It's a trivial thing but I consider it very revealing. As many people are aware, the outcome of the Washington Redskins football game immediately preceding the national election has been eerily consistent in predicting the outcome of the presidential election. If the Redskins win, the incumbent wins. If the Redskins lose, the challenger wins and the incumbent is voted out of office. According to Scott Hanson on NFL Redzone, it has happened this way 17 of 18 elections since 1940. I'm a little too busy right now to check that statistic but I accept it. Well, the Redskins lost yesterday to the Carolina Panthers. Looks like Mitt Romney is our next president.
But to my point: At halftime the studio presenter, Dan Patrick, ran through the entire lineup of games from Sunday, showing highlights from each one as they always do. Somehow the Redskins game didn't get mentioned at all. As if it never happened. RG3 and Cam Newton played a fairly exciting game but NBC thought we wouldn't be interested in the outcome. Or more likely they didn't want to even take a chance that one of their presenters might mention the legend, thus predicting a Romney win on Tuesday.
I've got to admit, it scares me to think about the level of mind control and media bias needed to pull off the total erasure of a football game featuring this year's hottest quarterback versus last year's hottest quarterback. I'm no more paranoid than the next guy, but it sure makes me wonder what sort of hi-jinks might be going on inside the White House that are being edited, cleansed and purified. If Ronald Reagan was made of Teflon, what the heck can Obama be made of? Nothing sticks to him at all.