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| Rush: Kaepernick-Nike Shoe Saga Proof NFL Kneeling Not About Police Brutality ‐ ‘He Opposes Honoring the Flag' |
| 2019-07-03 |
| [Breitbart] Tuesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh argued that former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s opposition to Nike’s so-called Betsy Ross footwear was proof Kaepernick’s kneeling was not about alleged police brutality but animosity toward the American flag. Nike pulled the product line based on Kaepernick’s opposition, which came because the footwear featured the Betsy Ross flag. Partial transcript as follows (courtesy RushLimbaugh.com): The Washington media-political complex, if you will, authors the daily script. It’s one-sided. How does Nike let one person sway them into ditching an entirely already-made shoe, featuring ‐ by the way ‐ a flag designed by Betsy Ross. Now, did not Kaepernick tell us when he began kneeling ‐ as a barely-could-get-on-the-field bench rider for the San Francisco 49ers. Did he not tell us that he was kneeling to protest police brutality? Did he not tell us this? He did! That’s all it was. He was protesting the fact that the cops were shooting people like him. That the cops are shooting black people and women and minorities first. It was all about the cops. Except it wasn’t! It was about the flag all along! He was taking a knee because he opposes the country! He opposes the national anthem. He opposes honoring the flag. This proves it! They always lie. They always lie to us. They hide so much of their real core. Even when they are in the process of displaying it, they still deceive. And there was the media and the Democrat Party applauding the guts and the courage of the forever untalented bench retired, Colin Kaepernick. Then the media led the charge demanding that NFL owners hire the guy every time they had a starting quarterback that’d get injured, and none of the NFL owners wanted the hassle. Nobody wants somebody anti-American on their team, certainly not as starting quarterback. The media does, though! The media wants Kaepernick starring... Not starring. He’s not capable of that. They want him playing for some team so that they can carry the narrative through every NFL game he’s playing ‐ and then, of course, he’ll get other players to join him ’cause they’ll want to shine in the spotlight. The NFL then can be presented as an anti-American institution and the people leading the anti-Americanism will be made heroes. We’ll be told that they are very courageous. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 Regular Joe is so right. NIKE USES LIBERAL PLAYBOOK TO HIDE ABUSE NIKE EXPOSED IN 2008 BY JOURNOS The Rana bazaar factory collapse (2013), in Dhaka killed more than 1100 indentured workers slaving away for Nike, GAP, H&M and others.   The companies' local agents had paid off municipal officers and the labor was working in appalling, unsafe conditions. Women with their children, often the wages being only two meals a day. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-03 14:20 |
| #15 Stock price doing reasonably well over the past year and a half or so; about even with the indexes. Also, their revenue and earnings are doing OK. Probably most people who would potentially boycott Nike were smart enough to avoid buying over priced footware in the first place. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2019-07-03 13:46 |
| #14 Kaepernick is supposed to help Nike hide the fact that they use child slave labor to make their clown shoes |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2019-07-03 13:34 |
| #13 Given the state of tribalism in Bangla, Dron, that just makes it more ironic. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2019-07-03 13:04 |
| #12 Bangladesh, I think. It's cheaper. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-03 11:43 |
| #11 What it's really about is: "look at me, look at me, look at me." |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2019-07-03 11:42 |
| #10 I don't know for sure but I'm guessing these shoes are made in China. So the Kaepernick thing is plenty bad enough but I wouldn't buy the shoe anyway even if it does feature a Betsy Ross flag. Nike can suck on it...the shoe I mean. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-07-03 11:39 |
| #9 NFL and US women's soccer are money grabs. Lots of idiots hand over theirs, I can't stop that. But they ain't getting mine... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-07-03 11:05 |
| #8 Nike 'Betsy Ross flag' sneakers sold for $2K each on resale market |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-07-03 10:53 |
| #7 Of course. Kaepernick is a Wakandan. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-07-03 10:44 |
| #6 Make no mistake, the exclusion of tribalism is his enemy. America is *the* most interesting political experiment in the last 300 years. We built a country based not on tribes, blood, or soil but on a shared idea, a belief in the Constitution. E Pluribus Unum - Out of many, one. Appealing to tribal loyalties is good way to grab political power, but ultimately, it is bad for America. If you need an example why, just check out any long-running ethnic conflict in Africa, Europe or Asia. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-07-03 10:41 |
| #5 Just a reminder - Megan Rapinoe (USWNT) is following a similar pattern - at first it was kneeling for the National Anthem 'in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick', then it became a protest against Trump. |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-07-03 10:17 |
| #4 It has always been about his hate and contempt for America. The media just cant hide it now. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2019-07-03 10:07 |
| #3 It's never been about justice, its always about power. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-07-03 07:47 |
| #2 Who is this Colon person and why is anybody listening to him? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2019-07-03 07:11 |
| #1 He was taking a knee because he opposes the country! More precisely, those who established it and maintain it today. Make no mistake, the exclusion of tribalism is his enemy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-07-03 07:03 |