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To the Akron Beacon Journal. Will let you know if they deign to print it.
Patriots and Eagles - Post-SuperBowl Class Act
I noticed something interesting at the end of the SuperBowl.
Despite being the team favored by almost every sports news outlet, the Patriots still had to contend with a team that came out and held the Pats back for a good portion of the game. As a matter of fact, the decision of the game came down to the last two minutes. The game just as easily could have gone down to sudden death overtime.
There were questionable calls during the game, and, after reviewing the evidence, errors by the officials were corrected.
Many times during the game, both teams celebrated their momentary victories, sometimes bordering on the obnoxious.
When the final decision came down, the "overpaid" star athletes and their coaches came out onto the field and, instead of brawling or arguing with each other, or coming to blows or taunting, the New England Patriots shook hands with the defeated Philadelphia Eagles.
Now, imagine this. Instead of recognizing that the Eagles had managed to keep the Patriots from just walking away with the game, the New England Patriots team members started dancing around and jumping all over the Eagles players, pointing fingers and calling them "whiners" and "sore losers". The Patriots players could have gone on after the game and tried to convince the viewers that the close game they just witnessed was really a blowout of historical proportions.
Most people, including those whose lives do not revolve around football (but did watch), would reasonably conclude that the Patriots players were, at best, bad sportsmen. Many people would actually realize that they earned the titles of "arrogant SOBs" who loved to distort reality and lived in their own fantasy world.
Now, contrast that above "what if" with the 2004 election.
Despite what the right wing Republicans want you to believe, the media has treated George W. Bush as if he were delicate, heirloom china. Any minor criticism was shouted down with the "masses" screaming about "liberal media bias". The surest sign of the lack of a media bias favoring liberals was the outright lie by George W. Bush during the third debate. John Kerry accurately pointed out that George W. Bush had said this about Osama bin Laden: "And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him." (3/13/2002, on the White House web site). Unlike the instantaneous media blitz of the as-yet-unproven "forged" documents, the media didn't bother to dig up their videotapes of one of the few appearances where George W. Bush actually answered questions.
This election was a lot closer than the rewrite of history Republicans are trying to pawn off.
And yet, George W. Bush and Republicans are parading around like they won the SuperBowl in a 97-0 massacre.
It's too bad that the Republicans are acting like high-school kids at a football game, acting like the consequences of their lies on going to war are as trivial as a game of tiddly-winks in fourth grade.
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