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The MVP of the NCAA tournament: The mute button
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Washington Post (DC) |
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Sunday, March 27, 2011 |
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Norman Chad |
College basketball analysts — English-as-a-second-language specialists — surround us. It’s an oratory revolution out there, and the rebel strongholds are CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV, which have unleashed a swarm of linguistic hooligans as part of March Madness, the sensory-overload wreckage that darkens our once-proud nation of 46 states, four commonwealths and the District of Columbia.*
(*Washington, D.C., remains the only U.S. area in which U.S. citizens are under the old, British-colony umbrella of “taxation without representation.” Our nation’s capital has 601,700 residents — 601,701 before I got out of Dodge — without a voting voice in Congress. Does anyone care? If a deserving mid-major gets overlooked for the NCAA tournament, a cesspool of pundits is on the brink, but if half-a-million Americans are denied the most basic of rights, not a peep.)
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