Jim Lampley is the sportscaster for the Olympics this year. I never knew

[helderheid]

who he was until I read these:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jim-lampley/to-byron-york-and-other-o_728.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jim-lampley/with-apologies-to-byron-y_636.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-lampley/revisiting-the-biggest-st_b_1619.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-lampley/an-even-bigger-story-i-g_b_1706.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-lampley/tying-up-loose-ends-on-el_b_1900.html



I was so happy to see his face last night on the teevee!

[bullwinkle428]

1. Lampley is a very outspoken liberal - he sometimes guest-hosts on the

Jim Rome show, and he doesn't hold back in least when it comes to expressing his opinions! :applause:

[long_green]

12. I hear Jim Rome is a good democrat

I don't much care for his show but I applaud his politice (if true).

[Cleita]

2. He used to be co-anchor on the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles

when I first knew him. He was also very handsome back then.

[helderheid]

3. still is! woot!

[la la]

5. There was an 'uproar'

at the time, because he and Bree Walker, his co-anchor, were a 'thing' and later married. I wonder if they are still married?

I remember seeing her on a documentary and she had become 'addicted' to plastic surgery and was actually quite scary looking.

Off the subject, I know, but it just brought back memories!

[helderheid]

6. oh I think I remember her - didn't she have a disability and people were

criticizing her for having children?

[Cleita]

7. She had little lobster claw fingers on her hand.

It was a genetic disease.

[la la]

9. Thanks for the pix-

That's the "after" picture!

The before was more beautiful, in my opinion!

[helderheid]

11. I agree!

[Cleita]

8. No. They're divorced.

She was on a radio program a few months ago and she referred to herself as his ex.

[helderheid]

10. yea, his bio on the huffington report confirms that - sounds like they are

still working together a bit:

Bio: Jim Lampley
Jim Lampley After thirty years as a network television sportscaster, and with a vast array of credits in television, radio, movies and the internet, Jim Lampley is one of America’s most accomplished sports broadcasters. Along with his ex-wife Bree Walker Lampley, he also runs a successful entertainment production company in Hollywood and has begun to expand his career in commentary beyond the boundaries of sports into politics and public affairs. His journey has been blessed by an unusual variety of firsts, onlys and somethings entirely different.

[dsc]

4. Lampley may have his heart in the right place

but his math is not. Here is just one example of a fairly large mistake.

Byron York's most recent refutation of my charge that irregularities in the 2004 Presidential election demand criminal investigation cites quotes from the report of Edison/Mitofsky, the two-company partnership which provided exit polls to the major television networks, on the vast discrepancies between those polls and the official results of the election. The report, which Mr. York has helpfully highlighted in his second post and which runs to about eighty pages, essentially offered the conclusion that an five-and-a-half point gap between final poll numbers and the national popular vote tabulation-- a variance more than four times the statistical margin for error of 1.3%-- can be attributed to shy Republicans. The Washington Post summarized the conclusion: "procedural problems compounded by the refusal of large numbers of Republican voters to be surveyed led to inflated estimates of support

He is off by a factor of two here. MOE's work in both directions, not only one. Thus when they predict that Bush and Kerry are going to be tied but end up with them apart by around 5%, they are only off by a 2.5 MOE (2.5 each way). He has made other similar mistakes in other posts. I applaud his liberalism, I don't applaud his sloppiness.