For some unknown reason Fusion TV thought it was vitally important this week to get Hillary Clinton’s take on the Washington NFL team’s nickname. Naturally, the former Sec. of State was more than happy to opine ~
“I think it’s insensitive and I think that there’s no reason for it to continue as the name of a team in our nation’s capital.”
[Now why this is a relevant political issue – unless you’re a fascist more concerned with thought-control than governance – is beyond me. But in this brave new AmeriKa of wee little attention spans and 3-second sound bites, no one has time to ponder the whys of anything anymore.]
Former Redskin tight end, and U.S. Congressional candidate, Clint Didier wasn’t about to let Ms. Clinton’s calculated affront go unremarked. On Wednesday evening he released a six-paragraph statement demanding her apology ~
“She says Redskins owners need to think hard about the name. I have to wonder if she thinks long and hard about her own insensitive remarks – like, that she can relate to the problems of most Americans because her family was ‘dead broke.’ Really?
“She does admit that she ‘hasn’t thought much about’ the Redskins, but apparently still feels the need to spout an opinion about it anyway. Maybe that’s why people don’t trust politicians – because they don’t THINK about what they say.
“Well I have thought about it lot – for 7 years when I played with the Redskins. And I knew it was a name meant to honor the Native Americans who were part of the early history of the team. We all wore the name proudly on our uniforms. Check out www.RedskinsFacts.com.
“This whole ‘name-calling’ thing is so hypocritical. A reporter at the liberal ‘Seattle Weekly’ recently took a jab at me & the people of my district, calling us ‘rednecks’ and me ‘Chief Redneck” – -but no one called him out about that. Can you say ‘hypocrisy?’ (FYI –No matter how he meant it, I choose to take it as a compliment – that I’m a hard-working farmer who gets his hands dirty every day.)
“But I won’t be sitting around holding my breath waiting for either Ms. Clinton’s or his apologies. I have alfalfa to bale tonight.”
Despite the fact that it really doesn’t matter to native Americans…
In 2004, the National Annenberg Election Survey asked 768 people who identified themselves as Indian whether they found the name “Washington Redskins” offensive. Almost 90 percent said it did not bother them.
… the Left will continue to hammer us with this issue. As Didier points out, Clinton isn’t actually offended by the name. She and her fellow progressive hypocrites don’t really care about anything but power. They’re simply looking for ways to foment discord between Americans, inventing ways to pit us against one another, inciting us to tear apart the very fabric of our nation. Evil.
