{"id":5156,"date":"2017-10-10T11:39:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/10\/pences-departure-a-stunt\/"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:39:35","slug":"pences-departure-a-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/10\/pences-departure-a-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence’s Departure a Stunt?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Damon Linker<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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While Trump and Corker took potshots at each other, Vice President Mike Pence engaged in an intentionally polarizing stunt by showing up at an Indianapolis Colts football game only to depart in a huff when players from the San Francisco 49ers (predictably) knelt in protest during the national anthem. It was an utterly gratuitous effort to sow race-based dissension and animosity in the country \u2014 the diametric opposite of the kind of behavior we normally label "presidential."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Polarizing? We are already polarized. There is no need for any polarizing. VP Pence was merely taking a stand at one of the poles, the pole of patriotism and decency and respect, and protesting the antipodean<\/a> ingratitude and disrespect of the louts who protest an imaginary 'systemic racism.' <\/span><\/p>\n

Intentionally polarizing? How does Linker know what Pence's intentions were?<\/span><\/p>\n

Stunt? Pence was courageously pushing back against destructive leftist scum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Predictably? So the louts lack free will and must be expected to engage in bad behavior?<\/span><\/p>\n

Gratuitous? Not at all. It was a warranted response to the loutish behavior of know-nothings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Effort to sow race-based dissension? Again, how does Linker know what Pence's intentions were? And again, the dissension already exists. There's no need for any sowing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Race-based?  What does race have to do with this?  Pence was standing up against unpatriotic behavior at a NATIONAL Football League event.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unpresidential? Not at all. Pence courageously took a patriotic stand. He did his job. Had he not done what he did he would have been unpresidential.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for Trump, it is eminently presidential of him to call for the elimination of NFL subsidies. <\/span><\/p>\n

It looks like we have a bit of a disagreement here.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Damon Linker: While Trump and Corker took potshots at each other, Vice President Mike Pence engaged in an intentionally polarizing stunt by showing up at an Indianapolis Colts football game only to depart in a huff when players from the San Francisco 49ers (predictably) knelt in protest during the national anthem. It was an utterly … Continue reading “Pence’s Departure a Stunt?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}