re: Oprah tries to rub off Brees' birthmark

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Rex, do you honestly believe Oprah would attempt to make such a crude joke? She's just uninformed if it were a mistake but she's a cretin if this were an attempt at humor.

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Rex knows he's full of shite. He's just a typical lib trying to defend another lib.

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Clearly, Ms. O had no idea what Drew Brees looked like. She must not have watched the Super Bowl or she would have seen the birthmark on his face. She must not have seen any of the post-game appearances with Drew Brees or she would have asked someone about that mark on his face. She must not have cared very much about the interview to do the proper preparation

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uh it really came off as a joke to me. she was laughing, as was the audience

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It was a joke. Good lord.

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I think most people dislike her because she was the X factor in getting Obama elected by brainwashing the white middle aged females to vote for change.

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The Fuzzy brown birthmark on Purdue quarterback Drew Brees's right cheek approximates the size, shape and texture of a small woolly-bear caterpillar.

For the first 19 years of Brees's life, the birthmark invited occasional wide-eyed shock, a lot of harmless derision and more than a little humor, but nothing beyond that. It was there on Jan. 15,1979, when Chip and Mina Brees named their newborn son after Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson.

On first viewing his son, Chip recoiled at the sight of the brown patch, and Mina wondered if she had caused it when she fell on her right side while running on an icy footpath not long before delivering Drew. "That's where an angel kissed you," Mina would tell him as he and the birthmark grew up together, a touching image offset by Drew's rugrat buddies who called the spot leech, roach and turd. Surgery was considered when Drew was three, but doctors assured the family that the mark was harmless.

When Brees arrived at Purdue in the summer of 1997, fellow freshman recruit Ben Smith was stunned that a football player was wearing on his face what appeared to be a goofy Purdue pep decal, like the ones cheerleaders apply to their cheeks in hopes of a close-up on television. "It looked like a Purdue Pete," recalls Smith, who would become Brees's close friend. "I was thinking, Man, that guy's a sad dude."

One night at a dance club a woman who was dancing with Brees wet her thumb and wiped at the birthmark, prompting fall-down laughter from Brees's friends and the following response from Brees: "It ain't comin' off." During Brees's freshman year, in which he played backup quarterback to Billy Dicken, his teammates named the birthmark Per-nick, after Matt Pernick, a walk-on wideout at Purdue in 1997 who had perpetually wild hair, much like the horizontal burrs on Brees's face.

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