I don’t know if I’ve ever witnessed someone as openly bigoted as he is and gets away with it. Ok, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly perhaps, but they’re all on the same page. On the flip-side you’ve got Bill Maher and… who’s that greedy fat fuck that has issues with guns again? Oh yeah, Michael Moore. Each of these people is so far outside the loop that they’d butter their asses and eat shit on their toast.

This isn’t just a “celebrity” buying a team as with so many did with the Miami Dolphins. This isn’t just another investment as was the case for Jerry Jones on the Dallas Cowboys or Stuart Sternberg on the Tampa Bay Rays. This isn’t somebody’s passion like George Steinbrenner on the Yankees. This isn’t a family business like the Glazers on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Manchester United. This is possibly a potential demolition of the entire Rams franchise and a serious chunk of the NFL too. Look at how polarizing Mark Cuban is as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and he’s not in the political field and that’s basketball.

The American landscape has two topics that are effectively taboo to speak about because there are so many differing viewpoints: politics and religion. I sometimes dread having certain family members come visit because it always, and I do mean always, turns into a ideologically political debate at some point. My views have always been the same since I was a kid, but I see the landscape shift around me and it’s hard to find someone with my views. My choices annoy some of my family because of certain labels applied to them, and I just like to remove myself from the room, but alas, they always ask, “What do you think?” Mix this sentiment in with the most passionate sport in the country, and you’re bound to have some seriously troubling times for the franchise.

So what’s the worst that can happen? In short, you’d have contractually obligated players sitting out over issues with the ownership. This has happened before, and it will happen many more times. If an owner is apparently screwing a player out of playing time or money, or whatever else you can think of, then the tension increases. In something like professional football, you have massive egos on the players. These egos don’t like other big egos most of the time. If you have a white racist apply pressure on a black player, even indirectly, you’re going to have a disgruntled employee who won’t work at maximum efficiency. You might even get a revolt of some kind.

Owners in the NFL, don’t fuck yourselves over by allowing Rush Limbaugh to take control of the St Louis Rams. You’d be shooting yourselves in the ass in the long run with all the stupid that falls from his mouth on his syndicated radio show. After a game he dislikes, and he’d have a personal stake in it if owned, he’d openly criticize the living crap out of you guys and gladly pay the fine applied. Don’t let it get to that. Keep politics off the playing field.

I woke up this morning and saw the news, and thought the Onion had written the most elaborate story of their illustrious career. Wikipedia’s not the most reliable news source, but they’ll usually throw up the information quickly. I saw it there too, then I saw it on more news-lines, and then I saw it on the Nobel Prize site. Being beside myself with any emotion doesn’t convey what’s happened. I think waking up to find that the Yankees moved to Boston would be less surprising. I really am baffled.

I’m graciously offering a silver platter of “What the fuck” garnished with a side of humbug. We have a man who has held the title of President of the United States for less than nine months. Prior to that, he served as United States Senator for three years. Prior to that, he served as Illinois state senator for seven years. This man was unheard of, and a complete unknown to the world prior to running for president. It’s not as if he had been marching around the country or world proclaiming peace from the highest of the mountains. This is a guy who just rode the rocket to the top, and now he’s been given a medal of peace for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”.

There are many people who fit the bill more snugly than Obama in the rationale for the Nobel prize explanation. Puzzling is how it’s also vague. Obama is an eloquent speaker regardless of how many jokes are cracked about his teleprompter usage. But why give this man the prize? This is a man who proclaimed the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison, but turned face once in office. This is a man who said we’d be out of Iraq and Afghanistan if he were elected, but has maintained and escalated the campaigns respectfully. This is a man who has been proclaiming “Change” from the highest mountain tops, but has only succeeded in pissing off those who voted for him. This is a man who’s demanding health care reform, but won’t even bother bringing doctors into the fold. This is a man who has declared that he’d change everything, but has either maintained the status quo or escalated it at every turn.

The people in Oslo can’t be so blind to this fact. Obama has done nothing to warrant the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize. The same award given to Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa, two very outspoken people for peace. There must be precedent to such a bogus award, and looking at the laureates I find Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres being co-recipients in 1994. These guys have been at each other’s throats for longer than anyone cares to imagine. Why give them the peace prize? To shut them up and make nice with each other by giving them a peace award and have them guilt-ridden into upholding the prestige. That’s the only rational reason to apply to their situation.

When you take the reasoning and apply it to Obama, then it becomes a little more understandable. They didn’t give him the award in recognition of something he has done, they’re giving it to him to try and force him to wise the fuck up and practice that which you preach. He goes around the world talking about peace, yet maintains two wars, killing numerous people every day. These are Bush’s wars, but Obama said he’d stop them. He has lied to those who voted him into office. He has lied to the world about peace. He has two-faced the entire populous. Oslo is giving him this award to force his hand, and to uphold what he said he’d do from day one.

Oslo, smooth play; you guys have some serious balls making that move.