Just Watch the Game Blog

In the early days of this site, we had a hell of a debate about President Obama and his use (over-use, in my opinion) of the teleprompter.

I was accused of nitpicking when I said that, for a guy who was supposed to be America’s Next Great Orator, he sure was dependent on the prompter.

I made a good living using a teleprompter, but I also had to do a lot of work without it and I pointed out that I knew a lot of people who worked in TV who were exposed as frauds if/when they were caught without a teleprompter to read.

Obama–with his over-dependence on the prompter–was exposing himself as a fraud.

I also was impolite enough to point out that George W. Bush was ridiculed for not being a good speaker but that he didn’t depend on a prompter as much as Obama–who was elected in large part because of his great speechifying.

Well guess who’s finally come to realize that what I was saying six months ago is true—-Mr. Thrill Up His Leg himself.

Chris Matthews says Obama needs to lose the teleprompter and says it’s his “menace”.

Being right all the time can get kind of boring, you know?

I seem to remember a lot of people—including Bill Clinton–insinuating that people like Rush Limbaugh and other right wing radio hate mongers should take some responsibility for Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing.

What are the chances of them saying the same thing about Al Gore’s responsibility for this whacko who held people hostage at the Discovery Channel?

There’s not enough Botox in the world to keep Nancy Pelosi from frowning about this: Gallup has some disastrous number for Democrats.

One of the major–and most legitimate–complaints about local TV news is its insistence upon creating hysteria over a two inch snowfall.

Trust me. It embarrasses the meteorologists who are too often encouraged to emphasize the worst possible scenario and it embarrasses the anchors who have to lead their newscasts with a story about “possible accumulation.”

That same mentality exists at the network level. And we may have seen it during the oil spill.

It was a disaster and whether it was hyped or not–it still had a life changing effect on a lot of people. But, as bad as it was, it becomes more apparent every day that the national media exagerated the effects of the oil spill.

Rand Paul, the Repulican candidate for Senate in Kentucky, took and continues to take a lot of heat for saying, shortly after he won the nomination, that he didn’t agree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prevented a restaurant owner from refusing to serve blacks.

Of course, liberals jumped all over him and called him a racist because that’s what liberals do.

They refuse to consider the possibility that someone like Rand–a pretty smart guy–could see the danger in giving the government the right to tell you what you can or can’t do on or with your private property, or with whom you can and can not associate.

In Mississippi, after 30 years, a middle school is finally allowing blacks to run for class president.

A court order created the policy for the entire school district. That’s the government using its power to discriminate. That’s what the Civil Rights Act was intended to end–government discrimination.

But the people who refused to serve blacks in their restaurants were living under a government that sanctioned discrimination.

Paul’s point is that the government should not have the power to tell us who we can and can’t associate with because that power can be used for evil purposes, too.

The Jim Crow laws were proof of that.

Liberals hate Fox news. Do you know why? Because Fox broke up the media monopoly by having the nerve not to be liberal.

The liberals had a media monopoly until Fox came along.

Liberals were mighty upset last week with the news that Fox’s parent company had donated a million dollars to the Republican governors’ campaign.

Now there’s this story that shows how ridiculously biased the three major network news operations are.

Based on my experience in the TV business, I’m surprised that the numbers were so low.

Looks like President Obama’s six month moratorium on deep water drilling was too much too late. Or was it too much too soon or too little too late?

Whatever. Start drilling.

I don’t drink, so, the decision by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to raise their fees won’t affect me. Unless the restaurant owners don’t raise liquor prices and decide to get their money back by raising food prices instead.

There will be a lot of discussion about this on the talk shows and plenty of political fallout, but, pardon me for reducing it to a simple question.

Why is the state of Pennsylvania in the retail liquor business?

Some of the golf pros I knew in the past liked to have fun with their members and students and when they were asked for their advice, they would say, “Take two weeks off and quit.”

I actually took that advice 10 years ago and quit and only recently went back to the driving range to see if I should come out of “retirement”.

I hit the ball better than I could have expected but I haven’t gone back on to a golf course yet.

I quit because of a bad knee that would have prevented me from practicing and would have caused my scores to go up.

I was about a 15 handicap at the time. I had been as low as 13, even though I didn’t start playing seriously until I was 31 years old.

This is a roundabout way of asking why Barack Obama doesn’t take lessons.

Obama’s been playing a lot of golf lately and that’s fine with me. If he’s playing golf, that means he’s not spending time thinking about more ways to spend my money.

By all accounts, his golf game stinks. Never is security tighter around him than when he has a golf club in his hand.

If he had a nice swing, he’s be making sure that as many cameras as possible were there to see it.

I have a feeling that Obama is one of those guys who could be a lot better if he took a lesson, but refuses to do so because that would mean he’d have to cut back his playing time.

I could be wrong. Maybe he is taking lessons. I just have my doubts based on some of the descriptions of his game.

He’s obviously a pretty athletic guy. Lessons could save him years and years of aggravation.

I don’t know how many men still use the president as a role model, but, if he’s sending a message that it doesn’t matter how bad you are, just so you’re on the course, that’s not good.

The courses are already overrun by people who shouldn’t be there. They hold everyone else up and they don’t score any better with clubs than they would if they were playing with a shovel.

Those people need to get off the course and stay off.

And based on the accounts that I’ve heard and read about his golf game, he should, too, before he encourages more hackers like him to clutter up all the courses.

The Obama’s are going on vacation to Martha’s Vineyard.

When they get there they are going to find themselves in the middle of a T-shirt debate.