Bias In Politics...Bias In Sports

I watched a bit of this game yesterday. I didn't know if USC was going to pull it out. Standford looked really good in the first half and USC didn't. However, USC managed to pull it out at the waning moments of the game. Being somewhat biased myself towards LSU, I was proud of how LSU managed to squeek a win out a couple of weeks ago. They didn't look very crisp the entire game, but they found a way to win. The sporting press however wasn't very kind to LSU even though the inclement weather and bad field conditions had more to do with their close win than anything. Today I'm checking out ESPN to see the first polls and happened to see this headline.
Hmmmm, the mighty #1 USC barely gets by an unranked Stanford and here is what the press has to say.

Reggie Bush was worried the locker room would resemble a funeral. Instead, the top-ranked Trojans seemed thrilled to be in a close game -- and they rode a wave of halftime emotion to a 31-28 victory Saturday night. "I don't think it was anger. It was excitement," said Bush,whose spinning 33-yard punt return set up LenDale White's go-aheadscore with 6:15 left. "These are the type of games that we miss,that we love. It's easy to blow a team out. When you win a gamelike this, you feel so much better. You feel great."

(emphasis is mine...yeah right, they love to almost lose to an unranked team. Yeah it's easy to blow teams out when they're the caliber of most of the PAC10.)

But the final result didn't seem nearly as important to theTrojans (4-0) as the thrill of making an impressive comeback. Sure, USC has a roster stuffed with high school all-Americans and NFL prospects, but even the best individual talents need chemistry
and camaraderie. Freshmen exhorted their upperclassmen counterparts for better efforts. Team leaders spoke up. Coach Pete Carroll made big adjustments to the Trojans' passive zone defense -- and everyone got behind a common goal.

(God, too much sacarrin...going to...hurl. PAC10 love fest. Group hug. Cue inspirational music. Yeck.)

Did Terrorists Benefit From Oil-for-Food?

OK...been really busy lately and haven't had any opportunities to post. Saw this on Fox News this morning. We haven't heard much about this on the lamestream media. How anyone could put their security in the hands of such a corrupt organization is beyond me. Yet, this is exactly who Kerry wants to turn ours over to. That scares me to no end.

NEW YORK — Investigators into the Oil-for-Food scandal at the United Nations are exploring a chilling possibility, that the U.N. humanitarian program may have funded terrorists — including possibly Al Qaeda.

You Can't Pay For This Type Of PR

That big sucking sound was the President of the University of Virginia seeing this caption over his morning coffee.

Support of the Two Kerry's Theory

For those of you who may have forgotten what the original Kerry was...watch this.

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Rather Amusing

Kerry's Version Of Positive

I happened to read this article, and this paragraph caught my eye.

"No, it's just ... it's sad that they can only be negative," Mr. Kerry said. "They have nothing to say about the future vision of America. I think Americans want a positive vision for the future."

Is this report from an obviously biased Dan Rather about Kerry's vision, or is this, or this? Is it me or are you tired of this particular attack also? Thankfully we have Byron York at the National Review pointing out what the Dems don't want us to know about Bush's commendable service in the National Guard.

Oh, and we can't let Ter-ay-suh's views go unrecognized.

UPDATE
It now appears that the document reported by CBS as being a newly found National Guard document shedding negative light on Bush's service may be a fake. Hat tip to Drudge. This just adds proof that Kerry isn't being honest when he claims to be giving us a positive vision and that the Dems are playing nice.

MORE DEMOCRATIC NEGATIVITY
Just read the examples in this story by Susan Jones

"Brace yourselves," Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie is warning congressional Republicans. "Senator Kerry's campaign is implementing a strategy of vicious personal attacks against the President and Vice President,"

Gillespie reminded Republican lawmakers that the Kerry campaign "is bringing in a bevy of former Clinton henchmen," and he offered examples of how ugly it's getting.

Democratic Implosion Eminent?

Some sobering words from Victor Davis Hanson on the future of the Democratic Party.

The 2002 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Nicholson Baker, is due out with Checkpoint — an extended dialogue on killing (in a variety of strange ways) George Bush. Last year, comedian Rick Hall played to full houses in the U.K., performing his newest composition, “Let's Get Together and Kill George Bush.” A so-called pacifist group announced its sponsorship of a rather violent-sounding off-Broadway “guerilla comedy” entitled, I’m Gonna Kill the President.

This is stupid — and dangerous. Al Qaeda has announced its intentions play on perceptions of Western decadence and nihilism. Should the terrorists strike at our leaders, there will be a national accounting over the failure of those on the left to condemn such extremism. Alfred A. Knopf, for example, is promoting Baker’s book as a cris du coeur — “in response to the powerless seething fury many Americans felt when President Bush decided to take the nation to war.” “Seething”? The radical Left is courting disaster and threatens to destroy the credibility of liberals who are apparently fearful of condemning the madness in their midst — this “cry of the heart” to save Saddam Hussein from the wrath of an imperialistic and bullying United States. When upscale protestors swear at delegates and parade obscene signs in New York while John Kerry goes windsurfing in shades and racing gloves, you have a recipe for disaster for
wannabe populists.

The Democratic party of Harry Truman is moribund. We saw that all through the primary and convention. Democratic “populism” now consists of a screeching preppie Al Gore or Howard Dean, backed with money from Hollywood and George Soros — or John Kerry skiing in Sun Valley or windsurfing while resting up at one of his many homes. The result is that, despite the controversy over the war, the post-9/11 jitters, and the hysterical reactions to George Bush, most Americans tend to distrust those who claim allegiance with “the people.” Thus if the Democrats lose the next election, they must confront the bitter fact that the House, the Senate, the presidency, and soon the Supreme Court are lost — and lost mostly to the dominant influence of their most vocal and wealthy supporters in Hollywood, the universities, the media, and the foundations who have privileged an agenda that is out of touch with most of those whom they never see nor wish to see.