Singer John Legend Claims NFL Players' Protests Are Patriotic

Culture
September 24th, 2017 7:07 PM
NFL protests have given left-stream media a newfound "appreciation" of patriotism and the Constitution. Media covering this movement suffer from selective amnesia about U.S. history, however. Slate's John Legend is a protest apologist and historical revisionist as well who strains credibility.
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AP Ignores Steeler Who Left Locker Room to Sing Anthem (UPDATED)

September 24th, 2017 5:17 PM
The Associated Press is virtually celebrating how, in reaction to "President Donald Trump’s criticism of players who protest during the national anthem," there was "a mass increase in such activism Sunday, with more than 100 NFL players sitting or kneeling, others raising their fists and whole teams standing with locked arms to display unity." The AP also reported that "One team, the Pittsburgh…
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Barkley Slams ‘Ignorant Folks in Alabama’ for Applauding Trump

September 24th, 2017 4:41 PM
In the wake of President Trump’s comments about professional athletes kneeling during the National Anthem, sports commentator Charles Barkley appeared on CBS’s NFL Today where he attacked Trump supporters in his home state of Alabama shortly before kickoff on Sunday. Trump’s original comments on NFL players kneeling came during a campaign rally for Alabama Senator Luther Strange.

Media Coverage of Sports Protests Appalling, Trite

Culture
September 24th, 2017 3:15 PM
North Korea's madman dictator is threatening to nuke people off the face of the earth, but angry, vulgar, leftist athletes in America and their media apologists have been firing verbal warheads at the president of the United States all weekend.
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MTP Panelist Stephen Henderson: National Anthem Is 'White Supremacist'

September 24th, 2017 2:57 PM
Sunday's Meet the Press on NBC showed the latest in a troubling trend toward the terms "white supremacist" or "white supremacy" being overused and misused to the point that one may be unsure what to call actual white supremacists who really do advocate racist attitudes and favor discrimination to artificially benefit whites. During a panel discussion of President Donald Trump condemning black…
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ABC/NBC Smear Trump, Claim Racially Coded Rhetoric on Kneeling

September 24th, 2017 10:49 AM
Since Friday, the liberal media had been foaming at the mouth after President Trump made a series of comments arguing that athletes who disrespected the American flag by kneeling should be either fired or suspended. Come Sunday, two of the Big Three Networks (ABC and NBC) were eager to smear the President with claims of racism and assertions that he was on the wrong side of the issue.

Show Biz Meltdown: Bombs Away!

September 20th, 2017 7:58 PM
The numbers don't lie. Across the entertainment industry, viewers and fans are tuning out. It's no coincidence ratings are cratering as unhinged celebrities crank up their anti-Trump and anti-American antics. Pro tip, Tinseltownies: Swapping your jazz hands for middle fingers and waving resistance fists at your customer base is bad for business. Let us count the waning ways.
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ESPN Reprimands 'Wise' Sports Writer for Pushing Fake Saban Quotes

August 22nd, 2017 6:10 PM
Most people across the country have little trust in the “mainstream media” due to unchecked errors and false reporting, but on Tuesday, Mike Wise -- a former Washington Post columnist who's now with ESPN's The Undefeated -- joined that group when he was disciplined for posting false quotes in an attempt to prove people will believe anything published online.
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Don Lemon: Is NFL’s Sacking of Kaepernick ‘Really the American Way?’

August 8th, 2017 5:14 PM
Don Lemon, on Monday’s CNN Tonight, actually wondered if the NFL’s virtual sacking of National Anthem-protesting and pig cop sock-wearing Colin Kaepernick was “really the American way?” In the show’s open Lemon teased a segment on the former San Francisco 49er quarterback still not being on an NFL roster: “A star quarterback who led his team to the Super Bowl, now nobody seems to want Colin…
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CBS’s ‘Madam Secretary’ Politicizes NFL and Violates Hatch Act

Culture
October 31st, 2016 2:01 AM
In Sunday night’s Madam Secretary on CBS, the episode titled “The Dissent Memo” shows a flagrant violation of the Hatch Act while politicizing the NFL. A two-for-one! Madam Secretary Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni) a.k.a. Madam Hillary is sent to Cleveland to help put President Dalton on the ballot as a third party candidate and that requires a change in that state’s election law. So, the Secretary…
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CBS Touts High School Athletes Emulating Kaepernick Protest

October 18th, 2016 10:24 AM
Monday's CBS Evening News devoted a full report to a high school football team in Seattle whose players have been following the lead of the NFL's Colin Kaepernick in kneeling during the national anthem to protest against "racial inequality." As the report did not challenge at all the premise of minorities being mistreated generally, when detractors were mentioned, the two players featured were…

Three Media Items on NFL Ratings Slide Avoid Kaepernick, Anthem Antics

October 16th, 2016 9:39 PM
As the National Football League's Week 6 went into full swing Sunday, it has become clear that its TV ratings plunge is real, serious, and having a bottom-line impact. At the same time, there's a growing determination in the establishment press to avoid citing the "(Colin) Kaepernick effect" of player protests during the playing of the national anthem as a contributing factor. Recent lengthy…

Anthem Protests Make One-Third of Adults ‘Less Likely’ to Watch NFL

Culture
October 6th, 2016 9:39 PM
The spate of NFL flag/anthem protests, the same protests that Commissioner Roger Goodell encouraged, are taking a toll on NFL ratings.

SB Nation: Patriots Start African-American QB, Make a Civil Rights Win

Culture
September 24th, 2016 12:11 AM
Since it’s impossible to report any story involving a black person without resorting to race, SB Nation took the Patriots’ starting African-American quarterback Jacoby Brissett against the Houston Texans and branded it a major civil rights victory.