Football. It’s not just America’s past time, it is an escape from the monotony of daily life, from politics, and from life’s little encumbering affairs that bog us down.
But Barack Obama will have none of it.
Like last year, this year Barack Obama made sure to disrupt the pre-game show with an interview just to make sure we all knew, if we didn’t pay attention to any of the other press conferences he has had in the past week, that he is there.
It is a bit funny. The real God is a more active, yet more invisible, presence in all of our lives, from the beating of our hearts, to the rain that wets the soil, but he does not feel the need to do press conferences every other day to make sure we know he is still in charge?
What is it with Obama that compels him to get in our faces at the times we most want to escape politics — regardless of party — to have an interview with Katie Couric. Perhaps they, both pro-abortion advocates, felt the need to subtly balance out Pam Tebow.
In the secular world, the government takes the place of God — standing in for social services in place of the church, standing in for worship in place of fixation on a deity, etc. In the third world, the Dear Leader also makes sure to put his face everywhere so all can venerate him everywhere.
Thus we become a third world nation.
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This is precisely why I didn't tune to CBS until 6:24pm.
Finrod (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:14PM EST (link)The officially-listed start time was 6:25pm, for the record. I’ve even watched the whole game, and since they actually had a decent act lined up for the halftime show (The Who, who didn’t spend any time talking to the audience, just doing what they do best, play rock & roll/maximum R&B), I even watched that for the first time I can remember.
But I gave a total miss to all the pre-game stuff.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Supposedly a decent act
Raven (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 10:17PM EST (link)Continuing a more than 10 year streak, the Super Bowl halftime show sucked.
The Who looked, moved and Sounded old. REALLY old. They should have retired.
Some of the commercials were good, though. I particularly loved “Punxsatawney Polomalu” and Hyundai’s broadside on Favre and the Doritoes dog.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
I don't know what The Who was talking about...
CSUFBomb (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 10:27PM EST (link)…but those old-timers weren’t talkin’ about *my* generation.
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And yet, they still sounded better than any band that's debuted in the last ten years. (n/t)
Finrod (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 1:49AM EST (link).
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
You're listening to the wrong genre then
Raven (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 7:57PM EST (link)Plenty of new Country singers and bands that are better.
Though I’d REALLY love to see George Strait and/or Brad Paisley do a Super Bowl.
Now THAT would sell tickets all on its own.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
LOL, the Who have retired more times than Brett Farve! nt
nessa (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 2:04AM EST (link)“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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Plus with the Who we were entertained by a pedophile....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 5:34AM EST (link)sure he was just “investigating” pedophila isn’t that what everyone who is NOT an investigator does?
“Townshend, possibly to his own detriment, exhibits in this article a wide range of knowledge on this subject.
“This issue came to my attention when in 1997 a man who had briefly worked for me was arrested in the U.K. for downloading pedophilic pornography. Until then I was unaware of the scale of the problem. I was cautious of openly condemning him until he had been tried. He had performed in one of my musicals and was a popular figure in the soft-pop pantomime of the U.K. music scene. When he went to trial, the buzzword that the newspapers kept reprinting — that he had allegedly used in his regular Internet searches — was ‘lolita.’”
BTW I turned off the TV during halftime because I don’t support those who are FREAKS!
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bass_man (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 8:55AM EST (link)at least they didn’t lip sync their act.
Thus we become a third world nation.
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:19PM EST (link)Well said Erick, well said. And that is exactly what is at stake.
I would have been fine...
mitrebox (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:24PM EST (link)with a simple pregame message to both teams congratulating their achievements, but I don’t see the point of CBS doing a presidential interview absent of a News broadcast. Seems like a Obama/Couric grab to get some shine off the superbowl. I expect it from CSI and How I Met Your Mother, but not the leader of the free world.
Absolutely gratuitous...
lorig77 Sunday, February 7th at 10:22PM EST (link)We felt exactly the same way. As if the man isn’t having non-stop infomercials posed as interviews or something else every other day of the year. It was gross. But I guess we should be getting used to it by now.
He was at the Duke-Georgetown basketball game last week
ModRocker86 (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:29PM EST (link)First the CBS cameras cut to him in the stands. Then they cut back to the stands when Biden showed up to join him. Then the announcers kept talking about the fact he was there as the cameras kept cutting to him at every commercial. And *then* he joined Vern Lundquist and Clark Kellogg in the broadcast booth. Nevermind the fact that this is a basketball game between Duke and Georgetown, Obama is here!
Presidents have always showed up at sports games since Taft first fell in love with pro baseball. But Obama cannot just show-up to a sporting event and passively watch it the way previous presidents have; he has to try to make it all about him.
What are the odds on Oteleprompter making a call to the winner's locker room? nt
ColdWarrior (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:31PM EST (link)nt
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Considering who won...
Raven (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 10:19PM EST (link)And their behaviour earlier in the season,
I think any footage would be unairable on tv…
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
Resistance is futile because
Steph C (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:34PM EST (link)we will be assimilated?
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This ought to turn a few Indies into oconoclasts.
redneck_hippie (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:37PM EST (link)Was going to say iconoclasts, but if the O fits…
Not a 3rd world country yet.
rick554 Sunday, February 7th at 9:41PM EST (link)And I made a point to avoid watching Teleprompter Jesus too. For me the game starts at the National Anthem, Barry is simply blather to me!
WHO DAT!!!
Oh, to be in New Orleans tonight!!
Rick554
Not till we lose the top credit rating
Raven (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 10:20PM EST (link)Obama’s Administration was Again saying it wouldn’t happen if they just keep increasing the deficit.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
Why would it?
Neil Stevens (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 8:56AM EST (link)By law we can’t default.
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Obama backs another loser...Indianapolis Colts
techsan (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:48PM EST (link)It really is a theme with him.
In the end, all we have on our side of the debate are facts and history.
Now, I'm No Longer Upset About The Game
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 9:56PM EST (link)Manning ran pretty well – when you consider who’s endorsement he had!
” I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer.” – C.S. Lewis
Meh, despite their behaviour earlier this season
Raven (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 10:22PM EST (link)The Saints deserved the win. Colts played very conservatively and the Saints went balls to the wall and gambled at every turn. And it paid off.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
Ha! Good point! nt
lorig77 Sunday, February 7th at 10:24PM EST (link)Saints over Colts
SE-779 (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 10:05PM EST (link)Now that shows that the big guy really does have a sense of humor!
“Earnesty is stupidity sent to College”-PJ O’Rourke
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“Stupid is what stupid writes.”-Yogi Berra
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The GOP better not take the bait
gumbyandpokey Sunday, February 7th at 10:19PM EST (link)and do the televised face-off with Obama on health care. They stunk it up last time and there is no way Obama would be pressing to do it again if he hadn’t come out the winner previously. Call it out for the desperate gimmick that it is.
The response of the GOP would be ...
larryp Sunday, February 7th at 10:38PM EST (link)to first have Obama at a meeting to cut corp taxes, Gap gainsto zero, cross state purchase of health care and returning all the money to the treasury.And tort reform.
also Obama being on tv endlessly reminds me of
Fahrenheit 451 where Dear Leader is on the wall sized tv all day and night.
and every so often the face enlarges and says “Montag, what do YOU
think,,,,
How to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by the Republican Party
Bobcat51 Sunday, February 7th at 10:48PM EST (link)The piper calls and the wets will go and be snared in his socialist PR trap. 0bama playing them for fools they are if they attend.I Hope they can see that they are being used !
0bama clutching at straws and endeavoring to save his sorry backside after the debacle of 2009. Will the Republican RINO’S open an already shut door for the 44% approval rated failiure? No wonder the Tea Party movement is growing in stature; you cannot trust any of the already elected fools of both parties.. !
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The left wing intent is to destroy the existing society and replace it with a society of its own design.
I will be surprised if the "leaders" of our Party are strong enough
ColdWarrior (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 11:31PM EST (link)to tell Oteleprompter to take a hike on his offer.
The House leadership blew it on their invitation to have Oteleprompter join them on camera at their Baltimore retreat. Oteleprompter insisted that they could only ask single questions and then he’d answer, with no chance for follow-up questions or dialogue. When those demands were made, they should have told him to take a hike and then made those demands public. That’s what someone who knows how to play hard ball politics would have done, but, alas, Boehner and Cantor, et al., just can’t seem to figure out these kinds of strategic moves. Or they can, but they always can’t seem to muster the backbone to carry them out.
I expect the worst. Our Republican leaders will cave and accept Oteleprompter’s invitation and demands. I hope I’m wrong.
Jon Kyl explained to me, face-to-face, in front of the Arizona Republican Lawyers Assn., in response to my question of “where was the strategy to use every Senate Standing Rule to slow down the Debtorcrats’ legislation, including hell-th care deform,” that they had somehow come up with a fantastic strategy to really score points with the American people by forcing a vote after the Christmas recess on the increase of the debt ceiling. Yawn.
85 per cent of the American people are happy with their health care. Over 65 per cent DO NOT WANT Otelepromptercare. But our Republican “leaders” just can’t seem to figure out that they need to FIGHT Otelepromptercare and that they’d reap HUGE benefits at the ballot box in 2010 if they’d KILL this socialized medicine bill that would KILL PEOPLE.
Thank you.
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Pepto Moment
pcnnc (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 10:42PM EST (link)I usually have to take Pepto Bismal (you know, the pink stuff for us older folks) AFTER the game. But this year… I didn’t even make it through the pregame.
For we are created to do good works…(Eph2:10)
It just makes me wonder
anotherindyfilmguy (Diary) Sunday, February 7th at 11:01PM EST (link)what the fall from such a height will be and how many will suffer for his arrogance.
Santorum? Well, at least he’s not Romney…
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That's an easy one to answer
gemimail Sunday, February 7th at 11:19PM EST (link)About 60 House seats and perhaps as many as 12 more Senate seats if he keeps it up. Anybody but a self absorbed fool can see what his agenda is doing to his party. Let’s see how well he reacts to losing control of both houses of Congress.
You answered your own question, Erick
Daezy Sunday, February 7th at 11:12PM EST (link)Dear Leader needs to be in our face 24/7, and his insecurity shows more and more with each passing day.
One would hope we could have a moment off, but not if he has anything to say about it. He and Couric make an interesting pair.
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Thank Goodness
poygankid (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 12:40AM EST (link)I was greatful to have the NFL network to switch over to while ‘his worship’ was performing another yawner with the overpaid bimbo on CBS. It’s get so you can’t even watch football in piece. This fiasco by CBS is only surpassed by the ‘green’ Sunday Night Football on NBC.
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How 'bout when FOX has the game?
Rich Tandler (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 5:38AM EST (link)I have to wonder if BHO will do an issues-oriented interview with Shep Smith during the pregame for a Super Bowl carried by FOX. More than likely he would insist that Terry Bradshaw conduct the interview or limit the questions to fluff.
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This commentary. . .
dogcatcher1 Monday, February 8th at 11:06AM EST (link). . . strikes top dead center on the little President. He is a small god, so small that he has to make sure that we know he is there.
The commentary is correct in all respects, especially in the assessment that the presser was done as a subtle attempt to counter the Tebow ad.
Never underestimate a narcissist with a gargantuan ego. He has told us in MANY ways who and what he is. The first real clue: “We are what we have been waiting for,” Remember?
Couldn't agree more except
Melody Warbington (rwm52) (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 3:59PM EST (link)that Obama is a pagan (one who has little or no religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and material goods: an irreligious or hedonistic person). Thankfully, I had DVR’d the pre-game show and was able to fast forward through the interview. Anyone want to bet that BHO watches his own interviews just so he can worship himself? Hopefully, he’ll never become an SEC fan. I just can’t stand the thought of him invading yet another aspect of my life.
I thought most of the Super Bowl ads were lame and all the controversy over the Tebow ad turned out to be much ado about nothing. While I appreciate and support the life-affirming message, if I’d spent $2.5 million on that ad, I’d want my money back.
The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things. (John 4:25)
Tebow Ad
nwick Monday, February 8th at 9:10PM EST (link)The thought the Tebow ad was fantastic. They let Planned Parenthood, NORAL and NOW do all the work. Look at all the publicity. Focus on the Family got a lot of bang for thier buck.
God's Funny Bone
leehazel Monday, February 8th at 7:37PM EST (link)Anyone who thinks that God has no sense of humor has not been paying attention to what is going on on our eastern seaboard.
It is hilarious to think of all of our Political Class running around up to just below their beltline (you get the picture) in snow.
God looks down with a chuckle, “how that Climate Change working for you now cupcake.
PC is Thought Control
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I'm rather surprised to find
Raven (Diary) Monday, February 8th at 8:05PM EST (link)That anyone actually watches the pregame show…
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
It's down right eerie
Wing Zero (Diary) Tuesday, February 9th at 10:21AM EST (link)I’ve been to Honduras and Venezuela, and Obama’s campaign was just eerily similar to those of third world countries. I was in Venezuela before Chaves was elected. Simple slogans, Chaves’ face everywhere, the promise of “change.”
I don’t mean to be an alarmist, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some “national emergency” caused mid-term elections to be suspended.
I hope to God I’m just being crazy and wrong.
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
Should be an impeachable offense
the_bat Tuesday, February 9th at 9:49PM EST (link)It was a case where the sum of the annoying parts was greater than the whole.
Or something like that.
^o^