Martina Navratilova Inteviewed By Connie Chung Options

[curtj]

<My instinct was to start this in the tennis section, but I figure it will fuel some political banter>

Is Connie Chung on crack?? What in the world would make an asian american female journalist suggest to Navritolova that if she had a dissenting political opinion she should go back to Czechoslovakia?? Does she possibly think immigrants should be denied freedom of speech??

Navratilova has lived here for 27 years and has always been an outspoken figure. It's not because she is "unamerican" it's because she's trying to make the system better and the country a better place! I can't think of anything more American.

Chung asked why Martina uses her status as an athlete to make noise. She asked why people should listen to an athlete or entertainer. Hello? Why should we listen to a mediocre reporter that got cut from network television? Don't even get me started listing politicians that started in entertainment or sports. Did Chung not prepare at all for this??

Navratilova also hinted at pursuing a political career in the future. She's got my vote.

Ugh... I wish I had time to vent more anger right now, but I've got to scrub up to meet a boy <giggle>. More tomorrow for sure.

Who else saw this??

[ July 18, 2002: Message edited by: curtj ]

[Charlie in the Trees]

Martina Navratilova recently made some very idiotic statements to a German newspaper ... unfavorably comparing the USA to communist Czechoslovakia. I did not see her interview with Connie Chung (who, by the way, has first amendment rights herself). Navratilova insinuated in the German newspaper, in a German-language article, that the USA was just as oppressive as the communist regimes of Eastern Europe 1947-1989.

Fine. Navratilova has a right to express her opinion. I have a right to express mine. Mine is that Navratilova showed herself to be a pea-brained idiot worthy of contempt, and unworthy to be an American.

America is the land of the free. We have our problems, but this country cannot in any intelligent way be said to be as oppressive as was communist Eastern Europe. For example, she could make her comments to the German papers and the U.S. government isn't going to have her sent to a psychiatric hospital (or worse: killed) for being a dissident. Big difference.

Navratilova is a naturalized citizen, after all. And while all citizens have the same rights, naturalized or natural-born, if you choose to live in this country, you should demonstrate a little more prudence (like I would if I freely elected to move to another country). She defected from Czechoslovakia, either because of oppression or greed, likely both. She used the freedoms of this country to make herself a nice pile of money. She publicly disgraced herself by spouting anti-American propaganda that, perhaps, is popular among European pseudo-intellectuals (who are themselves generally a disgraceful bunch of irrelevant snots). If this country is so oppressive: leave. And stop doing those Subaru commercials over here that make you money.

Navratilova should be roundly booed wherever she goes in this country.