Political Pandering

Ok, its been way too long since I’ve hit the blog. Been tweeting and blogging from some of my other outlets. But it seemed time to pick it back up.

After watching the political discussion and evolution of the Republican party on the immigration reform issue, I felt like it was a good time to start typing.

Some people were suggesting that the republicans were pandering to Latino voters because, as John McCain put it, without immigration reform, “our chances of being in the majority are minimal.”

Talk about your political pandering!

How is this a winning strategy? Why would anyone vote for a party that says, “We’re changing our positions in order to win more votes.”?  Doesn’t this alienate latino voters even more? At least the Democrats say, “This is what we believe.” Maybe its expensive. Maybe they aren’t the best at execution on policy. But at least they – on this issue – are standing for something they believe in.

Lets not be confused. There’s plenty of political upside for the Democrats as well. But in this case, they’ve got the upper hand in how they’re presenting their ideas.

Poor John McCain. He’s going downhill fast.

Of course it will be on FOX

According to the AP, Fox will create another reality show that invovles kicking someone off. But this time, it will be based around the economic climate.

The Fox network is making a reality show titled, “Someone’s Gotta Go,” out of the troubled economy, and lets co-workers decide who gets the axe.  Each week, a different company lays off an employee.

Uh, isn’t this show just called “CNBC”??

Big Bang Blunder

Ok, so this is nitpicky, but since it popped into my head, I figured I’d share it.

What are a bunch of professional nerds doing with composite video running to their LCD? Where’s the component and HDMI connection that any self respecting hi-fi nerd would have? I smell a Monster Cable sponsorship opp.

More Olympic Crap

Despite being able to tape delay any event they want, NBC cuts away from a ridiculous american comeback in beach vollyball to the women’s 200m backstroke? sure it was a medal race vs the round of 16, but I hardly think the extra 5 minutes would have upset anyone. in fact, after getting pumped from the beach vollyball win, i might have actually cared. instead, I’m just annoyed.

Home Run Derby Crap

Yeah, yeah. Josh Hamilton has a great comeback story. But Jesus H. Christ, enough with the coke and heroin story. And then after Justin Morneau wins, they still interview Hamilton first? Are you fucking kidding me?

John Kruk just said, “This is one of those derbies where nobody remembers the winner.” Nice.

What would you pay for this kind of advertising?

What are the odds? Can it be a coincidence? No F’in Way.

How in the world do the three people standing directly behind Barak Obama during his speech tonight in PA are all wearing T shirts from the same brand? I’m going with ZERO.

However they worked it, nice job A&F.

a&f ads

Update: Who knew that we were on to something this big? USA Today got to the bottom of it.