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I watched the interview last night. Laura's guest was rude and kept interrupting her. When she repeatedly asked him to explain his statement early in the interview that football is racist, noting that most professional football players are black, he kept dodging the question. He continued to filibuster and talk over her every time she tried to make a point. However, she was able to show convincingly that Almond, who claims to be a football fan, clearly is not.
1 posted on 01/05/2023 6:31:56 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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Fire the producer that booked that idiot and move on.


2 posted on 01/05/2023 6:34:01 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Who was the survivor?


3 posted on 01/05/2023 6:34:54 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Is fox still on tv?


4 posted on 01/05/2023 6:37:28 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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At least Jerry Springer let’s his “guests” talk.


5 posted on 01/05/2023 6:38:34 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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Football has some violent collisions. This was not one of them. Doubt seriously that this was a collision injury.


6 posted on 01/05/2023 6:39:20 AM PST by Old Coach1
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This guy must be a moron or got emotional “mythic woke mob”. Doesn’t seem that mythic to me 9-A69-F132-CE17-48-AF-8435-4-A9-E56-B91311
8 posted on 01/05/2023 6:41:00 AM PST by Phoenix8
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The Bill’s player was NOT injured by violence on the field.

That was a relatively mild tackle. Anyone who’s ever played at any level knows that.

He had a heart attack/issue on field AFTER he jumped up from the tackle. That’s on tape.


10 posted on 01/05/2023 6:41:25 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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I can’t speak to a solution, but in light of the facts that the NFL is both a woke - doesn’t require elaboration - and sinister organization (the latter represented by their obstinate quashing of evidence of CTE), they definitely should be feeling the economic pain.

It is telling that they are NOT.


11 posted on 01/05/2023 6:42:47 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Football’s gay.


14 posted on 01/05/2023 6:45:21 AM PST by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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The left wants to destroy football because it represents masculinity. It’s so obvious.

Safer? Meh. I think they have pretty much ruined the game already. I was drawn to football by the physical aspects of the game. A game with mostly passing and near flag football contact rules is not appealing to me whatsoever.

I rarely watch anymore as it is.


16 posted on 01/05/2023 6:47:03 AM PST by Codeflier (My voting days are over. Let it burn...give the people what they want good and hard.)
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He used the opportunity to take cheap left wing shots at Fox rather than argue his thesis. Many years ago Rush predicted that the left won’t be happy until football is transformed in to touch football. Despite the NFL’s cave to the left politics, the left won’t be satisfied until football is dead.


18 posted on 01/05/2023 6:48:04 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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I saw this coming on, (waiting for Gutfeld), and changed the channel. No interest in what this guy had to say. However, he did make a tertiary point, the media model, not just Fox, is to scare viewers.


20 posted on 01/05/2023 6:55:30 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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“Almond replied: “I think that is your entire economic model. Your entire economic model is to scare your viewers, that is your whole gig.” “

That is the economic model of the evening opinion shows on all the news networks. They appeal to emotions and try to convince you that today’s outrage is the worst thing ever.


21 posted on 01/05/2023 6:56:06 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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He was right about one thing. US media is all about fear mongering. Have a look at the COVID coverage in the last three years as an example. Look at all the stuff they ran with in an attempt to frighten the population into submission. It continues to this very day. The fear mongering is undeniable throughout the media, including Fox News. Not one single media outlet took the opposing view or even spoke of it until recently.


24 posted on 01/05/2023 7:04:52 AM PST by Thermalseeker (If ignorance is bliss how come there aren't more happy people?)
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Only show I watch on Fox is Tucker. The rest is dead to me.


25 posted on 01/05/2023 7:06:09 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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If she has an apple then also has a banana.


26 posted on 01/05/2023 7:09:26 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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"I think that is your entire economic model. Your entire economic model is to scare your viewers, that is your whole gig."

He's not wrong there. ALL "news" is fear-based.

Notice how often the words "fears" "frightening" "shocking" "concern" "worry" "doubt" are used in broadcasts and headlines.

27 posted on 01/05/2023 7:13:35 AM PST by silent_jonny (Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, Joe. The feet are at the door (Acts 5:9) 9-18-21)
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“Graham interrupted to say: “I’m not trying to scare my viewers, football is not about politics.””

Stupid bwitch.


28 posted on 01/05/2023 7:17:18 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Almond served as adjunct professor in creative writing at Boston College for five years until publishing an open letter of resignation in The Boston Globe on May 12, 2006, in which he explained that his resignation was intended to protest the selection of Condoleezza Rice as the college's 2006 commencement guest speaker. He later appeared on the Hannity & Colmes show on Fox News to discuss his decision.

I was no fan of Bush, but this should have been a red flag.

Also, anybody who is or was a short story writer published by little presses probably isn't a good fit for Fox News.

But wait, there's more. Do a websearch for "Steve Almond Trump" and see what the guy has said and written. Things like "Donald Trump's Nihilism, And Our Imperiled National Soul" and "Mining Trump's 'Heart of Darkness'." No way would any halfway competent staffer have picked him for Ingraham's show.

29 posted on 01/05/2023 7:18:44 AM PST by x
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She was right to throw him out. He obviously has a hate on for Laura Ingraham. He took the opportunity of being on her show to make a cheap off-topic insult that had NOTHING to do with football injuries.


32 posted on 01/05/2023 7:28:33 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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