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Vice President Mike Pence leaves Colts-49ers game after players kneel during anthem
FoxNews.com ^ | 8-Oct-2017 | FoxNews

Posted on 10/08/2017 5:37:04 PM PDT by topher

Vice President Mike Pence walked out on his home-state Indianapolis Colts Sunday when members of the opposing team kneeled for the national anthem, but a report that Colin Kaepernick, the player who started it all, will stand if given another shot in the NFL was quickly dialed back.

"I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem," Pence tweeted.

I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem. — Vice President Pence (@VP) October 8, 2017

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: 5ththread; indiana; indianapolis; nfl; nflboycott; pence; vppence
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VP Mike Pence is former Governor of Indiana. His attending a game in Indiana should not be considered unusual.

Some people are calling this a PR STUNT.

Freerepublic Poster Morgana has an article on FreeRepublic on this from: The Daily Mail UK

Vice President Mike Pence LEAVES Indianapolis Colts game after several San Francisco 49ers took a...

1 posted on 10/08/2017 5:37:04 PM PDT by topher
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2 posted on 10/08/2017 5:40:19 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Learn How To Search. Ask Me How.)
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To: topher

Posted 10 times already


3 posted on 10/08/2017 5:40:43 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: topher
Some people are calling this a PR STUNT

Basically the anti-American members of the political, entertainment and media elite!

4 posted on 10/08/2017 5:41:30 PM PDT by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: topher

Ok so how is it any more of a pr stunt than football players kneeling for our anthem?


5 posted on 10/08/2017 5:42:33 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: topher
President Donald Trump later tweeted:

"I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLady Karen."

There were 23 San Francisco 49ers who kneeled during the National Anthem.

From some news report, President Trump that he and VP Mike Pence will not attend functions that disrespect our flag and country (such as the National Anthem protests).

I believe I heard that on NBCnews or CBSnews.

6 posted on 10/08/2017 5:43:37 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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It is a PR stunt by players. You don’t think they give the slightest care about their lesser contemporaries, do you? I don’t foresee a single one signing over their paycheck to bring anyone out of the hood.


7 posted on 10/08/2017 5:44:26 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

In the liberal world, a PR stunt in favor of some liberal cause is ok. But let anyone else do anything which they perceive as a PR stunt, and they are outraged!!!


8 posted on 10/08/2017 5:45:40 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Williams
I do not say it is a PR STUNT. The attacks on Trump/Pence are saying that.

I stand with Trump/Pence on this.

9 posted on 10/08/2017 5:47:22 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: topher

This is not a small deal.


10 posted on 10/08/2017 5:52:38 PM PDT by onona (Please Lord guide my thoughts and actions)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Posted 10 times already

And gets better each time!


11 posted on 10/08/2017 5:54:06 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: Brandonmark
I agree. I posted that because attacks on Trump/Pence are saying that. I strongly disagree that this is a PR STUNT.

It is a question for me and Trump/Pence and others to respect our country, our flag, those who gave their lives for this country, etc...

I do not think that any TRUE PATRIOT would consider this a PR STUNT.

12 posted on 10/08/2017 5:54:22 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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WARNING:
THIS IS NOT SATIRE.
From David Brock’s propaganda site, and VERY FEW in the media will dare to go against this approved narrative:

Pence tries desperate stunt to revive racist NFL feud to distract from humiliating week
(shareblue.com)

https://shareblue.com/pence-tries-desperate-stunt-to-revive-racist-nfl-feud-to-distract-from-humiliating-week/


13 posted on 10/08/2017 5:55:58 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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“It is a PR stunt by players”

Yup...
I notice they ARE NOT protesting the Cops with GUNS assigned to keep the crowd from taking their stuff.
THOSE Cops are allowed.


14 posted on 10/08/2017 5:57:20 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: COBOL2Java
And gets better each time!

No it doesn't. Every BOYCOTT THE NFL! thread still have over 100 replies and the same FReepers responding vowing to boycott the NFL. All you're doing is engaging in circular arguments.

All NFL threads should be pulled by the Mods then, and we'll see how much FReepers "hate" the NFL.

15 posted on 10/08/2017 5:58:41 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: topher
a,( Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez)

Where do we find people like this? The NFL juvenile are a dime a dozen...they are pathetic!

16 posted on 10/08/2017 6:02:05 PM PDT by yoe
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
No it doesn't. Every BOYCOTT THE NFL! thread still have over 100 replies and the same FReepers responding vowing to boycott the NFL. All you're doing is engaging in circular arguments.

All NFL threads should be pulled by the Mods then, and we'll see how much FReepers "hate" the NFL.

And yet, they don't.

You seem obsessed with this notion. I wonder why?

17 posted on 10/08/2017 6:02:19 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (John McCain treats GOP voters like he treated his first wife)
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To: tcrlaf

they ARE NOT protesting the Cops with GUNS assigned to keep the crowd from taking their stuff.
= = = = = = = = = = =
BUT that is just while they are on ‘the clock’

Of course, the age old ‘racist’ question

How many of the ‘serfs’(cops) did the ‘gentry’(millionaire players) take home for a barbecue etc with them.

(That is the question that gets asked of ALL whites that hire Blacks)


18 posted on 10/08/2017 6:03:19 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything over the edge by now")
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To: topher

Of course, Vice President Mike Pence is not a Marxist. Thank you, Vice President Mike Pence, for your steadfast patriotism. God bless and protect your family and loved ones, this nation and the whole world. Amen.


19 posted on 10/08/2017 6:04:09 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Obsessed with what. If you hate the NFL then just boycott them then and be done with it. Instead of continuously bitching about them and posting clips of people burning jerseys on Twitter or something.


20 posted on 10/08/2017 6:06:34 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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