Great tastes that taste gross together
From the Wall Street Journal via Political Wire, here is a harbinger of terrible, terrible things to come during commercial breaks in the 2012 college football season:
“[ESPN] has struck a deal with a middleman that will result in more political ads appearing on ESPN programs, including NFL and college football games, in October and November–the critical period before the general election.”
Said one top ESPN executive: “There is ‘great demand’ for ad time from ‘political parties and the super-PACs.”
As we all learned in social studies, the three great dividers of the American electorate are religion, politics and college football. Religion gets to mingle with the other two to some degree, for obvious reasons, but what you never ever ever want to do is combine all three, most especially where large quantities of domestic beer are involved. College football is tribal enough by its very nature, and is perfectly capable of generating arguments that end in horrific displays of human cruelty on its own, thankyouverymuch. Now some suit has the bright idea to toss in ad breaks that will engender living room fisticuffs over wars, heathcare and education? Is there any way this doesn’t end in heartbreak, or in armbreak?
