Michael Wilbon: Insane Reactionary

I must preface this article by stating that as a high school student, there was nothing I loved more than watching Around the Horn and Pardon the Interruption while I did my homework, usually focusing more on the insane arguments of Woody Paige over Calculus. It was the same for PTI. I always though of Kornheiser and Wilbon as two benevolent wise men, that the American public was lucky to be given the opportunity to listen to them discuss the day's sports news like Aristotle and Socrates discussed philosophy back in the day. That is, until I began to notice their statuses as shills for the WWL.

This year, one saw it when Kornheiser shut out any sort of conversation about Dan Snyder's idiotic and asinine libel suit against Washington City Paper due to the fact that Snyder's signature is on Tony's check (Write a check or donate here so City Paper can have a chance to win this).

And now Michael Wilbon decides to let his freak flag fly. Yesterday, Jerry Reinsdorf told the media that he though Derrick Rose has a great chance to lead this Bulls team to a few championships. And that pissed Wilbon off, so much that he wrote an article for the WWL's Chicago Politburo to show his disgust. But why did it piss Wilbon off so much? Because Wilbon thought it was a prediction.

This is by no means close to what LeBron said in predicting success and NBA hegemony in Miami. This is Michael Wilbon taking a revisionist perspective on one sentence Reinsdorf said and creating disgust where there is no reason for it. Here is the quote:

"If you don’t see something special in Derrick Rose, then you’re blind," Reinsdorf said. "We have an outstanding coach, an outstanding bunch of players, the team is deep, and if we stay healthy, we have an awfully good chance of winning at least four championships."

Strangely enough, Wilbon uses the exact same quote in his article to demonstrate a Reinsdorf psychotic episode. Like the pot calling the kettle black, Wilbon should not be chiding Reinsdorf for speaking out of turn, when he decides to change the meaning of a quote so he can write an idiotic diatribe for his employer.