Dave Beneteau on my TV in 2008
Posted by Kendall Shields on 7th February 2008
by Kendall Shields
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Make no mistake, I love my country. But were I to enumerate its shortcomings, were I to catalogue the ways in which the Canadian people fail to live up to the highest principles and ideals our nation stands for, first among them (or at least somewhere near the top of the list) would be our collective inability to get TSN’s Michael Landsberg off the air. Landsberg, who has hosted a sports talk program called Off the Record for over a decade despite no discernible talent or skill, is reputed to be “Canada’s king of in-your-face debate,” as the show’s site proudly proclaims — in-your-face debate, apparently, being . . . a good . . . kind . . . of it? Michael Landsberg — not to be confused with Michelle Landsberg, writer, activist, worthwhile human being — is a smug little gnome of a man held in the utmost contempt by all right-thinking people. And yet, every so often, he features guests on his show that genuinely interest you, and so there you are, helpless to resist, despite your better judgment.
And it is in this spirit that I direct your attention to the 5 February 2007 edition of Off the Record, viewable through the program’s website — look for the “TSN Broadband” section to the right, and launch their player from there. Landsberg’s guests in this edition included UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra, UFC interim welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre, and — raising this to the status of utterly essential viewing — from the fighting city of Windsor, Ontario, UFC 5 runner-up “Dangerous” Dave Beneteau.
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