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Apparently hacking into m.i.t. s computer network. on the surface, sports and politics really couldn t be more different. generally speaking one divides and the other unites. we love filling stadiums and arenas and camping out on our couches to scream for our squads but there s a new book that looks at what our politics is doing to our sports. it s called game over. how politics has turned the sports world upside down. our friend dave zirin wrote it and hosts a pretty good show on xm radio. nice to have you here. great to be here. sports and politics have always collided but in your new book you contend that the relationship has essentially become even more complex in recent years. how so. absolutely. there s been a fundamental change over the last five years, and one of the reasons why i both the book was that i was so frustrated about the fact that most major sports outlets weren t discussing this. it s like if they were, you know, reporting on the ....
Connections to the lbgt community and a more and more confident lbgt community you ll see those connections take place, it s fascinated. led to this year s super bowl. baltimore ravens breyer brendan andio wants to speak about gay marriage and this is only a small part of what i try to talk about in the book, but what it shows so clearly though is you don t have this divide between the sports world and the real world. you have real questions that are often traversed because of social movements. dave zirin, author of the book game over, full disclosure, halfway through it, really enjoying it, too. wow. thanks for doing it and thanks for being here on this afternoon. i ll put it on the back cover. ....
My friend, perry bacon, what s the headline, sir? mine was republicans ignore republican advice. mitt romney lost. republicans didn t think of i covered john kerry in 2004. he was he was in 2005 saying i m going to be a leader of the democratic party on issue. the democrats were like what are you talking about? you lost a winnable election. we re not listening to you about anything. not like you see michael dukakis and a bunch of democrats. right. not like he s an adviser to the party. you lose, you get sent home. that s part of the punishment. and i think romney is actually fine going home knowing mitt romney. he s okay. the question is which home, i guess. robert costa, perry bacon, aisha moodie-mills, thanks to all of you and thanks even more for your insight. thanks to you as well. stay warm there. join us next week right here on msnbc, saturday, 2:00 eastern, for all the latest political news and analysis. sunday we ll be here at 3:00 right here. we ll be out in ....
Is my birth mother, and basically i support civil unions. nobody can t ever tell me that i can t have two mothers because i really do. this probably would never have happened 10 or 15 years ago, david zirin. you know that. why is it now that athletes are taking more political issues? on this issue in particular it s a great example because to me it s the whole real world sports world dynamic and yes, it s definitely true, the real world over here and the sports world over here, but this moat that separates the two, people are starting to build bridges and in the last five years there s been a national movement state by state for lbgt rights and for marriage equality. and athletes, as one athlete said to me, i quote him in the book. he said, look, it s not like we live on planet jock and only come down here to play games and also not like we watch our own msnbc. you know, that s just for athletes. you know, we re part of this world, too, and when you have more and more athletes who ....
Graduated and if you think you ve seen the last of grover norquist. the tax activist has thrown his hat back into the ring, not over taxes this time but in support of statehood for puerto rico. norquist will appear at a press conference this week with former republican governor luis fortuno and some analysts say the president declared liberalism alive and well during his inaugural address what does that mean for his second-term agenda? and the super bowl may become a platform this year to support gay marriage, at least if one baltimore ravens player has his way. i ll talk to dave zarin who has a new book about the impact of politics on sports. a fascinating read. this is msnbc, the place for politics. when you have diabetes. ....