This past weekend the new moderator for Meet The Press did an interesting and in depth interview of a member of President Obama's administration regarding ISIL and our plans to take that on.
At the tail end of it, the moderator suddenly shifted and told the guest that he was sure that the guest had spoken to the President about football player Ray Rice and did the President have a view on the NFL's recent actions regarding Rice, and if something should be done to the commissioner of that organization.
Seriously?
While it would be contrary to what the guest stated, I hope that in serious discussions at the White House the NFL's problems or those of its player, indeed the entire topic of professional sports controversies doesn't come up. Here we're talking about war, and the moderator is asking about the NFL? Rice's actions were inexcusable, but we're talking about the life and death of thousands here in war. That's much more signficant than the NFL.
2 comments:
Oh, boy! This is exactly what I thought when the Congresspeople and the President weighed in on the issue of changing the nation's capital's football team name. Ugh! There are WAAAYYYY more important things for Congress and the President to be thinking about, discussing, debating, legislating, etc. than that! IMHO
I agree. If they are debating team names either the nation had run out of more serious problems or they are wasting time they could devote to something more pressing.
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