Dallas sportscaster: Trump’s stance on anthem protests ‘a dog whistle to the racists’
A popular Dallas sportscaster, who previously went viral for criticizing the Cowboys’ signing of Greg Hardy amid domestic violence allegations, is going viral again after tearing into President Trump and anyone who has deemed athletes protesting racial inequality during the national anthem as disrespectful to the flag, military or country.
“The young, black athletes are not disrespecting America or the military by taking a knee during the anthem,” WFAA’s Dale Hansen said on the station’s Monday night broadcast. “They are respecting the best thing about America. It’s a dog whistle to the racists among us to say otherwise.”
Hansen, a Vietnam War veteran, laid into Trump, who used vulgar language to call on NFL owners to fire kneeling players, and called him a hypocrite.
“Donald Trump has said he supports a peaceful protest because it’s an American’s right. But not this protest, and there’s the problem: Any protest you don’t agree with is a protest that should be stopped,” Hansen said, bringing up the topics of white privilege, civil rights and Trump’s widely criticized attempts to distance himself from white supremacists and Nazis following violent events in Charlottesville last month.
Hanson concluded:
“Maybe we all need to read our Constitution again. There has never been a better use of pen to paper. Our forefathers made freedom of speech the First Amendment. They listed 10, and not one of them says you have to stand during the anthem.“And I think those men respected the country they fought for and founded — a great deal more than the self-proclaimed patriots who are simply hypocrites, because they want to deny the basic freedom of this great country.”
Trump has long been a critic of the national anthem protest, which began ahead of the 2016 season with Colin Kaepernick, who knelt to bring attention to the shootings of unarmed black men by law enforcement.
At the time, Trump, then a candidate for president, suggested Kaepernick move to another country if he didn’t like this one.
Since then, a handful of players joined Kaepernick’s protest and continued to kneel this season, while Kaepernick remains a free agent.
Trump doubled down on his 2016 comments on at a political rally in Alabama on Friday, calling Kaepernick and others who continue to take a knee a “son of a bitch.”
Trump has continued his tirade online, using Twitter to continue to call for NFL boycotts until the owners start to demand players stand.
The comments have not been met with obedience, however, as even some the most conservative NFL leaders displayed unity with the players at this weekend’s games. Among them was Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who supported Trump ahead of the election. He joined his team to kneel before the anthem ahead of Monday night’s win against the Arizona Cardinals, but stood up when the anthem began to play, a move Trump deemed “progress” on Tuesday.
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I think Don the Con Trump has small penis syndrome/anxiety (SPS) and he is mentally unsound.
This is a condition that can be a side effect of using Propecia (Finasteride) which he used excessively to try and stop his thinning hair.
https://www.nhs.uk/news/medication/rooney-hair-loss-drug-can-shrink-mens-genitals/
The fact that he is ignoring the deaths of American citizens in Puerto Rico and instead spending his time on anal compulsive tweeting about the National Anthem and black sports athletes disrespect for it is a sure sign he is very unbalanced. This is after all America and we all have a right to speak our minds.
Maybe it is time that we question the wealthy secessionist and traitorous corporate sports owner's misuse of the National Anthem as a ruse to make them look like they are patriotic and draw more customers to their ill gotten franchises. People that own barber shops and hair salons do not require their employees to sing the National Anthem before they cut or style hair.
Excerpt;
"We have come up with the term "Inverted Narcissism" in our attempts to try to characterize the nature of the developmental delay we've perceived occurring in Small Penis Syndrome. To understand what we mean by inverted narcissism, it is first important to understand the psychological term "narcissism".
Fundamentally, narcissism refers to a person's excessive interest in their self and in the way they look. The narcissist displays a grandiose way of thinking about their own talents, beauty, masculinity or femininity and intelligence. While they have an inflated sense of self-worth, they are generally devaluing and dismissive of others. In fact, to the narcissist, other people are generally not treated as peers, but instead as mere objects to be exploited for selfish motives. A very clear example of a male narcissist would be the "Casanova" who promises women everything in order to exploit them for sexual favors and who abandons them after having gotten what he wants from them.
Inverted Narcissism is a form of narcissism where the roles of exploited and exploiter are reversed from their classical position. The inverted narcissist views himself as nothing more than an object - in this case a penis - to be exploited by others. Other people - in this case potential sexual partners - are seen as all powerful, beautiful, exploiting and derisive. Women are believed to want nothing from a man except a large penis. Women, always cruel and capricious in this view, will abandon men if their penis fails to satisfy. Women will reject any man with a small penis in the most derisive way possible."
http://www.amhc.org/1-anxiety-disorders/article/24026-small-penis-syndrome-characteristics-and-self-help-treatment-suggestions
I have also noticed that Don the Con's wife Melania (has anyone seen her birth certificate, green card, or citizenship papers yet?), seems to be dissing him lately and appears depressed as she has taken up gardening and is going on solo road trips.
Why isn't the corporate media covering the recently revealed Don the Con and Howard Stern tapes?
https://www.salon.com/2017/09/25/i-think-ivanka-is-much-better-looking-than-her-15-hours-of-donald-trump-with-howard-stern/
This is more than likely also why I have heard Don the Con referred to as "Chapstick".
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