Ever since Colin Kaepernick, then with San Francisco, began kneeling during the playing of the national anthem, the argument over what he was protesting has been a hot button political issue. Kaepernick and other players have said this was about racial inequity and injustice. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has claimed they were disrespecting the sanctity of the American flag.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Donald John Archie Bunker Trump.
Goodell stated that the league had gotten it wrong, mostly because they were afraid of the man-child now occupying the White House.
Trump's obsession with erasing the legacy of his predecessor, Barack Obama, as much as possible, has unhinged his mind even more than anyone realized. His obsession with keeping the spotlight on him as much as possible has made him unfit to remain in office.
And, then, there is a recent report that Trump's re-election campaign, and Trump himself, want the media to stop using the phrase, "tear gas".
SAY WHAT?
Apparently, the Trump administration doesn't understand what "tear gas" means or entails. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains:
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Some sad news in the world of sports:
Olympic gymnastics champion Kurt Thomas passed away at 64. Thomas was the star of the American men's gymnastics team in Montreal in 1976, but the team's efforts were overshadowed by Romanian teenage phenom Nadia Comeneci.
Some independent filmmaker thought Thomas would be a big movie star, and put him in an action movie, "Gymkata", a few years after Montreal. El bomb-o. Thomas never headlined a movie again.
NBA Hall of Famer Wes Unseld passed on earlier in the week at 74. Unseld played for the Baltimore/Washington franchise then known as the Bullets in the 70's & 80's. At 6'7", he was tiny in comparison to fellow Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain & Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Closer to home, WROW AM/FM made some quiet personnel changes at the end of May.
Weekend DJ Richie Norris and afternoon drive host Bob Johnson have left the airwaves. Norris was let go prior to the May 30 broadcast of Saturday Night at The Oldies. That block, along with Sunday Golden Memories, are now programmed automatically at the station, just as they program music from 7 pm-5:30 am weeknights.
Chris O'Neal debuted June 1 as a midday host, bumping Kevin Richards to afternoons (2-7). Richards also is heard Saturdays from 9-2, so now they go auto-program from 2-onward on Saturdays. The Sunday morning public affairs shows are in reruns except for Bob Cudmore's Talk of The Town, which was placed on hiatus in March. Cudmore, previously with WGY, is doing columns for The Recorder of Amsterdam while waiting to return to the air.
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