Wow.
There are SOME venues you just
do not count on for your news…….Slate.com, Vox.com, CNN, HUFFPO, WAPO, NYT and
Yahoo. Granted Yahoo is not a TRUE
competitor…..which makes them all the worse…..a free service that picks and
choses the news it publishes and cuts and pastes depending on their narrative…..which
is generally pretty crappy. I did say “free”,
right?
Can you read this article
and determine what is wrong with it? In
the first few paragraphs the author lets you in on a secret…..well, probably
not a secret to his peers, but he lets the rest of us in on it.
Here is the article; take
a look.
You saw it right? Pretty glaring.
Now, I do not know crap about
boxing….I saw the Rocky movies….I know that THAT franchise over played its hand
and was only saved by Rocky Balboa. I
know I couldn’t take the ass beating it would take to merely lose, let alone
make an attempt to win. But this story
is a real “feel good” piece…..as well as a piece that reflects the bias of the
author.
And there are two main points
here….one of which I picked up on right away.
“There is a particular irony in the fact that it took
President Donald Trump, hardly a champion of rights for African-Americans and
other racial minorities, to be the one who pardoned former heavyweight champion
Jack Johnson”.
Really? What is your source? Your reference? Your evidence? Because there is PLENTY of evidence that
President Trump cares far more about all people than his predecessor, the
statist Sun King Obama. As a matter of
fact, very few people can point to Obama, or ANY progressive and say that the
person did much for minorities. This is
a piece of unfounded, biased opinion by the “sports author” Kevin Lole. It is unfounded and serves to do nothing but
to show that Lole cannot be counted on to report honestly about shit that most
of us don’t know about….let alone care about.
But Lole is not wholly
without merit. He points out that
congress, at the time dominated by democrats, passed a resolution saying that
Jackson should be pardoned by the President, a democrat and a huge fan of
pardoning felons, and he didn’t do it.
Not only that, his attorney general, a proven racist (“my people”), and
equally dedicated to ignoring inconvenient laws, used THE lamest of all possible
excuses to blow off the pardon possibilities; the allegations that a black man,
in the first half last century, treated women poorly.
What a dilemma….to have to
chose between two victim classes that you as an activist promote and encourage,
and choosing to leave a mans (“my people”) name on the books as a convicted
felon, to avoid offending the other victim class. Oh the drama.
No less drama than confessing
in writing that THAT was what the Obama regime did, while criticizing Trump for
doing the right thing.
I once thought I could be
a liberal because of the complete lack of a requirement to think, and now I am convinced
that I could never be a liberal because of the complete lack of a requirement
to think. Back to my original question….there
is a lot wrong with this article….most embodied by the author.
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