Petty, petty politics has a Presidential address airing on the same night as the Packers-Saints season opener next Thursday. The Republicans didn't like the President asking for Wednesday night because it would conflict with their televised debate so they said no and suggested Thursday night. Petty all around. Petty for the President to choose Wednesday night knowing it would rankle the Republicans and petty for the Republicans to suggest Thursday night knowing it would conflict with the NFL opening night extravaganza. Are these really the only two nights on the calender? What is wrong with these people?
7 days until football season ...
5 song iTune shuffle:
- Alien - Bush - Sixteen Stone
- Little Lovin' - Lissie - Catching a Tiger
- Snakeskin Cowboys - Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
- Maybe Tomorrow - Badfinger - The Very Best Of Badfinger
- Waiting For The Man - Nazareth - Play 'N' The Game
Quote of the Day
Either way, NBC is caught in the middle. If Obama — a Bears fans — opts to try to overshadow the kickoff to the NFL season, and if NBC opts to televise the address to Congress on MSNBC and to proceed with the football game on NBC, the ratings could be phenomenal, given that the NFL would be the only major-network alternative for the millions of folks who have decided that the latest developments in partisan politics no longer need to witnessed live.Or at all.
Mike Florio, PFT
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "For the first time in its history, the editors at The New Yorker know which articles are being read. And they know who's reading them."
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Petty politics, indeed. I got nothing else.
Looks like it will only interfere with pre-game now. That is, if NBC chooses to air it. I don't think they will. This game is a huge cash cow for the network. Nothing prestigious or profitable about carrying yet another address. That would make them just one of many.