By Michael Marley, Examiner.com
DENVER—The sitting president confesses that he just absorbed a brutal beating or, as Barack Obama put it, “a shellacking.”
The future president, Manny Pacquiao hopes to administer same to that suspicious character from Tijuana named Antonio Margarito.
And, as you read this, someone at the popular CBS “60 Minutes” newsweekly program is making or has just made a weighty decision as it concerns both “Bam Bam” as I like to refer to my embattled president and to the Congressmanny from Sarangani.
The promos for the program, which airs across America Sunday night, suggest that reporter Steve Kroft's exclusive sitdown Q & A, in which he asks Obama if he has “lost his mojo,” suggest that the segment leading off the program will naturally be the Kroft/Obama interview.
That would be mean that the Bob Simon reported Pacman segment, which involves footage shot in the Philippines and the United States and includes a Yankee Stadium ringside Q & A with Simon quizzing Megamanny and his promoter Robert Arum, will be either the second or third piece on the telecast.
Any way you slice it, as I finish up my whirlwind trip to the “Belly of the Beast” (meaning the world headquarters of Examiner.com en route to Dallas for the fight a week from today (Saturday), it is not exactly what the Brooklyn born and raised Arum would call chopped liver.
If this pairing of Obama and Pacquiao on the same prestigious program doesn't further sadden and drive further underground the so called (Floyd) Mayweather Mafia, nothing will.
Mayweather will be getting some prime time attention this week although not of the positive kind.
The unbeaten “Money May” will be arraigned in a Las Vegas courtroom on Tuesday, hearing the formal charges brought against him concerning his “Baby Mama Drama” with ex-lover Josie Harris.
May weather won't get put in the hoosegow. The purpose of the arraignment is simply to have a formal reading of what prosecutors have charged him with and to enter his for sure not guilty plea. The case will then get adjourned, perhaps into 2011, and Mayweather's mouthpiece and the DA's office can start talking about possible plea deals.
Somehow, I don't think the free to travel Mayweather will turn up at Cowboys Stadium come fight night, not where he knows he will only be a sideshow and not the main attraction, only the main distraction.
Having said all that, I still maintain (and for the 67th time) that Manny and Floyd will fight each other after Pacman handles his Margarito business.
I know I'm regarded as the boy who cried wolf but I won't change my tune.
It makes no sense for Manny to keep having $15 million bouts like the one with the “Margacheato Bandido” when he can have one, two or possibly even three with $50 million purses attached.
That logic applies even more so to Mayweather.
In the meantime, America, sit back on the living room couch after Sunday night dinner and enjoy, Obama and Pacquiao.
Given Pacman's political bent (didn't he just rescue both Jerry Brown and Obama lieutenant Harry Reid?) and ascent, I predict this is not the last time these two Asian superstars will be on the same bill.
What do you mean, Obama was born in Hawaii, I thought it was Indonesia.
I thought it was just two guys from different archipelagos who rocketed to worldwide fame and acclaim, both unlikely but wonderful stories.
Two quick asides: To Steve “The Whip” Harbula, Gregarious Greg Hunt and Lightning Logan Lloyd for giving me the tour around the heartbeat, the nerve center of Examiner.com. It was a pleasure to meet and greet the whole crew on 17th Street and to attach faces to those familiar names.
Speaking of heartbeats, to Andrea Dawn, for never letting me forget I once mangled the pronunciation of “archipelago” so badly that it came out sounding like “Archie Pelago.”
I got the word confused with an old junior welterweight from South Philly, I guess, lol.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
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