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‘This is what real locker room talk is’: The NFL’s Joe Lockhart levels a shot at Trump
Washington Post ^ | September 25 | Cindy Boren

Posted on 09/27/2017 10:02:24 AM PDT by tired&retired

Joe Lockhart, the NFL’s executive vice president of communications, wasn’t messing around Monday.

A former White House press secretary under President Clinton, Lockhart used surgical precision in leveling a shot at President Trump, tying Sunday’s nationwide protests by players, owners and coaches to Trump’s infamous “Access Hollywood” recording from his days as a TV star in 2005.

“Everyone should know, including the president, this is what real locker room talk is,” Lockhart said in a conference call with reporters.

Lockhart’s comment shows that sports and politics in the Trump era aren’t going to be untangled anytime soon and, frankly, that’s probably partly why he was hired.

Lockhart, a former TV producer and the son of journalists, joined the NFL in the winter of 2016, replacing Paul Hicks as the league’s vice president of communications. (Hicks is the father of Hope Hicks, Trump’s communications director.) Clearly, he knows just what message he wants to send.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Sports
KEYWORDS: billyjeff; demsnfl; demsnflprotest; joelockhart; kneepads; lewinsky; lockhart; nfl
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Lockhart was a strategist in the Clinton White House during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, then helped launch a communication strategy firm, Glover Park Group. He has also worked with Oracle and Facebook. He also happens to have rented his home in Washington DC to a certain former president named Barack Obama.
1 posted on 09/27/2017 10:02:24 AM PDT by tired&retired
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To: tired&retired

No wonder Trump has declared war on the NFL


2 posted on 09/27/2017 10:03:03 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Ok twit - it’s “real” locker room talk. It’s actually “bar” talk and you’re getting your ass kicked on it.


3 posted on 09/27/2017 10:04:32 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: tired&retired

I’m surprised that this story has not been pulled from their website.


4 posted on 09/27/2017 10:05:33 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

‘This is what real locker room talk is’: “Death to America”


5 posted on 09/27/2017 10:08:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: tired&retired

The NFL is in the middle of a hurricane

Its too late to prepare now.

Yes - continue to have smarmy insiders and Clinton bootlickers speak on behalf of your league. NOT going to help you, NFL


6 posted on 09/27/2017 10:08:43 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Here is why Glamour Magazine is so hard on the Trumps and so pro Mooselle Obama.

“In January, Lockhart was named as the NFL’s new executive vice president of communications. Then, it was recently reported that he and his wife, Giovanna, who is the D.C. editor of Glamour, are also going to be the Obama family’s future landlords—quite the unique title.”


7 posted on 09/27/2017 10:12:28 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired

Is that his best shot?

This isn’t even a fight.

Well, it’s the Flag. The communications director for the National Football League has no understanding of what the Flag represents.

He should have been communicating with the also half educated owners.

He should have been doing the most cursory look at Kaepernick’s motivation- his girlfriend and her influence. Got that from Savage


8 posted on 09/27/2017 10:13:15 AM PDT by stanne
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To: tired&retired

Sounds like Lockhart is still working for Clinton. His spiel might work if you only need 43% to 49% support, but the NFL had been well north of that. Further, the NFL fan base supporters don’t buy into his attitude. Goodell may have never been formally on the Dem payroll, but his whole tour as NFL chief declares him to be at least a fellow traveler.

They are in a hole, and they are digging.


9 posted on 09/27/2017 10:13:54 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: PGR88

Maybe they should call FEMA


10 posted on 09/27/2017 10:14:03 AM PDT by easternsky
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To: tired&retired

Note to the NFL: Fans remember Lockhart. Smooth moove, you dumba$$es.


11 posted on 09/27/2017 10:15:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: tired&retired

No wonder the NFL is being destroyed. It’s run by Hilary strategists.

The whole approach is exactly from the Clinton Playbook. Somehow everyone else is doing something wrong, but disrespecting the flag and national anthem is denied even while we see it with our own eyes.


12 posted on 09/27/2017 10:15:30 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: mewzilla

Moove. Move. Mooooove. That’s bettah!


13 posted on 09/27/2017 10:15:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: tired&retired

“Everyone should know, including the president, this is what real locker room talk is,”

Likewise, the current occupant of our White House is what it looks like with a real leader in it.


14 posted on 09/27/2017 10:16:30 AM PDT by mazda77
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To: easternsky

lockhart and the nfl screwed the pooch...BIGLY. LOL.


15 posted on 09/27/2017 10:16:38 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: tired&retired

I always wonder where is the wife on this, advising him one way or the other, when a guy makes a bone-headed move.

It’s part of the picture


16 posted on 09/27/2017 10:16:53 AM PDT by stanne
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To: tired&retired

“Joe Lockhart, the NFL’s executive vice president of communications, and former White House press secretary under President Clinton”

Ah, another piece of the puzzle falls into place.


17 posted on 09/27/2017 10:18:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: mewzilla

Yeah now I realize who this bum is. The NFL has got to be kidding us they are hiring Clinton operatives in high positions just like the news networks did? When people realize this the NFL is absolutely finished.


18 posted on 09/27/2017 10:18:46 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: tired&retired

Reaffirms my personal opinion that this is all really just a personal vendetta against Trump.


19 posted on 09/27/2017 10:19:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: V_TWIN

Every NFL fan should be demanding that this filthy leftist slob be fired immediately. Now we see that the disrespect of our flag is being orchestrated straight from Obama Clinton headquarters.


20 posted on 09/27/2017 10:19:33 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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