Posted on 06/09/2018 10:14:15 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The Press Is Determined to Claim Trump Is "Polticizing" Football. Have They Not Noticed Their Leftist Allies Politicizing Football, and Everything Else, For a Decade?
Half of the country is broken and in the middle of a nervous breakdown, and they can't understand why the rest of us are sick of hearing their endless conniptions.
The press says Mr. Trump is pushing the battle of the national anthem because it plays to his base. I suppose it does. But here's what galls even non-Trumpia>ns about this kneeling kerfuffle: We live in a world soaking in partisan politics. Then one day you wake up ready to relax with NFL Sunday, and you discover that "The Star-Spangled Banner" has become totally politicized. Any normal person, including liberals who won’t admit it, would have a three-word reaction to this spectacle, and the first two words begin with "w" and "t."
So what else is new? Today, if someone has a grievance or beef, first thing they do is look for something to attach it to--the anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, 19th-century American fiction, Mom’s apple pie--anything that will draw the world's attention, meaning the attention of the viral plague called social media.
I got an email this week from San Francisco flogging "Artists Get Political Ahead of Midterms." How? By embedding political messages in everyday objects, such as bus kiosks, hand towels, bedspreads and toilets.
Then, even now, the people who voted for Hillary still claim to be shocked and stunned that an electorate beaten down by the politicization of everything in life voted for the guy who makes a mockery of all that.
By the way, this isn't just about the anthem: The NFL has, like the NBA, threatened states and cities that they might not get to host a championship game or even a draft if they do not toe the line of the NFL's preferred Corporate Left politics.
Jerry Jones admitted that he was "envious" when he saw the turnout and enthusiasm April's NFL draft generated in Philadelphia. Naturally, given the Dallas Cowboys owner's status in the league, that vaulted Dallas to the top of the list of possible sites for the 2018 draft. There is, however, a potential stumbling block, and it's the same one that cost North Carolina the chance to host the 2017 NBA All-Star Game and NCAA tournament games. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for a special legislative session to consider a bill regulating the use of public bathrooms by transgender people. The NFL has spoken up in opposition to such a bill, saying after Super Bowl LI in Houston that it could cost the state of Texas future Super Bowls, so it makes sense that it would feel the same about the draft.
"If a proposal that is discriminatory or inconsistent with our values were to become law there, that would certainly be a factor considered when thinking about awarding future events," NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told the Dallas Morning News after the Super Bowl.
North Carolina partially repealed its bathroom law, which would have required transgender people to use the bathrooms corresponding to their gender birth, and the NBA has said it now plans to award the 2019 All-Star Game to Charlotte.
When billion dollar heavily taxpayer subsidized corporations start threatening citizens and coercing them to political positions they reject, I think it's time we started threatening these billion-dollar heavily taxpayer subsidized corporations right the hell back.
Oh, the NFL has the right to coerce the citizens of North Carolina and Texas?
Do the citizens of North Carolina and Texas have any right to coerce back? Or are we in for another round of the Chamber of Commerce's favorite song, Corporations Are People Too and In Fact The Only People Who Matter in America?
Wrong again, LSM! The NFL did it all by themselves.
Left-wing organizations politicized the NFL, using Colin Kaepernick and other useful idiots as their tools. Trump merely responded to that politicization. The NFL and future players will pay the price financially for that politicization, while the left-wingers who corrupted pro football will go find something else to ruin with political drivel.
The latest one is not about the flag, Trump kinda got this one wrong
It was about the rudeness of players publicly announcing a boycott of a WH invitation
Only 6 of the Eagles team were going to actually show up!
Who would or could invite and honor people with that attitude?
When they treat Trump with this attitude they are giving the finger to every deplorable voter! Over 60 million of us!
who cares?
Just remember folks, the media is on Trump’s side ;)
No, no, no, listen to Rob Reiner...he says the MSM love President Trump.
Now, I’m trying to remember...did Rob lose his hair or his mind first.
maybe they should take a knee to protest Trump politicizing their game
0’ politicized everything he touched. From the gitgo, he politicized the “acting stupidly” Cambridge police.
also the league is allowing players to hide from the anthem in the locker room without penalties.
Once a meathead...
It’s not political when the left wing radicalizes and organization. It is only political when the right wing #resists.
I live for the day when former NFL players ask me, “Just the sandwich or a combo?”
NO! Kneeling players did that!
Polticizing? Does that mean applying a poultice to it?
Actually, ESPN/ABC/Disney, together with the NFL and the NBA, have been using their platform to convert their fan bases to a worldview alien to them and hostile to their interests.
All it has taken is one little push from Donald Trump for the whole structure to shake and to threaten to collapse.
The current incarnation of pro football/basketball fandom (”fan” being short for “fanatic”) was getting long in the tooth, anyway. Stockbrokers and dentists paying thousands of dollars to sit midfield or midcourt, in denial, and pretending that they could easily fit in in the hood was absurd ten years ago, and it’s even more so now.
The era of multibillion dollar stadiums and multimillion dollar players is ending.
As with many other things, Trump is draining one swamp after another.
Think it has something with chickens.
Yep chickens would fit
poultice...a soft, moist mass of material...
And the NFL players were NOT politicizing football by kneeling during the anthem? Did Trump force them to kneel so the whole thing could become political? Really?
Anyone ekse remember years ago, the NFL pulled a Super Bowl out of Phoenix, because Arizona at that time did not have a state holiday for Martin Luther King?
Arizona did eventually honor Martin Luther King, and has been awarded super bowls since.
Point is, this politicization has been going on for a long time.
Good luck to sports, because if they insist that their fans must be liberal, on whatever the issue of the day is, they are going to lose quite a few fans .
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