Why soccer/football is “leftist”

Is this an Onion story? No, it’s real! Football is apparently “leftist.” American exceptionalism is alive and well. Could it be that the US doesn’t go in and win 85% of medals that therefore the sport is worthless? Or is it just contrarianism:

Beck blustered, “It doesn’t matter how you try to sell it to us, it doesn’t matter how many celebrities you get, it doesn’t matter how many bars open early, it doesn’t matter how many beer commercials they run, we don’t want the World Cup, we don’t like the World Cup, we don’t like soccer, we want nothing to do with it. … They continually try to jam it down our throat.” By this logic, one of the major leftist socialists who is pushing soccer is Beck’s employer, Rupert Murdoch, whose Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Soccer Plus show more soccer than any other networks. Furthermore, ESPN, which is broadcasting the World Cup, is devoting previously unseen amount of resources to their coverage for an American network. These networks, and big corporations like Budweiser and Coca-Cola, are not investing in soccer because of some leftist motivations, but because doing so is increasingly lucrative.

Remember when the right were delighted that Chicago didn’t get the Olympics because Obama was from there?

IMMI resolution passes

The Wikileaks Twitter feed reports that the IMMI resolution passed in Iceland today. For why this is important, see my previous post here. This is the text of the resolution.