RSN: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Three Days in the Fox News Swamp

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Three Days in the Fox News Swamp 
 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter 
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "After three days of watching Fox and Friends, Hannity, America's News Headquarters, The Five, Fox Report, The Greg Gutfeld Show, MediaBuzz and others, I did better understand Trump's obsession with Fox News - and why his dependency on it is so dangerous for the country." 
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Trump Jr. Says He Wanted Russian Dirt to Determine Clinton's 'Fitness' for Office 
Maggie Haberman and Matt Apuzzo, The New York Times 
Excerpt: "Donald Trump Jr. told Senate investigators on Thursday that he set up a June 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer because he was intrigued that she might have damaging information about Hillary Clinton, saying it was important to learn about Mrs. Clinton's 'fitness' to be president." 
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Jonathan Chait | No, Donald Trump Is Not a Moderate Now 
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine 
Chait writes: "Yesterday, an impatient and irritable President Trump undermined his own party's negotiations and agreed to a debt-ceiling increase on a timetable proposed by Democrats. At that point, all hell broke loose." 
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Sheriff in Florida Wants to Use a Natural Disaster to Search Shelters for Criminals 
Joe Vesey-Byrne, The Independent 
Vesey-Byrne writes: "A sheriff in Florida, which is in the path of Hurricane Irma, has made plans to use the opportunity to catch criminals taking shelter from the extreme weather." 
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NFL's Roger Goodell on Colin Kaepernick: 'I'm Not a Football Expert' 
The Daily Beast 
Excerpt: "Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League, said Thursday that he's not a 'football expert' when asked on FS1's First Things First if controversial free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick was good enough to make an NFL roster." 
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A Two-Decade Crusade by Conservative Charities Fueled Trump's Exit From Paris Climate Accord 
Robert O'Harrow Jr., The Washington Post 
O'Harrow writes: "For nearly two decades, Ebell has led the Cooler Heads Coalition, an umbrella group of tax-exempt public charities and other nonprofit organizations in the vanguard of efforts to cast doubt on the gravity of climate change and thwart government efforts to address it." 
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Major Hurricane Jobs in Trump's Government Vacant as Second Super Storm Hits 
Franco Ordonez, McClatchy DC 
Ordonez writes: "As a second powerful storm races toward Florida, several top administration roles tasked with protecting the country's coastline from hurricanes remain vacant, underscoring the difficulty President Donald Trump has had filling his government eight months into the job." 
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RSN: David Meggyesy | Yes, Players, You Are the Game

07 September 17

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FOCUS: David Meggyesy | Yes, Players, You Are the Game 
 
David Meggyesy, Reader Supported News 
Meggyesy writes: "The only thing the NFL owners will understand is action by NFL players. Football is about solidarity, and teamwork is solidarity in action. As NFL players, you know this in your bones." 
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RSN: Roger Goodell vs. Tom Brady: The Ultimate Revenge-of-Mediocrity Story

DEFLATEGATE? 


Have we had enough? 

Football is a highly profitable, tax payer subsidized GAME. 

It's EXPENSIVE ENTERTAINMENT, FOLKS!

Guv Scott Walker slashed social programs to subsidize a kids' game...where's the protest?  

Just a few of the comments: 

# jwb110 2015-08-14 17:37

I think this is bait and switch to deflect anyone noticing how my much sports team owners make and how the sport franchises are a form of tax-exempt monopoly and while they charge thru the nose to the home team ticket buyers those same ticket buyers pay for those stadiums with their tax dollars.
I mean who are the real criminals in this bunch!?

# arquebus 2015-08-14 14:06

Who the hell cares. We are talking about a game here...just a game. Doesn't matter whether Brady or anyone else plays....or if no one plays. It's just a game mostly played by children.

# economagic 2015-08-14 19:46

Yeah, and what's with this "professional sports" business anyway? That's an oxymoron on a par with "SPORT UTILITY vehicle," which Click and Clack pointed out some 30 years ago.

 

# beeyl 2015-08-14 20:31

Do you not care when a governor – like Mr Walker – makes major cuts in social programs only to give $250,000,000 (or $450,000,000 according to some reports) to sports teams and their owners? I mean, after all, it's just a kids' game.

# arquebus 2015-08-15 13:35

I wouldn't give a dime of taxpayer's money to professional sports of any hue. If owners want new stadiums,let them build them with their own money.

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FOCUS: Matt Taibbi | Roger Goodell vs. Tom Brady: The Ultimate Revenge-of-Mediocrity Story 

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 
Taibbi writes: "The NFL Commissioner and the league's most marketable player meet in a New York courtroom Wednesday, to decide ... something?" 
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RSN: Climate Crimes and the Greenwashing of Big Business

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Naomi Klein | Climate Crimes and the Greenwashing of Big Business

Naomi Klein, Guardian UK
Klein writes: "I denied climate change for longer than I care to admit. I knew it was happening, sure. But I stayed pretty hazy on the details and only skimmed most news stories. I told myself the science was too complicated and the environmentalists were dealing with it. And I continued to behave as if there was nothing wrong with the shiny card in my wallet attesting to my 'elite' frequent-flyer status."
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Jack Shafer | Roger Goodell, NFL's Judge and Jury, Becomes His Own Executioner
Jack Shafer, Reuters
Shafer writes: "Oh, yes, let's torch and pitchfork the NFL for its handling of the Ray Rice case and not rest until NFL Commission Roger Goodell pays for his incompetence or his bad judgment - whichever proves greater - with his resignation. Then, after a good night's sleep, let's ask ourselves why, after cementing his reputation across the league as a hanging judge, did Goodell pick the Rice case to appear insufficiently authoritarian?"
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David Swanson | James Foley Is Not a War Ad
David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org
"To the extent that the U.S. public is newly, and probably momentarily, accepting of war - an extent that is wildly exaggerated, but still real - it is because of videos of beheadings of James Foley and Steven Sotloff. When 9-11 victims were used as a justification to kill hundreds of times the number of people killed on 9-11, some of the victims' relatives pushed back. Now James Foley is pushing back from the grave."
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Paul Waldman | If Republicans Want Full-Scale War, They Should Say So
Paul Waldman, The Washington Post
Waldman writes: "While there were a few Republicans who reacted favorably to President Obama's speech last night describing what we will be doing to combat ISIS, the reaction from most on the right was predictably negative. Which is fine - it's the opposition's job to oppose, after all. But when you hear what they have to say, you notice a yawning gap in their criticisms."
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How the Country Has Changed Under the Violence Against Women Act
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler writes: "The 20th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act - landmark legislation that was signed into law by President Clinton on September 13, 1994 - comes at a particularly prescient moment, as the country is engaged in a national conversation about the NFL's responsibility to adequately respond to incidences of domestic abuse perpetrated by its football players."
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Even in Romney States, More Want to Keep Obamacare Than Repeal It
Greg Sargent, The Washington Post
Sargent writes: "The new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds that even in the states carried by Mitt Romney, there is slightly more support for keeping Obamacare than repealing it."
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Republicans Vote Down Benefits for Active Duty Service Personnel, Veterans in Same-Sex Marriages
Human Rights Campaign
Excerpt: "HRC strongly condemned yesterday's vote by the Republican majority on the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs defeating an amendment that would have extended equal benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs to active duty service members and veterans legally married to someone of the same sex."
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