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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Eric Heyl in Pittsburgh Tribune Review on May 16 said:Q: Why is Specter relentlessly pursuing a Spygate probe?
A: Spygate is to Specter sort of what Jodie Foster once was to a guy named John Hinckley -- an unhealthy obsession destined to end unhappily.
Q: What trigged that obsession?
A: Information on the Center for Responsive Politics Web site might provide a few clues.
Here's one: Comcast's political action committee, company employees and their family members have donated $154,000 to Specter since 1989.
Q: Would that be the same Comcast engaged in a lengthy and increasingly bitter fight with the NFL over the NFL Network's placement on the cable conglomerate's system?
A: Now that you mention it ...
Q: Not to stray too far off topic. But did Specter ever call for an independent inquiry into how Gov. Ed Rendell managed to get the world's largest cable company $43 million in public aid for its new Philadelphia headquarters several years ago?
A: No. But the giveaway of tens of millions of dollars to a company that makes several billion in profits each year isn't nearly as important as whether an NFL team might have repeatedly broken the rules.
Q: Can you provide some perspective on the Comcast donations?
A: Comcast ranks third in the amount of contributions to Specter since 1989. Coming in first is the Philadelphia law firm Blank Rome, whose PAC and employees have ponied up $363,000 for the Arlenizer. Blank Rome can afford to be so generous partly because Comcast has paid the firm $900,000 since 2004 to be one of its congressional lobbyists.
Q: Let me get this straight. Specter has spent months turning up the heat on the NFL, which just happens to be embroiled in a long-running battle with Comcast. And the cable company just happens to be one of Specter's top donors and a major client of Blank Rome, Specter's most generous financial benefactor over the past two decades?
A: A remarkable coincidence, I agree.
Q: Isn't that an obvious conflict of interest?
A: The pursuit of good sportsmanship recognizes no such thing.
Lets leave out the political party of Senators who comment on this. It really doesn't matter, does it?
That from a Senator with three teams in his state (TB, Mia JAX)...... Now if only a few more would say "enough is enough"
Politicians are shady...
Here is someone who is saying that there are better things to with our time than worry about footballs problems.
Why is she saying it....
because its true---possibly
because it is what people want to hear-----more likely
Evidence----if she really felt there were better things to do with her time than why is she on sirius talking about it....I thought you just said there are better things to do with your time?
Maybe its just me as I don't believe anything a politician says to be their true feeling...instead it is what they feel you want to hear. Problem with that is once they have convinced you that they represent what you wanna hear they than go on and serve their own agendas.
sorry for the diatribe but they are all aholes