Posted on 12/09/2018 6:56:01 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Kyler Murray won one of college football’s highest honors on Saturday as he was awarded the Heisman Trophy for his excellence as quarterback for Oklahoma, but USA Today wasn’t focused on his football accomplishments.
In a report published late Saturday night, USA Today dug up several tweets and claimed that Murray had made homophobic statements on Twitter. According to the report, Murray called one of his friends a “queer” in 2012. He was 15 years old at the time of the tweet.
In response to this hit from USA Today, Murray humbly apologized for the comments he had made when he was a teen. He penned the apology in the early hours of Sunday morning, just hours after he won the Heisman Trophy.
@TheKylerMurray "I apologize for the tweets that have come to light tonight from when I was 14 and 15. I used a poor choice of word that doesn’t reflect who I am or what I believe. I did not intend to single out any individual or group."
Still, his apology wasn’t enough for USA Today. They slammed him on Twitter for not deleting the old tweets as soon as he was hit with the story — at two in the morning, central time.
(Excerpt) Read more at ijr.com ...
Obama and the peanut gallery press ridiculed Mitt Romney for warning of threats from Russia. “the 80s called and want their Cold War Policies back, Mitt!”
Per a USA ARTICLE
Donna E. Shalala is president of the Clinton Foundation. She previously served as president of the University of Miami, as secretary of Health and Human Services, and as a member of the board of directors of Gannett, which owns USA TODAY.
USA has also been known as the mouthpiece of the CIA in the past.
Yeah, I remember my grandmother talking about growing up during the "Gay "90s" (1890s).
One good thing - the NFL seems to have more sense than idiots on Twitter
by treating a 15 yr old as a 15 yr old.
And the commie media went along with Obama and laughed at Romney..but now the commies despise anyone who puts Russian salad dressing on their salad. Commies, they really need to look up hypocrite in the dictionary
I'm a Chicago resident who grew up watching Michael Jordan stick his tongue out, and joined USA TODAY in 2011 — digital editing/writing on college and pro basketball. Now I mostly cover breaking news and social issues through a sports lens. My enterprise and human interest work on the LGBT movement in sports made me an APSE award finalist in 2016 and a USBWA award winner in 2017. Away from a keyboard, I'm an avid marathon runner with an embarrassing addiction to boyband music. My personal passion is my family — namely my little brother, Micah, and dog, Miles.
sgleeson@usatoday.com
Another reason why Western news media sucks.
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Another reason why western news media needs to be brought to heel and reprogrammed to do actual news and only actual, real factual, news by whatever means necessary.
Examples will have to be made.
Or......
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025164/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I call it "Useless hay for pay'
Ever since my local rags became part of their spiderweb they have all but ceased writing stories and cluttered their web sites with photo galleries of proms and homecomings.
No thumbnail index, of course, so you have to click-click-click...but each click means more ad $$$.
I don't want to look at pictures and videos, DAMMIT!
I WANT TO READ!
Anybody up for a rousing game of “Smear the Queer”?
Is because the entire USA staff is dying of AIDS that they are so bitter and hateful toward a black guy who I think simply did what they all did when they were teenagers?
This is what USA Today classifies as investigative journalism. It is a sorry lot. Too bad my local paper is owned by USA Today.
The Buffalo Bills rookie QB, Josh Allen, quoted some rap music lyrics to his friends when they were 14 or 15. Of course, the quote contained the word “nigga” or something similar always found in rap music.
The asinine news media had to make an issue about it for about a week after he was drafted, per their usual bullshit, until he apologized, management claimed they “are investigating” and owners said “they are concerned.”
Then no one raised the issue again.
I always make sure to kick it well into the hall, in several sections, so the hotel staff has to pick it up. I figure if the staff complains, the management will stop carrying it.
Liberals don’t care about black rappers singing the N-word or raping women ... but don’t you white kids sign the lyrics or you’re an evil bigot.
Wonder when they will coming after Mark Knopfler for writing the Song “Money for Nothing”?
What backlash? OU fans can’t read.
Who’s Scott Gleeson. Can’t seem to find his name in the Medal of Honor awardees list. Not in the Silver Star group either.
Purple Heart? Nope. My father-in-law is in it - 3 PHs, one from Iwo.
Sorry. The only Gleason I know and respect is Jackie Gleason.
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