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Liberals wanted U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps to give up the honor of carrying the American flag and leading his country’s athletes at the opening ceremony for the Rio Olympic games Friday night.
He’s the wrong color and the wrong sex.
Leading the pack of naysayers was W. Kamau Bell, host of CNN’s “United Shades of America.” In a CNN op-ed, he described the swimming sensation as a “tall, successful, rich white guy” who clearly didn’t “need the honor.”
“With 22 Olympic medals, you are already the most decorated athlete in Olympic history,” he said.
But American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is a different story.
“Muhammad carrying the flag would be much bigger than your one moment,” Bell writes. “It would be a symbol for our country in this moment when we are mostly known for one of the most contentious, controversial, scandal-ridden, hateful, xenophobic, jingoistic, and just generally unlikable presidential elections in recent memory. This is at a time when we could use some more symbols of unity and togetherness.”
Bell referred to Muhammad as “a one-stop inclusion shop due to her race, sex and religion. Phelps, on the other hand was something else entirely.
“No offense, but right now America has enough tall, successful, rich white guys hogging the spotlight trying to make America great,” he said, in an obvious reference to Donald Trump.
Read more: CNN host says Michael Phelps shouldn’t carry US flag, but a ‘Muslim’ should . . . Americans are furious | BizPac Review
this post really says more about you than anything else.
Ah, so when you said liberals, what you actually meant was one person.
Liberals wanted U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps to give up the honor of carrying the American flag and leading his country’s athletes at the opening ceremony for the Rio Olympic games Friday night.
He’s the wrong color and the wrong sex.
Leading the pack of naysayers was W. Kamau Bell, host of CNN’s “United Shades of America.” In a CNN op-ed, he described the swimming sensation as a “tall, successful, rich white guy” who clearly didn’t “need the honor.”
“With 22 Olympic medals, you are already the most decorated athlete in Olympic history,” he said.
But American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad is a different story.
“Muhammad carrying the flag would be much bigger than your one moment,” Bell writes. “It would be a symbol for our country in this moment when we are mostly known for one of the most contentious, controversial, scandal-ridden, hateful, xenophobic, jingoistic, and just generally unlikable presidential elections in recent memory. This is at a time when we could use some more symbols of unity and togetherness.”
Bell referred to Muhammad as “a one-stop inclusion shop due to her race, sex and religion. Phelps, on the other hand was something else entirely.
“No offense, but right now America has enough tall, successful, rich white guys hogging the spotlight trying to make America great,” he said, in an obvious reference to Donald Trump.
Read more: CNN host says Michael Phelps shouldn’t carry US flag, but a ‘Muslim’ should . . . Americans are furious | BizPac Review
this post really says more about you than anything else.
Not all Nazis were bad people, I guess that discredits the entire holocaust huh?
Olympics are supposed to be a non political event. I see the left has screwed that up. Figures.
These were in fact liberals saying this. It is liberal ideology.
Is that all you liberals got, to make this about "All"? I never said "All", there never is an "All" in anything.
Not all Nazis were bad people, I guess that discredits the entire holocaust huh?
These were in fact liberals saying this. It is liberal ideology.
They're supposed to be? They never really have been. And how, exactly, has the left screwed that up?
Please be very specific.
The OP.
Is that all you liberals got, to make this about "All"? I never said "All", there never is an "All" in anything.
Not all Nazis were bad people, I guess that discredits the entire holocaust huh?
These were in fact liberals saying this. It is liberal ideology.
Is that all you liberals got, to make this about "All"? I never said "All", there never is an "All" in anything.
Not all Nazis were bad people, I guess that discredits the entire holocaust huh?
These were in fact liberals saying this. It is liberal ideology.
Olympics are supposed to be a non political event. I see the left has screwed that up. Figures.
You said 'liberals'. Not 'some', not 'these liberals', but 'liberals, directly implying all liberals. Don't try and weasel out of your own statement.
No, it's not 'liberal ideology', no matter how much you pout.
It's not a liberal ideology.
There are two types of Progressive Liberals:
1. Socialists attempting to lie about what they are.
2. Useful Idiots who join up because they think it’s cool or they like a social issue (abortion, gay rights). But they don’t realize they are giving support to the most destructive political/economic ideology the world has ever seen.
A close examination of the governing platforms of both Socialism and Communism shows the absolute only difference between the two is Socialist try to claim they can function without a Totalitarian Dictatorship.
The problem with that is Socialism is so antithetical to human nature that people have to be forced to do it. This can only happen with an all powerful centralized government controlling everything AKA a Totalitarian Dictatorship.
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