NPR is almost mocking the steroids bit.

[Redneck Socialist]

Daniel Shore and EJ Dionne are almost laughing while they talk about it. They can't understand why bush put that in there. EJ surmises that they must have polled on steroids and found out people were against them. It's actually pretty funny.

[BigDaddyLove]

1. I was wondering the same thing..............

that's the section during which I tuned in (I had to finish watching a hockey game first), and I thought "well, since he can't talk about jobs or healthcare or anything else for that matter, I guess he had to talk about something".

Pretty funny.

[Loren645]

2. WTF was that about? Are steroids public enemy #1?

Where did that come from?

[Cannikin]

3. Jon Stewart was doing the same thing..

He thinks Bush should have gone further and addressed the 'instant replay' issue.

[hatrack]

9. He could have talked about the designated hitter rule

Talk about a missed opportunity!

[lastknowngood]

8. same place as rape rooms

sombody did a focus group

[Cat Atomic]

4. I know!

We just stared at each other over here, and went, "okaaaay....".

Hahaha- absolutely surreal.

[ComerPerro]

5. WTF was that?

Seriously

[leftyandproud]

6. NPR was GREAT tonight

very critical of shrub in all of their interviews
bless em ;)

[Dover]

7. Well they had to delete the WMD and trip to the moon from the script

and were left with all this time to fill. What else is popular with Joe sixpack? I KNOW! SPORTS!!!!!

[Lefty48197]

10. Did you see the look on Tom Brady's face when Bush mentioned steroids?

Tom looked like he was picturing himself being protected by a bunch of guys that weigh 180 lbs.

I also thought it was odd when Bush said that steroids were sending a message that, "performance is more important that character". I think that's odd, because it was Ronald Reagan who taught America that winning was so important. So important, that cheating became acceptable. Is Bush repudiating Reaganism?

[Valjean]

11. Cheating

Reagan didn't start that. These assholes have ALWAYS cheated to get ahead.

[sendero]

22. I was here in the 80s...

... and Reagan and the culture he brought with him absolutely is at the root of steroids, Enron-GlobalCrossing-WorldComm, etc, and a great deal of what passes for "ethical ambience" we are facing today.

It was a "win at any cost" attitude, and people got the message just fine. Bill Gates is a perfect example.

I find the steroids issue laughable. A job would be nice, I might not like steroid use but on my list of things to worry about it is around number 1500.

[Uzybone]

12. Why wasn't Arnold in the gallery?

now that I would have paid money to see.

[leesa]

13. It's like when he did that weird bit about the child-slavers during

his comedy routine before the UN assembly. I guess he loses his place on the lie prompter and careens off into fantasyland.

[Muddleoftheroad]

14. ESPN Radio

Gave him verbal high fives for it and took Upshaw (head of NFL Players union) to task for his denial of a problem.

[yellowcanine]

15. I thought he was going to bring up Pete Rose

How trite is bringing up use of steriods by professional athletes in a SOTU address - is Congress supposed to pass a law?

[Toucano]

16. Reminded me of sex slavery topic

when he went to the U.N.

Totally off the wall.

He called on the players, managers, unions, and owners to help stamp it out. That affects like 10,000 people - TOPS!

Way to address society's epidemics, Dubya!

[Shadowen]

17. Think about it...

Bush is a huuuuuuuuuge baseball nut. To think of what this widespread use of steroids is doing for the reputation of his already-shaky favorite pastime (aside from executing folks on death row, getting whatever he wants whenever he wants it, and giving all his buddies tax breaks, of course) must cause him great pain.

Me, I prefer hockey. Which may well have a lockout of its own, soon...

[SpiralHawk]

18. Bush actually meant to condemn oxycontin and pretzels

But he made a mistake in the speech. As usual.

Down with oxycontin and pretzel abuse. Support sobriety for Rush and Bush

[ElsewheresDaughter]

19. i heard that Faux news flashed a pic of Gov Arnold at this point of SOTU

did anyone watch it on Faux?....i heard some dem strategist say this on Faux this morning and faux didn't deny it....is this true???

[ronnykmarshall]

21. No way!!

That's too funny. Can't wait for the news to come on this morning. I'm on call, so my damn pager has been going off since midnight so I've been loving reading this stuff.

Gotta see what the spin's gonna be this morning.

[ignatius]

20. I looked at my husband and said, steroids?,where the

hell did that come from?

Very bizarre. It was so difficult to watch, he is becoming more and more arragant, almost a I will do whatever I want and screw this country attitude. Everytime he mentioned killing his eyes twinkled like the north star.

[CRK7376]

23. The speech was on in our office

and unfortunately I sit way to close to the tv. Fortunately the noise level in the office drowned out most of the speech and what it didn't the Jimmy Buffet cd I was playing on my cd player got rid of most of the rest...But I did hear the steroid bit and was saying WTF...shrub and a brain fart....he makes me nuts.

[skippysmom]

24. Bet this was Bush's idea

Rove and Cheney et al were crafting the sections of the speech on jobs, healthcare, foreign policy, etc., and Bush comes in and says, "can I put in something about baseball. PLEEEEEEEEEAAAAASE???"

"oh, all right, George."