Ted - Ted Cruz Ripping Athletes For Not Standing During The National Anthem Is Beyond Hypocritical
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Alex ReimerFormer Contributor I write about the intersection between sports, culture and media.
Sep 13, 2016, 01:42pm EDT This article is more than 5 years old.
Ted Cruz condemns athletes who aren't standing for the national anthem in order to raise awareness for social injustice. Apparently, using your bully pulpit to criticize the United States is only appropriate if you're the junior Republican senator from Texas.
Several NFL players joined Colin Kaepernick over the weekend and elected to express themselves while the Star-Spangled Banner was being played. Denver Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall took a knee prior to the season-opener and has already lost two endorsement deals. Four members of the Miami Dolphins, including running back Arian Foster, also kneed during the anthem –– after standing up to commemorate 9/11 victims on the 15-year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks.
On Monday, Cruz admonished those players on Twitter . "To all the athletes who have made millions in America's freedom: stop insulting our flag, our nation, our heroes," he wrote. Last week, Cruz blasted President Barack Obama for supporting Kaepernick's constitutional right to protest.
Those are ironic statements coming from Cruz, who's disrespected our nation's democracy inside of the Senate Chamber, a place that's far more symbolic of American ideals than a football field. In 2013, for example, Cruz helped lead a 16-day shutdown of the federal government over an unsuccessful push to defund Obamacare. During that timespan, veterans' medical benefits were jeopardized .. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/14/shutdown-protests-veterans-tuesday/2979557/ . It's difficult to see how not standing up for a song is more insulting to our nation than potentially harming those who fight for our freedom.
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"I fear for America. If we keep on this path there comes a point of no return and my prayer is that this awakening continues, that the body of Christ rise up to pull us back from the abyss," he said earlier this year on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "We are going to, together with God's blessing and grace, pull America back from the abyss and it is this election that makes the difference."
It's OK to say America is "in the abyss," but yet it's borderline treasonous for Kaepernick to raise awareness about police brutality in impoverished African-American neighborhoods. This double-standard personifies the partisan divide in America that seemingly gets worse by the day.
Hmm. Religion is the real problem: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and GOP demonize Muslims, but too afraid to take on the real truth [...] Now nowhere am I suggesting that these GOP candidates have no right to the religion of their choice. Freedom of religion is enshrined in the Constitution. But broadcast journalists have a duty to ask, on air and live, tough questions of aspirants to high office and inform their public. Stating belief in a sky god and his magic book suggests gullibility, childish wishful thinking, and a damning dearth of cognitive rigor, and, if nothing else, prompts the question, what other absurdities might they believe in? What does deeply held religious faith say about a candidate’s maturity? Those who are so promiscuous with their convictions are not to be trusted – and certainly not in the White House (where the Lord may order them to make disastrous decisions .. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa ) and not in schools, with the education of children. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169053118
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