And here I thought I was the only one who hated Al Trautwig... http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/rio-2016/2016/08/08/simone-biles-al-trautwig-parents-twitter/88397510/
I pay almost no attention to gymnastics between Olympics, and even I know the story of Simone Biles, the most accomplished and talented gymnast in history, and how she and her sister were adopted by her grandfather and his wife when she was around 4. If I know this, Trautwig knows it (and if he didn't, NBC ran an "Up Close and Gooey" segment on it last night, one of the few I have watched). Since they adopted the girls, they are legally their parents, and since they have raised them since young childhood, and they have always called them mom and dad, they are emotionally their parents, and aside from all that who the hell cares, if the girls say they are their parents why not just call them their parents? But Al tweeted (and I believe made a point of saying something to the same effect on air last night) that they are not "really" her parents. Asshole. The internet has apparently been exacting their pound of flesh today, which is good. I don't know that this incident really is grounds for firing him (unless it turns out he is doing it for some specific, yucky purpose). He has issues a modified apology, but not really an explanation. The reasons for firing him are decades of jingoistic, bloviating gymnastics play by play which sometimes makes Donald Trump seem reasonable and restrained. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
