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August 31, 2016

The National Football League is on TV. It can easily be turned off.

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Ingrate of the Century. So far.
The National Football League is sponsored by beer and cars and soft drinks that can easily be not purchased. Not that hard. Just turn it off.
You better be especially careful because the opening weekend of the National Football League this year is the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Opening Sunday in the National Football League this year is September the 11th, the 15th anniversary. And if a number of you endeavor to try to steal the stage of the National Football League to call attention to a personal political issue, attention you could not get without stealing the stage of the National Football League, you run the risk of doing grave damage to the league and business in which you play and are paid, a business which depends on massive public love and support and attention and money. - - Rush Limbaugh

Posted by gerardvanderleun at August 31, 2016 5:55 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

Your Say

"You have tampered with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Kaepernick, and you.. will .. atone!"

Posted by: StephenB [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 31, 2016 7:37 PM

He looks around at a reality that he has never personally known, and measures it to the ideal we corporately profess, and based on his snowflake revelation then separates himself from "us" and dumps on the ideological symbols of everything he professes to want. Someone has fooled him into thinking we are all as fooled as he. Hypocrites all!

Every adult who stands for the Anthem understands as much as he does, and knows that Liberty and Justice for All it is not a perfect reality. However, by standing we make a far stronger statement than his sitting. Standing, we aver that such an ideal is a Good worth striving and dying for. Our personal and grown-up reflections on our shortcomings is a commonality he has not yet discovered, being sheltered as he has from the "common." We can be in agreement with his observation, more than he can guess, but his youth and lack of self-reflection are painfully on display.

This is why we stand: we know our faults, and we know that the change doesn't come with consensus about the problem, it comes with consensus about the solution.

Posted by: Joan of Argghh! [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 1, 2016 4:51 AM

Amidst all of the clamoring of the black race for unity.....which they really don't give good GD about....this guy actually does stand up for his hatred and racism and for that of all North American Pavement Apes.

Good for him.....I'll stick with the college leagues and I will happily boycott the sponsors of the NFL, even if it includes Lays Potato Chips and Hormel Baby Back Ribs.

Posted by: Jack [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 1, 2016 6:36 AM

Kaepernick is getting WAY too much publicity over this. Do what you want, little boy, stand, sit, I could care less. He’s merely looking for attention and unfortunately he is getting it.

I turned off Rush when he started talking about this. It was news for a day, maybe, and we’re going on about this for what, a week now? Let’s move on already.

Kaepernick doesn’t represent the NFL any more than Lee Harvey Oswald represents the U.S. Marine Corps. He’s one guy being an idiot who happens to play in the NFL, and probably for not too long based purely on his ability, or rather lack thereof, to perform at a certain level. He’ll be yesterday’s forgotten story quicker than Usain Bolt runs a 100 meters.

Never in my life have I thought about America’s faults while standing, and singing, the national anthem. I may think many things, including what a great country it is, how proud and fortunate I am to live here, etc. but pondering its faults, nope. There’s plenty of time and other places for that. I kind’a feel sorry for you if you feel the need to do that then.


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Posted by: Lands’nGrooves [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 1, 2016 9:12 AM

"This is why we stand: we know our faults, and we know that the change doesn't come with consensus about the problem, it comes with consensus about the solution."

Beautiful. Well said, Joan of Argghh!

Kaepernick is stamping his feet and saying he'll hold his breath until he gets his way.

The NFL should let him do so, in private. They should not pay for Kaepernick's public forum with sponsor dollars or ticket holder dollars.
The NFL should be focused on entertainment, not the politics of one little bitch.

If Kaepernick gets away with this kind of behavior, the SKY is the limit and any little bitch can do what Kaepernick is doing for their own private reasons and not just using the entertainment platform of pro-football, but ANY televised entertainment platform.

Let TV sponsors think about what this might end up costing them across the entire TV spectrum.

Posted by: Speller [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 1, 2016 10:23 PM

I read the headline of a news snippet that Kaepernick wants to donate $1 million to something or some cause to show that he loves this country.

Apparently all of the free press that his childishness generated is causing him to feel the wrath of Americans who happen to love this country and now he wants to try and buy his way out of his dilemma.

I call BS but I also want to know why people don't rage against Obama and Hillary, who clearly despise the US and all of its citizens, in the same manner and with the same intensity that they have lambasted this coddled negro. Those folks deserve our deepest and unforgiving rage. Let God think about forgiving them.

Posted by: Jack [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 2, 2016 6:22 AM

And it is more than just standing---it is standing at attention, facing the flag (or the music), and saluting. Salute as appropriate to who you are, either with a military salute, or putting your hand over your heart. And sing, too, if you want. It's your National Anthem.

Posted by: Fontessa [TypeKey Profile Page] at September 2, 2016 8:38 AM

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