Don Surber

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[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

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[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

"Washington starting the French and Indian war."

Not many people know this

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I’m watching the new documentary on Lincoln. Something continues to hit me about early American leaders specifically:

They were all colossal fuck ups early in their lives.

Lincoln, Washington, Grant. The list goes on.

I mean really really massive mistakes.

Yet our youthful nation was set up in such a way that a comeback story was far more permissive than it is today.

That’s why I take such issue with the credentialism class. If they were around back then as they are now, we would never know the names of the greatest leaders in our history.

>Washington starting the French and Indian war.

>Lincoln’s disastrous Congress speech.

>Grant’s drinking.

They would’ve withered away into obscurity. Gate kept from greatness, and the comeback.

It’s time to overthrow the acolytes of credentialism, and the media that supports them.

This is our 250th year, and we need to get some of that defiant and youthful American spirit back.

Otherwise we won’t see 250 more.

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

In 1968, Rooney wrote Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed, a CBS documentary addressing the representation of black people in popular culture.

Perhaps racist is not the correct word

[Steven Gaydos @HighSierraMan]

My report on 60 Minutes, which puts Scott Pelley's selective memory and pomposity into perspective.

"In 1990, CBS's 60 Minutes suspended Rooney for three months in part because it was alleged that he had suggested that black people were less intelligent because they "watered down their genes".

After the program's ratings dropped significantly, Rooney was let back on in March.

In 1990, Rooney was suspended without pay for three months because of the negative publicity around his saying that "too much alcohol, too much food, drugs, homosexual unions, cigarettes [are] all known to lead to premature death."

After only four weeks without Rooney, 60 Minutes lost 20% of its audience. CBS management then decided that it was in the best interest of the network to have Rooney return immediately.

In a 2007 column for Tribune media services, he wrote, "I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today's baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me."

Andy Rooney's life long racism and homophobia were okay at 60 Minutes for decades as long as the ratings were strong.

[David Burke 🇺🇸 @ConservativeTht]

"The people that voted for Trump are never going to abandon him… You know why? They elected him knowing who he is. And in many cases, they admire who he is. He is the one person standing in the way of them losing their country." ~ Rush Limbaugh

#RushLimbaugh #ConservativeThought

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

There will not be a couch left when they win

[The Appalachian Podcast @GetOnTap]

There aren’t enough couches in Nebraska to satisfy the traveling population should WVU win it all

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

See? This is the reason the name was changed to the Cleveland Guardians

[🇺🇸 End H1B F1 OPT TN E3 O1 L1 I1 H4 all NIV 🇺🇸 @slmimorgan]

INDIANS: We do not believe the rules apply to us! We think everyone should accommodate us & bend to our ways. We occupy industries, communities & displace natives to import more of our own people. We take advantage of native generosity

ALSO INDIANS: WHY DOES EVERYONE HATE US?

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

Meeting of the morons. Fire both

[NeverTweet @LOLNeverTweet]

Bari Weiss: "...by this time, some of you felt like you're going through the early stages of the Helsinki Syndrome..."

Scott Pelley, interrupting: "As in Helsinki, Sweden."

Weiss: "Finland."

[NeverTweet @LOLNeverTweet]

Bari Weiss: "...by this time, some of you felt like you're going through the early stages of the Helsinki Syndrome..."

Scott Pelley, interrupting: "As in Helsinki, Sweden."

Weiss: "Finland."

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

He's the captain of the team. Coaxed a perfect game out of Don Larsen
In the World Series
Pressure of NYC
3 MVP
358 career RBI
1,430 RBI
.285

[JLConrad @conrad112372]

@DonSurber2 You may argue for Berra, but the number of rings should not be part of the argument.

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

The destruction is a good thing because too many parasites monetized that trust
Fauci especially

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

The legacy of this @POTUS won't be the monuments he builds to himself but the destruction of faith in public institutions for his own power and profit.
He wants to rewrite or erase history because he knows it won't be kind to him.

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

Fact check: 10 rings

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

@0513White I have Berra at #2

[Jerry Groen @0513White]

@OleTimeHardball False - in my opinion, Yogi Berra is the greatest Catcher of all time.

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

Yogi Berra. 10 rings.

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

True or False

Johnny Bench is the greatest Catcher of all-time

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

Joe Garagiola hosted 5 of them including Sale of the Century

[Robert Pettitt @Pettitt_Art]

@Jimfrombaseball A few athletes have dabbled in game show hosting but his would have to make Bert the best career game show host/athlete in tv history. Though someone will surely @ me that Alec Trebec was a known hockey enforcer in his youth.

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

@karolineleavitt Honest Abe never had the victory margins of President Trump

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

In Germany, they sing COUNTRY ROADS
all them sergeants born in WV taught them

Good luck getting them to sing SWEET HOME ALABAMA :)

[The Patriarch Tree @PatriarchTree]

One good thing about the World Cup being in America is all the foreign sports writers seeing how awesome stadiums are in the USA. 🇺🇸

[Bob @BikingForTrump]

@EndWokeness Reminds of me the McDonald's CEO eating "product."

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

PIPELINE by the Surfaris

[LaughBreak: Dad Jokes ‘N More @MediocreJoker85]

You’re offered $1 million to flawlessly sing a popular song, word for word, with absolutely zero room for error.

You have no access to help, and the song must be around average length and word count, give or take.

Which song are you choosing?

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

And he held all the cards and Germany had none and was destroyed as a civilization
Thanks for the parallel to today's situation

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

LOL

[gabe @ggetzie]

@sammiecarrots smh, he couldn’t even bother to stand up. What a jerk.

[Don Surber @DonSurber2]

Good for FDR. He let Ike run the war

[Sam Karas @sammiecarrots]

On this day in 1944 Amon Carter presented FDR with the deed to the land that would become Big Bend National Park. Famously FDR had nothing else going on June 6, 1944, which you can tell from his extremely relaxed demeanor