Freddogg Off The Chain

The day after the crowning of the king watching political pundit bright white people talk about black people a few even saying in a round about way “some of my best friends are black people” and the joke would be Obama replying “that’s nice, not mine.’

Barack is new world –new age- Channel One-everyone looks like the lead singer of the Fine Young Cannibals –he is Hootie without the blowfish perhaps Charlie Pride on a solid gold country revival show.

The most prominent stereotype revealed during this process is stupidity no longer rocks. McCain made the big mistake of calling himself a maverick then following the advice of strategists who threw him out there behaving like the guy we knew he wasn’t.

The real John has a sense of timing and humor and is self deprecating and has been known to appear places without his wife on his shoulder like an albino parrot from the pet store.

This morning I was in a high school to take pictures of two athletes. A strange looking new hall Monitor came up and asked if I was a member of the fourth estate. I told him no that I preferred to be viewed as a media type.

He then went off saying it was the media who won the election giving Obama a free pass and that “we” would have to answer questions when it was determined Obama was not a citizen and that by constitutional law he would not be allowed to assume the office of the presidency.’

By the way I’m a sportswriter, ”I told him, I am but a single cell inside the breathing monolithic beast of media types. And cheer up because Barack said he is raising the minimum wage.

The good news is I looked like the media guy and not the HVAC guy sent to fix the boiler.

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