As President Trump continued to tweet about rescinding the Philadelphia Eagles’ invitation to celebrate their Super Bowl victory at the White House, one member of the team called out Fox News for using photos of players kneeling in pregame prayer during a segment about the canceled visit, calling it “propaganda.” The network later apologized for showing the “unrelated footage.”
I think Chris long summed it up best.
Defensive lineman Chris Long, who donated his salary to charity last season and spoke out after violence erupted in his Charlottesville hometown last summer, sharply criticized Fox News for using the images of players in prayer.
“Imagine wanting to please the boss so very badly that you run stills of guys knelt down PRAYING during pregame,” he tweeted. “Not one Eagles player knelt for the anthem this [year]. Keep carrying his water to sow division while misrepresenting Christian men.
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775
[sarcasm] I find it hard to believe that our President would cast false aspersions on someone. [/sarcasm]
"The great problem of any civilization is how to rejuvenate itself without rebarbarization." - Will Durant "We've kept more promises than we've even made" - Donald Trump "Of what meaning is the world without mind? The question cannot exist." - Edwin Land
DarkHelmet wrote:The thing I appreciate most about Supreme Leader Trump, and his propaganda ministers at Fox News, is their ability to unite the nation.
Yeah, because surely the nation would unite around the Eagles visiting the White House.
NBC's "Sunday Night Football" in the first two weeks of the regular season is down 7% in viewership compared to last year; ESPN's "Monday Night Football," is down 5%; and the averages of Sunday afternoon games on Fox and CBS are down 11% and 19% respectively, according to Nielsen data.
Care to wager what percentage of these waning viewers actually care if Eagles got to visit the White House. (there is a larger social commentary you are missing here...and likely you will never see it).
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
And it's not like Trump needs Pennsylvania in 2020. And even if he does, it's not like Pennsylvania is full of football fans. Philadelphia is pretty lukewarm about their Eagles. They don't throw batteries at opposing teams or beat up opposing fans in the stadium or anything like that. Trump should go after the Steelers next. Call the team of the 70s "overrated losers and faggots".
"We have taken up arms in defense of our liberty, our property, our wives, and our children; we are determined to preserve them, or die." - Captain Moroni - 'Address to the Inhabitants of Canada' 1775