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Tim Tebow's Engagement Draws Insulting Media Responses
Newsbusters.org ^ | January 12, 2019 | Jay Maxon

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: deadspin; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; mediabiasdebate; mediawingofthednc; mrcsports; nfl; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; sports; timtebow; whataretheirfrnicks
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To: Vermont Lt

The Heisman Trophy is not awarded to “middling” football players Mister Armchair. Only the most robust and talented athletes join that exclusive club.


61 posted on 01/12/2019 2:52:19 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: Yaelle

He has only mentioned it when being questioned by the media about his sex life that he is waiting for marriage - followed by extraordinary amounts of scorn, of course. It is extraordinary that the media would think that is a legitimate question to just ask someone at a press conference.


62 posted on 01/12/2019 2:58:48 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: Frank_2001

Yet Tebow has a following. He draws crowds to his minor league games and routinely gets applause for his field play and at bat appearances.


63 posted on 01/12/2019 3:02:03 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Frank_2001

Yet Tebow has a following. He draws crowds to his minor league games and routinely gets applause for his field play and at bat appearances.


64 posted on 01/12/2019 3:02:03 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: Kaslin

The brutal eradication of Christianity is every Democrat’s core craving.


65 posted on 01/12/2019 3:02:14 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Yes. He was a good college QB.

He was not so good playing in the bigs.

And why the insult? How was that nescessary? You sound like a mean person. Does calling someone a name make you feel better? Do you wait all day, being a servant to others, to come home to the Internet to be a tough guy? It sounds weak.


66 posted on 01/12/2019 3:12:15 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

How how sensitive you are after calling a Heisman Trophy Winner “middling”. How is “armchair” any worse?


67 posted on 01/12/2019 3:21:28 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Well, because I wasn’t addressing you, and describe his NFL career with a better term.

I think you might want to spend some time thinking about why your first avenue of response is to insult someone you don’t even know.


68 posted on 01/12/2019 3:24:53 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: pcottraux

They shamed him out of the NFL for kneeling in prayer and he went back to his second nation, The Philippines, and started the Tim Tebow Cure Center ... orthopedics for Filipino kids that can’t pay ... he’s an all around nice guy, born again Christian and now has a wet dream to sleep with .... HE won’t say it because he doesn’t use foul language, but I will FOR him .... screw the lamestream.


69 posted on 01/12/2019 3:27:52 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true; I have no proof .... but they're true.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Some that I have seen listed are Mariah Carey, Alyssa Milano, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel and Scarlett Johansson. There are many more connected to Jeter.
Some said Jeter wasn’t just the Yankees captain, he was also captain of the Herpes Distribution Team.
Sad thing to be remembered for.


70 posted on 01/12/2019 3:32:25 PM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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To: Kaslin

The LEFT must attack traditional values and morality. They have a visceral fear that it may flare up again and that would be their DOOM!


71 posted on 01/12/2019 3:53:44 PM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: allendale

“There will be a reckoning.”

The sooner the better.


72 posted on 01/12/2019 3:55:57 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~ There needs to be a quieting of the screaming lambs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3603121/posts
GLAAD: TV’s LGBTQ Representation Is at a High But Still Needs More Diversity
TV Line ^ | November 9, 2017 | Matt Webb Mitovich

GLAAD’s “Where We Are on TV” report for a second consecutive year forecasts an all-time high in the number of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender and queer (LGBTQ) characters on TV, and for the first time ever was able to tally characters who identify as non-binary and asexual.

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To continue bumping up the BLTPDQXYZ numbers they count anything that isn't "breeder" (heterosexual) and "monogamous" (those two attributes, together). They may take to counting monogamous heterosexual married people into BDSM but what good is a sex dungeon (with the kids sent away for the night with grandma) if "you" don't invite others over to join in the torture?

73 posted on 01/12/2019 4:05:32 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: robowombat

>>They do. The press has gone from being sleazy and small mindedly crass and cynical to being full fledged SJW’s where identifying with sodomites, trannies, pedophiles and other examples of the bizarre and degenerate in humanity is de riguer.

gay newrooms, you’ll find a higher percentage of homosexuals in the media than in general population and even high numbers in the entertainment and fashion fields.

When they cover stories about homosexuals (same sex marriage, transvestites in the military, etc.) they don’t disclose their own agenda ties to these news stories about the agenda of 0.05%-2.0% of the public.

Anderson Cooper, Shep Smith, et al...


74 posted on 01/12/2019 4:09:44 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: an amused spectator

I don’t know about her character. I’ve been unmutual for too many years to know the good gossip.


75 posted on 01/12/2019 4:18:20 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

I wonder if she feels dirty. Naw, probably not.


76 posted on 01/12/2019 4:20:43 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: oldvirginian

Hateful idiots.


77 posted on 01/12/2019 4:22:06 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: robowombat

Wonder how they reconcile the #metoo.


78 posted on 01/12/2019 4:23:08 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

“Hateful idiots.”

Why yes they are.
They also have proven they couldn’t recognize a good man if they saw one.


79 posted on 01/12/2019 4:37:45 PM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Queers (slang) probably view asexuals (i.e., virgins) as “queer” (straight-up English), as some non-homos treat them.

Nothing wrong with asexuals. They’re not creating any problems.


80 posted on 01/12/2019 5:20:46 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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