Bernard Lagat wins and Brits play "Born in USA" on speakers - Cram corrects them

trollism wrote:

Neutral observer wrote:

I would say relatively more of the UKs sports stars are born outside of the Uk compared to the USA. The Uk media have a habit of pointing this out when it relates to another country but are not so honest about their own athletes.

Rubbish, you never hear the end of it. You don't see many reports about Kevin Pietersen that don't refer to him as 'The South African born batsman' or words to that effect.

KP is English when England win and South African born when we lose.

Randy Oldman wrote:

KP is English when England win and South African born when we lose.

That's the very same false statement that a lot of Scots use about Andy Murray too.

If you actually look at media reports, you would see that it's completely untrue.

Too bad Tiffany Porter hit the first hurdle and didn't win. The song would have been appropriate for her - not born nor has never lived in the UK.

Or Shara Proctor from Anguilla who switched her allegiance recently.

Both are rent-a-Brits. At least Lagat has lived in USA since college!

Both are rent-a-Brits. At least Lagat has lived in USA since college!

Lagat is still a Fake American. He knew he couldn't compete with the best keenyans so he took the easy way out and went to America because of the soft records. THank goodness Rupp has arrived to defenestrate this fake American of his "records"!

You people do know that it wasn't Cram who said it. It was the Scottish commentator, who loves the word: "incidentally".

Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:

Both are rent-a-Brits. At least Lagat has lived in USA since college!

Lagat is still a Fake American. He knew he couldn't compete with the best keenyans so he took the easy way out and went to America because of the soft records. THank goodness Rupp has arrived to defenestrate this fake American of his "records"!

Lagat a fake American?

Your own president has only 50% American blood flowing in his veins - the rest pure Kenyan.

So Lagat’s in good company presumably.

Doesn't Lagat still have the Kenyan national record for 1500m?

Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:

Both are rent-a-Brits. At least Lagat has lived in USA since college!

Lagat is still a Fake American. He knew he couldn't compete with the best keenyans so he took the easy way out and went to America because of the soft records. THank goodness Rupp has arrived to defenestrate this fake American of his "records"!

Joe Binks wrote:

Lagat a fake American?

Your own president has only 50% American blood flowing in his veins - the rest pure Kenyan.

So Lagat’s in good company presumably.

So Churchill was as American as Obama?

Joe Binks wrote:

Lagat a fake American?

Your own president has only 50% American blood flowing in his veins - the rest pure Kenyan.

So Lagat’s in good company presumably.

Two fakes don't make one real.

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Joe Binks wrote:

Lagat a fake American?

Your own president has only 50% American blood flowing in his veins - the rest pure Kenyan.

So Lagat’s in good company presumably.

So Churchill was as American as Obama?

Obama didn’t think so - his first action in the White House was to dump the bust of Churchill that was in the Oval Office.

You see, we British made the mistake of trying to civilise those savages and Obama’s daddy (who predictably was both an absent parent and a Marxist) told his little boy we tortured his granddaddy.

It would have been so much better for the future well-being of the USA, had we shot him instead!

Should have played "Renegade"

Joe Binks wrote:

Obama didn’t think so - his first action in the White House was to dump the bust of Churchill that was in the Oval Office.

You see, we British made the mistake of trying to civilise those savages and Obama’s daddy (who predictably was both an absent parent and a Marxist) told his little boy we tortured his granddaddy.

It would have been so much better for the future well-being of the USA, had we shot him instead!

Was this from the minutes of your most recent EDL meeting?

When your ancestors arrived in East Africa, did you instruct the locals on the uses of chamber pots and how to empty them in the streets?

K5 wrote:

gfhfkgkfh wrote:

Born in the USA is a slam against the American gov't and the Vietnam War....not exactly a patriotic tune anyway.

That fact slipped by GOP hero Ronald Reagan

true. Which should tell you something about Reagan and the GOP

When your ancestors arrived in East Africa, did you instruct the locals on the uses of chamber pots and how to empty them in the streets?

No - when we arrived in Africa, we found primitive tribal societies - when we left, we left behind roads, railways, telephone and telegraph services, farms, factories, fisheries, mines, trained police forces and a civil service.

british larry raw son wrote:

Or Shara Proctor from Anguilla who switched her allegiance recently.

Anguilla is a British dependency. Being born there makes you British, just like if you're born in the Channel Islands, Falklands or Gibraltar.

They also don't have an Olympic team, as it's not an actual country.

Joe Binks wrote:

No - when we arrived in Africa, we found primitive tribal societies - when we left, we left behind roads, railways, telephone and telegraph services, farms, factories, fisheries, mines, trained police forces and a civil service.

Ah, the means by which malaria and HIV could spread to a degree that previously wasn't possible, because previous settlements lacked the density and nearby standing water to allow for their rapid transmission.

Is it just that you're uneducated in world history? European colonists did not bring farming to Africa. Sorghum and rice were first domesticated in the Sahel 7000 years ago. Farming was going on among the Bantu peoples in what's modern day South Africa over 1000 years before the Dutch ever arrived there. How don't you know any of this?

How don't you know any of this?

Racism = ignorance.