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Saturday, November 3, 2007 12:00 AM

How Oprah ruined the marathon

America's competitive spirit has been wrecked by feel-good amateurs like Oprah whose only goal is to stagger across the finish line.
By Edward McClelland

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  • Sunday, November 4, 2007 05:07 AM

    Edward McClelland is nothing more than a mysogynist

    A middle aged curvey black woman who happens to be a hero to most American women ruins the marathon for a skinny privledged white guy. Boo Hoo. Find a different war to fight, maybe one that is actually worthwhile, like global warming, poverty, the Iraq war, the obesity epidemic, or the new world order of corporate dictatorship and preventative war for the benenfit of the military industrial complex? Nahh, better to whine about a woman not keep her big fat butt out of the pure asthetics of male sportmanship!

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