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A loyal Extreme Mortman reader — and fellow Redskins fan — sends the below photo along with this note:
Here’s a hot tip: the Redskins picked up an All-Pro lineman for their playoff run, and from the unlikeliest of places — the U.S. Senate.
Looks like a photo from training camp. Kennedy really can navigate those cones.
Loyal and equally extreme reader Peter Roff alerts us to this tragic item in DCRTV.com:
Ledo Name Off TOP Newsroom – 12/28 – DCRTV hears that Ledo Pizza’s naming rights deal for all-newser WTOP’s “Glass-Enclosed Nerve Center” comes to an end at the end of the year. A Bonneville source tells DCRTV that the newsroom will no longer have a sponsor. Instead, Annapolis-based Ledo will be an hourly sponsor of WTOP’s sports reports.
We had been following WTOP’s lead by establishing our own Ledo Pizza-encrusted glass-enclosed nerve center at Extreme Mortman’s world headquarters. So we’ll likewise — sniff sniff, sob sob — have to drop our titling rights as well.
But don’t worry. There’s a workable solution. DCRTV’s 2007 In/Out list suggests WTOP replace Ledo Pizza with California Pizza Kitchen. We love that idea. So for 2008, please welcome the California Pizza Kitchen Glass Enclosed Nerve Center of Extreme Mortman.
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How much stock should we put in reporters’ analysis of the outcome of the Iowa presidential caucuses?
America’s most lovable political historian Lee Annis, author of “Howard Baker: Conciliator in an Age of Crisis,” smartly reminds of us what NBC News reporter Tom Pettit said after Ronald Reagan lost Iowa in 1980:
“I would like to suggest that Ronald Reagan is politically dead.”
Of course, that suggestion proved false. And it should make us eternally wary of what “experts” suggest even today.
We interrupt Washington Redskins mania to salute our other passion, the Washington Capitals, and in particular Alex Ovechkin’s four goals in yesterday’s victory.
Here’s how Ovechkin so elegantly put it in today’s Post:
“Today, I shoot everything and everything go in,” Ovechkin said, flashing his gap-toothed smile. “Right now I don’t think about 60 goals [because] we win. It was fun game, I think, for fans to watch.”
Asked about his right leg, which was sliced by an opponent’s skate blade on Thursday in Pittsburgh, “It was some pain, but it’s okay,” he said.
To which we can only respond simply: Da!
Earlier this week a colleague told me the government was planning to subsidize the purchase of television sets. I scoffed, thinking that’s something the government surely would never do, and anyway, why not subsidize books?
Turns out my colleague was right, as evidenced by this government-issue $40 coupon to purchase digital TV.
Think that’s the extent of the government bailing out dinosaur media? Think again.
Check out Wall Street Journal editor Paul Steiger’s farewell column on the media in the weekend WSJ (click here, password required).
A fascinating — and stunning — tidbit:
… the vast array of investigative reporting and foreign correspondence assembled at American newspapers over the past several decades is being cut back at all but a few publications, as papers succumb to the pressure to cut costs.
Many journalists and academics see in these cutbacks a threat to the democratic ideal of a well-informed public. Some urge turning to philanthropy or an expansion of public television as a way to fill the gap. Others have begun to argue for a government subsidy for newspapers — an unlikely prospect for now.
“Unlikely” aside, the fact that a government subsidy of newspapers is being considered at all is quite alarming, on two fronts: 1) Must the government solve everything? Homer Simpson put it best, in another context: “Donuts, is there anything they can’t do?” Likewise: government, is there anything it can’t subsidize? And (2) If a form of media is dying, let it fail on its own accord. It’s called the free market. Heck, one day I’m sure blogging will decline in popularity. Let’s hope that when that happens, no one calls for a government subsidy of blogging. Although truth be told, if the feds will be handing out money to blog, you better believe I’ll be first in line. But really hating it.
Worshippers at the altar of bipartisanship and mockers of David Broder alike can rejoice together — Amen! Hallelujah! There truly is common ground.
This headline in the Sunday Washington Post over a David Broder article should please both worthy camps: “Bipartisan Group Eyes Independent Bid; First, Main Candidates Urged To Plan ‘Unity’ Government.”
We love it when life imitates ridicule.
