Charles Barkley Calls Solar Eclipse Enthusiasts "Losers"
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Ahmad Austin Jr.Apr 9th, 2024, 12:27 pm Twitter share button
Charles Barkley didn't share in the rest of the country's enthusiasm for Monday's solar eclipse, calling everyone else "losers" for caring about it.
During halftime of the NCAA men's college basketball national championship between the University of Connecticut and Purdue, the topic of the eclipse came up on TNT's halftime show. That's when Barkley asked his colleagues a question.
"Were y'all some of them losers standing outside watching that today?" Barkley said.
Ernie Johnson was quick to defend the ones interested in the celestial phenomenon, saying, "They're not losers!"
"Yes, they are!" Barkley fired back. "Hey, we've all seen darkness before! Stop it!"
Kenny Smith also disagreed with Barkley. He then called him out for being so against the eclipse but urging everyone to look outside and see the "Chuck Blimp" a promotional blimp from Capital One that featured Barkley's face.
"I saw losers standing, watching your blimp!" Smith said. "How about that? They were outside [saying], 'Have you seen Chuck's blimp?'"
To Barkley, however, it was different.
"Well, I'm not gonna sit outside like an idiot and wait on the darkness," he said. "It's gonna be dark when we go outside tonight.
"The eclipse is gonna happen again. I won't ever have another blimp."
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I can see both sides of this sort of thing. I can see why people would want to see the totality in person and I can also see why a lot of people don't care at all.
The political pundit bill kristol was on a show yesterday and he was asked if he was anxious to see the eclipse and he said no he's not interested in things that take place outside the earth. I think that's an understandable viewpoint.
Here in Chicago we had 94% eclipse and I went outside at the time when it was at its max and the sky looked a little eery, but nothing that looked particularly unusual.
The television networks were over the top on this and frankly I thought some of it was kind of embarrassing
Chuck just lost some points with me.
That was a stupid comment. I was hoping one of the others would say something like: "The corona around the sun is a whole lot brighter than you are."
While everyone is entitled to their opinion on the eclipse it should not be used to degrade those who have different views