MSNBC U LATER!

I'm not one to hate on media, well, not always. In fact, I love television. Without, I'd probably go insane. Life for me has been defined a fair amount by TV and who am I to turn my back on it now. But nonetheless, it's rerun season. For my two favorite subjects, politics and football, all I see are reruns. If you are at all surprised by the coverage of the 2008 Presidential election and how every little move is covered, you obviously don't watch ESPN. If Hillary Clinton sneezes mid-sentence, the voting public is in shock. How could this happen, is she really human? If Barack Obama goes to church at an admittedly odd place, we chastise him. How dare he support someone like that! He should be lynched. Oops, President Bush told me not to use that word. The point is, every word, every action is analyzed. Eventually, even the most ferverent of political junkies are just sick of it. This same thing happens in the world of football, America's most popular sport. Months leading up to the draft we get 150 mock drafts, Mel Kiper analyzing what every team needs, and why they should or should not trade up. I liken this to 2007 coverage. Everyone was asking, will Hillary win? Can Obama or Edwards sneak up on her? And then they'd analyze how they could catch up to the woman, sing the praises and chastise every single part of them. All of this, and rarely speak about one issue. Barack Obama could have an hour of presenting amazing ideas, speaking about them with an unprecedented passion, and all we'd hear is that he didn't attack Hillary enough. Once the elections became reality, it only worsened. The exit polls would not analyze why the candidate was voted for but the age, gender, and race of the person that voted for them. The networks would then, rather offensively make generalizations about those groups. I heard that black people do not think Barack is black enough, or that older women just vote for Clinton based on the fact that they want to see a woman President. Now, some of this may be true. But I know a lot of educated voters that would disagree with those assessments. What started as a hope for a future, and a President who could make that future a reality became this sliced and diced, over-analyzed, super-saturated bag of shit. If I listened to these news reports and gave them the credence the networks think they deserve, I'd hate every goddamn one of them. It's tiring. When the draft is over, I know I'll hear the same things and ultimately not care about which damn rookie showed up or held out. Pretty soon, it's all white noise, and eventually I'll figure out, that some 6Th round choice that no one ever heard of will be my favorite player and John McCain is a shitty President.