On Wisconsin

When I grew up in Wisconsin during the late 50s and early 60s, the Green Bay Packers would move between  Green Bay and Milwaukee for their home field.  The stadium in Green Bay was small, and seldom full.  Then Vince Lombardi came to coach and a phenomenon  call The Super Bowl was soon born, and Green Bay won the first two bouts.  The candle of  excitement was lit in the whole state.  During football season, everyone watched and still watches the game.  That momentum has become viral in the state, and throughout the diaspora of Wisconsinites.

Moving forward to the 1990s, Fox outbid CBS for the NFC broadcast rights.  This had a tremendous effect on the media markets in states like Wisconsin.  Fox was a non-existent network in the state, so the CBS stations switched to Fox, knowing that was where the people put their eyes before, during and after football.  Murdock and his News Corp had the money to build an extensive network fast.  They also had the money to buy loudmouths who in turn won the hearts and minds of the conservative political movement.  So instead of listening to the Evening News with Dan Rather, the football fans were watching the faux news of Fox.  In a few short years, the strongly Democratic state elected a slate of incompetent boobs like Scott Walker and Ron Johnson.  The message of ignorance, prejudice, and hatred from the blathering fools at Fox, manifest into a once-progressive state turning dark. 

Wisconsin is becoming the Texas of the north with restrictive laws passed with no objective evidence: restricting women’s rights; ignoring union contracts; destroying jobs; protecting polluters; restricting voting rights; and limiting access to the Affordable Care Act.  So the Packers became the bait to turn a state Republican.  Murdock is truly the evil genius.