OK, I've had enough.
During tonight's halftime program, Sunday Night Football studio lights were turned completely off in recognition of NBC's "Green Is Univeral" campaign. Instead of using studio lights, NBC used--come on now, guess--candles to power the half game show.
You've gotta be frickin' kidding me.
According to Bob Costas--accompanied by Keith 'Worst Person of the Century" Olbermann to his left--by turning out the studio lights, NBC will save enough energy to power ONE household for an entire month!
Holy shit! By all means, please, let ALL half time game shows do this! It all starts with ONE friggin' household!
It's a brilliant idea on behalf on NBC marketing donks to devote "150 hours" of perfectly good broadcasting time to "environmental issues". So much time that they sent Matt Lauer to the Arctic Circle and Anne Currie to South Pole to deliver their reports on the rapidly dwindling polar ice caps--so that they can report back to a darkened NBC studios in New York.
If we're lucky, they'll both freeze to death and be polar bear food. (Well, Matt will be polar bear food; Ann will be penguin food.)
Good God, if we devoted half as much energy to combating "global warming" as we did to Islamofascism, we'd have defeated Islamofascisism by now.
But God forbid we should label lunatics as lunatics. Let's all just get behind an idea we can all get behind. Nothing screams cooperation and unity like hyperventilating cause.
Let's just play football for fuck's sake.
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Amen.... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Clancy | November 5, 2007 11:34 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Amen.
1. Posted by Clancy | November 5, 2007 11:34 AM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on November 5, 2007 11:34
2. Posted by gowild00 | November 5, 2007 5:21 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
symbolism over substance has always been a liberal hallmark.....
2. Posted by gowild00 | November 5, 2007 5:21 PM |
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Posted on November 5, 2007 17:21
3. Posted by Lee Ward | November 6, 2007 9:58 AM | Score: -4 (4 votes cast)
Nice to see the bat-shit crazy wing-nuttery seep into the sports pages at Wizbang.
As a great writer once said (without realizing it) "How about just writing about sports and keeping your personal politics out of it for fuck's sake"
3. Posted by Lee Ward | November 6, 2007 9:58 AM |
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Posted on November 6, 2007 09:58
4. Posted by Ryan | November 6, 2007 10:14 AM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Um. .KLee. .hate to break it to you, but that is precisely the POINT of this post. Why did NBC find it neccesarry to go political in the middle of a friggin' football game for a meaningless gesture?
Couldn't they just keep it about football, or did they have to act as part of the advertising wing of the Democratic party even during a football game?
4. Posted by Ryan | November 6, 2007 10:14 AM |
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Posted on November 6, 2007 10:14
5. Posted by Ryan | November 6, 2007 10:16 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
I also have to say. .sending a reporter to Antarctica, whose ice cap is GROWING to report on shrinking ice caps is a bit odd.
5. Posted by Ryan | November 6, 2007 10:16 AM |
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Posted on November 6, 2007 10:16
6. Posted by Peter F. | November 6, 2007 12:24 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Nice to see the bat-shit crazy wing-nuttery seep into the sports pages at Wizbang.
As a great writer once said (without realizing it) "How about just writing about sports and keeping your personal politics out of it for fuck's sake"
Yes, Ryan is right: That is the precisely the POINT of commentary, Lee--keep politics and political causes out of the game. But apparently you're so addled with hatred of any and all things Republican, or get so hopped up when any one dares to question your beloved little pet causes, that you can't even see the point of the article. No surprise there, really.
You truly look like a fool here, Lee. I almost feel embarrassed for you.
6. Posted by Peter F. | November 6, 2007 12:24 PM |
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Posted on November 6, 2007 12:24
7. Posted by JohnnyK | November 6, 2007 6:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
What I found funny was how they turned off all the lights, and lit candles to save power; all the while having at least half a dozen plasma screens above, below, and behind the commentators. Seems a little half hearted guys. Also, I was wondering how much emissions the planes gave off taking 3 complete crews all around the world to broadcast for the today show. Thats a lot of crap in the atmosphere to tell us not to put crap in the atmosphere. Thats the problem I have with all this global warming stuff. The people that tell us we are to blame are traveling in private jets. Maybe they would be taken a little more seriously if they actually believed the garbage they are preaching.
7. Posted by JohnnyK | November 6, 2007 6:02 PM |
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Posted on November 6, 2007 18:02
8. Posted by Lee Ward | November 7, 2007 9:00 AM | Score: -5 (5 votes cast)
You're doing a pretty good job of convincing us that media types that mix sports are stupid assholes, Peter.
Of course, if this was Fox Sports and the topic was "terrorism" instead of "Global Warming" you'd be waving the American flag like -- a bat-shit crazy conservative hack who sees nothing wrong with mixing sports and politics.
8. Posted by Lee Ward | November 7, 2007 9:00 AM |
Score: -5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on November 7, 2007 09:00
9. Posted by Peter F. | November 7, 2007 11:10 AM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
It's really sad to see grown and educated man miss a point.
It's....delusional.
9. Posted by Peter F. | November 7, 2007 11:10 AM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on November 7, 2007 11:10
10. Posted by Ryan | November 8, 2007 6:29 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Changing the topic much when you lose, Lee?
Claiming what someone 'Would be doing but hasn't done" to try do defend something that someone else HAS ACTUALLY DONE - is a fairly disingenuous tactic, wouldn't you say?
10. Posted by Ryan | November 8, 2007 6:29 AM |
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Posted on November 8, 2007 06:29
11. Posted by Ryan | November 8, 2007 6:31 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Besides, the chance of seeing network television run a pro - American antiterrorist halftime show is about as likely as the teapot on the stove sprouting legs and doing a little dance.
11. Posted by Ryan | November 8, 2007 6:31 AM |
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Posted on November 8, 2007 06:31
12. Posted by Imhotep | November 8, 2007 8:01 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
The best part for me was when the blonde guy whips out the flashlight, probably filled with Nickle Cadmium batteries, and proudly said "I'll use my flashlight".
I almost spit beer out my nose....Olberman and Kostas probably don't know that the carbon footprint of those tiny batteries completely negates the energy they're saving in the 150 hours of green programing.
12. Posted by Imhotep | November 8, 2007 8:01 AM |
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Posted on November 8, 2007 08:01
13. Posted by wiscohawk | November 11, 2007 11:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I agree, couldn't NBC donate that money to some organization that helps find alternative energy sources. What is the point of doing it for one game? Yes, its a great symbolic gesture but in reality if they really wanted to make a difference they would do other measures to save energy. Plus, if you have plasmas on in the background doesn't that defeat the purpose? A great idea in theory.
13. Posted by wiscohawk | November 11, 2007 11:39 PM |
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Posted on November 11, 2007 23:39
14. Posted by Rando | November 12, 2007 10:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
YES!! The republicans are right.."Arm everybody and then bomb them when they attest, disarm the few left and bomb them as well,
The DEM'S are right.. disarm everybody and bomb no-one until we get bombed then blame the GOP...
PLAY FRICKING FOOTBALL!!!!
politics and sports do not mix for obvious reasons.
14. Posted by Rando | November 12, 2007 10:23 PM |
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Posted on November 12, 2007 22:23
15. Posted by Rando | November 12, 2007 10:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Quit looking for whom to blame and please ook at whom will lead us to success...
Darrenn McFadden is the true messiah!!
15. Posted by Rando | November 12, 2007 10:24 PM |
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Posted on November 12, 2007 22:24