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ESPN criticized for rewarding Caitlyn Jenner over cancer-fighting hoopster (GOOD!)
NY Post ^ | 6-3-2015 | Diana Falzone, Fox News

Posted on 06/03/2015 3:06:40 PM PDT by God luvs America

Caitlyn Jenner excitedly tweeted “What the hell am I going to wear?” when it was announced that the reality star was to be honored at next month’s ESPYs with the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage.

Caitlyn is the new female identity of former Olympic gold medal winner Bruce Jenner, which was revealed Monday.

But now some are crying foul over ESPN’s decision to choose Jenner, 65, instead of Mount St. Joseph basketball player Lauren Hill, who courageously battled brain cancer while staying on the university team. The 19-year-old lost her fight against cancer on April 10.

Several fans took to Twitter to vent their frustration.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cancer
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1 posted on 06/03/2015 3:06:40 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: God luvs America

Ah, the wonderful world of equality!


2 posted on 06/03/2015 3:09:50 PM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: God luvs America

” the reality star “?

More like the I’m-running-from-reality star.


3 posted on 06/03/2015 3:11:51 PM PDT by all the best
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To: God luvs America

What is he going to wear?

He speaking like a drag queen, not a woman.


4 posted on 06/03/2015 3:12:10 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: God luvs America

Cancer victim doesn’t advance The Agenda.


5 posted on 06/03/2015 3:19:45 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: God luvs America
I'm not interested in what Ms Jenner chooses to do to its body. If "she" is somehow happier, okay, fine.

It does not, however, involve "courage"; not in any way.

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6 posted on 06/03/2015 3:24:37 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: God luvs America
ESPN is nothing but a leftist elitist organization thinking that they'll draw big crowds because they're going to show the fagqueen himself....

to think of the likes of Arthur Ash and Jimmy V.....

I want to see all these so called good religious men and women athletes who go to these shows to NOT GO.....

7 posted on 06/03/2015 3:28:40 PM PDT by cherry
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To: God luvs America

If anyone had courage, Lauren did.


8 posted on 06/03/2015 3:29:40 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: God luvs America

Jenner doesn’t know how to be a woman anymore than Hillary Clinton does.


9 posted on 06/03/2015 3:29:50 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God."-Reagan)
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To: Steely Tom
Cancer victim doesn’t advance The Agenda.

True. Last year's winner was Michael Sam, who never played a single game in the NFL, and couldn't even make it as a member of the Cowboy's practice squad.

10 posted on 06/03/2015 3:30:53 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: God luvs America

I usually like to watch the ESPY’s but no more. Also - just imagine - somebody is going to have to introduce Jenner then - when he comes out to accept his award - the pressure will be on to give a standing O - I can’t imagine Peyton Manning, LeBron James, Victor Cruz, Jameis Winston, Madison Bumgarner, Coach K, et al doing so - there may be alot of no shows this year (hopefully).


11 posted on 06/03/2015 3:32:10 PM PDT by capydick ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.")
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To: capydick

I haven’t watched since 2012.


12 posted on 06/03/2015 3:34:14 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: God luvs America

Wait till Hitlery selects it as her running mate.


13 posted on 06/03/2015 3:36:14 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Interesting observation about drag queens.

One thing Bruce/Cait has remarked is that since he is now a "woman," he can get together with the "girls" and chat for hours about "girl" things: namely, clothes, high heels, coiffure, cosmetics and nails.

I'm admitting right here and now that I've only had my hair "done" twice in my life: once when I was a bridesmaid, and once as a bride (my own wedding.) I've never had my nails "done," I never wear high heels, and I don't "do" cosmetics.

Not a judgment on anybody else, that's just me.

But although Jenner talks about the "inner experience" of feeling like a woman, all he really seems to relate to are the most superficial externals. He dresses like a cross-dresser, and --- have you noticed this? --- all the Kardashian girls dress like cross-dressers, too.

Is it too much to say that most females in the public eye (models, actresses, singers and even no-talent celebrities like the Kardashians --- are basically in drag? They donb't even want to function like physiological females --- to ovulate, menstruate, conceive, and gestate, to bear and nourish infants --- but only to vamp about like predatory sexbots.

I haven't followed this at all, and feel foolish even commenting about it now. But maybe Jenner thinks "seeming" trumps "being" because for so many of the kind of actual genetic/anatomical women who populate his world, this is already true?

Mosd be 40 years ago already that Germain Greer remarked that the intolerable thing is not that (in her words) faggots are expected to act like females, but that females are expected to act like faggots.

14 posted on 06/03/2015 3:37:32 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.)
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of all the awards shows, none of which i watch, the ESPYs are the most self indulgent in my opinion, ridiculous attempt for “stars” to further pat themselves on the back...


15 posted on 06/03/2015 3:38:44 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

Bruce Jenner will always be “Bruce”.


16 posted on 06/03/2015 3:41:51 PM PDT by inkfarmer
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To: God luvs America

What? Lauren Hill’s life didn’t MATTER?


17 posted on 06/03/2015 3:45:52 PM PDT by cld51860 (Volo pro veritas)
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To: lormand

Too many people in this country are enthralled with a confused fag.It’s unseemly.


18 posted on 06/03/2015 3:47:22 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: God luvs America

Who gives a sh*t?


19 posted on 06/03/2015 3:52:14 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: God luvs America

Obama’s Peace Prize

Bruce’s ESPY award

What an F’d up country we live in these days.


20 posted on 06/03/2015 3:53:01 PM PDT by Dacula
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