The New York Giants get their moment in the spotlight this morning with a ticker tape (actually, a paper shredder output) parade through lower Manhattan celebrating their Super Bowl victory. Attention then will shift to the game’s real stars: the judges, regulators and lawyers who endlessly debate broadcast decency standards.
But we should cut the folks in business suits a break. They were not the ones who started this diversion of attention from the athletes, who really matter (to the extent competition staged for entertainment actually “matters”), to the people who merely want to matter.
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Current Commentary: Graceless Candidate, Graceless Exit By LARRY M. ELKIN
The fight for the Republican nomination was, as I wrote in this space on Feb. 1, effectively decided when Mitt Romney won the Florida primary. Neither Santorum nor Newt Gingrich, the two challengers who still had viable candidacies at that point, was ready to quit. Nor was Ron Paul, whose candidacy has never been viable, but who continues to run anyway.
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