re: #557 Soap_Man

People float names a lot, which is usually funny. The person isn’t involved at all, but it gains so much media traction that they have to hold a press conference to debunk something they had nothing to do with.

A perfect example happened right here in Illinois. Remember after Ryan dropped out and the GOP was panicking that Obama would cruise to victory? So they started floating these rumors that Ditka was going to run against Obama. Ditka was oblivious to the whole thing, but it got to the point where the lead story on every local broadcast was “Will Da Coach take on Obama?”

So then he had a press conference debunking something he had nothing to do with. And as a side note, he never once referred to Obama by name. He kept calling him “the other guy.” I don’t think this was meant to be insulting at all; I’m willing to bet Ditka didn’t even know his name (or maybe he knew his name, but was concerned about mispronouncing it and looking foolish.)

That’s going on with Petreus now, he had to come out again yesterday and say “no way, never, not gonna run” again.