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Kerry Christmas!

Senator John Kerry today proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was and is completely unfit for higher office - or even for the office he currently holds. He has threatened to bring the full power and might down up the National Football League - unless they nationally televise the final New England Patriots game of the regular season.

With the New England Patriots now one win away from finishing the regular season undefeated, Sen. John Kerry is stepping up his campaign to get the final game broadcast on national television.

The contest Saturday with the New York Giants is to air locally in Boston and New York. But outside those markets it is scheduled to appear only on the NFL Network, a cable channel that reaches just 35 million households nationwide while the league and cable operators dicker over pricing and distribution.

Kerry asked football Commissioner Roger Goodell today to move the game to NBC – and threatened Senate hearings if he does not.

“Under the unfortunate circumstance that this matter remains unresolved, leaving 60 percent of households across the country – including thousands in Massachusetts – without access to Saturday’s game, I will ask the Senate Commerce Committee to hold hearings on how the emergence of premium sports channels are impacting the consumer,” he wrote to Goodell today in a letter released by his office.

The Massachusetts Democrat added that he would “consider what legislative measures may be necessary to ensure that consumers are more than bystanders in this process.”

Kerry, who had offered earlier to convene a meeting between the league and cable operators, is only one of several lawmakers attempting to intervene. Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have threatened to reconsider the league’s federal antitrust exemption if the sides do not come to an agreement.

Every, single one of these Senators is guilty of attempted extortion and are abusing their offices. Period. Try acting like elected officials and not like low-level mob enforcers, Senators.

Crime, Politics | Gaius Monday, 24 December , 2007

By martian, Monday, 24 December , 2007 @ 3:35 pm

Kerry and his cohorts are an insult to the American People and an embarassment for the congress!
By feeblemind, Monday, 24 December , 2007 @ 4:29 pm

You are quite right Gaius. On the other hand, it strikes me that the NFL could antagonize it’s customer base if they reserve the choicest games for the NFL Network. But that is their right. Disclaimer: I no longer follow NFL football.
By Maggie, Monday, 24 December , 2007 @ 4:50 pm

Oh, BOTHER!

You mean THK won’t buy the greasy thug tickets to the game and transport him there?!?
By NortonPete, Monday, 24 December , 2007 @ 4:51 pm

I was a SwiftVet supporter many months before they hammered this nitwit. I need not say more.
By Mwalimu Daudi, Monday, 24 December , 2007 @ 11:16 pm

Of course Specter The RINO is in the middle of it.

When the Senate manages to fully fund the troops in wartime, when they end earmarks, when they can hold hearings on nominees in a timely fashion, when they can balance the budget, when they can drain the ethical sewer that is the US Senate by expelling Reid (of the crooked land deals), Feinstein (who directed government contracts to her husband), Stevens (the earmark king), Kennedy (a murderer), Clinton (insider trading and obstruction of justice), Byrd (a KKK Grand Wizard), Webb (who tried to have his aide smuggle a gun onto Capitol Hill), Shumer (identity theft), and Murray (the Osama bin Laden groupie), when their approval rating is above Beelzebub’s, then they can order the NFL around.

Not before.
By FedUp, Tuesday, 25 December , 2007 @ 12:34 pm

Ah Geez….! But, does this mean they’re leaving Bush/Cheney/Gonsalez/… alone? This really is the epitomy of total arrogance! Guess we can no longer call them ’servants’ of the people!

Well Said, Mwalinu!
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Wednesday, 26 December , 2007 @ 1:06 pm

Yo, Kerry? Tell your idiot constituents to either buy a dish or go to a bar.

This game is already over. The Giants have a locked playoff slot and are prepping to play the next game. They don’t care about anything but Tampa Bay.