Not a Football Blog

OK, maybe a little about football, but only as a reference point. I watched the Denver Broncos collect a win this afternoon against San Diego. As a Bronco fan since the vertical socks days, I am always glad for a Denver victory. Considering the weird officiating, it could have just as easily been an S.D. win.

There were, for me, two things that made this Sunday afternoon a little different. One was the time I spent switching channels during the breaks, and two was my overall attitude at the end of the game. On the first point, I, for reasons of entertainment value only, bounced between Fox News and CNN, the supposed polar opposites of the electronic media. I really do not know which talking heads were on which channel, and it probably does not matter, since the value of the heads is really just comedy. But juxtaposed between the emotions of a football game and the comedy of the talking fools, I noticed that both channels were comparing the probable results of the upcoming Presidential election using the Red state- Blue state comparisons. Both television news organizations are deciding the upcoming election for us, Red or Blue, Obama-McCain, Elephant or Donkey. We are being polled constantly, a desperate attempt by the opposing media to influence the outcome in favor of, well, I guess I don’t know. Since I really have not heard a great deal about either sides approach to leadership, I guess it is really a popularity contest, like Survival Island. How the the devil did we get ourselves, as a nation, to the point where we are defined as Red states or Blue states. I am beginning to think the Blue vs. Gray of the Civil War is being fought all over again, this time with the opposing media calling the shots.

Now, I am really not completely naive. I understand that the media has been influencing American public opinion since Ben Franklin’s day. But it does seem to have gone a bit overboard lately. As a case in point, the American media has had it in for the housing sector of our economy for at least two years, probably influenced by off-shore media that started the gloom reports as far back as 2004. It’s almost as if no one in the media business owns a home, since every gloom report depresses the value of their house also.

My fellow Americans, it is all about your attitude. Mine is pretty good right now, having just been on the winning side. I suppose that San Diego fans are pretty sad right now, but a football game should not make any sane person so happy or sad that they can’t go to work on Monday. Likewise, the constant buzz from the clown media should not have have the whole country depressed. We should study the positions of the candidates, and make a voting decision based on an intellectual opinion, not because of media induced colors on a map. We need to get moving, now, today. There is much to do, and the media, nor the politicians will be doing it for us.

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