The simple and short answer is...POTUS likes them because they say nice things (which he has said so himself), so they got WH press credentials, he and his peeps retweet their stories, etc.
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The thing about that is I think some of them won't because if you "say the wrong thing" you could end like Drew Brees. On the other side you could also end up like Colin Kaepernick.
So IMO in general like a lot of things it's typically better to keep it to yourself no matter what you believe.
And because of that I don't really agree with that guy on ESPN that athletes totally have the "leverage to speak up".
Now ESPN will certainly try to keep politics in the forefront but they're incredibly out of touch with their audience. A lot of sports fans don't care what Lebron thinks about this or that. And the NFL draft was hilarious with how they somehow found some hardship that each player had to go through. All I want from ESPN is the score and highlights. If I want politics I'll watch CNN, Fox News, or whatever.
If you think Hitler was a socialist, your grasp of history is not great. He put socialists in the concentration camps to die with the Jews, Gypsies, and the rest. He details exactly what he thinks of socialism in Mein Kampf.
Dan Carlin actually explains this much better than me in one of his podcasts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0_EnpxtoUw&t=302s
Interesting that you said that. Longer and more puzzling answer is below.
Dr. Alveda King, the niece of MLK, and another King lady that leads the King foundation if I remember correctly, were recently on OAN talking about how much Trump has done for the black community with criminal justice reform and opportunity zones so blacks can have school choice. Dr. Alveda said the dream MLK had has come back alive because of Trump. She also went on to say she doesn't understand why the left is trashing him so much about being racist cause he's done far more for blacks than Obama ever did. And OAN also showed how Trump historically has helped the black community many times in his life. Including sending a plane to pick up Nelson Mandela somewhere when he couldn't get a plane ride for some reason (can't remember all the specifics but they called Trump up to see if he'd help and ... he did).
Awww ... those 2 ladies probably ain't got a real clue about race relations. So I'm pretty sure you won't see either of them on CNN. CNN is the definitive news authority and Al Sharpton speaks for all the black community *****
I was really scratching my head over those interviews with the King ladies but now ... you've explained it and made so much sense doing so I'm sold that OAN is crap. I'll go back to CNN now *****
Yep. People that think the players have all the power are misguided. The fans pay the bills and the vast majority of the fans disagree with these players politically on just about every issue. The more that they shove it down the throat of the consumer the closer we are getting to a radical shift in viewership. ESPN has lost viewers on all of its shows due to injecting politics into their programming and the same thing will happen with the sports themselves if this path is continued.
What if Gundy doesn't see OAN like you do?
What if he only sees them as a channel that has similar opinions as himself & has no idea where that falls on the political scale?
I continue to hear from liberals that OAN is a far right channel, but that's from their perspective. What if a conservative doesn't see it that way?
The inability for either side of this to understand what it's like to walk a mile in another man's moccasins IS THE PROBLEM.
And this the problem....
Cancel culture is doing it's damndest to prevent conversation when conversation is the only way to solve this. There is a growing silent majority that is scared of discussing these issues for the betterment of society because they are scared of getting cancelled because they don't hold the same opinion the canceller
That's ... not the argument anyone made. "National socialism" (or Nationalsozialismus) never aspired to be socialist, never considered themselves to be socialist, and it is very apparent in Hitler or any other leader's writing that they despised socialism and considered themselves to be the total opposite.
Just because the terms "socialism" and "National socialism" are similar doesn't mean they actually are similar. They are in fact very different. Hitler hated socialism. All of the Nazi leadership hated socialism. Modern neo-Nazis hate socialism. There isn't a country anywhere where neo-Nazis have any power, but literal fascists do hold some parliamentary seats in parts of Europe, and all of them hate socialism too.
This is all very well documented stuff, and Mein Kampf is public domain now, and if you're so inclined you can read it straight from Hitler's mouth which side of the political aisle he was on, and what he thought about socialism.
Screw MLB. They could be prime time sports during all of this, but they can't get it done and they're going to lose fans because of it.
NBA is starting to balk too.
Ok, fine. Perspective, I get it. I agree in spirit, but it's odd you admit to not knowing much about OAN, yet at the same time feel the need to defend them.
Let's say instead of an OAN shirt, it was something about Sandy Hook or 911 being an inside job, or about how vaccines cause autism, or how Jews control the world, or the earth being FLAT? Would you be defending his "perspectives" then with the same vigor?