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2017-09-27 Home Front: Politix

[Townhall] I'm calling foul on all the leftists rushing to protect the NFL's protest crusaders from President Donald Trump's criticism of their national anthem antics.

Their shabby line of defense? The NFL is a "private enterprise" whose "rights" are being violated by those who dare to challenge the league's political radicalization. The anti-Trump Democratic Coalition has even filed an ethics complaint alleging that the president's comments constitute a criminal violation against using government offices "to influence the employment decisions and practices" of a private entity.

Funny. These fair-weather friends of corporate free speech and the First Amendment were nowhere to be found when Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel were vowing to shut down Chick-Fil-A in their towns as government retaliation against the founders' private religious beliefs.

As for the NFL's status as a "private" enterprise? That's some Super Bowl-sized audacity right there. I first started tracking publicly subsidized sports boondoggles with my very first watchdog website, Porkwatch, back in 1999. Since then, taxpayers at all levels of government have foot the bill for football stadiums to the tune of an estimated $1 billion every year.

Over the past decade, new tax-supported NFL stadiums rose up for the Indianapolis Colts (the $720 million Lucas Oil Stadium), the Dallas Cowboys (the $1.15 billion AT&T Stadium) the New York Jets and Giants (the $1.6 billion MetLife Stadium, the Minnesota Vikings (the $1.1 billion U.S. Bank Stadium), the Atlanta Falcons (the $1.5 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium), and the San Francisco 49ers (the $1.3 billion Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara).

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-27 04:13|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Interesting segue into the 'HotAir' article posted herein entitled, "The Left’s (Brilliant) Scam Behind The NFL Anthem Protests."

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-27 04:20|| 2017-09-27 04:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Genesis.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-09-27 09:19|| 2017-09-27 09:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Nice job of tracking VRWC. The results are a bit frightening, but a nice job nonetheless. I take it you've read.... 'We're just too clever to find a boyfriend!'

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-27 09:33|| 2017-09-27 09:33|| Front Page Top

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#3 Nice job of tracking VRWC. The results are a bit frightening, but a nice job nonetheless. I take it you've read.... 'We're just too clever to find a boyfriend!'

Oh, yes.

Btw, I used the Chick-Fil-A analogy this morning. The "hearer" (they don't listen) quickly changed the subject.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-09-27 10:59|| 2017-09-27 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 And how many of the players went to state/public universities?

And before that, public football magnet schools?

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-09-27 12:50|| 2017-09-27 12:50|| Front Page Top

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