Shalane Flanagan Heading Back to Portland, Turns Down Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Hey political pundits, maybe she just wanted to go home rather than stick around for the rest of the day and do more interviews.

How could she turn down the Late Show? I like that show.

Maternal cellar dweller wrote:

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Seriously, seek help

LoneStarXC wrote:

How could she turn down the Late Show? I like that show.

I like Shalane more now. Stephen Colbert is complete garbage and I love the fact she couldn't be bothered!

Terrible move to turn down once in a lifetime opportunity to be on a popular late night talk show. Perhaps she's too nervous or scared?

doesn't matter to me. I would turn off the tv if I saw her on any show.

Ndjjdjdkdkd wrote:

Terrible move to turn down once in a lifetime opportunity to be on a popular late night talk show. Perhaps she's too nervous or scared?

I doubt that. She was all over promoting her cookbook after Rio.

Two digits. The first number ain't round on the top.

"The top lawman in the county."

-sentence fragment

"It is no wonder people rip on Texas 24/7, at least the dinky church burgs."

-poor sentence structure

"their pissed"

-they're

OK, so they're grieving and their pissed and if they were all sitting in a conservative Christian church they're not the smartest Americans out there."

- run-on sentence...highly ironic given the intended sentiment

- Conservative should be capitalized when used with Christian

"suggesting that they might as well get it over with quickly resonates with a certain amount of pragmatism"

-makes no sense given your intended argument. -Hold off on the $5 words until you're proficient with the $2 ones.

Not many things bother me more than someone criticizing another, while their own work is riddled with errors. One or two would be ok, but what you've written is just trash. Just curious, how old are you? If it's more than 19/20, please don't tell me. Our country's future already seems bleak as it is.

I'll save you guys the click - she didn't sleep the night before and had been doing interviews all day. She was tired.

Definitely more respect + 5

The Angel of Death wrote:

I'll save you guys the click - she didn't sleep the night before and had been doing interviews all day. She was tired.

Just bumping for the political pundits.

She showed good judgement.

rojo wrote:

I want to know why she didn't want to be on Colbert. I'll have to ask weldon if she explained why (is it in the video? haven't listened to it). I've dreamed of a runner winning big and going mainstream. It didn't happen with Centro. At least, she got the invite. But why would you turn it down?

Maybe she was just thinking "nah, I wanna go home and chill and enjoy my win." I'm thinking there may not be some big secret agenda...

Lol. Whole lot of butthurt conservatives in this thread. What babies!

I've always liked Shalane.

I certainly hope she turned down the invite because she was tired, needed to get home, or was just sick of answering all the same (lame) questions over and over.

If she refused because of a political reason, I will be VERY disappointed in her...

I used to be simple minded and think that we could outlaw guns, and it would prevent murder. Then I graduated from 3rd grade.

Seriously, I figured this stuff out in grade school. I honestly don't understand how adults can have such a simplistic view of the world to think that we could regulate away this sort of thing. If I snapped my fingers and all illegal drugs in the country suddenly disappeared, along with all the illegal guns that drug dealers use to protect their property, how long would it take for the drugs and guns to be replaced? Within a couple days at the most. We all know the drug war is a failure, and yet leftists think a war on guns would somehow work. The leftist are so blinded by negative emotional reactions, that they can't see the common sense facts starring them in the face. Its amazing.

And just to dispel some myths. Europe has mass shootings too. The difference it that it is usually machine guns that are used. This is because when people have to operate outside the law in order to acquire a gun, they have no reason to stop themselves from getting the most deadly gun possible. This is a basic principle of law policy and enforcement that we all know. For example, weed potency has greatly increase while it has been illegal. Once people are operating outside the law, they want the most bang for their effort.

Guns are here to stay. Anyone who thinks they can change that, is so incredibly naive, I can't believe it.

If she refused because of a political reason, I will be VERY disappointed in her...

If I had to guess, she doesn't give a rats behind whether you are Very disappointed or not. Don't be such a narcissist.

MJH wrote:

She is a mom with 2 foster children that might need her attention and support.

1) Aren't the foster kids in college?

2) Even if they aren't, this is a life lesson you teach them. Sometimes, you have a once in a lifetime opportunity and then work needs to take precedence. Nothing is more important than family but sometimes work sometimes has to trump family life in a short period if it's really important.