by Nate Jackson: President Donald Trump tapped into the sentiment of the vast majority of Americans over the weekend, and the Leftmedia hate him for it. “Trump turns sports into a political battleground,” headlined The Washington Post, as if athletes, coaches, owners and commentators hadn’t already politicized sports. What Trump did do was give voice from the most powerful bully pulpit in the land to what many Americans already think: Athletes who make millions of dollars each year to entertain us on the field should not spit in the face of our great nation by disrespecting the national anthem before games. Take the activism off the field. “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a b—h off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!' ” Trump said Friday. “You know, some owner is going to do that. He’s going to say, 'That guy that disrespects our flag, he’s fired.’ And that owner, they don’t know it [but] they’ll be the most popular person in this country.” Trump made other similar comments throughout the weekend.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell responded with a complete lack of self-awareness: “Divisive comments like these demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the NFL, our great game and all of our players, and a failure to understand the overwhelming force for good our clubs and players represent in our communities.” It is the NFL that is allowing divisiveness and “an unfortunate lack of respect” for our country to be showcased every Sunday.
“Roger Goodell of NFL just put out a statement trying to justify the total disrespect certain players show to our country,” Trump responded on Twitter. “Tell them to stand!”
“This kind of thing is why he’s president,” mused National Review’s Rich Lowry. “He takes a commonly held sentiment — most people don’t like the NFL protests — and states it in an inflammatory way guaranteed to get everyone’s attention and generate outrage among his critics. When those critics lash back at him, Trump is put in the position of getting attacked for a fairly commonsensical view.”
The reaction in the NFL was predictable. Many more players joined the anthem protests, taking knees and locking arms. Even a couple of owners joined in. One instance that stood out was the Pittsburgh Steelers, who didn’t take the field at all until after the national anthem — except for Steelers offensive tackle and former Army Ranger Alejandro Villanueva. “This We’ll Defend” is the U.S. Army motto, and he upheld it with honor. For his part, coach Mike Tomlin was critical … of Villanueva. “I was looking for 100 percent participation. We were gonna be respectful of our football team,” he complained of Villanueva standing alone. Tomlin hoped to avoid controversy by skipping the anthem entirely, he claimed, but we’ll bet his Rust Belt fan base sees it differently. The same goes for the Tennessee Titans and Seattle Seahawks, who skipped the “Star-Spangled Banner.”
Worse, the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars took their protest to London, where they disrespected our nation and flag on foreign soil. Yet they stood for the UK’s anthem, “God Save the Queen.” God save the one who can’t see why that’s outrageous.
Of course, it all started last year when Colin Kaepernick, who was abandoned by his black parents, then adopted and raised by a loving white couple, complained, “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Leftists made Kaepernick a hero for his, er, stand, and then a martyr when no team would pick up the struggling quarterback and his following media circus.
Two weeks ago, ahead of the 9/11 attack observance, former Cleveland Browns Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown criticized the Browns team and Kaepernick for disrespecting our country: “I’m going to give you the real deal. I’m an American. I don’t desecrate my flag and my national anthem. I’m not gonna do anything against the flag and the national anthem. … This is my country, and I’ll work out the problems, but I’ll do it in an intelligent manner.”
That is the “real deal,” and the Browns got off their knees, but apparently there are still a lot of petulant overpaid adolescent athletes who think NFL fans are buying their fake celebrity indignation.
As The Wall Street Journal put it, “Americans don’t begrudge athletes their free-speech rights — see the popularity of Charles Barkley — but disrespecting the national anthem puts partisanship above a symbol of nationhood that thousands have died for. Players who chose to kneel shouldn’t be surprised that fans around the country booed them on Sunday.” Millions more aren’t booing — they’re just tuning out.
And while the media blame this all on Trump, all he did was represent Americans fed up with the Left’s political garbage. ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51477
{foxnews.com} ~ Iranian state television released video footage Friday claiming to show the launch of a new type of medium-range ballistic missile... a few hours after it was displayed during a military parade in Tehran. But it turns out Iran never fired a ballistic missile, sources say. The video released by the Iranians was more than seven months old – dating back to a failed launch in late January, which resulted in the missile exploding shortly after liftoff, according to two U.S. officials... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/25/irans-supposed-missile-launch-was-fake-us-officials-say.html
{rickwells.us} ~ Perhaps it’s his plummeting respect among patriotic, conservative Americans, the open criticism on conservative news outlets, a fear for his job, or something else that got AG Jeff Sessions’ attention.
Whatever it may have been, it seems that the alarm has rung and he’s starting to awaken from his eight months of hibernation. America may be about to have an Attorney General again.
There’s still time for the Trump agenda to be saved and an aggressive Attorney General, particularly on the heels of the rampant corruption of the liar-nObama regime, is indispensible in that effort.
Signaling the DOJ may be open for business, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has just appointed as his new chief of staff a former US Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa during the George W. Bush years, Matthew Whitaker.
What could make his appointment particularly significant is that he has recently stated that the Mueller investigation could be turning into a witch hunt. There are many who would argue it’s been a witch hunt from day one, but this statement coming from the new chief of staff is undeniably a positive development.
Whitaker, who was a CNN legal commentator, wrote last month that President Trump was “absolutely correct” in his assertion that it was a “violation” for special counsel Mueller to investigate the Trump family’s finances.
Whitaker wrote, “Mueller has come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing. If he were to continue to investigate the financial relationships without a broadened scope in his appointment, then this would raise serious concerns that the special counsel’s investigation was a mere witch hunt.”
He contended that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein should “act to ensure the investigation is within its jurisdiction and within the authority of the original directive. It is time for Rosenstein, who is the acting attorney general for the purposes of this investigation, to order Mueller to limit the scope of his investigation to the four corners of the order appointing him special counsel.”
He’ll be able to influence and help to guarantee that Rosenstein does just that in his new position but there is little doubt that his appointment, coming on the heels of such a clear public statement denouncing the Mueller atrocity, is also intended to send a message to Mueller and Rosenstein.
Prior to accepting the position as Sessions’ chief of staff, Whitaker was the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust (FACT), a conservative watchdog group focused on Democrat ethics issues. There’s nothing more troublesome in the broad range of unethical activities by Democrats than the ongoing Mueller effort to unseat the President.
Whitaker made the statement in May that he believed there was a “strong case” to be made against former espionage criminal liar-Hillary Clinton and that she should be “extremely grateful” she wasn’t prosecuted. Maybe he can do something to correct that Comey – Lynch collaborative miscarriage of justice as well.
Whitaker replaces Jody who has been nominated to become assistant attorney general in charge of the department’s Civil Division.
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