Posted on 01/12/2019 11:48:04 AM PST by Kaslin
This week's engagement of Tim Tebow demonstrated how judgmental media continue dismissing male behavior at both ends of the spectrum. Respectable Christian role models like Vice-President Mike Pence and Tim Tebow are often insulted for upholding honorable standards, right along with the disgraced abusers who spawned the #MeToo movement. While some media responded politely, Tebow's recent engagement also sparked another round of personal attacks by biased media who deem him "polarizing." None more so than from Deadspin's Tom Ley.
Ley's story on Tebow, who has chosen to remain celibate until marriage, is crassly headlined: "Tim Tebow to have sex soon." He referred to Tebow as the "Famously abstinent former football star and current baseball scrub ... ." Although "scrub" usually refers to bench-warmers in sports, Tebow has been a starter on his New York Mets' minor league teams the past two seasons.
While walking with his girlfriend on the family farm in Florida, Tebow dropped to one knee and said: “Demi Leigh Nel-Peters, I love you. Demi Leigh Nel-Peters, will you marry me? As Nel-Peters said yes, Tebow slipped a 7.25-carat solitaire ring on her finger. “This ring is internally flawless,” he said. “Just like you.” South African singer Matthew Mole walked up to the future Mr. and Mrs. Tebow and sang one of their favorite songs, The Wedding Song.
Sounds like a wonderful story and a match made in Heaven, right? Not to the begrudging Ley, who calls it "awkward romancing."
Ley ends his classless, small-minded post with one final insult: "Congratulations to the happy couple, and to the 31-year-old Tebow on his forthcoming loss of virginity."
Surprisingly, a marriage-and-family-happy Mormon newspaper also reacted to the news in a critical way. Herb Scribner wrote in The Deseret News that "Tebow’s dating life has been anything but smooth sailing. As I wrote back in 2015, Tebow's chaste lifestyle fell under scrutiny after his former girlfriend, Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, ended their relationship because of 'his virginity vow,'” US Weekly reported at the time.
Scribner reminded his readers that sports media outlets mocked Tebow over his breakup with Culpo and posted links to this New York Daily News headline “Tim Tebow still can’t find the end zone as girlfriend Olivia Culpo breaks it off over lack of sex” and the CBS quote, “Apparently an NFL job isn’t the only thing Tim Tebow can’t hold onto.”
Cody Benjamin of CBS Sports reported on the engagement by calling Tebow "one of sports' most polarizing careers," who flamed out as a first-round NFL draft pick and one-time comeback artist of the Denver Broncos.
The Boston Globe's Jon Couture localized his critical remarks on Tebow, straying well beyond the engagement topic:
"He failed to make the Patriots as a third-string quarterback in 2013, cut at the end of training camp after completing fewer than 40 percent of his passes in three exhibition games. Tebow similarly failed to make the Eagles in 2015, then signed a minor-league contract with the New York Mets a year later."
The Big Lead's Jason Lisk wrote, "Tim Tebow remains out here making the rest of us look bad with a massive rock, a specially engraved bench, and some cheesy lines."
It was refreshing to see that anti-conservative media outlets like USA Today and Yahoo Sports just reported the straight facts without negative comments.
In a classy move, Robin Meade of CNN Morning Express offered congratulations and "much love" to the happy couple.
Perhaps they prefer Bill Clinton?
How queer, I thought the left said not the shame and bully people no matter what their sexual choices, even if they choose not to have sex (asexuals).
Stalinists lie. Always
That “Love wins” meme is also a leftist lie
When your main idea of freedom rises no higher that someone’s crotch, as is far too often the case in this society we endure, then upright morals scandalize for the same reason that liars may be especially untrusting of those who don’t lie all the time as they do.
As a pro football player, Tebow was exactly as mediocre as Colin Kaepernick. Yet Tebow is an MSM laughingstock, while Kaepernick is an MSM hero. Go figure.../s;)
If a liberal isn't plotting how to steal your money, he's obsessing about someone's sex life.
Those with multiple STDs are likely the most vocal opponents of Tebow and his decision of purity and discipline. You know, the very same people who DEMAND everyone else bow and express manifest compassion on anyone with AIDS.
Pffft….
The uptight, liberal tool over at Deadspin is concerned about Tebow? Awe, how sweet.
Face it. This country is no longer united by a common consensus of shared values. The Left , which dominates the media, palpably hates people like Tebow. There will be a reckoning.
I detest the media.
Back in the day, IIRC, Gloria Steinem opined that Bubba should get a pass on gropes because he’s on the right side of abortions.
And she wasn’t the only one: lots of hypothetical sluts claimed that they’d bed Bill if only they had the chance. I say hypothetical because much like the Leftist actually leaving the country as they sometimes “threaten” to do Bill seems to have not got a lot of extra hot celebrity sex and had to settle for interns and underaged kids after trips on the Lolita Express.
Congrats to Tim & Demi - great example.
This, I propose, is an issue with the whole bias against blogs. Considering what the media has become — even to the point that Pravda (Pravda!) can at times (however rare) seem reliable compared to the New York Slimes (as opposed to the majority of the time when I trust neither) — why not blogs?
(I'm being rhetorical...of course I know what the real answer is).
Tebow’s chaste lifestyle fell under scrutiny after his former girlfriend, Miss Universe Olivia Culpo,
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And is fiance is a Miss Universe. He must be doing something right.
How does anyone know he hasn’t had sex? Do you think he’d announce it if he had?
Like he is the ONLY sports personality to get engaged.
He seems like a decent guy. He was a middling football player. Can’t hit the curve.
But he’s got millions and a pretty fiancé.
Good for him.
For anyone wondering what the heck is going on, look no further than John Ch 15:
18) If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19) If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
Bottom line not just for Tim Tebow, but for all believers who do the will of God.
much of the mass media is prurient, period.
incapable of showing any respect for anybody, really
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