Posted on 09/02/2020 11:02:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Roy Moore was dragged through the mud as evil scum for accusations similar to those Jacob Blake’s girlfriend made to police, but Blake is being sainted.
ast Friday, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and his team broke with the pack to hold practice as nine other NFL teams canceled theirs in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. They put Blake’s name in big black letters across the front of their helmets in what Sporstcasting.com writer Stephen Sheehan called “a powerful visual signal.”
New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton explained after practice that, “The idea of putting his name on everyone’s helmet was something we felt would be appropriate and they were for it.”
If Blake were an innocent family man who just happened to twitch during a tense encounter with police, this would all seem perfectly appropriate. There’s just one problem: not only was Blake aggressively resisting arrest in the incident that’s left him paralyzed, but he also had a warrant out for his arrest due to a charge of sexual assault.
According to research by The New York Post, Blake was forbidden from being at the Kenosha home where he was shot because of an incident at the same residence on May 3, for which there was an open warrant for his arrest. Based on police records, The New York Post describes the alleged assault:
The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said ‘I want my sh-t,’ the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, ‘Smells like you’ve been with other men,’ the criminal complaint alleges.
According to the complaint, Blake then stole the keys from the woman’s purse and took her car, at which point she called 911. According to her report, about twice a year when he had been drinking heavily, Blake would come around and physically assault her.
Now, it could be that Brees and his teammates hadn’t seen this story break when they headed out for practice, as the New York Post published this information that same day. Yet it’s been five days now, and Brees has still not apologized for lionizing a man who, by the same standard corporate media has applied to other individuals, Blake is a credibly accused sexual assailant, trespasser, and car thief.
Now, I’m pretty sure that even before Me Too dominated headlines for months, everybody thought sexual assault was a pretty big deal. Even if you leave aside the facts about the shooting, which are damning enough, the Me Too movement makes the left’s view of Blake as a pure-hearted victim of police brutality grossly hypocritical and worthy of deepest scorn.
By the Me Too standard, even catcalling is considered to be a form of violence, but that’s not the standard being applied to Blake. If a Republican congressman had been accused of Blake’s actions in a police report by someone who had no apparent ulterior motive, the media would have permanently destroyed his career and reputation. They would have called the police heroes for protecting a woman and her children from what could have been another assault or kidnapping. Instead, they breathlessly covered the fact Blake was temporarily chained to his hospital bed in the aftermath of his fight with police as if it were some colossal injustice without apparently bothering to investigate why that might be the case.
Ever since the Access Hollywood audio surfaced of Donald Trump saying he grabbed women by the [expletive], and that “when you’re a star, they let you do it,” the media have generated a barrage of condemnation any time a Republican strays into indecency or worse. Remember the outrage over the alleged predator of teenagers and Senate candidate Roy Moore? Remember the all-out attack on then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh based on the word of one woman 30 years after the alleged rape—and when that wasn’t enough, airing a completely uncredible, fabricated account of a “gang rape” party where he was supposedly present, all to force him to withdraw his nomination?
Me Too was supposed to be a wake-up call to the world that sexual assault or leveraging power to manipulate women into sexual acts was absolutely unacceptable. Yet now, in 2020, an entire NFL team not only refuses to give up a myth about what happened (as the St. Louis Rams did when they performed their “hands up don’t shoot” virtue signal after Michael Brown’s death), but put the name of an alleged rapist on their helmets to show “respect, ”either knowingly, or because they felt virtue signaling was more important than waiting for important facts to come out about Blake’s character.
Brees caved once to massive pressure against his comments disapproving of kneeling to protest the flag. Instead of learning that the mob will drag you further and further into their radicalism if you submit, he gave in fully. Maybe this experience will serve as a lesson to him: that the left will go to any length to control people, up to and including making an instant martyr out of a man before doing any fact-checking about who he was — and downplaying those facts when they do.
CBS’s profile of Blake puts the “previous accusation of sexual assault” in a brief two sentences near the bottom of the article. A lengthy New York Times article weaving in details of both the Blake shooting and the related Kyle Rittenhouse shooting didn’t mention the alleged assault at all. CNN likewise buries it in their coverage with a single sentence devoid of detail.
Blake’s GoFundMe page has now raised more than $2.1 million. Sympathizers with Black Lives Matter’s push to empty prisons looked the other way while thousands of criminals who were turned loose on the streets over COVID proceeded to prey upon the innocent. Amid strong pushes to defund the police and extensive cover for rioters and looters, don’t expect the left to give up their double-standard on violent offenders. The narrative will change faster than you can say “Me Too,” and if people who care about protecting the vulnerable so much as blink, they’ll get away with it.
If Brees and the Saints do care about women and children’s safety, they should apologize to their fans for lionizing a credibly accused rapist.
He wants an announcing gig.
I really don’t think Brees has done enough to show he’s a True Believer. He should be made to kiss the shoes of his black teammates before each game.
C’mon, Drew, prove you’re down with the struggle.
?? What would happen if a right leaning player put Bill Clintons name on his Helmet to show support for a Rapist like Drew Brees does??
And apparently at any cost. Sad.
Have we ruled out stupidity and pathological self-centeredness?
I’m so done with the NFL. A bunch of whining, complaining, rich, socialist, man children.
$50 million reasons.
His wife likes expensive things.
If it weren’t for these pro-sports, most of these thugs would be in prison for a variety of crimes.
Because he has become wokeier than you, Georgi.
Wokeness is IN.
Unwokeness is OUT.
You are either woke or uh you are a racist.
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All this wokeness has made me want for a nap.
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Go along to get along. Brees realizes that those large black men who protect him may “miss” a few blocks if he doesn’t go along.
As has been said many times, who cares? I won’t watch.
When Brees changed his mind and took the knee with his teammates, I’m guessing he wasn’t certain whether more would be asked of him. Well, I guess more has been asked, and he has complied. He should have resigned from the get.
The moral of the story: stand up to Wokey McWokerson, even though it might cost you a great deal. If you can marshal your resources, go public, and maybe even retain a lawyer, it may turn out to be Weakey McWeakerson.
Why Is Drew Brees Wearing The Name Of An Alleged Rapist On His Helmet?
Because he is a COWARD!!
If he believed in half the crap that spews out of his mouth he would BURN THE AMERICAN FLAG during the National Anthem.
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I used to respect Drew. This dumbf*ck had to open his mouth and then had no balls to stand his ground. His wife is a turd just like him. It’s clearly about the paycheck. He has zero credibility forever. Guess what Drew? You f*cked up bigly.
Because he bent the knee to his radical teammates so he could pursue another Super Bowl in a quest for personal glory. He shredded his reputation and integrity for that, as well as his dignity. Such a man who has publicly abandoned his principles would wear the name of a convicted pedophile on his helmet of that's what it took, such is his vanity.
funfl
After Brees apologized profusely for merely saying he would never “kneel and disrespect the flag”, some of his team mates said that “wasn’t enough”. So now we see Brees is forced to jump through hoops and fully embrace things he is fundamentally opposed to, just to keep his job and avoid being “cancelled”. Standing by his values might have cost him his QB job and his future as a sports broadcaster, but at least he would still have his self respect.
Now if he had put Officer David Dorn’s name on his helmet, I might still have a little respect for him...
Lots of worldly goods can make going all in for your principles rather difficult. We all suffer from this to one degree or another
>>Who the hell is watching NFL anyway? I don’t care if he puts Daffy Duck on his helmet.<<
Ted Bundy and Charles Mansion nfl helmet stickers. Gotta get ‘em all!
But possibly many....
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