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National Review ^ | September 25, 2017 | Jim Geraghty

[reaganaut1]

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Saturday, at a rally supporting Luther Strange in Alabama, President Trump decided to reignite the issue, and essentially argued that players who kneel for the national anthem should be fired: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a b—h off the field right now? He is fired!”

Once again, we see most people’s perspective on whether one’s personal views should cost them their job depend almost entirely upon whether one agrees with their views. If you’re on the Left, you think that a baker ought to be fired if he refuses to bake a wedding cake for gays, that Kentucky clerk Kim Davis should have been removed from office, that the Google guy deserved to be fired, and that no NFL player should be fired for taking a knee. Many conservatives feel the precise opposite in each case. Many Americans believe in First Amendment protections in the workplace for viewpoints they agree with and no protections for viewpoints they oppose.

It’s one thing for you or me to say, “they ought to fire that guy.” It’s another thing for the President of the United States, with enormous power and influence over laws, regulations, federal policy, and government personnel decisions to do so. The National Football League will interact with the federal government plenty of times in the Trump era: antitrust exemptions, military plane fly-overs, security for the Super Bowl and other big events, tax laws. Every time the federal government balks at a league request, some will wonder, is this based of the merits of the arguments, or is this because of Trump’s fight with the players over the national anthem?

[reaganaut1]

The President ought to focus on tax reform, health care, and North Korea instead of picking a fight with NFL players.

[freepertoo]

I’m fine with him challenging The NFL.

[TTFlyer]

Go to hell.

[montag813]

military plane fly-overs

Those should be suspended immediately, and indefinitely.

[Buckeye McFrog]

What’s going on with the NFL players is a very calculated, cunning bit of Cultural Marxism intended to inflict heavy long-term damage on the country and its society.

Maybe NR should pull its head out of its arse and deal with THAT.

[dainbramaged]

President Trump has the stones to say what millions of Americans are thinking and I think it's great.
The MSM spit on George Bush's shoe and he licked it off - try it with Trump and you get punched in the nose.

[Grampa Dave]

Have you ever posted a positive comment about Trump as a candidate and as a president?

If not go to hell with your NFL buddies.

If so, please post some link re positive comments about our President, and I will apologize to you.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

He’s distracting the fakestream presstitutes with shiny things.

[Mariner]

The author is stupid in the extreme.

He is comparing official government action to individuals boycotting an anti-American display on live TV.

Of course, NRO will stretch any fact, and mischaracterize any situation to hit this POTUS.

Hypocrisy be damned.

[Grampa Dave]

I actually carry a copy of this, when I go to any game or outside event where the National Anthem is played. As a Navy Vet, I leave my hat on and salute. Some people, non vets, get upset until I show them part (b).

Thanks to Brown Deer for posting this!

[Mariner]

YOU do not belong here.

[rigelkentaurus]

Military fly-overs should continue, but they should drop ordnance as they do it.

[gdani]

The President ought to focus on tax reform, health care, and North Korea instead of picking a fight with NFL players.

I agree. Giving more attention to people desperately seeking attention only emboldens them to seek even more.

There is a ton of important work to do that does not involve the NFL, football, or snowflakes on all sides.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Left is the group that started demanding that people be punished for failure to be politically correct. Lose your job, lose your business. You have to pay for your transgression.

They just want a monopoly on that.

The idea that a hundred million patriotic Americans might start demanding anything similar is something that terrifies the Left.

[Mr Rogers]

He didn't pick a fight. It ought to be OBVIOUS that folks stand when the National Anthem is being played. And it is obvious that employers can control what their employees do WHILE AT WORK.

Suppose every time I waited on a customer, I started by kneeling, raising my fist, and saying, "I oppose the confiscatory taxes of a totalitarian government. Justice for taxpayers!" Would my employer have every right to fire me?

All Trump did was make a passing comment, then tweet a few sentences. It is the NFL that has made it a fight.

[nikos1121]

Are you referring to the article or the guy who posted it?

[Alberta's Child]

I'm sure one of the reasons he dropped this turd in the punch bowl on Friday was to distract from Congress' utter failures on those things.

This man is a showman extraordinaire, and an absolute genius.

[Mopp4]

He is focused on these things. It is Congress who is not.

[dfwgator]

Probably took Trump all of two seconds to send that Tweet.

[bigbob]

President Trump is simply reminding us who the real enemy is.

National Review is another one.