"Also, as the Washington Post reported earlier this year, former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama are currently renting out a home owned by Lockhart:"
Posted on 09/27/2017 8:59:24 AM PDT by KeyLargo
REVEALED: Clinton/Obama Ties To NFL Media Insider
By Lawrence Richard 6:20pm September 26, 2017
A behind-the-scenes look into the NFL’s decision making, following the National Anthem protests and President Donald Trump’s accompanying comments, has the finger prints of two former Presidents all over it.
It is being reported that former President Bill Clinton’s Press Secretary is now the NFL’s spokesman.
Per WSJ:
Roger Goodell is an early riser who is often up by 5:30 a.m. Traveling away from home on Saturday, the NFL commissioner woke to an unexpected crisis: The multibillion-dollar sports empire he manages was under attack by the president of the United States.
In a speech Friday night, followed by a series of tweets Saturday morning, President Donald Trump castigated NFL players for kneeling during the national anthem. He said owners should fire any player who protests. He said games were boring and ratings were down, and called on fans to boycott the league because they love their country.
Goodell and many of the league’s fractious 32 owners soon decided Trump’s statements were less a defense of the flag than an unprecedented assault on their business. The commissioner and other league executives entered a 24-hour scramble—by text, telephone and email—to take control of the narrative and deliver an effective response.
Interestingly, President Bill Clinton’s former press secretary Joe Lockhart was working to construct the narrative:
The league, however, said the players acted within their rights and that it is the president who is “out of touch,” as NFL spokesman Joe Lockhart said on Monday. He stressed that the league is “united” even as the demonstrations varied from team to team and player to player.
(Excerpt) Read more at sarahpalin.com ...
"Also, as the Washington Post reported earlier this year, former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama are currently renting out a home owned by Lockhart:"
I thought Lockhart went to work for some software company.
Oh, and I saw Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin on ABC this morning saying he wasn’t political...but then I also read that he held fundraisers for Shrillary.
Liars.
The left has managed to coopt or control almost every institution in America.
Sports can be boycotted by thinking people as can the Ministry of Propaganda, but the majority are being educated/indoctrinated by them.
Obama Bemoans Politics of Trump Versus NFL: ‘Can’t Even Get It Out of Football’
BY: David Rutz
September 26, 2017
Former President Barack Obama on Monday bemoaned the fight over kneeling during the national anthem between President Donald Trump and the NFL, saying the country can’t even keep politics out of football.
Obama spoke at a health care conference sponsored by brokerage firm Cantor-Fitzgerald, for which he was paid $400,000. While his prepared remarks centered on health care, the New York Times noted that at the end of his speech, he alluded to the controversy embroiling the NFL.
“Our big problem right now is politics,” he said. “Can’t even get it out of football!
http://freebeacon.com/culture/obama-bemoans-politics-nfl-football/
I say, “If they take a knee, give’em the FINGER!!
Bravo NRA, herein: https://youtu.be/z3j1ZKz7PWQ
I thank Trump for ripping the lid off these people.
What I have learned the last two weeks - the NFL owners are 32 billionaires who probably think they are gods, and that Goodell is a smarmy DC/NY cocktail circuit, elitist, and fully on board with their PC attitudes and mainstream media liberal outlook. Its all about money and PC virtue signaling.
That’s why he was so surprised by the backlash - the NFL and Goodell have revealed themselves to be just more crony-capitalist, tone-deaf swamp creatures.
the country can’t even keep politics out of football.
If I were the NFL Commissioner or a team owner, I would immediately issue an order that all teams and players cease their unAmerican activities of mocking the American flag and the American national anthem.
The vast majority of the American people are furious, upset and angry at these low life excuses for human beings. The NFL, like the Democrat Party has committed its own suicide. This lunacy and ill advised gig is bad news anyway you look at it. No politician other then the idiots want to touch this caper with a ten foot pole. It is radioactive in negative sense from A-Z!!! End it now, NFL or die on your own death vine.
Joe Lockhart never struck me a the brightest guy, so if he is forming the narrative, go ahead. I guess that’s why 60% of the people are on Trump’s side of this.
The funny thing is that the NFL & Leftists have to “form a narrative”. They have to scramble around making calls to find out what to say.
Trump just knows what is right & relates to what the ordinary American is thinking. He doesn’t need any focus group narrative.
NFL Hires Bill Clinton Press Secretary Joe Lockhart 'Insulation for commissioner Roger Goodell' 3:02 PM, Jan 19, 2016 | By Daniel Halper
http://www.weeklystandard.com/nfl-hires-bill-clinton-press-secretary-joe-lockhart/article/2000648
The 1%ers play for the same team.
They have lots of people like this guy spread around in the media in key positions. They have a powerful reach and literally are able to control minds and sway public opinion over time. Every day, people like this guy steer the narratives that the elite want us to focus on.
A large portion of the population is easily controlled this way. People naturally want to be accepted by their peer groups and over time this propaganda starts to stick.
Isn't happening. Being a liberal means never admitting you're wrong even when you are (which is a majority of the time).
NFL Hires Bill Clinton Press Secretary Joe Lockhart
‘Insulation for commissioner Roger Goodell’
Jan 19, 2016 | By Daniel Halper
“NBC Sports calls the hire “insulation for commissioner Roger Goodell.”
The league announced that Joe Lockhart was joining the league as executive vice president of communications, and Cynthia Hogan was promoted to executive vice president of public policy and government affairs. ...
Lockhart was White House press secretary and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton (that job gets capital letters) from 1998-2000. He’s most recently been running a Washington-based commuications and government affairs firm, and fits with the league’s expansion of influence in D.C.
Hogan also has White House experience, working as deputy assistant to the President and counsel to the Vice President from 2009-13 in the Obama administration.
Both the new titles report to the league’s chief operating officer Tod Leiweke. That puts a layer of bureaucracy between Goodell and any unpopular decisions, and keeps him from having so much responsibility at the same time.
The move was praised by another former Bill Clinton White House press secretary, Jake Siewert.
“Good move by @NFL Welcome to NYC @joelockhart,” Siewert, a Goldman Sachs official, said approvingly today on Twitter.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/nfl-hires-bill-clinton-press-secretary-joe-lockhart/article/2000648
I know he fought for his countrymen, that he is a brave American...that is who he should have stood firm for, his Countrymen...not foolish ball players and rich owners.
“This is not a political football.” 
"Obama last week deflected criticisms about his decision to trade five Guantanamo Bay prisoners for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, saying he was more concerned with bringing home the American than worrying about the debate in Washington."
If asked to explain how that beautiful flag which blows in the breeze God sends, whether on the bloody battlefield, or in the hands of a mother honoring her beloved, but dead, son, most of the grown men who bend the knee on sports fields could not articulate an adequate reason to use that flag in their opposition to any societal wrong, no matter how offensive.
If their opposition is to the acts of individual politicians, to police officers, or to any wrong which has been committed, then they should stand up, speak up, articulate clearly their opposition to those acts, thereby leading to policy changes based in reason and common sense.
The flag which has inspired courage among soldiers fighting for the right of those now "kneeling," should not be brought into the question.
On the other hand, the "elites" of Progressive ideology, such as the Clintons, and the former administration, are manipulating the minds of those men, just as surely as a puppeteer manipulates the wooden characters in a puppet show, all the while they are behind the scenes plotting their next "identity" group "protest."
If not confronted and defeated, that Progressive Regressive political movement, which began in the late 1800's among academics, will consume and return society to the darkness and oppression which existed before 1776.
Tomlin is the worst. Intimidating Villanueva puts him on my permanent you-know-what list. FIRE TOMLIN.
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