Yet another reason to hate the Flyers and Sixers...

[Captain Hilts]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/This_Saturday_turn_your_back_on_the_pucker.html

Ed Snider is a man with two missions in life -- one that I wholeheartedly support, and another that I don't, some parts of which I in fact find repulsive. His day job is to bring a championship to Philadelphia with the two teams that he runs through Comcast-Spectacor, the Flyers and the 76ers.

In his spare time, he takes the millions of dollars that he's earned with the blessings of the Philadelphia sports fan and used a big chunk of it to promote conservative causes, moving increasingly to the far right with each passing political season.

Sports and politics should not mix, not here and not now, less than four weeks before such a critical presidential election. But that's exactly what rabid GOP supporter Ed Snider will be doing this weekend, inviting "hockey mom" Sarah Palin to drop the ceremonial first puck at the Flyers' season opener, and more.

According to numerous news accounts, Snider is a leading donor to the group Freedom's Watch, which is spending millions (here's the repulsive part I mentioned up top) promoting its lethal policies in the Middle East and right-wing candidates like Sarah Palin and John McCain who support that agenda. Arising from a 2007 meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, one of Freedom Watch's first efforts (employing former Bush White House aide Ari Fleisher as its spokesman) was a $15 million ad campaign in support of the troop "surge" in Iraq that falsely conflated that war with 9/11. (Says a military veteran, over shots of the World Trade Center, "They attacked us, and they will again. They won’t stop in Iraq.")

[TZ]

1. ah that explains Sarah Palin dropping the hockey puck

at the Flyers game. I hope she gets booed loudly!

[Captain Hilts]

2. Hey, it's Philly, they'd boo their own parents! nt

[Patiod]

3. Oh, I think you can count on us for that

We've booed Santa, Mike Schmidt - you name it

[joeybee12]

4. All I can think of is...

...damn, is it hockey season again already?

Most involved in sports tend to be on the conservative side, although this guy seems like he'd wanna invite David Duke instead, and curse out the liberal-leaning in his view) McCain and Palin.