LATE NIGHT COMEDIANS FINALLY WAKE UP DEPT:
"That's pretty amazing, winning the Nobel Peace Prize," Jay Leno saidFriday night of President Barack Obama's latest accolade. "Ironically,his biggest accomplishment as president so far ... winning the NobelPeace Prize."
Actually the original headline on Yahoo for the above story was "Late Night Comedians Turn on Obama." Wow--so they're finally beginning to poke fun at the powerful. Isn't that what they pride themselves on doing? The question should be: what took them so long???
NFL DIARY:
Once again, all is bliss in Indyland--the Colts blast the Titans, 31-9. Obviously Peyton Manning is playing well. But it's the Colts' defense that has stood out--really holding down the Titans and star RB Chris Johnson, limiting the Titans to field goals after turnovers. getting sacks. Shouldn't the Colts be seen as one of the dominant teams in football right now?
As for the Lions, well--too many mistakes, and losses can't be acceptable, but at least they hung in and played tough against the defending champ Steelers, losing only 28-20.
GUESS WHO IRRITATES THE HECK OUT OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION:
"Attacking the news media is a time-honored White House tactic but to an unusual degree, the Obama administration has narrowed its sights to one specific organization, the Fox News Channel, calling it, in essence, part of the political opposition. “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent,” said Anita Dunn, the White House communications director, in a telephone interview on Sunday. “As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”
Funny--I thought liberals loved the idea of journalists holding the powerful accountable, of media people challenging the comfortable. And I especially thought Obama liberals loved diversity. But not when it comes to the news media, I guess. Conservatives should pound away on this--Obama liberals want the media to challenge the guys in power and they want thousand voices of "diversity" doing it--but only if the guy in power is a Republican.
AL SHARPTON, STILL TRYING TO MISLEAD AFTER ALL THESE YEARS:
Now he's trying to block Rush Limbaugh from buying a piece of the St. Louis Rams:
"The Rev. Al Sharpton wants the National Football League to blockconservative radio host Rush Limbaugh from bidding on the St. LouisRams. Sharpton sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday. Hesaid Limbaugh has been divisive and "anti-NFL" in some of hiscomments."
Well, first of all, the above is simply a lie. Limbaugh loves the National Football League--during football season, he often talks about the previous week's games and his favorite teams, he goes to games himself--that's promoting the NFL, not being anti-NFL. But most importantly, the NFL needs to tell Al Sharpton in no uncertain terms to take a hike. Everybody knows his opposition to Limbaugh is purely political in nature, and the league surely doesn't want to start vetoing possible team ownership purely based on the prospective owner's political views. That has no place being anywhere connected to the game. I'm sure Sharpton would love it if liberal millionaire George Soros bought an NFL team. Rush Limbaugh has that same right.
IS THE GOP/CONSERVATISM DEAD? DEPT:
Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid continues to trail, significantly, his possible Republican opponents in the 2010 Nevada senate matchup.
