{"id":52177,"date":"2021-02-12T07:18:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52177"},"modified":"2021-02-12T07:41:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:41:21","slug":"msm-bangs-tom-brady-for-supporting-trump-and-being-white-you-cant-make-this-stuff-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52177","title":{"rendered":"MSM Bangs Tom Brady for &#8216;Supporting Trump&#8217; and Being &#8216;White&#8217; &#8212; You can&#8217;t make this stuff up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p><strong>SOTN Editor&#8217;s Note<\/strong>: A perceptive SOTN reader made the following excellent observations regarding the never-ending Tom Brady psyop.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Although I agree that all pro sports are completely rigged:<br \/>\nTake a slightly different approach to the SuperBowl.<br \/>\nWhy did they let an OLD WHITE guy win his SEVENTH Championship?<br \/>\nShouldn&#8217;t the Young Black man triumph in the name of Equality and Diversity?<br \/>\nWas this allowed to increase racial tensions?<br \/>\nIs Brady in on the scam? Nor wearing a mask to create further divides between &#8216;Coviteers&#8217; and &#8216;Covidiots&#8217; and Folks with Common Sense??<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Just another take.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thanks. J<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>USA Today column argues Tom Brady has gotten &#8216;undeserved pass&#8217; for supporting Trump, cites &#8216;white privilege&#8217;<\/h1>\n<h3>Nancy Armour wrote a similar column in 2017 that argued Brady has &#8216;some explaining to do&#8217; for Trump ties<\/h3>\n<p>By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">With\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/tom-brady\">Tom Brady<\/a>\u00a0days away from playing in his tenth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/news-events\/super-bowl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Super Bowl<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/usa-today-fact-check-democrats-covid-hypocrisy-missing-context\">USA Today<\/a>\u00a0sports columnist has taken aim at the NFL superstar over his past support\u00a0of former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\">President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/columnist\/nancy-armour\/2021\/02\/02\/super-bowl-2021-tom-brady-doesnt-deserve-pass-trump-support\/4358829001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece published Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0headlined, &#8220;Tom Brady has gotten an undeserved pass for his past support of Donald Trump,&#8221; Nancy Armour accused the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback of being &#8220;happy to talk politics until he wasn\u2019t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Armour cited the presence of a &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; hat in Brady&#8217;s locker while he was a member of the New England Patriots and previous comments he made supporting his &#8220;friend&#8221; Trump before insisting it&#8217;s no longer convenient to talk about the 45th president now that he&#8217;s out of office and facing a second impeachment trial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How mighty white [sic] of him,&#8221; Armour wrote. &#8220;Brady\u2019s ability to enter and exit the debate at his choosing, to shield himself from accountability, is the height of white [sic] privilege. As this country grapples with the far reaches of systemic racism, look no further than Brady, for whom the expectations, and allowances granted, will always be different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Armour agreed with comments made by Pro Football\u00a0Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe, who argued that someone like LeBron James would never get away with being associated with someone like Nation of Islam leader and famed anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan the way Brady has associated with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In theory, it should not matter whether Brady supports Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or someone somewhere in between on the political spectrum. He has a right to his private views,&#8221; Armour wrote. &#8220;But it was Brady himself who chose to make those private views public. If you think that MAGA hat just happened\u00a0to wind up in his locker\u00a0\u2013 at camera level, not buried at the bottom beneath a pile of cleats and clothes \u2013\u00a0I have a case of TB12 supplements to sell you. Brady has carefully cultivated his image over his 21-year career, whether it be his style or his social media posts, and he knew just what kind of reaction he would get.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brady has had the chance \u2013 several, in fact \u2013 to clarify or walk back his comments and has chosen not to &#8230;\u00a0Instead, Brady has been allowed to divorce himself from it while Black athletes are made to own their views in perpetuity,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It might seem petty to bring up Brady&#8217;s moral cowardice now, when the 43-year-old is accomplishing things unlikely to ever be seen again in the NFL. But celebrating what he&#8217;s done while turning a blind eye to what he has not is a privilege Brady does not deserve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Armour, who wrote a similar column prior to Super Bowl 51\u00a0in 2017 that insisted that Brady &#8220;has some explaining to do&#8221; and &#8220;no longer gets a pass on his friendship with Donald Trump,&#8221; promoted\u00a0her latest effort\u00a0on Twitter, writing &#8220;Tom Brady\u2019s politics aren\u2019t the problem. It\u2019s his refusal to recognize that his ability to enter and exit the debate when he chooses, to shield himself from accountability, is a privilege that Black and brown athletes don\u2019t have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/usa-today-column-tom-brady-undeserved-pass-for-supporting-trump\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/usa-today-column-tom-brady-undeserved-pass-for-supporting-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOTN Editor&#8217;s Note: A perceptive SOTN reader made the following excellent observations regarding the never-ending Tom Brady psyop. Although I agree that all pro sports are completely rigged: Take a slightly different approach to the SuperBowl. Why did they let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=52177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}