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USA Today Faces Backlash After Shaming Heisman Winner for Tweets Posted When He Was a Teen
IJR.com ^
| 09 DEC 2018
| Madison Dibble
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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; gaynewsrooms; genderdysphoria; heismantrophy; homofascism; homosexualagenda; kylermurray; madisondibble; mediawingofthednc; oklahoma; partisanmediashills; pinkjournalism; presstitutes; queer; smearmachine; twitter; usaptooey; usatoday; virtuesignaling
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The NFL and college football are gay.
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posted on
12/09/2018 8:38:53 PM PST
by
familyop
("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
12/09/2018 8:51:08 PM PST
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west))
To: LeoTDB69
"Kids have always and always will say stupid things that are not well thought out" Kids have always, and always will, say stupid things that are not well thought out but are actually the unspeakable truth...
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posted on
12/09/2018 8:59:15 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: SuperLuminal
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posted on
12/09/2018 9:01:56 PM PST
by
MAGAthon
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I don’t read USAToday. Impossible website constant pop-ups and a page the bounces around more than kids on a trampoline. Just absolutely impossible web site.
To: LeoTDB69
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posted on
12/09/2018 10:14:56 PM PST
by
gcparent
(Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
To: Sarah Barracuda
Unless, of course, it’s one of their own, like Joy Reid. She’s black, she’s a bitch and she’s a homophobe, but she’s one of us. People like Joy Reid get forgiven all the time.
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posted on
12/10/2018 2:20:28 AM PST
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: Kickass Conservative
One of the radio stations around here plays that song with the “offensive” lines cut out.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Murray called one of his friends a “queer” in 2012What do people think the "Q" in "LGBTQ" stands for?
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posted on
12/10/2018 2:32:42 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Trump: "In the meantime, I'm president and you're not!")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
"In response to this hit from USA Today, Murray humbly apologized for the comments he had made when he was a teen." Never apologized, especially for something that's true... It just makes you look weak and foolish...
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posted on
12/10/2018 3:05:20 AM PST
by
unread
(Joe McCarthy was right.......)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
There are probably 100,000,000 adults who did similar things when they were pre-teens, let alone teens. Let the revelations begin! Burn them all. Wait a minute! That includes me and all my friends and enemies and their sisters and brothers and parents, aunts and uncles and grandparents too. Even leftists!
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posted on
12/10/2018 3:33:29 AM PST
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Right Wing Assault
(Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
To: Fresh Wind
Netflix is rebooting the Queer Eye show franchise I heard.This is ridiculous and just anti American.
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12/10/2018 5:21:22 AM PST
by
cnsmom
To: lightman
“I WANT TO READ!”
Get a good book at Barnes & Noble or thru Amazon, like I do. There’s very little online worth reading, anymore.
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posted on
12/10/2018 5:34:29 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
He is just another victim of PC and the gay mafia. How easily a person can be destroyed for failure to affirm the official dogma.
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posted on
12/10/2018 5:37:27 AM PST
by
I want the USA back
(There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
To: Inyo-Mono
Yes that was the era
We had Gay 90s themed restaurants
The forerunner to fern bars like Bombay Bicycle Club
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posted on
12/10/2018 5:38:23 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
To: gunsequalfreedom
That’s why I use pi-hole as my local DNS server.
All it takes is a $35 raspberry pi.
https://pi-hole.net/
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posted on
12/10/2018 10:01:11 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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