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Let's be honest. This tempest has nothing to do with Freedom of Speech. No one has lost their life or liberty because they voiced an unpopular opinion. The government is taking no action against them. The President merely provided We the People with a voice. He didn't alter our opinion. He merely echoed it. Furthermore, he did not take action as the leader of the government. He merely suggested that the owners exercise their proprietary rights to protect the image of the product they market. The First Amendment only bars the government from infringing on our individual freedom on conscience, our liberty to express ourselves, and to petition for redress of grievances. It has nothing to do with We the People having a conversation. It is that conversation that is at issue. NFL players want to use their notoriety to bring pressure to bear on the government to rein in police who they believe are hunting blacks and murdering them. We the fans are not impressed. We've looked at the evidence and don't agree. Sadly, the players have chosen to voice their concern through displays of disrespect to the emblems of the nation we the fans revere and we are choosing to tune them out. It's costing the team owners and the league. In this case, a team is responding by hiding the display from the fans (unsuccessfully).

You don't have to make excuses for Breitbart News or apologize. If I see something from Sputnik for from RT I still look at it objectively. Some liberals say all if it's from Fox News or if it's from Breitbart it must be fake news. Each story must have their own merits. Stories from Canada all the time that doesn't make the mainstream media. If something's from National Post or from the Globe and Mail in Canada does that make that fake news? I'm sorry safe space Seekers, you are going to hear opposing points of view. I may not agree with President Trump on many things and I actually don't watch professional football, but what I have done is gone to ramp ceremonies and what I have done is lost my first sergeant and for others to a suicide car bomber in Afghanistan. These guys may not have been born with a silver spoon in their mouth but now they have the silver spoon in their mouth and now they're being conceited and cocky. This kind of reminds me of Vanessa Redgrave in 1978 talking about the Palestinian Liberation Organization putting down the Israeli is a Zionist group after winning her Academy Award. She exercise our right to free speech but she sure lost a lot of credibility with the academy after that.

He is free. So are the Nielsen ratings. In a free-fall.