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01/13 2011

DL508: A Show About Nothing, Or Everything, But Probably Nothing

Posted by Dan Levy.

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How is your week going? If you read today’s Call of the Day you can get a sense that my day yesterday was awful, though not as bad as it was for my son. We talk about that, and life, and parenting and being selfish at a time when you need to be selfless.

That spins perfectly into a conversation about sports and life and politics and perspective and Arizona and speeches and a whole lot more.

I got this email today:

This is Floyd from El Paso. I’m your biggest non media fan. I’m the retired Soldier guy originally from New Orleans (as a Saints fan I feel your Eagle pain).
Having said all of that. There is two things I would love for you and Nick to chew on.

1. Please expound on “blood libel” comment by half term Gov

2. Recoil and turn the channel when you see or hear from Matt Millen. He was on NFL live and he was commenting on one of his million first round WR picks Mike Williams. I can’t stand to hear from that guy. It would be like Madoff giving a business lecture at Rutgers.

So we get into both of those, wondering if Matt Millen has gotten worse at sports analysis in his time away from the booth or if we liked the announcer we he was when we were younger because we frankly didn’t know any better. In other words, is Matt Millen my Thundercats? Is he Nick’s Dukes of Hazzard? You loved those shows as kids, right? Try watching one now. It’s nothing like what it was when you were a kid. AND THE SHOWS HAVEN’T CHANGED, but our perspective has. Is that why Millen isn’t as good in the booth, or has he, not we, changed?

As for the first part of the email from Floyd, we do get into that, and I’ll say that I’m less offended as a Jewish person that Sarah Palin would use the term “blood libel” in a prepared speech and more offended as someone who has written speeches before. Who let that happen? This isn’t an off-the-cuff comment at a rally. This was a TAPED SPEECH. How can anyone continue to be this stupid and, somehow, be GAINING momentum to potentially become the “leader of the free world?”

So yeah, we talk politics a little. Keep it civil, but feel free to disagree in the comments. Just remember the tenor of the whole show (and our earlier posts) when you do.

Thanks for the indulgence today, and always.

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  1. Rupesh Sharma
    01/13 2011

    I met the the Former Gov. of Ohio, Bob Taft one time and he said hope you vote for me this year, and I told him that I was not going to. He seemed so confused that someone would tell him no.