip it in under the wire, huh?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:22 PM
She would be getting destroyed.
Destroyed by Pres. Clinton.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:24 PM
@ CBH: And apparently he doesn’t drink all that much. And this is the guy we’re comparing to any of the Kennedys?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
After Obama no longer gets to rely on the hate people have for the witch what is he going to do? Not since Mondale has a Republican had an easier opponent.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Is he related to Kevin Love?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:25 PM
So getting drunk and passing out in college is not exactly news nor is it a crime. But
considering Obama is running for a really important office you would think some other
“really cool” former athlete who doesn’t have balls on his head on the
internet was available for the job. You would think anything potentially
damning would be an automatic rejection when trying to work for a
presidential candidate. Good thing this came out AFTER the
North Carolina primary. The basketball with the Tar Heels must have been a preemptive strike to the Dookie Backlash. My guess he appoints Dean Smith to his advisory team within a few days.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:28 PM
just hope that Reggie “T-bag” Love doesn’t pass out in the basement of the Chi Phi house in Chapel Hill again. Someone here probably still has those pics!
May 27th, 2008 at 1:28 PM
Cherokee Parks must not have been available
May 27th, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Obama could hang out with Bin Laden and the New York Times would gush all over it.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:30 PM
Dirty Sanchez could exaggerate up a storm and lose all credibility.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Please. I agree with Dirty Sanchez. Obama is held to completely different media standard, consisting mostly of fawning and accusing anyone critizing Obama of using dirty tactics.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:38 PM
I only share my political views with the people driving directly behind me. As for my sports views, ohio is a dirt farm full of farmers of dirt with sweater vests and headbands.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:39 PM
true story: coach k wouldn’t let Duhon and Love room together at Duke due to their penchant for blackout drinking. Love is about as unreliable a person as you can get…definitely not the person I’d want to be making sure I was waking up in the morning.
Also, this came out about a month ago…the NY Times is just behind the curve. Everyone in NC knew about it, but Obama went and played with the UNC people to smooth things over.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Obama said that the US has 57 states and he has admitted to using cocaine. Why hasn’t that been joked about and talked about constantly? Obama has been treated with kid gloves.
And I am not a W apologist either, asking a simple question.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:42 PM
No, McCain sucks! No, Obama sucks! Just vote and don’t try to convince people of your views. It is wasted time.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Obama was using hyperbole to say that he was going to campaign everywhere. Saying you’re going to visit 57 states is the same as saying you’re going to give 110% Are we really that childish?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:43 PM
@Hef
neener neener.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:43 PM
saw the clip think he was making a joke about his traveling and who cares about coke use x amount of yrs ago when he was young
dont really care about that personal stuff when it comes to politicians so they used drugs back in the day it only shows me they are regular people too
May 27th, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Maggs is right.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Mmonast, I don’t care at all, but the media sure did when it came to Bush. I just like the same standard to be applied in the supposed fair and balanced coverage I expect to get from the news media that claims to give it.
One of you liberals make your Fox News joke now.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Obama > all you haters.
The media is kinder to Obama because he doesn’t have a 30 year reputation for being an asshole like HRC and McCain do… McCain’s temper will seal his fate.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:47 PM
absolutely cbh kinda the same way clinton was attacked for his blow job…who cares really. Its just the hypocritical people in gov’t who rally behind things like family values and moral supremacy only to have it come out that they solicit gay sex in a bathroom or have like 5 kids out of wedlock or some other bullshit
May 27th, 2008 at 1:48 PM
It would’ve been better if he had denied drug use like Dubya.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
*fixed it
May 27th, 2008 at 1:49 PM
Obama went to the same high school as Michelle Wie too if anyone wants to rip on him for that, cause I’m sure some people find that important.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:50 PM
@clown: Yeah, I’m thinking owning up to it’s kinda nice.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:52 PM
@ cbh49er: Fox News is already a sick joke
May 27th, 2008 at 1:54 PM
August since I’m “hating” on Obama I don’t trust that link won’t get me fired so you might have to tell me what your linking to.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:56 PM
You know what scares me? It isn’t the fact that Obama gets treated with kid’s gloves on character issues…it’s that 99% of his followers couldn’t give me a description of his politics other than “it’s time for change.” Yeah, I’m glad kids my age are finally deciding to vote…but at least know what you’re voting for. I’ll probably vote for him, but only because I do not want a pro-choice republican get 3 supreme court appointments but I cannot support a majority of politics. I detest the democratic party’s move away from free trade, I hate punitive taxes, and I think even though Iraq is a fiasco, we really can’t just pull up and leave and risk a major power vacuum in the middle east.
Basically…just think about your choice. Learn the beliefs behind the candidate. I don’t care if you disagree with me (as I’m sure at least 50% of this board does), I just want all voters to be somewhat informed.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:57 PM
Sorry, but for Obama to be as open, as new, as hip, and as accessible as he’s been and for Hillary (and Bill) to be as frosty as they’ve been to the media and to expect the media to NOT side with Obama’s a joke. The reporters are either young or jaded-cum-Obama converts, too.
Hillary didn’t have to deal with people calling her a Muslim because she was in African tribal garb, either, and Obama sure as hell didn’t brand Hillary as either a ’60s starry-eyed and blunter liberal or a Republican hardass in her youth, both of which would be possible with careful parsing of her record at Wellesley.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Obama’s bobos have done a great job so far if insulating him from criticism by branding anyone who disagrees with him as a racist. Just ask Geraldine Ferraro.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:58 PM
tallguy, I can SO tell you voted for Nader
May 27th, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Fox News folks from Friday or Saturday talking about Hillary’s ‘RFK assassination’ story, where one lady calls Obama ‘Osama’, then opines that someone should ‘knock them both off, if we could’.
Can’t remember any other media outlets letting people talk wishfully about murdering a candidate, without batting an eye.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I’m more worried about Obama thinking they speak Arabic in Afghanistan
May 27th, 2008 at 2:03 PM
@cbh: It’s a Foxie screwing up Osama/Obama while talking about Hil’s “assassination remarks,” then saying, “Well, both, if we could,” and (maybe nervously) laughing, and the other one saying “Talk about how you really feel.”
@August: That’s despicable, but awesome find.
@tall: I’m an Obama supporter and a young person (I’ve said I’m 18, but, yeah, sure, again), but I’m a LOT more informed than a lot of my generation is. I know the positions better (raising middle-class taxes to make healthcare more affordable without going to a universal mandate; timetables and swifter drawdowns in Iraq; more stringent mileage regulations on cars and carbon taxes) than most do, but I’ve been thinking about why some people I know (my dad, especially, lifelong Dem but cynic, too) don’t like Obama and why others (my mom, lifelong Dem and frequent cynic, but optimist at heart) love him.
It worries me that the idea of “cult of personality” has been floating around in my head, too.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:03 PM
clown, I sat the past 2 presidential elections out…in 00 I just left it blank, in ‘04 I voted Bradernik
Not that it really matters, NC is a red state as far as presidential elections go. I’m just glad Obama is going to be the nominee because Hilary would’ve gotten enough anti-Hilary people to come to the polls to put my governor choice, Bev Perdue, into a tough election.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Fox News does need to drop the fair and balanced line in their ad campaigns.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
@nolan: Don’t we need Arabic translators to help root out/question some of the non-Afghan al-Qaida remnants in Afghanistan? Sorry, but Pashto isn’t exactly the lingua franca of terrorism as we know it.
Also, McCain’s screwed up Sunni and Shiite and al-Qaida, and that should be unforgivable if we’re looking for a President with mental faculty beyond the one in office right now.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Until all the old people in my state die, the Republican candidate is going to get our 3 electoral college votes anyways, so the presidential voting isn’t too huge for me. Of course, the last 8 years may have flipped enough people over to Democrat. Nice job Bush.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Liz Trotter is a contributer to Fox News. She isn’t a reporter or a host and does not otherwise work for the network. Blaming Fox News for what she said makes about as much sense as blaming the International Women’s Peace Conference for Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams saying she wanted to kill President Bush during her speech there last year.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:11 PM
@ cbh, agreed. I’m fine with Fox News being ‘the conservative/republican news station’, but it’s hard to take them seriously with that tag line… never mind the dip their credibility takes with that abortion of a morning show Fox and Friends.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:14 PM
@Pulled: Okay, glad to have context. But the other guy saying “Talk about how you really feel” in typical TV BS mode instead of checking her on that, does HE work for Fox?
May 27th, 2008 at 2:16 PM
@ pulled: She’s called a ‘contributor’ because she gets paid to talk on the air! How much further do you have to go to be an employee of Fox News?! Also, she had the lamest apology ever.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:18 PM
I’m sure he was caught off guard by what she said and wanted to steer the conversation back on topic. I’d hardly call his response an endorsement of her comment.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:20 PM
She’s getting paid to express HER views. She’s not editorializing on behalf of the network. If you can’t see the difference then you either aren’t paying attention or you don’t want to let facts get in the way of your hatred of Fox News
May 27th, 2008 at 2:28 PM
I can see the difference. I think Fox having people like that on their airwaves, paying them to do it, says something about the network.
Also, read Eric Alterman’s “What Liberal Bias?,” pulled? It’s like the more scholarly version of anything Al Franken’s written in the last eight years, and it points out some things about American media that are pretty interesting…
May 27th, 2008 at 2:29 PM
groin, why would Fox hire her? Because of views like that. Who isn’t paying attention?
May 27th, 2008 at 2:36 PM
@Clown: Fox News also employes Susan Estrich, Alan Colmes, Juan Williams. Are they in the tank for the Republicans? Paying atention now?
@ Rockabye: I’m happy to hear how informed you are for someone your age. Too bad you’re completely wrong
.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:41 PM
In a related story South Park has a Black guy. His name is Token.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Simmer down, Pulled; simmer down. I’m an avid FoxNews watcher and am fascinated by O’Reilly and his influence. Be onjective though, FoxNews is not “fair and balanced” anymore; it’s simply an outdated tagline now. Juan Williams is the only non-republican worth listening to on the entire network and Alan Colmes is laughable for how much Hannity dominates him on their show.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Alan Colmes is a douche who barely understands the points he espouses, and they only put him on with Hannity because Sean would start crying if he faced a true debater/intellectual 5 nights a week; even Tucker Carlson would school that mental midget (Hannity).
May 27th, 2008 at 2:43 PM
onjective = objective
May 27th, 2008 at 2:43 PM
+ 1,000 for jibblescribbits1… well played sir.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:46 PM
@Pulled: And Susan Estrich does what? And Alan Colmes is the second name in his show, right? And Juan Williams is known for?
I mean, come on, a few bit players with dissenting opinions doesn’t quite stop the torrent of right-wing rhetoric from the O’Reilly/Hannity contingent…
May 27th, 2008 at 2:47 PM
I love listening to conservative talk radio in my car. You really get a feel for some of the personalities.
Limbaugh, for example. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t actually believe half the things he says, he just says them because he’s a classic asshole and he knows that people are listening to him. He cracks me up.
Hannity clearly rode the short bus to school. He’s about as dumb as a rock and twice as slow.
In my area, we also get Mark Levin, who is a classic demagogue, riding angry polemics and straw-man arguments into the sunset.
Of those, the only one I ever have to turn off is Levin… man that guy makes me mad because I think he’s not retarded (making him unlike Hannity) and really believes that crap (unlike Limbaugh).
May 27th, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Sorry I couldn’t put together an exhaustive list of liberals on the fly. There’s also Geraldo Rivera, Jane Hall, Mara Liasson, and several others on Fox who agree with the Dems much more often than Republicans. It’s not 50/50 but this is nothing like Token on South Park (even though your post did make me laugh).
For the record, I’ve said nothing about whether or not Fox sides with the republican party. I’ve merely stated that it’s stupid to hold a news network responsible for what a guest says.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:57 PM
I’ve merely stated that it’s stupid to hold a news network responsible for what a guest says.
Once you’re a regular, paid contributor, you’re no longer just a ‘guest’. If you can’t see the difference then you either aren’t paying attention or you don’t want to let facts get in the way of your sticking up for Fox News
May 27th, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Wait you’re argument that FOX news doesn’t paint Democrats as almost comically idiotic is that FOX news gives Dems…Geraldo!?!
May 27th, 2008 at 3:02 PM
It would be foolish to hold a network responsible for what a guest says, except in the instance where said network has a history of bringing in guests that say that type of thing. Once is an accident – a guest overstepping the line. Several times every day? That’s a philosophy.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Here’s me sticking up for Fox News.
1. I think Hannity is a fucking blowhard who I can’t stand and won’t
listen to or watch.
2. I think Bill O’Reilly is a tremendous egomaniac.
Yeah, I’m the poster boy for Fox News. I just find it funny that people who think CNN and MSNBC do the Lord’s work, hate Fox news so much.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:05 PM
Once is an accident – a guest overstepping the line. Several times every day? That’s a philosophy.
Agreed… that’s my point exactly. Plus, you’re not a guest sprocket when you’re getting paid: you’re part of the machine.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:07 PM
@ Pulled: agreed as well. I’m not saying any TV News station has it right but there’s a significant difference in the problems of CNN and MSNBC and the unhinged reality of Fox News.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:10 PM
I actually hate all the News networks. They are all flash no substance. They are more concerned about ratings than news so we get Obama’s Rev. on a loop for 3 weeks when more serious, and relevant, news is actually happening. We get Brittney Spears’ sister getting prego as headline news.
Personally I like bbcnews/america because they actually have.. news. They also have some good reading and I find them to be the most objective.
If i read something in the US i’ll link to opinions from Yahoo! news, or find stuff on either Politico.com (conservative) or Time.com. Both are biased but at least report pretty well.
I’ll go to CNN for stuff like local and US only news but usually don’t stay very long.
May 27th, 2008 at 3:29 PM
Wow someone tell a fart joke
May 27th, 2008 at 3:29 PM
I just get annoyed when people talk about “liberal bias” in the media. They aren’t liberal, they’re lazy. They go for sensationalism and little else. They’re pretty much all worthless, and I get my news from the ether.