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Oct 08 2023

ESPN: Overpaid Athletes = Slaves

Combine professional racist Ibram X. Kendi with Disney’s ultraleft propaganda outlet ESPN and the result is Critical Race Theory taken to the last extreme of self-parody. Liberal ideology rests on the proposition that conspicuously privileged blacks are somehow oppressed. As evidence to support this preposterous lie, we are presented with professional athletes — who are paid $millions per year to play a game for a few months while basking in adulation, often even while refusing to show a modicum of respect for the flag revered by most of the audience:

Even a dim bulb like Ibram X. is bright enough to understand that Democratic Party dogma is garbage designed to manipulate idiots — just as even AOC’s alma mater Boston University is sick of getting scammed by this scoundrel. But count on Disney/ESPN to keep rubbing it in our faces so long as there are people with no better use for their time than to watch.

Ibram didn’t come up with comparing overpaid athletes to slaves on his own. The ultimate privileged ingrate Colin Kaepernick has been there and done that with Netflix, which shares Disney’s devotion to moonbattery:

On a tip from Wiggins.

Sep 20 2023

ESPN Features Professional Racist Ibram X. Kendi

Even the moonbats running Boston University are starting to back away from professional racist Ibram X. Kendi. But he can still find support even further on the left. What’s out there past academia? ESPN:

“Skin in the Game with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi” will debut on ESPN+ on Sept. 20, according to a news release from the network. The series “delves into and challenges racism in the sports world, and will reveal how pervasive racism is in sports.”

They mean racism against blacks. In the sports industry. Next, they should do a show on the epidemic of Islamophobia in Iran.

It is doubtful that he is getting $333 per minute for this, as he has for vomiting Critical Race Theory onto children. ESPN’s owner Disney has deep pockets, but not infinite resources like the government, which can always print more money when it runs out.

Kendi is associated with the term antiracism. He explains what it means:

“An antiracist policy is any measure that produces or sustains racial equity between racial groups.”

That is, antiracism is the failure to impose his racist ideology.

As for what “racist” means, Kendi can’t say.

The purpose of ESPN is to deliver leftist propaganda sugar-coated in sports. When the mind has been lulled into a stupor, there is less resistance to indoctrination. However, it has been getting so ham-fisted in its moonbattery that only someone who has already been brainwashed can watch it. Imagine trying to sit through this:

On a tip from R F.

Jul 22 2022

ESPN Gives ESPY to Traitor Eileen Gu

Treason is a moonbat’s primary impulse, so it should come as no surprise that ESPN — which is more about liberal politics than sports — has bestowed an ESPY award for “Breakthrough Athlete of the Year” on the insufferably woke Eileen Gu, a biracial American who betrayed her country to compete in the 2022 Olympics in Beijing for communist China.

From the New York Post:

Her father is American and her mother is Chinese. She won the gold medal in women’s freestyle big air — and cashed in to the tune of an estimated tens of millions of dollars in Chinese endorsement deals in the process.

Funny she chooses to live in the country she was born and grew up in, not the one she competes for — despite concluding her acceptance speech in Chinese.

Try to imagine an American with a German mother competing for the Nazis in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin — then being applauded by the establishment for it. This could not have happened. That’s why the USA defeated the Germans, but is likely to be defeated in turn by the Chinese.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Mar 19 2022

ESPN Stops Spewing Moonbattery for 2 Minutes

Believe it or not, ESPN went 2 entire minutes on air without pushing left-wing propaganda. The context is less surprising. It was a protest in favor of the indoctrination of small children into deviant sexuality.

From likeminded Yahoo Sports:

With the start of the NCAA women’s tournament on Friday, two ESPN announcers used the platform to take a stand against Florida House Bill 1557, dubbed by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

To start the second half of Friday’s game between South Carolina and Howard, ESPN’s Carolyn Peck and Courtney Lyle spoke about the bill in solidarity with their Disney colleagues. Disney owns ESPN.

Disney has been bullied by LGBT activists into opposing the Parental Rights in Education bill (or as liberals deliberately mischaracterize it, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill), which seeks to protect small children from being subjected to depraved sexual indoctrination in kindergarten through third grade. Literally no decent person who understands its contents would oppose the bill.

Lyle’s broadcast partner Carolyn Peck then introduced a moment of silence. …

Gameplay then started with Peck and Lyle declining to call the action for the first two minutes of the half.

No doubt this improved the viewing experience.

Even in a society succumbing to the rot relentlessly promoted by its degenerate ruling class, most Americans support the Florida bill. However, it is unlikely that many in sports media support it. In the Long March Through the Institutions, the conquest of sports by the radical left has been absolute. In place of patriotism, we see ballplayers kneeling as if in worship to explicitly anti-American Marxist scumbags as they loot small businesses and tear down statues of the Founding Fathers. In place of sportsmanship, we see a jerk pretending to be a girl ruining competitive swimming for all the real girls.

This moonbattery is driven largely by sports media. Physically inadequate to be athletes and mentally inadequate to work as proper journalists, many of the hacks comprising sports media seem to wallow in a resentful, safe-hating mentality that is a perfect fit for liberal ideology. Their obsessively woke viewpoint sets the tone for television coverage.

On a tip from Bluto.

Dec 17 2020

ESPN’s Domonique Foxworth Denounces Old Glory

Was it an exaggeration to say that if the Confederate flag can be made illegal in New York, Old Glory herself may be designated a hate symbol? Unfortunately, no. ESPN — the tip of the spear for leftist propaganda on television — has already designated the American flag as politically unclean.

ESPN host Domonique Foxworth made our flag’s status clear while denouncing Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen:

“I would be 100 percent lying if I said that when Josh does something dumb, a little part of me doesn’t get happy. … It’s because the people who are telling me that Josh is the Second Coming, and Josh is better than everybody are people with American flags and dogs and skull and crossbones.”

The leftist sports media establishment has spoken: the American flag is the equivalent of the Jolly Roger. Dogs too are politically suspect, but maybe dogs named “Barack” are okay.

On a tip from Varla.

Jan 20 2024

Sports Illustrated Went Woke and Goes Broke

The liberal establishment insidiously exploits sports media to inculcate moonbat ideology into audiences that let down their intellectual defenses because they are not expecting politics. The most egregious examples are ESPN (e.g., here, here, here, here, here) and Sports Illustrated. The former has Disney’s vast fortunes behind it. The latter is learning the truth of the maxim “Get woke, go broke”:

The Arena Group – which publishes Sports Illustrated – has informed employees that a ‘significant number, possibly all, of the Guild-represented workers at SI’ will be laid off.

No wonder moonbats hate capitalism. It forces you to acknowledge how the numbers add up. SI’s numbers add up to doom:

It comes as a result of Authentic Brands Group (ABG), the group that purchased Sports Illustrated for $110million in 2019, ending its agreement with Arena to publish in both print and digital.

Arena missed a $2.8m payment as part of the licensing agreement three weeks ago.

This comes in the aftermath of SI reportedly using AI to write its material. More devastating to the brand has been the focus on force-feeding moonbattery.

The formerly iconic swimsuit issue has repeatedly featured on its cover men posing as women in gag-inducing attempts to seduce readers into LGBTism.

The leftist publication has informed readers that coaches exercising their First Amendment rights by praying to God constitute an “erosion of a bedrock of American democracy.”

It has been pushing the global warming hoax for years, even screeching that the imaginary climate crisis is killing football players; as with all global catastrophes, politically favored blacks are “disproportionately affected.”

Trust the free market to provide alternatives that stick to sports.

On a tip from Ed McAninch.

Sep 12 2023

Profiles in Countermoonbattery: David Wells

Kneeling to Black Lives Matter as it looted businesses and tore down statues of the Founding Fathers marked the total capitulation of professional baseball to the radical left, rendering the sport unwatchable. Back in the day, you could like and admire baseball players — especially no-nonsense countermoonbats like David Wells of the New York Yankees:

Wells appeared at the 75th Old-Timers’ Day at Yankee Stadium on Saturday – which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the 1998 Bronx Bombers squad that won 125 games and captured the World Series.

Wells covered up the Nike logo with medical tape on his Yankees jersey for Old Timers’ Day because he disagrees with the sneaker company’s politics.

Wells declared, “I hate Nike! They’re woke!”

That they are. Their logo on a uniform is a desecration.

According to The Athletic, “He said that if he were playing today, he would have cut a hole into his jersey and worn it on the field like that rather than display Nike’s logo on his body.”

Unsurprisingly, Boomer does not drink Bud Light, the brand that chained itself to the nightmarishly repulsive personification of liberal manhood Dylan Mulvaney.

If anyone is more woke even than the leftist kooks running Nike, it could only be the quintessential moonbat Keith Olbermann. He and Wells don’t seem to hit it off:

Seeking a rebuttal, Olberman tagged Wells on the X social media platform along with a screenshot of the former star pitcher voicing his displeasure with Bud Light.

Olbermann tweeted, “Bulls**t. @BoomerWells33 would drink wood alcohol. Another f***ing fraud.”

Wells struck back at Olbermann with a home run response, “Keith shut the f*** up. Just because you never played the game and all you did was work for ESPN and talk s**t on all of us players because you have a degree in journalism makes you an expert on putting athletes down. And that’s if you even have a degree. Stick to your politics.”

It will be some time before Olbermann can sit comfortably after such a well-placed kick in the pants.

On tips from Varla and seaoh.

Aug 08 2023

Why USA Was Right to Cheer Women’s Soccer Loss

It was sad to see America cheer that its own team had lost the World Cup in women’s soccer. Jason Whitlock explains why it was right to cheer:

On Sunday, with a chance to off Sweden with a penalty kick, Rapinoe missed the entire net wide right. She smirked and laughed in embarrassment. Two other U.S. women missed their kicks as well. But those women earned their spots on the roster. Rapinoe was on the team and on the field because of social pressure and a never-ending marketing campaign. She hadn’t earned the right to fail. The opportunity was bestowed on her.

Did the ultrapoliticized sports establishment learn from this? Doubtful:

When it was over, when the No. 1-ranked team in the world completed its epic collapse, supporters of “The Great Gay Hope” refused to pivot. ESPN aired a three-minute feature story on Rapinoe narrated by her “fiancee,” WNBA player Sue Bird.

ESPN is not about sports. It is about moonbattery. The same goes for all institutions that have been infiltrated, subverted, and subordinated to their agenda by leftists.

Rapinoe confirmed that she is less an athlete than a left-wing activist:

When asked for her greatest memory of her “legendary” career, she pointed to the lawsuit she and her teammates filed against the U.S. Soccer Federation over alleged pay inequality. Gender pay inequality is a myth and a lie, no different from other popular corporate media narratives like climate change and the alleged genocidal homicide of unarmed black men.

But the truth is irrelevant in the making of an Alphabet Mafia icon. Megan Rapinoe is the George Floyd of soccer.

Her narcissistic, anti-American pose corroded the team’s morale, resulting in the historic loss.

Could you imagine Joe Montana or Michael Jordan summarizing their careers by referencing a contract dispute?

Rapinoe is a fraud. She’s the Colin Kaepernick of soccer. Her attitude poisoned the women’s national soccer team. Let’s hope her side effects don’t linger.

Unfortunately, the side effects might. Leftists who find success pull the ladder up after them so that others can’t follow. The George Floyd/Colin Kaepernick of soccer pulls up the ladder by calling for men to be allowed to play on women’s teams. If this insanity prevails, the sport she exploited by using it to convert sexual perversion into fame and fortune will be destroyed for other women.

Or maybe the loss will help inspire us to finally reject the vile mentality Rapinoe personifies. We can hope. Also, we can laugh:

On a tip from Varla.

Jul 30 2023

Transgender Rugby Player Injures Real Women

Remember when transvestite Fallon Fox gave a woman a concussion and broke her eye socket while competing as a member of the opposite sex in mixed martial arts? Pushback was insufficient, so now we read about Canadian rugby player Ash Davis:

Via Reduxx:

The identity of the man involved in the incident has now been confirmed as Ash Davis, who previously played in the men’s division of the club and had been awarded the “hardest hitter” designation during the Senior Awards Banquet just last year.

According to a source within the rugby club, there has been “much opposition” to Davis’ participation in the women’s category, but club members are concerned about speaking up out of “fear of being labeled transphobic.”

Mr Davis evidently still takes the field against women.

Good thing this isn’t the olden days. Davis would have to deal with the women’s husbands. They might not be as easy to injure.

At least in the UK there has been resistance:

Trans women are not women. Failure to defend this obvious fact in the face of LGBT bullying is getting women hurt.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

May 23 2023

Fox News Requests Bud Light Treatment

Leftists enjoy crushing their opposition in a full frontal assault in the tradition of Joseph Stalin, but when that isn’t expedient, they use the Antonio Gramsci approach of infiltrating and subverting institutions they oppose. Progressive bête noire Fox News is a case in point. The liberal establishment inflicted serious damage with the Dominion lawsuit, directly costing FNC nearly $800 million and forcing it to fire its #1 attraction. But the death blow that kills Fox will be delivered from within.

The Daily Signal has gotten ahold of a company handbook revealing that Fox News complies obediently with LGBT mandates, specifying that men can use the women’s restroom, can show up for work dressed in women’s clothes, and must be referred to with female pronouns if they so demand. Employees are encouraged to become transsexual through a “Workplace Transition Plan.”

The revelations [come] amid conservative consternation at Fox Digital’s use of activist language like “gender affirming care” in stories on its website, as well as the site’s consistent use of female pronouns for biological males like TikTok celebrity Dylan Mulvaney and swimmer Lia Thomas (formerly known as Will Thomas).

Imagine trusting a media source that arrogantly lies to your face, even when it clearly knows you know it is lying. This is the case when “journalists” refer to guys like Mulvaney and Thomas as “she.” They express open contempt for their audience and force you to wonder what else they are lying about.

It isn’t just a rule of thumb; it is an iron clad law. No outlet that knowingly refers to people by the wrong pronouns in order to comply with LGBTism can be regarded as a reliable source of information.

What now passes for journalism borders on a crime against humanity:

Fox also drew strong backlash for a June 2022 on-air segment praising a child’s gender transition as an “inspiration to others.” That segment briefly depicted California state Sen. Scott Weiner, a far-left Democrat who led the move to soften sex offender registry requirements for sodomy with minors, and highlighted the activist claim that a child might commit suicide if he or she is not permitted to transition.

The pernicious effect extends beyond the Fox News viewership to compromise conservatives in general. Matt Walsh and Steve Deace explain how:

Disney’s leftist propaganda outlet ESPN is particularly insidious because it circumvents intellectual defenses by disguising the moonbattery under a sugar coating of sports coverage. FNC is more insidious still, hiding the woke poison in conservative lite pablum.

Those who rock the liberal establishment boat soon end up over the gunwale — e.g., Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, and Glenn Beck.

Carlson had to fight FNC brass to get the eloquent opponent of LGBTism Walsh on his show. Walsh notes that there is “no daylight at all between Fox News and MSNBC when it comes to gender” and adds,

“If it were up to me, Fox would get the Bud Light treatment.”

Fox is even more vulnerable that Anheuser-Busch, having a customer base that consists almost entirely of people sick of being force-fed liberalism.

On a tip from Franco.

Apr 07 2023

Swimmer Riley Gaines Assaulted by Transsexuals

Not all transsexual violence is taken to the extreme of mass murder. Lesser violence is more likely to be employed in attempts to intimidate resistance:

Swimmer Riley Gaines says she was “ambushed and physically hit” and forced to barricade for three hours from a mob of trans-rights protesters who stormed her speech about protecting women’s sports.

The 12-time All-American champ — a former competitor of controversial trans swimmer Lia Thomas -— shared alarming footage of cops hustling her to safety late Thursday at San Francisco State University.

Despite her overwhelming disadvantage, Gaines has managed to tie Will “Lia” Thomas, a transsexual bully who enjoys taking his clothes off in the women’s locker room and stealing trophies that rightly belong to female competitors. ESPN reveres him.

Gaines’ footage — as well as other clips shared on social media — show security and university staff blocking the angry mob from following the distressed guest speaker as she’s taken to a safe room at 8:30 p.m.

We now live in a country where women who believe that only women should compete in women’s sports have to be taken to safe rooms to protect them from mobs of perverted freaks who know they have liberal establishment behind them.

At 11:21 p.m., officers announced through a bullhorn that the gathering was an unlawful congregation and those refusing to leave would be arrested.

Gaines was finally able to leave at 11:38 p.m. — more than 3 hours after being first led to safety — with a huge police presence to stop her from being followed…

Fumes her husband Louis Barker,

“She was under police protection and was still hit by a man wearing a dress.”

But Gaines came through the experience all the stronger. Good thing Elon Musk took over Twitter, or this would have been censored:

On a tip from Jack D.

Mar 27 2023

Media Praises Transsexuals for Destroying Women’s Sports

For decades, feminism and leftism were in perfect sync. Feminists played a major role in vitiating American society by undermining the family and promoting sexual profligacy. They have served their purpose; cultural engineers are through with them now. To be woke is to despise women. A Disney-owned leftist propaganda outlet that sugar-coats political indoctrination by wrapping it in sports makes this clear:

As part of its Women’s History Month campaign, ESPN ran a minute-long promo Sunday featuring Lia Thomas — a biological male who competed on the women’s swim team at the University of Pennsylvania.

The gag-inducing segment praises Thomas as though bullying his way into the women’s locker room were somehow admirable and “celebrates Thomas’ championship in the women’s 500 freestyle.”

That is, ESPN wipes its messy behind on Women’s History Month by praising a perverted jerk who has helped to destroy women’s sports.

In other news from what’s left of women’s sports,

A former women’s cycling champion angrily quit the sport after losing to a transgender rider…

[Hannah Arensman] said that it “has become increasingly discouraging to train as hard as I do only to have to lose to a man with the unfair advantage of an androgenized body that intrinsically gives him an obvious advantage over me, no matter how hard I train.”

“I feel for young girls learning to compete and who are growing up in a day when they no longer have a fair chance at being the new record holders and champions in cycling,” she wrote.

While Arensman fumes with understandable rage,

[T]rans cyclist Tiffany Thomas, 47, was photographed with her arms aloft in victory at the top of the podium at the Randall’s Island Crit — at least her 20th win since she started racing in 2018

By “her,” they mean “his.” The media’s use of female pronouns to refer to a guy who has been ruining races for legitimate competitors emphasizes that nothing journalist say can be taken at face value.

“Tiffany” says he feels “like a superhero” because of the way defeating women at cycling stokes his ego.

Stay tuned for next year’s Women’s History Month, which is likely to feature ESPN heaping obsequious praise on Tiffany Thomas — assuming anyone remembers there was once such a thing as women’s sports next year.

On tips from Wiggins and Steve T.

Dec 22 2022

Britney Griner Follow-up

Let’s have some follow-up on Britney Griner, a violator of Russian drug laws for whom Biden traded an infamous arms dealer likely to get Americans killed, while leaving more deserving Americans incarcerated in Russia because Griner is a sacred Lesbian of Color.

Via the Comeback:

Griner has since announced her intentions to return to the Phoenix Mercury this season after the WNBA paid her entire 2022 salary while incarcerated.

That is, the NBA will pay her salary for not playing while serving part of a prison sentence for committing a crime abroad. The WNBA does not generate enough revenue to pay for her hashish oil.

Griner’s welcome party in her collegiate town of Baylor, Texas, at a church minutes away from the campus on which she won a national championship, was only attended by 20 celebrators, according to an ESPN profile of the event.

Twenty people isn’t much of a turnout for a national hero like Britney Griner. Maybe vast crowds wanted to attend, but they couldn’t find the town of Baylor, Texas because it doesn’t exist (although there is a Baylor County). More likely, people would have found their way to Waco (where the event was held, home of Baylor University) if they had cared to.

Like everything about the culture that is presented to us as our own by the liberal ruling class, Britney Griner the national hero is a sham. She would not even stand for our national anthem and does not represent America.

On a tip from Lyle.

Dec 15 2022

Vintage Hate Hoax: Mandy Powers Norrell

This Vintage Hate Hoax originally appeared on Moonbattery December 23, 2019:

Democrat pols are supposed to impose moonbat ideology, not be dumb enough to actually believe in it. Yet congresscritter Mandy Powers Norrell (D-SC) not only fell for the 4chan okay sign hoax, she even proved unable to distinguish a right-side-up okay say (laughingly said to make a WP for white power by 4chan pranksters) from the upside-down version that indicates someone is playing the Circle Game. She was quick to attack West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen, potentially subjecting them to ruined careers over nothing, but has not been quick to apologize, despite calls for her to do so. Read more »

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