The outrage that is pervasive in those media concerning Colin Kaepernik's failure to land another job in the NFL is a case in point. Mind you, the guy turned down a qualifying offer worth more money than any of us ordinary citizens could hope to see in a lifetime; the outrage is for him paying any price whatever for behaving in a deliberately provocative manner toward what he, and the media, knew perfectly well were perhaps the ultimate hot buttons in American politics. In short, they are the enlightened superiors of a fan-base that they deny has any right even to object.
It isn't turning out like that. They're blaming Trump, but this is older than Trump's Presidency, and his role in the matter was not to take any action within his power as Chief Executive, but merely to speak out. That is all he has done. The people who started this inferno are blaming the guy who pointed his finger at it and said "Fire".
I think that a very large number of people in the sports media who have hooked onto political correctness in their own professional ascension are now stuck with it as their reason for existence, and are likely to go down with it when finally the public has had enough of it. It shouldn't be too difficult to anticipate that blatant disrespect for the flag and the anthem and the people it represents would be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. The purpose of political agitation is to provoke, and they've managed that brilliantly. Now, the deluge.
“Quite a few people of less than discerning intellect have been persuaded by sheer repetition that America is evil and must be punished, and the peer pressure brought on by others of even less discerning intellect in the popular media has persuaded them into an act of unreasoning vanity.”
Bingo...well put...
Thank you! :-)