Good on Rush!
Unfortunately the media creates the polarization. There is nothing controversial about Tebow or Rush. The press just wants to make those that love them feel embarrassed and ashamed. It’s their way of creating guilt about your values and what you believe. They are searching for your weaknesses.
“The News” has been a joke for a long time. Anyone with a brain, (this would incorporate about 99% of FReepers) has known this for many, many years. Completely biased agenda driven crapola.
Jesus was certainly polarizing.
Tebow doesn’t polarize me! Mrs. Thorne and I were whooping it up bigtime yesterday when he shut up all the critics on the first play from scrimmage in OT. Still smiling over that one.
I don’t understand the big deal about what Tebow is doing. Didn’t black players use to acknowledge God or Jesus after a touch down? Why is it all of a sudden a big deal with liberal sports writers?
Oh dear! Was that racist? Do your own research if you disagree. There are lots of black athletes who give praise and nobody in the media bats an eye. Now why do you suppose that is?
My theory? I believe it's because in "The Progressive Book of Rules" Black trumps Christian. The media can't criticize a black for being overtly Christian because that would be racist. It might not even occur to them to do so; that's just how black people are, what with comin' from slavery, don't you know? But they don't have to put up with all that "Jesus" stuff from some big dopey white guy. "Hey, we don't want to hear all that junk, buddy! Save for church, or camp, or wherever it is you people go."
Some people think Tebow should go into politics. Such people should quit looking for a political leader to save this nation. The country will not be turned around until millions of people follow the path that Tebow is showing by example. We have rotten leadership because our mass culture is rotten and trivial.
“I have mentioned to you that there is no news anymore.”
Ninety percent of humanity just wants your money. The other ten percent wants your vote-so they can take your money. We are, in the age of the information super highway, as hungry for news as our ancestors were in the far west in the 1870’s. We are so deluged with crap that sorting out what’s real has become nearly impossible.
I’m rooting for Tebow simply because he’s annoying all the right people!!
I don’t even like football, but I may have to start watching if there are players like Tebow.
Rush has been too busy to notice but the media has called Tebow “polarizing” for about two months now.
It used to be that if the media disliked someone but were afraid to say it, they would call him “controversial”. Often they would say the word with arched brow.
But I presume the word “polarizing” now polls better than “controversial” so the media uses it to let you know they hate Tebow but don’t dare admit it publicly.
Think of it similar to the way the media used “gravitas” when discussing Dick Cheney. “Polarizing” Tim Tebow will be the buzzword everywhere before long.
They make him a "polarizing" point, not because of what he does or does not do, but because he represents the millions who may have been and may yet be deprived of the opportunity to star as athletes, artists, musicians, scientists, world leaders, and on and on.
His existence reminds them of the unintended consequences of their most-cherished policy.
Actually it’s not much different than what happened a few years ago when the Cardinals, with Kurt Warner, made the Super Bowl. Suddenly the Cardinals, the lowly Cardinals, the most irrelevant team in the NFL, overnight became ‘America’s Team’ because of Kurt Warner, only the Steeler Nation wanted Pittsburgh to win that Super Bowl.