Bob Costas reveals he is still the greatest sportscaster currently working by throwing a smackdown on the Saudi Olympic delegation AND silencing Katie Couric in the same moment. The former is hardly a feat, but anyone who can make Couric shut up for more than 5 seconds is a brilliant artist.
Here’s the exchange:
[Saudi team enters]
Couric: I love when the athletes wear their traditional clothing. This is not traditional, this is worn still in Saudi Arabia.
Costas: Since the wakeup call of 9/11, Americans have become more aware of aspects of Saudi society beyond the oil and their nominal status as a U.S. ally. Those aspects include widespread religious extremism and an antipathy towards women’s rights, and here in Athens, there are 21 members of the Saudi delegation. None are women.
Couric: [Silence. For nine seconds.]
Ouch.
Via AllahPundit
(Peals of laughter)
THANK you.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds Couric’s vapid editorializing and nitpicking of the Olympics aggravating.
Who’s the chick with the flag in front of the delegation?
Shooter5: do you mean the GREEK chick with the sign reading “Saudi Arabia” in GREEK?…
And you know she’s Greek…..how exactly? I presume the Greek lettering is for the home crowd to read, but since I don’t speak or read Greek myself, I’m a little unsure of what the characters read.
S5: did Americans carry the signs when the Olympics were HERE?…did the French carry the signs when the Olympics were THERE?…and do you really think that a Saudi woman is going to have the cojones to go out in front of the world preceding her countrymen dressed like that?…
According to my first grade physiology, boys and girls are different. Girls don’t have cojones. At least, none that I’ve dated.