“Today (Oct. 26) – Obama ties Pres. Bush in the number of rounds of golf played in office: 24. Took Bush 2 yrs & 10 months.”

Obama has also played tons of basketball and tennis.  This is about to get a bit political and include me railing against the media, so please leave the room if you are pregnant or have any heart-related illnesses.  Gone? Okay, here’s my problem.  Why are we just hearing about this now?  Did you have any idea Obama was playing so much golf? When Bush even took an afternoon off, the media covered it ad nauseum.  With Obama we don’t hear a peep.  Until now.

Why, you ask? Here’s my theory.  The media has an agenda, be it NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, or whatever.  This applies to the news media as much as the sports media (heard about that Favre guy lately? Or how “violent” the NBA culture is?).  I’m not here to comment on whether Bush deserved the criticism or not (he definitely did, though), but the media turned on him very quickly, and all of a sudden they magnified everything he did and painted it in the most negative light possible.  With Obama, the exact opposite happened.  Instead of reporting on what Obama was actually about, the 24-hour news media decided to play to its adoring audience (like my girlfriend, who wants to sleep with Obama as much as she likes his politics) and throw puff pieces at him.

Well it appears his “honeymoon” with the American people is over.  Unfortunately the media’s treatment of him hinges on what the ratings say (or whatever the media’s secret agenda is) and not on what he is actually doing.  That is the reason the information about all the golf just came out.  That’s why Bush was skewered for days off while Obama was not, even though they are both taking quite a bit off (golf is pretty much a day off, let’s be honest).

So beware, loyal readers.  The media plays its own game and you cannot always trust that their agenda is pure.  This applies to sports media and news media alike.  Feel free to mock this wild “Mainstream Media is Corrupt” conspiracy theory all you want, but you have to admit to yourself it is a little true.