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Title: ESPN FAKED STADIUM CHEERS FOR BUSH SR.
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Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/26/8550/57285
Published: Sep 27, 2006
Author: davefromqueens
Post Date: 2006-09-27 21:57:54 by angle
Keywords: None
Views: 239
Comments: 16
As a person who dabbled with sportscasting in college, I operated under the impression that my job was sports not politics. Sports were sports and you leave your politics off the air It's a very simple standard. If I want to watch football for three hours, give me football. Unfortunately, ESPN has continuously violated this concept. If ESPN is going to play phony tapes for politicians, then they need to be pressured off the air. For several years, ESPN has been manufacturing fake cheers and fake boos for politicians. It's a very simple rule. If you are a Democrat not named Joe Lieberman, ESPN will play a tape of boos previously recorded and insert them into the audio after the Democrat is announced. If you are a Republican and ESPN is expecting boos, ESPN will play a pre-recorded tape of cheers unrelated to the Republican. ...It started with right winger Mike Tirico announcing George Bush Sr. to the crowd. Instantaneously you could hear an echo of cheers and not a single boo from the audio. But if you listen carefully to the audio, that audio was not live. ESPN shut off the sound of the Superdome crowd for a few seconds and played this audio of fake cheers. About ten seconds later ESPN had to shut their fake tape off and go to the NFL official on the field for the coin toss. That's when you could hear the REAL crowd noise. The audio on the field was a couple of hundred feet away so ESPN was probably thinking that crowd noise could not be picked up. ESPN was wrong. As George Bush Sr. was flipping the coin, you could hear a chorus of boos so loud that ESPN had its proverbial hand caught in the cookie jar. And remember, this was ten seconds after the announcements so imagine what the initial boos sounded like. New Orleans residents know better than anyone else how Bush 43 responded to Katrina and they know better than anyone else about Barbara Bush's comments about poor people and how sleeping in the Astrodome was "working out quite well for them." ESPN needs to be called on the carpet for these shenanigans.
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#1. To: angle (#0)
GAd - This fakery is an apt metaphor for the political times in which we endure.
What they really would like is for goons with pepper spray and cattle prods in the spectator sections to enforce anti televised sports product tainting boos, and cat calls. I mean, free speech devalues their product hence hurts their property, right? We can't have that going in the world of U.S. corporate fascism.
I wish I knew someone who was there. Are there any reports in the NO press? I missed the first part, but when I tuned in to the game mid 2nd quarter and as the game progressed--I swear it appeared the Falcons were throwing it.
In 1947, the UN created a perpetual war and named it Israel.
Ahh, so that's what they mean by perception management.
sums it up nicely
I still have no idea why #41 was asked to flip the coin.... BTW, Limbaugh, twice, said #41 "threw out the first pitch" (as in baseball). I think the lad is back on the narcotics.
Exactly. I watch football to escape the world, not be constantly reminded of it.
Every single NFL player and every NFL official wears an American flag. Why be surprised that a game is fixed to appear in support of the empire? The games are broadcast internationally and beamed into military bases all over the world. Can't have the troops seeing how the public at home really feels. Everything has been corrupted and propagandized by the government. Richard W.
I wonder if the actual audio exists anywhere on the web. Surely somebody in the stadium had a camcorder.
The proliferation of the federal flag into every aspect of the culture is actually a sign of the weakness of "American" identity. Countries with strong national identity don't fly their governmental insignia over every used car lot and Mega Mall on their commercial strips. Their legislators don't feel the need to wear a flag pin. Try counting how many times a day you see an American flag or some semblance of it? I would wager that a minimum count would be 50. The Federal flag is the US equivelent of seeing Lenin posters everywhere in the old Soviet Union.
canned cheers??? what next to prop up the failed empire?
Heh, You could start a new sport, catching ESPN in the act and letting people who used to take them seriously laugh when they see this childish manipulation done to pander to the humorless ideologues in power.
I recollect that #41 and Slick Willie joined together to start some sort of fundraising project for the Katrina victims. Every time it was on TV one of the locals would remark, "I wouldn't send a dime to those two crooks."
because they would have booed junior back to the stone age.
Yeah, everything.
You're both right :)
#2. To: angle (#0)
#3. To: angle (#0)
#4. To: angle (#0)
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
U.S. corporate fascism
#6. To: angle (#0)
#7. To: angle (#0)
f I want to watch football for three hours, give me football.
#8. To: tom007 (#1)
This fakery is an apt metaphor for the political times in which we endure
#9. To: angle (#0)
As George Bush Sr. was flipping the coin, you could hear a chorus of boos so loud that ESPN had its proverbial hand caught in the cookie jar. And remember, this was ten seconds after the announcements so imagine what the initial boos sounded like. New Orleans residents know better than anyone else how Bush 43 responded to Katrina and they know better than anyone else about Barbara Bush's comments about poor people and how sleeping in the Astrodome was "working out quite well for them."
#10. To: Arete (#8)
#11. To: angle (#0)
#12. To: duckhunter (#9)
"I wonder if the actual audio exists anywhere on the web. Surely somebody in the stadium had a camcorder."
#13. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
I still have no idea why #41 was asked to flip the coin....
#14. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
I still have no idea why #41 was asked to flip the coin....
#15. To: Arete (#8)
Everything has been corrupted and propagandized by the government.
#16. To: angle, Fred Mertz (#14)
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