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The Patriot Post Digest 8-28-2017
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Dukes, like so many leftists, loves to embrace logical fallacies. If Kaepernick isn’t hired, or the same kind of private business (according29 to the Supreme Court) as Mozilla, Harvard or Google decides to hold any other player accountable for his actions, those responses are inherently racist. And as Dukes herself implies, embracing the “value” of black lives means embracing #BLM and the requisite anti-police, white “privilege” dogma.
If the NFL were to #Resist? “There will be no football in the state of Georgia if Colin Kaepernick is not on a training camp roster and given an opportunity to pursue his career,” declared26 Gerald Griggs of the Atlanta NAACP at a news conference. “This is not a simple request. This is a statement. This is a demand.”
Granted, the NFL deserves zero sympathy. It could have nipped this nonsense in the bud, but chose instead to embrace the intrusion of progressive politics into football. And while Goodall denied30 it had anything whatsoever to do with the league’s plummeting31 ratings last year, a J.D. Powers survey revealed32 anthem protests were the number one reason for the decline. And it’s likely to get worse, because the number33 of players involved in these demonstrations is increasing.
The higher the visibility, the greater the fan alienation.
Leftists are also determined to maintain the narrative of Kaepernick’s folk hero status to the point of absurdity. “Free agent NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be featured in a Black Lives Matter collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, museum curators announced this weekend,” The Daily Signal reports34.
What else does it report? “Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the nation’s longest-serving black justice, remains absent from the museum.” Thus, an America-contemptuous, second-string quarterback is an historical icon while a conservative Supreme Court Justice is an Orwellian-like non-entity.
A museum dedicated to African-American History and Culture? A temple of progressive propaganda is more like it.
Speaking of progressive propaganda temples — and more PC-motivated insanity — ESPN yanked35 Asian-American announcer Robert Lee off the William and Mary at University of Virginia college football game “because of the coincidence of his name,” the network announced in a statement. “In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue.”
An issue for whom? The cadre of hypersensitive left-wing zealots engaged in the ISIS-like destruction of historical artifacts that “offend” them? People so IQ-challenged they would conflate an Asian-American college football announcer with a Confederate general who died in 1870?
ESPN President John Skipper was apparently feeling the self-inflicted heat, yet his attempt to clarify what occurred was even more ludicrous. Lee was not removed because network execs were worried about offending people. “Among our Charlotte production staff there was a question as to whether — in these divisive times — Robert’s assignment might create a distraction, or even worse, expose him to social hectoring and trolling,” stated36 Skipper in an internal memo. Skipper further insisted Lee expressed “some personal trepidation about the [Charlottesville] assignment” and that the “good intentions of our Charlotte colleagues have been intentionally hijacked by someone with a personal agenda.”
Since Skipper took over in 2012, ESPN’s agenda has been hijacked to the point where it has been force-feeding its audience a steady diet37 of social justice issues so politically correct, it even apologized38 for running a live fantasy football draft likened to a slave auction by leftists trolls.
And like the NFL, it is paying the price: Since 2013, the sports network has lost39 10 million subscribers.
Progressive writer Freddie deBoer illuminates40 the primary problem. “Go to any space concerned with social justice and what will you find? Endless surveillance,” he writes. “Everybody is to be judged.”
And therein lies progressivism’s Achilles Heel: all-encompassing and increasingly judgmental demands for “purity” that become impossible for even the most dedicated social justice warriors to meet.
Remarkably, neither the NFL nor ESPN seem to understand that most fans turn to sports to escape politics. Millions of people who tune in to watch football or sports reporting will tune out when confronted with virtue-signaling one-percenters demonstrating their “solidarity” with progressive America-bashers.
In short, Americans are getting disgusted with the unsportsmanlike conduct infesting the world of sports.
MORE ANALYSIS FROM THE PATRIOT POST
The Election Results Are In … Now Govern41 — August recess or not, it’s time for the Republican majority in Washington to enact a real agenda.
Dreams of My Election42 — A rebuttal of Clinton’s bizarre assertions about Trump, groping, and the second presidential debate.
The Hater Chronicles, Domestic and Foreign43 — “Antifa is a radical, anti-America, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard-left sensorial organization.” —Alan Dershowitz
Mr. Cuomo, Tear Down New York!44 — Andrew Cuomo says statues of “Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson will be removed.” Memo to Andy: Pick up a history book.
BEST OF RIGHT OPINION
Peggy Noonan: Trump’s Tangle of Rhetorical Inadequacy45
Gary Bauer: More Left-Wing Insanity46
Todd Starnes: First-Grader Sent to Office for ‘Misgendering’ Fellow Student47
For more, visit Right Opinion48.
OPINION IN BRIEF
Peggy Noonan: “Slavery was not only a Southern sin, it was an American one. The Tear It Down movement is driven by the Left and is acceded to by some on the Right. This is the sophisticated stance. I do not share it. We should not tear down but build. When a nation tears down its statues, it’s toppling more than brass and marble. It is in a way toppling itself — tearing down all the things, good, bad and inadequate, that made it. Or, rather, everyone. Not all of what made America is good — does anyone even think this? — but why try to hide from that? When you tear down statues, you tear down avenues of communication between generations. Statues teach. … And once the tearing down starts, there’s no knowing where it will end. On this the president is right. Once the local statues are purged the Tear-Downers will look to Statuary Hall, and the names of military bases, and then on to the Founders, to the slave-holding Washington and Jefferson. Then, perhaps, to their words and ideas. In what way will that help us? Edmund Burke famously said we have a duty to the past, the present and the future. In the minds of the Tear-Downers only the present is important, and only their higher morality.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth.” (Hang in there, Texas!)
Dezinformatsiya: “How about the risk of deportation for those undocumented immigrants that could be in the way of the storm’s path, are they in the clear to go to some of these evacuation centers? Do they have to show ID?” —MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
Braying Jenny: “The Constitution does not say that a person can yell wolf in a crowded theater. If you are endangering people, then you don’t have a constitutional right to do that.” —Nancy Pelosi
Demo-gogues: “Make no mistake: the President said he will purposefully hurt American communities to force American taxpayers to fund an immoral, ineffective and expensive border wall. … Democrats will stand fast against the immoral, ineffective border wall and the rest of Republicans’ unacceptable poison pill riders.” —Nancy Pelosi (Would that be the border wall that Bill and Hillary Clinton supported49?)
The BIG Lie: “A reminder for the next few days: Hurricane Harvey is not a natural disaster.” —In These Times magazine’s Kate Aronoff, who further contends, “Fewer people would have their lives ripped apart by storms like Harvey if austerity hadn’t hollowed out the public sphere so thoroughly”
Alpha Jackass: “Hmm. Don’t see much denial of NOAA climate scientists who have predicted Hurricane Harvey’s devastating path into Texas.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
And last… “Science predicted an eclipse. Technology revealed an approaching storm. But climate science didn’t predict 12 years without a major hurricane.” —Twitter satirist @hale_razor
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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