Posted on 02/19/2014 4:56:30 PM PST by Coleus
Just read this and weep for our future.
David Wise is at the top of his sport. He’s always smiling among his friends and competitors, however, he’s not like the rest of the field. He is mature.
Not to say the rest of the freestyle skiers of halfpipe are not mature, but Wise is mature far beyond his years. At only twenty-three years old, he has a wife, Alexander, who was waiting patiently in the crowd, and together they have a two-year-old daughter waiting for them to return to their home in Reno, Nevada.
At such a young age, Wise has the lifestyle of an adult.
Well, at 23, he is an adult. He has been an adult for five years. He is old enough to have graduated from college, gotten married, started a family, become a world class skier — all kinds of adult things. Because he is an adult. He also sounds like a great guy.
He wears a Baby Bjorn baby carrier around the house. He also attends church regularly and says he could see himself becoming a pastor a little later down the road.
I’ll grant that in our day, when Christian business owners find their livelihoods threatened by Obamacare mandates and same-sex marriage proponents targeting them with lawsuits, being a Christian is a countercultural path. The culture and the media try their hand at tearing you apart, when they’re not mocking you.
But if being a married, responsible father at 23 is an “alternative lifestyle” then we are well and truly doomed.
Update: NBC has deep-sixed its own story. Click on the link above, and now you’ll get this instead of the story.
I’m sure they’re thrilled that we captured a screenshot of the original story.
Update: This story is such a train wreck for NBC. Note in the excerpts above that NBC names David Wise’s wife as “Alexander.” Her actual name is Alexandra.
Update: NBC aren’t the only ones who have gone after David Wise for being a married adult taking care of his family. Yahoo Sports says he is “wildy uncool.”
Update: NBC’s article is back up, here, complete with the poor spelling of Mrs. Wise’s first name.
Update: Sign. The last time I checked, 23-year-olds are adults. They can drink and everything.
If you take both the NBC and Yahoo treatments together, Wise’s perfectly sane and ordinary life is cast as “alternative” and “wildly uncool” in the most important part of the stories — the headlines. I see this as media elites once again reporting on flyover types as if they’re anthropologists studying some mystifying lost tribe. I guess some disagree.
Not into ice dancing but I can’t help but feel a bit of Michigan pride in Davis and White who won the first ever Gold for Americans with the highest score ever.
Scary how far we’ve fallen.
Well, since leftists do think of 26-year-olds as children, I imagine they don’t quite know what to think about a married, responsible 23-year-old.
No excuse for the “alternative lifestyle” and “uncool” comments. Heads should roll, but it’ll never happen.
Yup, the MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Wow, hubby and I were married with a kid at 23 - who knew we were such total radicals!
Turns out, though, as I look at others around me, I think we really were.
I’m thinking the spelling of the wife’s name as “Alexander” is a tell: the article’s author may have originally written it thinking this was a homo marriage!
I think these stories must get filed by today’s 20 and 30 somethings, most of whom have YET to find a mate, buy a home, or settle down with anyone, much less start a normal family. Most are still out partying, fooling around, going with the latest silly trend — anything but planning for the future.
They were perfection! Simply perfection!
I do too, with a passion! They're nothing but trickster events and don't belong in the olympics.
With that being said , I had to read thru the entire article before I found out he wasn't a homosexual married to another guy.........
You know what’s really depressing about this?
The number of freeps getting all depressed about it:
Why on Earth would you RELY on the US media for a definition of what is normal and what is not...? Hmmm...?
These are the people who ran a magazine cover “blowing the lid off” the notion that men and women are different FROM BIRTH.
Why in spite of their completely DISMAL record would you rely on them for even ONE tiny thing? Just put aside the huuuuge question of morality, ok...?
The lesson here is how the THE US MEDIA is weird.
The lesson is how the US media is WALLED OFF FROM REALITY.
The lesson is how the US media LOVES FILTH.
I can’t believe how much belly-aching and hopelessness I’m seeing.
I don’t know ice dancing even I knew that was spectacular. The Eurosport announcer on the video clip was already calling them the winners before the judges gave their numbers.
They can call it dancing if they want but that was some serious athleticism.
I hope to have such uncool life someday complete with a Christian wife! We should all be so blessed..!
Plus he plans to become a pastor!That fact alone must have all their thongs in a knot.
Gosh it is sad that this is news. Alternate lifestyle? Really?
lol
NBC (and media in general) = FUBAR
Yeah and the freak, johnny weir(d) is roundly worshipped by by the msm. Look at me! Look at me! Narcissistic Personality Disorder anyone?
The number of freeps getting all depressed about it:
Why on Earth would you RELY on the US media for a definition of what is normal and what is not...? Hmmm...?
These are the people who ran a magazine cover “blowing the lid off” the notion that men and women are different FROM BIRTH.
Why in spite of their completely DISMAL record would you rely on them for even ONE tiny thing? Just put aside the huuuuge question of morality, ok...?
The lesson here is how the THE US MEDIA is weird.
The lesson is how the US media is WALLED OFF FROM REALITY.
The lesson is how the US media LOVES FILTH.
I can’t believe how much belly-aching and hopelessness I’m seeing.”
You bring up a very good point. I saw a poll a while back were the Press was considered less trustworthy than Congress and just as popular. This is just one example why more and more people are turning them off. There seems to be two different worlds in this country. One world is occupied by academia, politicians, Hollywood, and the US press. The other world is occupied by the rest of us. We outnumber them. Not the other way around.
Only the press will see a married young father as “alternative.”
they’re trying to spin their deviancy as ‘normal’ by calling actual normal people deviants.
tolerating these people allows them to push this bs.
if you run into a raving leftie... just call them a freak and walk away
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