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Idiots for freaking out but at the same time it's a sports bar, plus the customer is always right.

Posted by Toledo Stripper | August 28, 2008 8:40 PM
2

Maybe the other patrons had read http://twitter.com/barack and know that he panders for votes as much as any other politician.

Posted by Alf | August 28, 2008 8:42 PM
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Yes, yes, @2. I'm sure that's exactly where they got their information.

Posted by Julie | August 28, 2008 8:46 PM
4

Welcome to today's America. As long as we are kept fat and the shiney fast objects continue to twitter our monkey brains, we don't care if the cow bonker awaits 30 seconds down the road. We deserve to lose all of our freedoms, suffer for it, and regret our stupidity for many generations. The icon of the no-neck neocon will be the focal point of many future dartboards.

Posted by Todd | August 28, 2008 8:50 PM
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That place is a shithole. I went once for lunch, had lousy service and diarrhea for a week (plus they don't like people in wheelchairs despite having an elevator). The only spors bars showing it must have been paid up front by sponsors.

Did they show it at The Ram or Sport?

Posted by elswinger | August 28, 2008 8:50 PM
6

Awesome, now I know where to look for the guys who beat me up.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | August 28, 2008 8:51 PM
7

Why the hell did you go there for the DNC? people go there to get away from their responsibilities (for whatever reason), its their lives, thats what makes this country great. You could have gone anywhere but you went there to prove a point.

Anyone could have told you that sports guys would rather watch sports than O's speech. Just gotta be a smart ass dont ya?

Posted by shane | August 28, 2008 8:58 PM
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Of course your name is Shane...

Posted by duh | August 28, 2008 9:05 PM
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7: I don't ever want to meet you. You're insipid and typing out of your ass.

People who don't care about historic moments or the political decisions that affect us all-- they're who make this country great!

Posted by eyeroll | August 28, 2008 9:10 PM
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Were they really anti-Obama or anti-convention? Go back to the same bar during the McCain speech and see if the crowd is cheering. I bet you they'll want the channel changed then as well.

Personally, I'm a pretty political person who happens to find conventions incredibly boring.

Posted by bob | August 28, 2008 9:13 PM
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Please. The customer is seldom right, but needs to be steered towards thinking that they are, and that they have been appeased.

Personally, I would have kept it on, and turned up the volume, telling people that it was an order "from corporate" (That would have really freaked them out)

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay | August 28, 2008 9:15 PM
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Dominic, dude, you are one butch MF.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | August 28, 2008 9:34 PM
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It's a sports bar, albeit a crappy one. It shows sports. Get over it.

Do any Stranger staffers own their own TVs?

Posted by joykiller | August 28, 2008 9:36 PM
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@13, Dominic's angle was totally valid and they told him the convention would be broadcast. He didn't walk in and demand they change the channel, and he apparently was perfectly happy to be flexible and watch on whatever screen was available.

Piss off, douche.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | August 28, 2008 9:44 PM
15

I'd really be interested in knowing whether or not they are interested in hearing McCain's speech as well.

Posted by Clint | August 28, 2008 9:50 PM
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Yes, a free country in which people are allowed to watch whatever they want to watch is a horrible, horrible place. If the idle minds would rather watch the pigskin then let them. Of course their uneducated vote doesn't help move this country in an intelligent direction but what they freely choose to DO is what makes our country great.

And yes, I did watch the speech. At home. And I changed the channel when it was over. Because I chose to...You dont go to a bakery to buy a steak.

Posted by shane | August 28, 2008 9:53 PM
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One time we went to Norm's in Fremont and asked if we could watch the MotoGP race on Speed TV. The waitress talked to the bartender and then they came back and said yes, we could watch on the TV in the back. So we sat down, ordered drinks and food, and then the race coverage began. Then the waitress comes over and says some other people want football on that TV too, as well as every other TV in the place. So they switched it back to football. If they had just said so in the first place we could have gone somewhere else and seen most of the race.

Fuck Norm's Eatery and Alehouse in Fremont. Fuck them.

Posted by elenchos | August 28, 2008 10:01 PM
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Hahaha. I've been there. Once. Your description is perfect, and the scene went down exactly how I picture it would in that place.

I have to agree with a couple of others who suggest you try the same thing for McCain's acceptance speech. I, too, suspect the same reaction. They are not so much anti-Obama as anti-politics of any sort. Modern neanderthals.

Posted by Reverse Polarity | August 29, 2008 12:19 AM
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No speech at a political convention is "historic" or "direct[s] the future of the United States". Calm down.

Posted by Monty | August 29, 2008 12:45 AM
20

Fuck the Fox Sports Grill, and Fuck Their Patrons.

Posted by meggers | August 29, 2008 1:15 AM
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It must be great to write something... while drinking whisky/cokes... and then have all these people tell you what's on their mind... what's right and wrong! I'd say that article was fair, for the most part, from what I remember... On the opening day of college football, they shouldn't of promised the DNC on the bigscreen, with sound, if they weren't gonna do it... but they did... and that was stupid! It was busy, football fans were happy, and the only person, besides me, who wanted to see the Obama speech on the big screen, with sound, was the guy who wrote this article... it didn't happen... and he still tipped great. I'd say it was a good night... Obama/Biden 2008!

Posted by Trevor | August 29, 2008 2:41 AM
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Sports bar? You sure that wasn't the Seagals' tryouts?

Posted by Rosa Clemente | August 29, 2008 7:06 AM
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@14, um, ok. Feigning surprise that patrons of a sports bar would rather watch sports than a political coronation is ridiculous.

Posted by joykiller | August 29, 2008 7:27 AM
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Yes, I would also be very interested to see if they would watch the RNC or if they are just generally anti-convention. Please check in and report back.

Posted by Christy O | August 29, 2008 7:44 AM
25

Shane's (@7 & 16) point is valid. Same with @19.

It's just the convention, nothing surprising happened, we all knew Obama would walk away with the official nomination. Attacking people for understanding why the typical FOX News Sports Grill patron isn't interested in watching the convention sounds carries tones of zealotry and bigotry to me, and I thought that's what we hated about the far right.

Posted by Nixor | August 29, 2008 7:52 AM
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So these guys are to be villified because they don't want to watch a pre-packaged, made-for-TV commercial for a political party?

At least nobody's pretending the football game is anything but a game.

Posted by rjh | August 29, 2008 9:18 AM
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This is incredibly lazy journalism. Going to a sports bar and then whining about it when no one wants to watch a speech?
Stop the presses! They're showing football at the sports bar!
It's hardly fair to paint college football enthusiasts as politically ignorant neanderthals because they'd rather watch a game and have a drink than listen to a politician.

Posted by Ryan | August 29, 2008 10:29 AM
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I get frustrated because I know that I am better than these fools, but can I quantify it? Are they happy? Am I happier? Is ignorance really bliss?


grr

Posted by Non | August 29, 2008 10:32 AM
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Politics is a game.
Some people just watch The Game.
Some people watch the whole days pre-game shows and sportscasters,etc predicting the winners.
Which are you?

Posted by towhomitmayconcern | August 29, 2008 4:46 PM

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