Big Blitz Posted Friday at 04:50 PM Posted Friday at 04:50 PM (edited) The author gets the developments correct. But doesn’t understand why they happened. Trump did this. Many athletes lean right already. What shifted was many black athletes during Covid lockdowns and vaccine mandates started to see government overreach. They became vocal on social media. Red pilling starts to increase. Then Trump gets indicted - again many both black and white saw the blatant political lawfare and state overreach and understood - yea that’s bull ***t. He downplays the trans issue - it’s a massive deal. But a hat tip for finally acknowledging woke is a thing: Jason Whitlock called July 16 “the day Woke Sports surrendered,” citing the Barstool-Fox tie-up and Shane Gillis’ ESPYS monologue. OutKick founder Clay Travis concurred, writing, “sane sports fans have won a major cultural battle.” But the Barstool deal wasn’t necessarily a tipping point. American sports media’s pronounced shift away from left-wing politics has been years in the making. Most would agree that the apex of the left’s influence on sports media came in 2020-21 as the COVID pandemic took hold, the Black Lives Matter movement reached its pinnacle, and the American electorate rebuked Trumpism.…. …Fast-forward four years, Donald Trump is president again, UFC CEO Dana White is planning an event at the White House, the NFL has removed its anti-racism messaging, MLB had downplayed diversity and recently returned its All-Star Game to Atlanta after relocating it four years ago due to restrictive voting legislation, Fox has purchased OutKick and partnered with Barstool, ESPN has leaned into bro culture with Pat McAfee, outlets like the left-leaning Deadspin have shuttered, star athletes are doing the Trump dance, NBA players are talking politics less frequently, and the social media platform favored by most sports fans, X, algorithmically defaults to the right-wing orthodoxy on any given topic. Rather than releasing statements that once would’ve invoked cries of “virtue signaling” from the right, leagues and media companies are now kowtowing to Trump to curry favor and/or avoid getting called out on Truth Social. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell visited the White House to announce that the NFL Draft will be hosted in Washington, D.C., in 2027. ESPN eagerly aired a statement from Trumpduring halftime of the College Football Playoff National Championship. The network’s parent company, Disney, settled a frivolous lawsuit with Trump to the tune of $16 million, as did CBS’s parent company, Paramount. Fox Corporation patriarch Rupert Murdoch sat in Trump’s luxury box during the FIFA Club World Cup along with FIFA president Gianni Infantino. PGA Tour executives and players have met with the President numerous times to try to hammer out the ongoing divide with LIV Golf. The moves by these businesses and, obviously, the reelection of Trump, signaled a cultural shift. A shift that leagues and media companies have capitalized on…. https://awfulannouncing.com/politics/right-wing-stop-acting-aggrieved-sports-media.html# Then asks the wrong question at the end regarding “now what will they complain about?” That’s not what’s led to this. Woke isn’t defeated. But it’s losing the war. A few other things - this moron has no clue what folks under 25 years old find funny. The “kids” know exactly why the KAT joke is hilarious. I’ve seen memes about it for months. The irony of LeBatard saying Gillis was being provocative just to provoke. Yea it’s called comedy. The Left can’t do comedy anymore. And the kids love Shane Gillis. Edited Friday at 04:52 PM by Big Blitz 1
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