As has been a disturbing trend over the past few years, an athlete's shining moment is attempted to be drown out by past indiscretions or by what "progressives" deem a questionable worldview.
You're up, Daily Beast.
(O)ver the past three years, (Rivera)’s also served at the pleasure of a racist president, taken part in thinly veiled propaganda on behalf of a far-right government in Israel, and gotten chummy with outright bigots and apocalyptic loons. None of this will be inscribed on his Hall of Fame plaque. It should, even if much of the sports world would very much like to pretend none of it exists.
By the way, Rivera's "service" to President Trump includes his support of the Opioid Drug Abuse Commission as well as the President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. Why do leftists hate healthy, drug-free kids???
And "far-right" government in Israel? They're the most forward thinking state in that whole region. And current PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been democratically elected and re-elected. Now leftists hate thriving democracies too??
- If you predicted the inevitable moral collapse of the western world included a woman being labeled a bigot for refusing to wax a trans woman's scrotum, collect your winnings!
- Last year during the confirmation hearings of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, allegations surfaced of his being involved in a sexual assault 35 years earlier when he was age 17. Despite no corroborating evidence and no history of such behavior by Kavanaugh, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's accusation, we were told, was beyond reproach. All women are to be believed, due process be damned.
So now that we're more than 18 months removed from Al Franken being forced to resign his U.S. Senate seat due to multiple allegations of inappropriate touching, is the "WOKE!" crowd now reconsidering its stance on due process?
A remarkable number of Franken’s Senate colleagues have regrets about their own roles in his fall. Seven current and former U.S. senators who demanded Franken’s resignation in 2017 told me that they’d been wrong to do so. Such admissions are unusual in an institution whose members rarely concede mistakes.
What they're essentially saying is they should have rode out the storm, which would have eventually blew over (even though more accusations were likely to surface). One shining example of that is Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-VA), who has denied allegations of sexual assault against him. There were initial demands for his resignation, which he resisted. How often are we hearing about Fairfax's saga these days?
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