This is really frustrating to hear.
Trump is diving us over sports?
But the NFL players started this whole thing.
Why is it, that if liberal radical types do something, and then there’s a reaction/backlash against it, the liberals and media pay no attention to the original event, but instead, talk only about the reaction to the event???
I agree.
Again, if not for the MSM carrying the water for these pinheads it wouldn’t be the fiasco that it is.
Where are the republican voices? We have Mitch and Paul. Great.
Easy answer... Because THEY own the media.
Accusing the opposition of what they’re doing. The Dem strategy.
Just like we heard for years that their opponents want to destroy the middle class when they were the biggest destructors of it.
‘the liberals and media pay no attention to the original event, but instead, talk only about the reaction to the event???’
same way the football refs are always flagging the guy who pushed the guy who pushed him first...
“Why is it, that if liberal radical types do something, and then there’s a reaction/backlash against it, the liberals and media pay no attention to the original event, but instead, talk only about the reaction to the event???”
You sure nailed it with this one statement. It is like a parent asking of two kids who were fighting, “how did the fight start”? Then one kid says, “it only started because he hit me back after I hit him”.
Yep, and it went on all during the 2016 regular NFL season, and during the presidential campaign. Then it resumed for several games into the 2017 NFL season before President Trump said anything about the kneeling.
Somebody needs to tell Lebron and Lemonhead that the NFL kneelers were dividing the country and driving fans away a full season and part of another before Trump weighed in on the controversy.
And Lebron is gonna due for the NBA what Kaepernick did for the NFL. If the NBA owners and execs are smart, they'll shut him up before the next season begins in late September. But, they're probably as dumb about this as the NFL owners and execs.
“Why is it that...the liberals and media...”
I think what frustrates you is the complete lack of rationality on the Left...
The sad part is that the Leftist media is being irrational on purpose in order to sell their false narrative.
They prey on athletes, actors and musicians, who, due to their success, have been thrust into the celebrity spotlight to voice their opinions and thoughts on subjects often well beyond their intellectual capacity.
This is not to say that artists or athletes are intellectually sub par - not at all. It’s just that what earned them their fame was their particular talent, not their grasp of socio-economic culture. What are the odds that a top tier Hollywood actor or a world famous athlete would also be a philosopher worth listening to? It could happen, but there is no reason to assume it.
Yet, famous athletes are brought out in front of huge audiences and asked for their opinions on the social, political and philosophic issues of the day. Their moral judgment is sought regarding “social justice” and “equality”, as if their athletic superiority qualifies them to render judgments on right and wrong.
The fact that these huge audiences listen, and hang on every word, and allow themselves to be morally instructed by “stars” who are often half-baked intellectually, is an indictment of how far we have sunk as a society.
The transfer of wisdom and experience from old to young, teacher to student, through tradition and classical literature, has been all but eclipsed by this Left driven reverence of star actors, singers and athletes who are often young and often so morally adrift that they sound incoherent to educated and non-leftist folk.
The Leftist media is doing this on purpose - they take advantage of the artists and athletes - and use their celebrity to take advantage of the young and the stupid - it’s what they do.
What frustrates me the most, is seeing an actor like Matt Daemon on a late night talk show spouting utter nonsense, but getting treated like he’s a philosopher - it’s sad. I never watch those shows. Never.
I wish I could get everyone to stop watching these shows with celebrity interviews - we should all stop paying attention - at least those of us who can still recognize when some ‘star’ is being given expert status in areas well outside their area of expertise. I would think the lack of ratings would drive such shows out of existence.
But unfortunately, too many people who should know better, even people here on FR, are fascinated by whatever a celebrity has to say, regardless of merit.
There is so much in the media that should be ignored, but isn’t - and the Left benefits greatly.