Jim Lampley: The Biggest Story of Our Lives

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

At 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Election Day, I checked the sportsbook odds in Las Vegas and via the offshore bookmakers to see the odds as of that moment on the Presidential election. John Kerry was a two-to-one favorite. You can look it up.


People who have lived in the sports world as I have, bettors in particular, have a feel for what I am about to say about this: these people are extremely scientific in their assessments. These people understand which information to trust and which indicators to consult in determining where to place a dividing line to influence bets, and they are not in the business of being completely wrong. Oddsmakers consulted exit polling and knew what it meant and acknowledged in their oddsmaking at that moment that John Kerry was winning the election.


And he most certainly was, at least if the votes had been fairly and legally counted. What happened instead was the biggest crime in the history of the nation, and the collective media silence which has followed is the greatest fourth-estate failure ever on our soil.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/biggest-story-of-our-live.html

This is Jim Lampley, the sportscaster, people. This should give you some idea on how deeply this story has drilled into our collective consciousness. Mr. Lampley is not known as a tin-foil-hatter, although I am sure someone will now try to tar him with that brush.

[pstans]

1. Lampley is a smart man

He has guest hosted the Jim Rome show and has been a guest numerous. Lampley is very intelligent. He is up there just bumbling about sports he knows what he is talking about. This is a very interesting story and it doesn't suprise me that Lampley knows this is true.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. nominated...and forwarded to everyone on my email list.

[Career Prole]

3. DAY-UM!!

That was refreshing! If that's how celebrities blog, I'll take more please! :D

[Kip Humphrey]

4. In our Bizarro world, we can trust bookies to be accurate & dispassionate

[Karmadillo]

5. Calls for a revolution. I guess he's just one of those lunatics who

thinks Democracy is worth fighting for.

[yowzayowzayowza]

6. Concise!

:kick:

...and nominated.

[Fly by night]

7. Does anyone have Jim Lampley's email address?

While he has clearly deduced the election theft, it appears that he hasn't read much yet. It might be good for us to send both him and Arianna links to the mountains of evidence that we have accumulated.

I will try to find his email address myself. If I find it, I will post it.

[earth mom]

8. Nominated! I now LOVE Jim Lampley!

:bounce: :loveya: :bounce:

[Disfronted]

9. And he is a fantastic boxing analyst as well!

[Helga Scow Stern]

10. Why isn't this on the "featured posts" page?

Instead, there are posts by Scarborough attacking the UN and Bill Maher trying to make * sound cool.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/featuredposts.html

[helderheid]

11. Thank you!

Nominated. Sounds like Jim should hang around here a bit - he won't feel nearly so alone!

[FreedomAngel82]

36. That would be cool

I heard his interview on BradBlog's radio show and it was great (he only was able to play the first part last night). He definietly knows what he's talking about from the interview since he was following everything since the beginning with the polling website's. I definietly believe John Kerry won this election and hopefully it can be proven and Bush can be kicked out.

[mikita]

12. Thanks so much for posting this...

This is such a good concise one to send to those friends who still can't imagine that the election could have been stolen...

[Im with Rosey]

13. Jim Lampley?

While I am not a boxing fan, I did see him announcing some match a while ago. I'm certain he is the same Jim Lampley that used to be one of the anchors for news in L.A. years ago. To bad he isn't doing that now and broadcasting this story.

[bleever]

14. Nominated.

<snip>

"...is there any greater imperative than to reverse this crime and reestablish democracy in America? Why the mass silence? Let's go to work with the circumstantial evidence, begin to narrow from the outside in, and find some witnesses who will turn. That's how they cracked Watergate. This is bigger, and I never dreamed I would say that in my baby boomer lifetime."

<snip>

[kster]

15. kick.nt

[SoCalDem]

16. He used to be our sports guy for ages.. He's smart, BUT

I never agreed with his (and Bree's) decision to have two children that would likely (and DID) have her congenital anomaly. It's sad to inflict damage on a child when you KNOW the facts.

I have a child with a birth defect, abd I can tell you this,. If I had even THOUGHT that another child would have been born with the defect, we would have NEVER had more children.

She and Jim had genetic counselling, and were TOLD that their kids would probably have the condition, and they went ahead and had kids. (just a son, I think)..

..........



Posted 2/16/2005 9:48 PM



http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-02-16-bree-walker_x.htm

Embracing her 'inner freak'
By William Keck, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — Ladies and gentleman, children of all ages, step behind the curtain if you dare and marvel at the Scorpion Queen!
No regrets: Bree Walker, a former Los Angeles newscaster, used to hide her hands because of a deformity caused by a birth defect.
By Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY

During her 20 years reporting and anchoring Southern California newscasts, such an introduction would have deeply offended disability advocate Bree Walker, who was born with a congenital condition called ectrodactyly. Traditionally referred to as lobster-claw syndrome, the condition fused together the digits of her hands and feet into claw-like appendages.

Much of her on-camera career in the '80s and '90s was spent with her hands hidden beneath a news desk. Now Walker has finally embraced her "inner freak," she says, as one of the sideshow attractions on the dark HBO drama Carnivale.

"When I was a little kid, my oldest brother used to tease me that the only job I'd ever get would be in a carnival as a sideshow freak," she says. "I've spent all my professional life trying to act as if I were not different. I didn't realize how I'd been hiding the true me all these years."

Walker, 51, plays the glamorous, seductive "Scorpion Queen" Sabina, who is married to a half-man, half-woman named Bert/Bertha and was previously wed to dwarfed Carnivale proprietor Samson. She started last week and reappears Sunday (9 p.m. ET/PT) and again in the March 27 season finale.

But her decision to play Sabina has caused controversy. Some advocacy groups have branded their former hero a traitor for appearing as a freak — an offensive stereotype people with disabilities have tried to overcome. She has received nasty e-mails. Several speaking engagements have been canceled.

But Walker says she pitched the character to Carnivale producers as an example of a woman who survived against all odds.

"Were I born in the '20s and working in the Depression-era Dust Bowl, I would have been lucky to have been Sabina," Walker says. "In those days, there were laws on the books that didn't allow people with deformities to be in public places during certain times of day, like meal times. So most people born with a physical deformity were either given away to an orphanage, drowned at birth or abandoned to the family closet or cellar." (Walker's grandfather abandoned her mother, who also was born with the disability.)

Besides ectrodactyly, Walker has something else in common with her character: multiple marriages. Thrice divorced, she was last married (from 1990 to 2000) to television sportscaster Jim Lampley, with whom she co-anchored KCBS news in Los Angeles. "Jim and I got back together on and off for the past five years — even talked about getting (re)married, but we couldn't quite get there," she says.

Now single, Walker is taking time to enjoy her children, Andrea, 16, and Aaron, 13. Both inherited her condition, though they have undergone more than a dozen surgeries each to unfuse their digits. Her decision to have kids came under fire in the '90s by a local talk radio host who considered her procreation selfish. (Odds of ectrodactyly being passed on are 50-50.)

Speaking out against her critics, she believes, hurt her career in journalism. But Walker has zero regrets. "My children have every right to walk this planet," she says. And what do the kids think of Sabina? "They think she's pretty cool."

[Peace Patriot]

22. SoCalDem, I don't think it's right to comment on their personal decision

about having children. Just needed to say that. I don't think you realize how hurtful it could be.

[Griffy]

27. SO.. about the article... agree or disagree ... ??

responding to this article with personal info seems wrong, unless this personal activity is related to the point of the author, like gay people working for the republicans (hypocrites). The rigged election is the truth we must spread...

[dzika]

17. Nominated. n/t

[autorank]

18. Jim Lampley is an HONEST broadcaster in BOXING & Very Bright

I've watched him for years as a boxing commentator. What a crooked sport but he calls them as he sees them and he's always been totally honest, not an easy job. He gives HBO immense credibility and that's why he's there.

If Jim Lampley is saying this, the smart money is that lots of other people will be saying it too. Who knows, when the smart guys (handicappers, etc.) in Vegas get into this (and read some TIA), then maybe my guy Harry Reid will get the message on the "biggest issue of his life" (should he choose to accept the assignment).

Great, great find and post.

[KittyWampus]

23. Hmm, Reid Is From Nevada Isn't He? Things That Make You Go Hmmm

[FreedomAngel82]

37. That would be nice

I wonder if enough people talk to Reid and the others in the Senate about the fraud and show enough evidance would they talk about it? Only reason why I can think of why they aren't is because they don't want to be seen as "consperiacy theorists" unless they can prove it and hard core proof that would hold up in court. They don't want to ruin their careers. It's disappointing at some points but I do understand the pressure they are under.

[NightOwwl]

19. Some of us don't get to the Election forum often enough...

...so I'm nominating for greatest.

Slightly OT: I am not a sports person. I don't care about baseball, basketball, football etc. But if I'm in my car when Jim Rome is on I listen. He gets political every so often, and I like what I hear. He is pro-gay, pro-choice, anti-Bush. I'd love to see him on the Daily Show. Anway, I'll have to tune in more often to catch Jim Lampley when he subs.

Slightly OT (again): Wow! I didn't realize Jim Lampley was married to Bree Walker. She was on Carnivale last season, and sad to say has had so much facial plastic surgery she didn't need makeup to play one of the freaks.

[tandem5]

20. nominated nt

[Amaryllis]

21. Blog entry dated today. Anyone know if this is first time he's come out on

this?

[Peace Patriot]

24. The slot machines in Las Vegas are another phenomenon that requires

dead-on accuracy as well as extremely strict accounting. But not voting.

Back in 2003, when Tim Robbins came under attack by the Bush Cartel and its lapdogs in the news media, for publicly opposing the Iraq invasion, it was the sports writers that came to his defense. Maybe it's because they witness courageous human endeavor against the odds every day, and because fairness is such an essential in sports--it's where we get the phrase "a level playing field" from--that sports writers are often such great democrats with a small d. (--don't know how they fall out, political-wise, but I can guess.) They've also seen sports become the great "level playing field" of the nation for black citizens, and have plainly seen the benefits of that. How much poorer we would all be if we hadn't had heroes like Wilma Rudolph, Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell, Jackie Robinson, Tiger Woods, Hank Aaron, Serena and Venus Williams, and others! Baseball in particular seems to be our paradigm of democracy, as well as being an expression of our "can do" spirit.

It doesn't surprise me at all that the odds-makers got it right, and a sport writer called it right--and everybody else in the country's social/political establishment seems to be clueless (or worse).

[Griffy]

25. now can we please NEVER use the phrase. "bush won" !!

or for that matter.. Kerry lost ..... we need to bring awareness to this.. at evvery turn.. and ever gathering.. NEVER let people live comfortably with this lie! Make them question what happened... the paperless thing usually gets them.. THEN tell them about the exit polls out of margin of errors ONLY in certian states that had these machines.. the states with all paper were all in the margin, as expected! Its all there... we must be the alarm clock for the sleeping public!

[Bill Bored]

26. Cool. Olbermann used to do sports too.

Glad to see that Arianna's blog is getting into this.

[Filius Nullius]

28. Awesome! Someone with a national reputation puts it on the line!

I say hats off to Jim Lampley! He is a true patriot and a man with giant cahunes. Few people with a prominent media job like his would dare be so forthright about the stolen presidential election.

[AuntiBush]

29. Overjoyed that People Care & Are Speaking Out - Finally!

Thank you Jim Lampley and the entire "Huffington Post Blog!"

Oh yeah. Democracy is on it's way back with the help of those whom "care!"

[SmokingJacket]

30. WOW. That's great.

My righteous indignation at what happened in November had faded -- reading that, I'm fired up again.

Voter verified papor ballot: the only answer.

(I take back my former unkind words about Arianna H. If her blog is going to include stuff like this -- I don't care if she swings back to Repub land in a year or two.)

[Wilms]

31. n/t

[tommcintyre]

32. I wonder how many millions GOP insiders made on this?

Just like 9-11, certain "insiders" supposedly shorted the airline stocks just before the "big day" - and made many millions.

For those who knew the fix was in, the 2004 election presented an even better opportunity for them to make a killing since there is no SEC for gambling to record especially large bets.

Well.. I bet there were some Swiss bank accts that got very "fat" on November 3rd.:mad:

[FreedomAngel82]

38. That could be looked into

Maybe it could give some clue's.

[snot]

33. What are the the handicappers, etc. in Vegas saying about

our odds of establishing (convincing our country) that fraud occurred?

[autorank]

34. They don't offer lines on rigged games twice in a row. Bummer!

[jazzjunkysue]

35. I tried to get his email. I googled. Nothing. I want to thank him, too.

We need to figure out how. There is no feedback on huffington's blog, so, I'm stumped. Let's hope someone he knows reads DU and will get him over here to read this.

I can tell you one thing: The freepers are already slaughtering him for it.

[kster]

39. kick.nt