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“Keep your Marxist hands off Gritty”: WSJ writer fumes over allegations that a mascot is antifa
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| 10/08/18
| Rex Santus
Posted on 10/14/2018 5:46:37 AM PDT by Libloather
Gritty, the bright orange, furry, 7-foot creature of Philadelphian origin, is no longer a simple mascot for a hockey team: Antifa activists have co-opted him as their own. In fact, they so effectively claimed Gritty as a working-class, leftist icon that the Wall Street Journal was forced to publish an anguished op-ed Monday demanding that these people keep their Marxist hands off Gritty.
The same leftists who want statues of Thomas Jefferson removed are now petitioning for Gritty to replace Mayor Frank Rizzo on a downtown mural, Jillian Kay Melchior said in the Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Gritty belongs to Philadelphia, not to far-left activists. Still, in an era when everything from Nike and the NFL to your local restaurant is a political battlefield, this development is as predictable as it is sad, she said. Not only cant we have nice things; we cant even have silly, creepy things.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifa; gritty; marxist; mascot
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Leftist activists immediately latched on to Gritty after the Philadelphia Flyers introduced him as their new mascot in late September. The socialist magazine Jacobin, for example, tweeted on Sept. 26 that Gritty is a worker.
So is mom. Now, get back into the basement. And no sammich for you.
To: Libloather
They hate their opponents so much they have to ape them by adopting a cartoon mascot too.
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posted on
10/14/2018 5:50:18 AM PDT
by
jarwulf
To: Libloather
What is they offered them a replacement, such as...
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posted on
10/14/2018 5:54:49 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: Libloather
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posted on
10/14/2018 5:57:02 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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posted on
10/14/2018 5:58:33 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: Libloather
“Gritty is a 7-foot-tall fuzzy orange creature who will be part of the teams community outreach efforts, according to CBS Philadelphia.
The characters bio page suggests Gritty is still working through anger issues:
His father was a bully, so naturally he has some of those tendencies talented but feisty, a fierce competitor, known for his agility given his size. Hes loyal but mischievous; the ultimate Flyers fan who loves the orange and black, but is unwelcoming to anyone who opposes his team.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gritty-philly-flyers-mascot-backlash_us_5ba9568be4b0375f8f9fc4b0
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posted on
10/14/2018 5:58:36 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: All
Protesters use Flyers' new mascot 'Gritty' to decry Trump
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posted on
10/14/2018 6:00:57 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: Libloather
And yet ANOTHER incident where all I have to say is: read my tag line.
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posted on
10/14/2018 6:08:24 AM PDT
by
NurdlyPeon
(It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
To: Libloather
Philadelphia is a left wing, no longer America city
It is so far gone, it can’t be salvaged
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posted on
10/14/2018 6:10:35 AM PDT
by
bert
((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
To: Libloather
I would imagine Gritty has trademark protections. Maybe the anti-fags would be more appropriately represented by “Shi-ty”.
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posted on
10/14/2018 6:22:06 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: Libloather; shove_it; Hat-Trick; SZonian; retrokitten; hollywood; Alberta's Child; Betis70; ...
Hockey Ping!
(let me know if you want on or off the ping list)
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posted on
10/14/2018 6:40:28 AM PDT
by
airborne
(I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
To: ETL
Im no Communist, and Ill you that right now
I believe a man should own his own house and car and cow
- I'm No Communist Lulu Belle & Scotty
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posted on
10/14/2018 7:28:43 AM PDT
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: Libloather
LOL! It took the mushroom people this long to attempt a Pepe putsch???
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posted on
10/14/2018 7:40:06 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(The 2016 foreign meddling came from UKistan, and is a weasel borne plague.)
To: ETL
Needs an udder with a million teats
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posted on
10/14/2018 8:12:00 AM PDT
by
griswold3
(Just another unlicensed nonconformist in a dangerous Liberal world.)
To: Libloather
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posted on
10/14/2018 8:12:28 AM PDT
by
WMarshal
(America First)
To: \/\/ayne
Lol! Thanks. Never heard or saw that before.
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posted on
10/14/2018 8:15:10 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: \/\/ayne
____________________________________________________________________
PETE SEEGER: "I AM A COMMUNIST"
Communist Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen perform at Obama's Inauguration, 2009.
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posted on
10/14/2018 8:25:00 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
To: Libloather
What would Dave Schultz do?
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posted on
10/14/2018 9:36:35 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ETL
That obviously isn't me.
I don't skate. ;-)
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posted on
10/14/2018 11:22:26 AM PDT
by
Gritty
(This is what the other side is all about. Hate and bullshit is their political platform.-DJ Trump Jr)
To: dfwgator
What would Ed Snider do?
Former team owner from 1967 until his passing a couple of years ago. And a conservative politically. Good humanitarian, too.
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