The man on the left here is Don “Moose” Lewis, founder and head wingnut of something called the All American Basketball Alliance; a (so far entirely mythical) pro basketball league for white people only. We’ve written about this extensively here, but you’ve never really been lampooned properly until you’ve been lampooned on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. “Correspondent” Jason Jones got the plumb assignment, and wasted no time getting to the heart of the matter.
JONES: “You are 100 percent serious about this league.”
LEWIS: “I stake my reputation that this is a serious matter.”
JONES: “Can you stake something else besides your reputation?”
Entire video segment following the jump.
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The highlight for me was the ESPN sendup at the end, with Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver as sports anchors on TDS Sportsdesk. “That’s why Larry Bird retired; too much sass.” Too bad there can’t be a Daily Show sports spinoff. Come on Comedy Central, The Onion has a sports section now, after all.
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Snowball [The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]
All-white basketball league’s founding nutjob speaks out [Out of Bounds]
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- isiah obriant - Mar 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM
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you should have the skills that why I think the white league
is a matter that will prove a joke. why I might join as black
as i’m
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- Jim Guida - Mar 30, 2010 at 12:02 PM
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Why would ANYONE agree to be interviewed by the Daily Show? Even if you are smarter than the interviewer (not likely), the result rests in the film editor’s hands, who can make an interview turn any way s/he wants it turned.
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- Edward, Los Angeles, CA - Mar 30, 2010 at 12:26 PM
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“And a technical, for mouthing off.”
hahaha
I’m Asian, and we play basketball worse than blacks AND whites so I can watch this with a semi-objective eye. I see Moose’s point, in that there are all-black leagues in this country (as he said on an ESPN morning radio show), but I think Moose is the wrong person to lead such a venture.
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- Say What? - Mar 30, 2010 at 1:18 PM
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isiah obriant
you should have the skills that why I think the white league
is a matter that will prove a joke. why I might join as black
as i’m
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Huh??????
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- smee - Mar 30, 2010 at 3:28 PM
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what?
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- James - Mar 30, 2010 at 3:45 PM
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Here’s the difference…Black players were actually BANNED from playing! The NBA does NOT, nor any other league, BAN White players, it just so happens that most of the really talented players are Black and are selected in the draft. This guy is just a racist…period.
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- Rick Chandler - Mar 30, 2010 at 5:21 PM
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I’ve said that many times.
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- Marcus Aurelius - Mar 31, 2010 at 12:55 PM
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Folks,
The ONLY reason it seems that their are more (in numbers) talented african-american players than white or other peoples on the court is that 1) basketball is a CHEAP sport to play and learn. All you need is sneakers and a hoop, so it is very inexpensive to get into, unlike golf or hockey which are costly. So when there is a disproportionate number of folk who cannot afford the more costly athetic endeavors, basketball becomes the sport of choice. 2)There are many courts in the inner city as they are inexpensive for the cities to install and provide an avenue to for the youth to expend their energy, as opposed to getting into trouble doing something else, and 3)a innate drive to “throw down” on the guy standing between you and the hoop.
Like many african american youth I also grew up playing a lot of basketball because there was a playground near my house and there was not much else to do in the neighborhood. But guess what? Now golf is my passion because now I can afford to do so.
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- Lacy - Apr 1, 2010 at 6:10 PM
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He is so racist and I think that this should be illeagal. We have come so far and fought so hard to be desegregated and here he comes trying to put us back a hundred years. Why repeat history, color has nothinto do with a persons capability. When someone shows me the scientific connection between the two then maybe, just maybe I might agree with this so called “fundamental” basketball.
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