Monday, April 11, 2005

Mitch Match

When Rush Limbaugh was villified for suggesting that Donovan McNabb was overrated (he is), and further suggested that he was overrated because he is black (he is not), Mitch Albom and the other ink-stained loudmouths had a field day with it.

Albom finished up his rant with the statement that Limbaugh was fired for being wrong, not for being a convservative.

I laughed pretty hard at the time, ...as if sports commentators aren't wrong ALL THE TIME.

Well, it looks like Mr. You-should-be-fired-if-you-say-something-wrong has been suspended from the Detroit Free Press for a laughable piece of sloppiness.

As reported by Howie Kurtz today:

On Sunday, April 3, Mitch Albom's sports column in the Detroit Free Press involved the Final Four basketball game the day before between North Carolina and Michigan State.

In the crowd, he wrote, "there were two former stars for Michigan State, Mateen Cleaves and Jason Richardson," who "sat in the stands, in their MSU clothing, and rooted on their alma mater." Except that the two men weren't at the game. Which Albom had no way of knowing, since he filed the column Friday, before the basketball game.


Didn't you know that you can see through time if you squint really really hard?

Albom has been suspended, and Free Press Publisher Carole Leigh Hutton has ordered an investigation.

Why do they need to do an investigation? Mr. Albom has already told us what he thinks should happen to people like him and Limbaugh.