Posted on 08/24/2017 11:28:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A pair of parallel events occurred last night that perfectly capture the surreal and troubling times in which we are living.
First, President Trump held a rally in Phoenix, in which he once again offered unto his base the reddest of red meat.
“They’re trying to take away our culture,” he said, of the exploding debate over Confederate statues and monuments.
“They’re trying to take away our history. And our weak leaders, they do it overnight. These things have been there for 150 years, for a hundred years. You go back to a university and it’s gone. Weak, weak people.”
Simultaneously, on the other side of the country, something else was happening. ESPN was scrambling to release a statement on a baffling assignment change that a sports website had caught wind of.
The decision to remove an Asian-American announcer named Robert Lee from calling University of Virginia’s home opener — “simply because of the coincidence of his name,” as ESPN inexplicably admits — unsurprisingly lit up the Internet with outrage, jokes and memes.....
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Great post!
“S.E. Time to wake up and stop drinking the Left’s and Never Trumpers’ Kool Aid. It does not serve you well.”
She is on CNN. What would someone expect?
They probably mistook him for “Light-Horse” Harry Lee.
I was just gazing at S.E. Cupp photos. It appears when you move to CNN they ugly you down. My though it so they do not appear threatening to their female audience.
Can someone who knows how to post pictures post an S.E. Cupp from Fox and one from CNN?
“She writes that she is a conservative, but also that Trump’s Charlottesville speech was divisive and she wobbles around the removal of Civil War statues being a reasonable move. She’s not conservative.”
not to mention, lamenting over and over again that Trump “won” because he correctly predicted the leftist overreach (she actually blamed Trump for this saying he “baited” and “dared” them to do this, though none of that was even remotely true.)
Cupp at the Daily News is like Jennifer Rubin at WaPo: fake conservatives who do nothing but attack Trump with lies.
>> It appears when you move to CNN they ugly you down.
Noticed that.
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