CNN Panelists Become Hysterical After Conservative Tells Them What’s Wrong with Kaepernick
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After Colin Kaepernick, the controversial former NFL player and anthem kneeler, became the new face of Nike’s ad campaign, the company publicized photos of the athlete’s face along with the caption “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt.”
Conservative radio host Ben Ferguson took issue with this.
Ferguson made a series of posts on Twitter with the same caption as the Nike ad — but he replaced Kaepernick’s face with the faces of soldiers.
“Hey @Nike this would have been appropriate!” tweeted Ferguson — showing an image of Pat Tillman .
“Here are some real heroes for you @Nike.”
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Ferguson went on cable network CNN and faced off against anchor Christi Paul, as well as Rashad Robinson, executive director of the civil rights organization Color of Change.
“This protest is not about the flag. Why is it that people cannot seem to separate the focus of this protest — about police brutality and African-Americans and how they are treated — with patriotism?” said host Paul.
It’s important to note that in an interview some time back, Kaepernick said that he does not respect the flag — that he is not “going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”
Ferguson argued that Kaepernick’s protest “morphed” when he wore anti-police socks.
“Remember, Colin Kaepernick is a guy that wore socks depicting all cops as pigs,” Ferguson noted.
“He has worn shirts supporting Fidel Castro, a dictator and tyrant who oppresses people all the time, as someone he, I guess, admires … and the biggest day of [NFL] protests was in fact protesting Donald Trump’s comments about NFL players. This has morphed into something different than it was, in theory, what it was originally about.”
Robinson argued, “At every point in our history, when black people stood up, there have always been people [that] have stood on the sidelines and said, ‘You should have protested it this way.’ They did it to the lunch protesters in the ’60s and to Dr. King.”
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Nike’s sales, by the way, have risen 31 percent compared to this time period last year.
Digital commerce and research firm Edison Trends, which tracks sales growth for large e-commerce companies like Nike, indicated that Nike sales right now are dramatically higher than during the same quarter back in 2017 .
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Thanks Ben for reminding us what real sacrifice looks like
CNN should have people on their panels that don't try to rewrite history. MLK would have a lot of things to say about today bu I don't think standing up for pampered multi millionaire football players who'd rather act like children than do something meaningful would be one of them.
I find it funny that a professional quarterback that had mediocre stats at best, 'sacrificed everything'.....he mist not be getting paid by Nike for this campaign, right? Oh, I guess we are talking about sacrifce, not Sacrifice......I'm still wondering why these professional entertainers (and that is what they are) cannot understand that they are in their owrkplace and workplace rules apply, as they do with all of us.
People lose all sense of proportion when they discuss this topic. The right winger Ben Ferguson seems to be claiming that there is no form of sacrifice other than dying in the military in service of the country.
That is simply not the only definition of sacrifice or the way most people would define the word. We hear somewhere in the news just about every day about someone who sacrificed to send their kids to college, or sacrificed their free time in order to achieve some goal.
The fact is , also, that the players protesting during the anthem have not disparaged the US military or those who serve.
If we believe the NONSENSE spouted by the right over this, no one could ever criticize governmental or law enforcement authority because to do so is always an attack on those who died in military service.
Trump has repeatedly attacked US law enforcement (the FBI and Justice Dept. leaders). So why isnt the right jumping all over Trump for disrespecting the memory of our war dead when he does so?
I never had a problem with what Kaepernick did or said, to each his own. It was the insistence by the Left that he had a First Amendment Right to do it while at work against the wishes of his Employers. This is the same Left that has called for the firing of many people for making statements outside of their workplace that they found offensive. I can't stand Hypocrisy.
Articles have been seeded here on NT about freedom of speech and supporting the privately owned websites ability to ban as the site sees fit..
The NFL is privately owned and the broadcasting of NFL games is forbidden without written consent etc etc - so why can they not prohibit players that have signed contracts with the teams, that form the NFL from protesting on the job? I quite watching after the NFL teams turned the protests into a media circus and tried to one up each other .. The Seattle Seahawks (in the very beginning) however linked arms and stood together as one during the anthem - now that sent a message of unity!
Where is it written that if someone has skill they must be given the job that they want - ask any CEO .. when your time is up .. ya go and take a sweet severance package with you - as Kaepernick received after opting out of his contract with the 9ers ...
That crap about him being blacklisted is bullspit, as if all the teams had to Conspire to keep him from being hired. The NFL does not exist so grown men can play Football, it exists to make money by attracting TV Viewers and putting asses in the seats at games. No Team is going to hire a player that pisses off half of their Fan Base unless he's the Greatest of all Time.
I agree .. preaching to the already converted .. had a chat on a different thread, that individual pointed out if Kaepernick was of value to a team, he would be playing now ...
Lol, yeah in the last year. How about in the last week?
Lots of sale are up the last year and for numerous reasons. Here is one of them:
Sneaker sales up
The people who write this crap are hoping the folks reading it are stupid.
Oops.
Edison Trends?
Bwaaaaahaaaaahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!
It's hard to know, though, if we're looking at cause and effect or not. Data from the same analysts show that 1) sales always rebound after Labor Day, and 2) Nike sales have been higher all year than they were in 2017. I would guess that has more to do with the larger economy than with anything having to with Kaepernick, especially because the ad campaign is so new.
A week in retail sale is not a trend .... it's more like a half a heartbeat.
Right wingers claimed the Kaepernick ad would cause Nike to tank.
They did? I missed that, I guess. Nike is a pretty big company and it's hard to see them tanking over something like this. Are you saying someone on the Right actually suggested they would go out of business? Who?
The truth is these controversies rarely are very damaging to the company.
Blaine Gabbart, who replaced Kaperneck as Quarterback, played yesterday
as a back up for the Titans.