Given Keith Olbermann’s sky-high ratings
following his injection into NBC’s NFL half-time show, it’s easy to see
why FOX would want to try their hand at mixing football and politics.
It’s too bad that FOX News is easily the least credible of all of the
news channels, ever. Thumb through Crooks and Liars‘ posts under the FOX News category if you’re skeptical.
As a liberal, I think Olbermann is one of the greatest things to
happen to the television world since the original American Gladiators.
However, mixing Olbermann’s political observations into half-time of a
football game just doesn’t sit well with me. Sports and politics merge
in many ways: the playing of the national anthem before games,
Congress’ mingling in baseball’s drug issues, et cetera, but both are deemed necessary. Olbermann’s show and FOX News during the Super Bowl are
superfluous.
I want to know why Tom Brady will pick apart the Green Bay Packer
defense during the Super Bowl, not why Barack Obama will pick apart
Hilary Clinton’s voting records. And given that it will be FOX News
doing the reporting and opining, I imagine we’ll be hearing about why Mike Huckabee’s plan to Christianize the U.S. Constitution
is flawless, or why John McCain’s idea to stay in Iraq for 100 years is
guaranteed to both turn Iraq into a worldwide beacon of democracy and
strengthen our national defense. In other words, we’ll be inundated
with patently false statements backed up with skewed and made-up facts,
like the cries of a liberal media bias.
And for the record, it’s not that FOX News is blatantly right-wing
that makes me detest it so; it’s that they unabashedly ignore reality
and make up their own facts and figures on the fly so it suits their
agenda. And I’d be just as irritated if they had decided to throw in a
bunch of liberals to report and opine during the Super Bowl coverage
because it has no reason being there in the first place.
It’s bad enough most of us subject ourselves to the irritating Super Bowl commercials, only 5% of which are entertaining (well, maybe this will make it more entertaining this year). Now we’re going to sit through war cheer-leading and Republican back-patting.
Did I mention that the election is still 10 months away?
In Other News
You can tell it’s the baseball off-season when I go two weeks
without one inspiration to write about something. Counting down the
days ’til pitchers and catchers report…
Once I get Photoshop CS3 working on my computer again (or once I can
get a few graphics done by someone else for free), I’ll have a new
design for Crashburn Alley up. I haven’t really liked either of the
designs I’ve used thus far but I think the one I am waiting to use is
pretty snazzy.
Visit my new website -- Crashburn Alley!>
Crashburn Alley is a fusion of the phrase "crash and burn" with Ashburn Alley, which is beyond the center field fence at Citizens Bank Park. You can read more about Crashburn Alley here.>
I'm a diehard Phillies fan who is still reeling from the 1993 World Series and Joe Carter's three-run homerun in Game 6.
