Posted on 08/08/2016 5:36:17 PM PDT by mandaladon
CNN host says Michael Phelps shouldn’t carry US flag, but a ‘Muslim’ should . . . Americans are furious (Full Title)
Liberals wanted U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps to give up the honor of carrying the American flag and leading his country’s athletes at the opening ceremony for the Rio Olympic games Friday night.
He’s the wrong color and the wrong sex.
After Phelps was chosen by his fellow Olympians, the U.S. Olympic Team tweeted:
But coming in a close second to Phelps in the team’s vote was Ibtihaj Muhammad, a woman, an African-American and a Muslim to boot.
What could be better, some thought. Diversity, you know.
Leading the pack of naysayers was W. Kamau Bell, host of CNN’s “United Shades of America.” In a CNN op-ed, he described the swimming sensation as a “tall, successful, rich white guy” who clearly didn’t “need the honor.”
“With 22 Olympic medals, you are already the most decorated athlete in Olympic history,” he said.
But American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is a different story.
“Muhammad carrying the flag would be much bigger than your one moment,” Bell writes. “It would be a symbol for our country in this moment when we are mostly known for one of the most contentious, controversial, scandal-ridden, hateful, xenophobic, jingoistic, and just generally unlikable presidential elections in recent memory. This is at a time when we could use some more symbols of unity and togetherness.”
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Love the ‘SJW Buckwheat’ hairdo. That’s all the rage in their ‘world’. Samewith feminists not shaving their pits.
Can’t be acting all ‘white, male/female patriarchy ‘ ‘n’ stuff.
All Democrats should start attending their local Mosques and convert to Islam. I mean, why not? It’ who they love and defend
Sadly, leftists have majority control over media, entertainment & education...and THAT is how they force their fascism onto us.
All Muslims revere their prophet who committed atrocities 1000x worse than anything Charles Manson ever committed. Every last one of them.
There are better ways to express your disdain than this poorly disguised four letter word.
Oh, yeah. Those....
No females will lose their heads, only males. The females will be all dismissed immediately and told to go back to the kitchen. The workplace is no place for a woman, you know.
He earned the honor..What has she done to come in second in the vote?
It’s bad form to honor excellence , hard work and achievement!???
This is Identity Politics gone amuck. It is something you would find floating down the Canal do Fundao in Rio.
When did airplane hijacking and suicide bombing become Olympic events?? (I didn’t get the memo)
The Muslim who are killing us Kafirs are following Islam the way Allah and Muhammad want it done.
For a Muslim to criticize that, is to say Allah and Muhammad are wrong.
How could a Muslim do that and not be Muslim heretic? -tom
“No offense, but right now America has enough tall, successful, rich white guys hogging the spotlight”
Unfortunately for her, the truth is that America has had enough of the tall, rich black guy who believes he should be allowed to continue hogging the presidential spotlight, while holding up his middle finger and crapping on the US Constitution indefinitely.
Or perhaps he give up his spot on CNN to a more deserving example of diversity.
Wow thanks!
When Ibtijhaj was 13, her mother drove past the local high school and saw fencers in the cafeteria who were covered from head to toe. Her mother turned to her and said, “I don’t know what that is, but when you get to high school, you’re doing it.”
Maybe she will get a partipation ribbon.
1)Team Beheading
2)Synchonize Beheading
3)Synchonize Anti-Isreali Protesting
4)Sychonize bombing
5)Camel Racing
6)Synchonized Gay throwing
7)Prehistoric Pentathlon
8)Camel humping
and
Synchonize Isreali flag burning
If you feel so UNSAFE, please defect to North Korea...They’ll make you feel safe...or try the middle east..
If you feel so UNSAFE, please defect to North Korea...They’ll make you feel safe...or try the middle east..
i totally agree. polls may try to say otherwise, but anyone with 2 good eyes can see the turnout at trumps stops vs. killerys. in addition, trumps social media stats are multiples of hitlerys.
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