re: #179 iceweasel

The wingnut meme is that soccer is inherently antiamerican and socialist, and that all ads for it or articles promoting it (or written about it in a positive way) represent the Liberal Elite Media trying to ram a socialist ideology down the wingnut throat. It’s diverse, multi-cultural, lowscoring, and played by brown people, therefore it is unamerican.

Seriously check out the NewsBusters link, it’s chock full of pieces from the Weekly Standard, First Things, and other places all telling us about the evils of soccer.

This reminds me of another wingnut trend— analysing pop culture generally for signs of liberal bias. Like grading every new film as if it’s about teh liberal agenda.

Sometimes a movie is just a movie; a soccer ball is just a soccer ball even if the rest of the world calls it a football.

That’s funny. You know who one of the sponsors is for the US Mens team?

Castrol

Another one is Budweiser. Right… elitism. Yep, sure.