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Who’s Divisive — the President or the Players? The athletes started this public feud.
National Review ^ | 09/26/2017 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 09/26/2017 7:43:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind



TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anthem; flag; nfl
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1 posted on 09/26/2017 7:43:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Let them get real jobs.

I’m done with the NFL.

They do not want to be the football league of THIS nation.


2 posted on 09/26/2017 7:46:59 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, they want to consider the other nations in the Middle East heroes, but who ends up dead in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and other hardliners Islamic nations?


3 posted on 09/26/2017 7:48:27 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: SeekAndFind

Imagine the president had begun his comments by saying something along these lines:

To see professional athletes publicly dishonor the flag for which hundreds of thousands of Americans have died, the flag that millions of Americans have seen drape the coffin of their child, their spouse, their sibling, their parent, or other loved one is as morally repulsive as it un-American. Of course, these players have the right of free speech — and so do I, and that is precisely the right I am exercising now.

Had he spoken that way, would the Left not have characterized him as divisive?


Answer: yes


4 posted on 09/26/2017 7:51:23 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: SeekAndFind

I say Obama and company , and the fake journalist, who covered for him are mostly to blame.


5 posted on 09/26/2017 7:51:44 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Let them get real jobs.

Meh. We've already got enough ditch diggers, burger flippers and car wash attendants. Let them find another, more 'just' country and find a real job there!

6 posted on 09/26/2017 7:51:58 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberalism is a chronic, no-cure mental disease.
There is not a day goes by that we see another classic example of it.
Liberalism kills everything it touches....worse than cancer.
At some point, It’s gonna reach a tipping point and will need to be purged from the face of the land in order to just survive.


7 posted on 09/26/2017 7:53:13 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Trump just holds up the mirror.


8 posted on 09/26/2017 7:53:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind

Basically, the BLM movement was brought into the NFL and the owners, realizing that 75% of their players supported BLM had thought it best to comply. The problem is that most of the customers do NOT support BLM and resent having to stomach their crap every week. A conflict of interest, to say the least.


9 posted on 09/26/2017 7:54:33 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: SeekAndFind

Of the 16 teams that that stood for the Anthem Sunday, 10 won.

Of the 6 teams that stood who lost, 5 played against teams that also stood

Only 1 team that stood (Houston) lost against a team that knelt (New England), and by only three points. That game was much closer than it should have been.

New England is the only kneeling or absent team that won against a standing opponent.


10 posted on 09/26/2017 7:54:44 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (eliminate perverse incentives)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kapperpunk started this many months before Trump became President.


11 posted on 09/26/2017 7:57:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

From the way this story is being reported, you would think this started after the president was elected.

This knee disrespecting the country started before president Trump was elected.

5.56mm


12 posted on 09/26/2017 8:00:16 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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This crap started last year with Colon Krappernick, his muzztard girlfriend, and his support for black cop-killers.

That started a fire that will burn down the NFL. Trump's contribution was to throw a tanker full of gasoline on it.

13 posted on 09/26/2017 8:02:17 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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Gender, racial, ethnic,critical race theory and queer/transgender studies class and other phony study areas are the new basket weaving course offerings on campus with a toxic twist. Pretty sure nobody ever rioted over a badly woven basket.

All you really need to do to get an A is agree with the teachers radical views and suck up to the teacher in class.

Some of the more lazy and less than academically gifted student athletes gravitate to these types of courses for obvious reasons.

It seems the NFL has a lot of these less than gifted students who have taken a lot of the campus Gender, racial, ethnic,critical race theory and queer/transgender studies class offerings.

It's pretty obvious that they have been indoctrinated and radicalized in the hate and resentment taught in these classes to the extent that they are unable to realize the sweet gig they have .

They are also too stupid to realize that they are destroying the NFL brand name and offending their fan base and too angry, entitled and arrogant to give a darn.

These dips should have taken history where they could have learned about all the previous sports organizations, going back to the Gladiators of Rome , who ran their sweet little celebrity gig into the ground by the corruption born of hubris, extravagant wealth and arrogance

14 posted on 09/26/2017 8:02:42 AM PDT by rdcbn
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Maybe President Trump should announce a military draft for NFL players and ship them over to Afghanistan...


15 posted on 09/26/2017 8:03:23 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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The NFL gives America the middle finger,

So Americans give the NFL the boot.

They should have stuck with playing football, and not being a bunch of overpaid punk-ass BLM SJW’s who like to advocate the assassination of police officers and killing whitey.

Alienating your audience and/or customers is not a good business strategy for any industry.


16 posted on 09/26/2017 8:03:37 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Let them get real jobs learn how to read and write.
17 posted on 09/26/2017 8:04:58 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The players.


18 posted on 09/26/2017 8:06:46 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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The elites have de facto re-written the Constitution to convey upon themselves privileges (formerly known as the Bill of Rights). We the little people don’t enjoy those privileges.

When the players take a knee it’s courageous, within their first amendment rights and laudable (at least by their fellow elites).

When the little people object and try to assert their rights? What rights are those? Oh no, it’s a case of inflaming hatred or being racist.

The real civil war is not right v. left. That is a canard. The real civil war is the elite v. the little people.


19 posted on 09/26/2017 8:10:38 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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Had he spoken that way, would the Left not have characterized him as divisive?

Goes without saying... and it's too formal and carefully constructed of a statement, which makes it sound like it's insincere coming from Trump.

One of the things I really like about Trump is his ability to address the core of an issue with a pithy statement, and without using remote, disembodied, analytical language. He uses zingers instead of flowery syntax, language that telegraphs sincerity and honesty instead of caution. A carefully constructed statement like Prager insists upon would not be Trump's style, and many of these same NRO NeverTrump pundits would likely criticize him for having someone else write his opinions for him.

20 posted on 09/26/2017 8:16:28 AM PDT by zipper (In their heart of hearts, every Democrat is a communist)
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