Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
Blog Reactions
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: CNBC writer issues convoluted sort-of apology for racist column
Think Progress: CNBC Reporter: Keflezighi’s Marathon Win Was ‘Empty’ Because He Was An Immigrant Rather Than U.S.-Born
Crooks and Liars: CNBC Reporter: NYC Marathon Winner Is A Citizen, But Not An "American"
Reactions
 |
Reason #208 why the mainstream media continue their slide toward irrelevancy: they can't even get the apologies right ~http://bit.ly/3IkKdS 30 days ago |
 |
Idiot=Darren Rovell for dumping on the AMERICAN who just won the NYC mar, apology is even worse-http://www.cnbc.com/id/33603449 via @addthis 11/4/2009 |
 |
RT What I Got Wrong About Keflezighi - Sports Biz with Darren Rovell - CNBC.com: http://www.cnbc.com/id/33603449 via @addthis 11/4/2009 |
CNBC writer issues convoluted sort-of apology for racist column
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
The apology doesn't refute some of the specific charges the writer leveled in his earlier outrageous column. Here's what he says now: I said that Keflezighi's win, the first by an American since 1982, wasn't as big as it was being made out to be because there was a difference between being an American-born product and being an American citizen. Frankly I didn't account for the fact that virtually all of Keflezighi's running experience came as a US citizen. I never said he didn't deserve to be called American. All I was saying was that we should ...
CNBC Reporter: Keflezighi’s Marathon Win Was ‘Empty’ Because He Was An Immigrant Rather Than U.S.-Born
Think Progress —
... ” clarifying yesterday’s piece, writing, “Let me be clear: Meb Keflezighi is an American and any suggestion otherwise is wrong.” He now granted Keflezighi’s win legitimacy only because the runner was “brought up through the American system”: ...
CNBC Reporter: NYC Marathon Winner Is A Citizen, But Not An "American"
Crooks and Liars —
... fortune to have been born in the U.S.
For the record, Keflezighi was born in Eritrea, but has been a naturalized citizen for 11 years, having immigrated to the US twenty-two years ago at the age of 12.
As the daughter and wife of naturalized American citizens, I find this wholly offensive, although I suspect that had Keflezighi had the Scandinavian looks of my husband, there would be absolutely no qualification of his citizenry.
UPDATE: Rovell apologizes:
All I was saying was that we should celebrate an American ...
