Tim Tebow Before Being honored at halftime during the Dec. 23, 2007 Jaguars/Oakland game
Welcome back to This Week With Mitch Grosky. This week I’ll focus on three stories: News, Sports, and Entertainment.
We lead off this week with a quick look at the results of this week’s Iowa Caucases, What did I think? Well, Romney’s win wasn’t very surprising, but by only EIGHT votes………that’s incredible–the closest victory in any major Republican or Democratic Party contest–a great example for our kids on how every vote counts.
Rick Santorum, the former Senator from Pennsylvania came in second, right behind Romney, but many people consider his virtual tie with Romney a moral victory since he was in single digits just three weeks ago. So, now it’s Santorum who has the “big mo”–momentum—on his side. Most political pundits, however, think that he doesn’t have the organization or the money to take advantage of that momentum. Time will tell.
In third place, also with a very strong showing, was Texas Congressman Ron Paul. His libertarian philosophy is striking more of a chord with people this time around. Still, most of the experts think there’s no way he can win. What really hurts him is those 8-10 outrageous and bigoted quotes from the Ron Paul newsletter and his outright refusal to consider taking military action if Iran gets a nuclear weapon. That’s a position virtually no Republican—or Democrat agrees with.
Former Speaker Newt Gingrich finished a distant third. It’ll be interesting to watch him at this weekend’s debates up in New Hampshire. It was really obvious that he was furious with Romney because of Romney’s SUPER-PAC ads. I’m actually surprised he’s not more ticked off at Ron Paul who called him a serial hypocrite in his ads.
Texas Governor Rick Perry almost dropped out this week after finishing way back in the Iowa Caucuses. I personally think he should have stayed in Texas because I really don’t think that he can get people to forget some really bad debates, and especially that big Oops moment—when he couldn’t name the third agency of the three that he wants to eliminate. That is just the kind of gaffe that will go down in history like Nixon sweating against Kennedy, like Romney’s father, George Romney, saying that he’d been brainwashed, or like Gerald Ford saying that there wasn’t any Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
Michelle Bachmann………well, she joins Herman Cain and Tim Pawlenty as also-rans. What about Jon Huntsman? Well, since he chose not to compete in Iowa and only got 700 votes, we’ll have to wait and see if he can get any traction up in New Hampshire. My guess, not so much!
Moving on to sports………. My New England Patriots have a bye this week, and I’ll have to keep an eye on this weekend’s games to find out if they’ll be playing Cincinnati or Pittsburg next week. At least, I’m glad that Brady and his banged up team will get some rest this week. Brady is having another fantastic year, but then again, so are Drew Brees and Aaron Rogers. Matthew Stafford too! Oh, speaking of quarterbacks, I have to get in a Tebow comment before it’s too late. Look, the Broncos are going to lose to the Steelers this weekend……….after all the Broncos lost their last three games, and Tebow was 19 of 51 for a grand total—a grand total of 245 yards in those three games. What about the Steelers? Well, they’ve only been in 3 of the last 6 Super Bowls, and they won two out of those three. They’re right up there with the Patriots since the new millennium started. But what I really wanted to say about Tebow is this: Give the kid a break, will you? He is just a kid—just graduated—-and almost everyone says he’s a super kid–kind, decent, hard-working, talented–a great college quarterback if not yet a great or even good pro quarterback. But he works incredibly hard, he’s a leader, and he’s doing his best. Oh, and he’s religious, strongly religious………and that’s a good thing too. He prays and gives credit to God. He kneels down in prayer at the end of each game. So what? He’s not forcing you or anyone else to kneel down. He’s not hurting anyone. He’s sincere in his beliefs. Since when is that a bad thing? There are many people—Christians, Jews, Muslims—who admire him for that kind of dedication to his religions. So, cut him the same slack as we do when we see countless sports interviews where the first words out of the mouth of the guy who’s getting interviewed is: “I want to thank God …….or Jesus Christ…..or Allah for this victory.” He’s a real good kid who may never be a very good pro quarterback unless he develops his arm and his accuracy, but he’s a kid that most parents would be proud to have in their family.
And finally, some entertainment news–admittedly a bit of fluff that maybe hasn’t yet reached your radar screens yet. Kim Kardashian’s in the news again. According to E-On-line, apparently there’s going to be a line of Kardashian Barbie Dolls—–based on Kim and her sisters Khloe and Kourtney. Just a guess, but it’ll probably hit the shelves by next Christmas. . . for no more than 72 days. It seems like a lot of people are pointing to the fact than even though Kim earned about 12 million bucks last year, she only paid one percent more in taxes than a secretary earning about 45 thousand dollars….. Only one percent more! Does this seem fair to you? Apparently not to some people in California who are trying to raise taxes on its wealthiest citizens.
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NOTE: Photo of Tim Tebow (above) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. This image was originally posted to Flickr by minds-eye at http://flickr.com/photos/36703550@N00/2133330966. It was reviewed on 15 October 2008 by the FlickreviewR robot and confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.
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