So the Vikings have finally signed Brett Favre. His annual agonizing over whether to play
another season has become boring and irritating. A player who rivalled Peyton Manning
has an example of the finest in sportsmanship and athletic accomplishment has
become an obnoxious caricature of what he once was. But no one can disagree that his
signing by the Vikings is earthshaking local news for the premier sports franchise in the region.
No one, but the DUmmies, whose Stalinist outlook has no room for popular culture:
MineralMan (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:01 PM
Original message
WCCO, our Twin Cities CBS affiliate, broke into the
CBS Evening news about 20 minutes into the show for a freaking Brett Favre press conference. That carried into their local news a 6. The entire half hour of that local news program was absolutely nothing but Favre.
It's a freaking boys' game of ball. And they completely ignored everything else going on in the world to cover this washed up has-been's ill-fated return to playing football.
Something is desperately wrong with this. Something is terribly wrong.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6340686What is terribly wrong is that this stupid DUmmy cannot understand something that
is very important to most of the normal people in the Twin Cities.
sharesunited (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:04 PM
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2. I know Jim Lehrer and the News Hour are available on your PBS affiliate.
If the Favre story is mentioned at all, they would spend about ten seconds on it.
MineralMan (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:17 PM
12. True, but I watch the local news, because it's, well, local news.
It's my choice to do that, I believe. I watch a variety of news programs, you see...
The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:07 PM
4. Their web site had a video clip of his plane landing.
This went on for about 5 minutes. It was a nice plane (the Vikings' actually), but please esplain to
me why a plane landing is news just because there's some famous guy in it.
Raschel (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:11 PM
7. Actually it was the Vikings' owner's plane. Milf or Wilf or whatever his name is.
Another billionaire who's about to stick it to the taxpayers.
Thanks to that socialist Pawlenty.
Right. It's Milf. That's actually a pretty good post by DUmmy Raschel.
question everything (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:07 PM
5. They all did it: KARE11 (NBC) and KSTP (ABC)
And I made a point not to turn into the local news at 5:00, not even for weather. Could not escape it.
Ended up watching the end of Blitzer. And even ABC said they were going to talk about it
MPR, too, had it in the head of the news and you know how the dailies will look tomorrow.
MineralMan (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:39 PM
14. How sad that is, you know...
Raschel (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:08 PM
6. It's disgusting. And I see this whole Favre deal as a way to get a new stadium built by taxpayers.
Even in this economy big business and sports continue to suck taxpayers dry.
And conservatives cry socialism regarding health care.
calimary (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:13 PM
9. Isn't that the guy whose name is spelled Favre, but is pronounced Farve?
Hey, I know NOTHING about football. Nobody in our family has much of a sports gene.
The only sports expert at the DUmp is DUmmy flyarm. Her husband broadcasts Orioles games and
helps her run Paypal scams with poor stupid Beth.
valerief (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-18-09 08:14 PM
10. Never heard of him. nt
The DUmp wasn't this outraged when we had a week's worth of dead Michael Jackson.
