{"id":2289,"date":"2009-03-21T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2009-03-21T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:13:12","slug":"and-another-thi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/and-another-thi\/","title":{"rendered":"And another thing: Special Olympics bowlers ain’t no joke"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s obviously never met Kolan McConiughey, a mentally disabled man considered one of the nation’s top Special Olympics bowlers, with five perfect games to his credit. He’d like to go to the White House and show the president a thing or two about how to roll strikes.
\n“He bowled a 129. I bowl a 300. I could beat that score easily,” McConiughey said Friday.
\nHis challenge to Obama followed the president’s offhand remark on Jay Leno’s “Tonight Show” Thursday comparing his famously inept bowling to “the Special Olympics or something.” Recognizing his blunder, Obama apologized to the chairman of the Special Olympics before the show aired.
\nWhite House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Friday said the president believes that the Special Olympics are “a triumph of the human spirit.” Gibbs added that Obama understands that the athletes “deserve a lot better than the thoughtless joke that he made last night.”
\nDuring an interview with The Associated Press, the 35-year-old McConiughey quickly rolled several strikes with his left-handed hook in a short demonstration of his prowess at Colonial Lanes in Ann Arbor.
\nIn addition to five perfect games since 2005, McConiughey has also had an 800 series and carries a 212 average. He laughed as he joked about the popular president’s apparently poor game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more…<\/b><\/i><\/a>
\nUpdate:<\/b>Jill Stanek has some commentary:<\/a><\/p>\n

You wouldn’t believe how well some of these truly special people can bowl, including my own! Obama is an ass, truly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Plus links to an article with Sarah Palin’s response.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He’s obviously never met Kolan McConiughey, a mentally disabled man considered one of the nation’s top Special Olympics bowlers, with five perfect games to his credit. He’d like to go to the White House and show the president a thing or two about how to roll strikes. “He bowled a 129. I bowl a 300.… Continue reading And another thing: Special Olympics bowlers ain’t no joke<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}