Posted on 06/06/2018 8:56:04 AM PDT by ETL
In the minutes and hours after President Donald Trump’s latest uppercut to the National Football League and its players, a handful of players could no longer take it.
Among them was Carolina Panthers receiver Torrey Smith, whose frustration poured out of him as he typed up a Twitter response to a White House statement Monday night in which President Donald Trump condemned the Philadelphia Eagles and rescinded their invite to visit him in Washington, D.C.
“So many lies,” Smith began, while quote-tweeting the President’s statement.
Sure, Smith’s annoyance was aimed at Trump, who continues to use the NFL and its players as a piñata to rally his base. But it was also rooted in Smith’s belief — which he shares with many players — that the ongoing assertion that players who protest during the anthem are un-American and anti-military is not only factually incorrect, but really unfair.
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Good. I hope it hurts.
Unfair, eh? Yeah, that must really hurt.
Imagine how the surviving family members of cops who were killed for no other reason than they were cops when they hear and see over-pampered, over-indulged, overpaid athletes and celebrities call their lost loved ones "racist" and other defamatory names.
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