I sat down tonight, opened my laptop to watch some free hockey, I also turned on ESPN on the TV to watch a little college football. As I was loading up hockey, I heard a commercial on ESPN for Monday Night Football. At the very end the commercial mentioned Chris Berman interviewing both McCain and Obama during halftime of the game.
What? I know it will be the eve of the election and all, but come on. This is an election season that has lasted almost as long as the Bush Presidency. Do they really need to interrupt my Monday Night Football to give me the same BS I’ve heard for the last couple of years? Hopefully Chris Berman took his Duh, Duh, Duh’s, cause he might need it with these two!
All kidding aside kids, remember go vote - I don’t care who you vote for, but vote, it’s important…even if they do inturrupt the fastest three minutes in sports!
3 responses so far ↓
1 Keith Shaw // Oct 30, 2008 at 8:51 pm
A lot of this is the result the expansion of politics into other venues, which really got going in 1992 when Clinton showed up on Arsenio Hall’s show playing the saxophone. Politicians, knowing how much people disdain the regular news and politics in general, head to other locales (entertainment shows, sports shows like the one you mentioned above) to try and get their message out (as if the non-stop commercials weren’t enough).
The genie is out of the bottle, it will only get worse — politicians will try to get into any medium they can to get their message to anyone who’s listening. This year saw Obama putting ads in video games (because younger people no longer watch TV, they’re all on the Internet or playing games).
It does stink that those of us who pay attention to the normal outlets for political information (news, Internet, etc.) have to be subjected to politics when they just want to watch a sporting event, but I’m not sure there’s much we can do other than change the channel and hope it doesn’t land on another political ad. At least next Wednesday, the ads will all be gone, until the next day when the 2012 election campaign begins.
2 Chris // Oct 30, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Thanks for commenting Keith. Yeah, I know things are going to only get worse, I just wish it would stop. If I turn on the news on Nov 6 (Nov 5 for results coverage) and see a political ad I might move to Canada!
3 Lindsey // Nov 4, 2008 at 11:54 am
Yo! I just added you to my feeds. Yeah, I thought the interviews were pretty lame last night and didn’t have a place there.
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