IS TENNIS PLAYER TENNYS SANDGREN AMERICA’S FIRST ALT-RIGHT ATHLETE?

The Outline ^ | January 23, 2018 | Gaby Del Valle

[EdnaMode]

For the first time since 2010, an American man has made to the Australian Open quarterfinals. The aptly named Tennys Sandgren is the last American standing in the men’s singles division, an achievement that is ever-so-slightly tainted by the fact that he’s probably a huge Trump supporter — and not the craven “Trump is terrible but I voted for him anyway because I am a Republican” kind, but the out-and-proud MAGA hat-wearing, “Pizzagate is real” kind.

At a post-match press conference on Monday, a reporter asked Sandgren about his Twitter account, where he’s retweeted and engaged in conversation with prominent alt-righters — whom the reporter very politely referred to as “political figures who might be considered outside the mainstream” — like Paul Joseph Watson, aka Prison Planet. Sandgren, who burst out laughing when the reporter mentioned the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville where a leftist protester was killed by a white nationalist, gave a lengthy answer that essentially amounted to RETWEETS ≠ ENDORSEMENTS.

“Who you follow on Twitter, I feel like [that] doesn’t even matter a little bit. What information you see doesn’t dictate what you think or believe, and I think it’s crazy to think that,” Sandgren said, as transcribed by Deadspin. He continued: “That’s not how information works. If you watch a news channel, you wouldn’t then say that person who’s watching a news channel thinks everything that news channel puts out.”

[WatchungEagle]

These globalists are basically boomers. Mostly over 60.

[nicollo]

WSJ op-ed today defended Sandgren:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-politicizing-the-courts-1516836189?mod=ITP_opinion_0&tesla=y

[dsc]

“What? Most white, heterosexual, males under 40 are alt-right.”

Really? That would be encouraging, but I haven’t seen that assertion before.

[EdnaMode]

Nice to see someone in the media standing up for him.