Friday, October 28, 2016

Polling suggests National Anthem Protest causing NFL Ratings decline...

BOSTON (CBS) — There are many reasons why the NFL’s ratings are down in 2016. You may be dismissive of the very idea that the backlash to the national anthem protests, sparked by the 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick, has played a role in the NFL’s TV ratings, which have dropped by about 12 percent year-over-year. To continue to dismiss that is to blatantly ignore legitimate data on the subject.

A fresh poll from Seton Hall surveyed 841 adults across the U.S. Each respondent was asked to identify seven separate factors as a reason for the NFL ratings drop, allowing them to answer “yes” or “no” for each of them. The leading factor, according to the poll, was the national anthem protests, which scored “yes” at a rate of 56 percent.
Other answers also scored “yes” at a high rate, including 50 percent of “yeses” for coverage of the presidential election, 47 percent for the league’s handling of domestic violence cases, 44 percent for the over-saturation of the market, 39 percent for increased interest in postseason baseball, and 33 percent for controversy over head injuries and player safety.
Interestingly enough, the lowest score, tied with player safety at 33 percent, was “a decline in quality of play on the field.” Many would cite this as the overriding factor to all of this, and it certainly is factoring in. It’s easier to turn the games off for other reasons if the games aren’t fun to watch in the first place.

Yeah, suggesting that Colin Kaepernick and gang are the reason why people are tuning out from the NFL is considered "politically incorrect" in most circles. But the bottom line here folks is that many Americans are simply fed up with these sort of antics and incredibly tired of the identity politics pushed by the left. The fact that it has now bled over into professional sports is sad in the eyes of many.

It may seem somewhat dismissive and simplistic to  suggest that there is any sort of solution to simply "making America great again".  But it's really nothing more than a counter to the alternative reality of the left. A reality where we must all agree that the very fiber of our society is rooted in micro-aggression, triggers, systemic racism, and subconscious bigotry. Where we must accept that no matter what we do, someone somewhere is likely to take offense, and it's pretty much all our fault.

The never ending list of aggrieved victims stepping forward to demand their just rewards for their very existence is wearing. But to realize that there simply isn't anywhere to go anymore where we can all just come together as Americans is what is truly exhausting.    

43 comments:

caliphate4vr said...

Uh Oh! CNN has the queen of cankles down to 272 in the EC

caliphate4vr said...

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wphamilton said...

I kind of expected this to be the case, just based on my own reactions. You know, I don't really care about kneeling during the anthem, or sitting on the bench, scratching their butt or any other disrespectful behavior we've seen. Normally, it's just the tradition, something they've got to get through before the game starts. The football players don't care, aren't even thinking about it, and we all know that. No big deal.

But as a deliberate political statement, that doesn't sit well. These players have been pampered since High School and still are, given every possible opportunity, showered with money. The guy raking in millions in salary, millions for just showing up, pointing a finger at all the rest of us? He's paid as an entertainer, with world class specialized physical skills to be sure but still an entertainer, with literally nothing to suggest that he has a clue about anything he's complaining about. The natural reaction is, the heck with that.

Free speech is fine but if I'm watching a football game I don't want to see some bozo exploiting the celebrity status we've all gifted him with, to insult basically all of us. I'll probably turn off the video feed. If I feel that way, and not really caring what the guy thinks or does, it's not surprising that a lot of people would react that way.

wphamilton said...

Caliphate, the invoiced asking price for an ultrasound imaging on my wife's foot was ten times the contractual amount paid by our insurance company. It begs the question, if they can contract that price and still make a profit, how can they demand so much from everyone else? Supply and demand is broken somewhere in that chain, and maybe that's why health care costs are spiking, and have been for decades.

caliphate4vr said...

Supply and demand is always broken when the government pays such large portions of the expenses.

Look at the cost of higher education, the more government pays the higher costs go

Increased Tuition Subsidies Increase The Price Of College Tuition

EVERY time the government sticks its nose in something it screws it up

KD, Hillary Plan Punish People With Higher Penalties said...

Cali, I have repeatedly thank you from the beginning for posting the REAL state of O'HillaryCare.

Hillary's Team has the fix, Punish the deplorable's with ever Higher Penalties.

How dare Millions of Free People Ignore the Law of the land.

wphamilton said...

I don't think that the government is paying anything for my insurance, and if they did subsidize it the health care providers could charge them more, not less.

No, it's broken somewhere else. Perhaps it's because someone with an immediate, urgent medical need doesn't have the time nor negotiating position to shop around for a free market price, and are therefore in a position similar to a contract of adhesion whereas the insurance company has both the leverage and time.

KD, Punish Free Americans said...

EVERY time the government sticks its nose in something it screws it up.

Yep, look at US Home Ownership, it has done nothing but go down , as Obimbo has poured more Billions into it.


Black home ownership is at a historic low.

Blacks have less in savings.

Blacks need to wake the fuck up, see how Progressivism is killing them economically.

KD said...

“You’ve got this crazy system where all the sudden 25 million more people have healthcare and then the people are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half,” Clinton said.

caliphate4vr said...

I didn't say the government paid any of your insurance doesn't mean their meddling doesn't affect your costs

Have a good weekend I'm off to Jax UGA-FL

Go DAWGS!!

KD, Hillary Hate Explodes Again said...

Well coming off the lovely term she coined to call Trump Supporters "Basket of Deplorables" we get her view of Millennials.

You know those people that she stole from Bernie by rigging the DEM system of Selecting their Canidate for pResident.

Well, she lets it fly , calling the Millennials "'F*cking Dumb' Young People... "

Really, are the Blacks, Hispanics and now the Millennials going to really let her rig this system all the way to be the first cunny?

Loretta said...

Well said.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

9:02, meaning, Caliphoney, that Clinton wins EVEN if she is unable to win even one of the battleground states.

BUT that she will not win either Florida or (especially) North Carolina or both is somewhat dubious.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

***EVERY time the government sticks its nose in something it screws it up***
______________

I think WWII was pretty successful.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

State Poll Roundup Today (so far)

Arizona: Clinton 48%, Trump 46%, Johnson 5% (Saguaro Strategies)

Missouri: Trump 47%, Clinton 42%, Johnson 3% (Mason Dixon)

Virginia: Clinton 46%, Trump 39% (Christopher Newport University)

Florida: Clinton 48%, Trump 44% (PPP)

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

U.S. Economic Growth Accelerates

“U.S. economic growth accelerated last quarter, easing fears of a near-term slowdown but doing little to change the trajectory of a long but weak expansion,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Gross domestic product expanded at a 2.9% annual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said. That was stronger growth than the second quarter’s pace of 1.4%. Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal expected growth at a 2.5% pace for the July-to-September period. Last quarter’s growth rate was the fastest recorded in two years.”

Commonsense said...

Yeah, the Nazies were so successful they conquor the entire European continent and killed over six million people when it was all said and done.

That kind of "success" I can do without.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Two More States Move Towards Clinton

Cook Political Report:
“Last week, we moved seven states towards Clinton. This week, we are moving two additional states in her direction, giving her an advantage of 293 electoral votes — 23 more than required to win.”

Loretta said...

Have fun!

Loretta said...

James will still spam.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

We faced formidable foes and won.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Believe it or not, I actually agree, largely if not completely, with the following:
__________

Why Democrats Need a Stronger Republican Party

Catherine Rampell:
“The end of a principled, intellectually coherent, organizationally robust center-right party is bad for democracy. It’s also bad for Democrats, given some of the dumb ideas flourishing on the left that desperately need a thoughtful counterweight.

"But even on priorities on which liberals are likely to make progress, the lack of an honest, articulate, respected adversary is troubling. That’s because liberals need a worthy intellectual rival to sharpen their thinking and keep their own bad ideas in check. Right now a number of bad ideas booming on the left need a credible, coherent, megaphoned rebuttal. These are ideas that may sound nice and perhaps appear helpful. But pursuing many of them would be, at best, irrelevant and ineffective, a waste of time and resources; at worst, they would be actively harmful to the marginalized groups that bleeding-heart liberals claim to champion.”
________
As I said, I agree to a large degree with that, if not completely.

Democracy and the democratic system need competition and balance from a party that is not bonkers.

Right now, the GOP is partly strife torn and all too largely bonkers.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

I agree with Noam Bramson, who says Democrats should work to defeat the Republican party on November 8 and then start working to save it on November 9.

Exact quote:
"Work to beat the Republican party on November 8 and to save it starting November 9."

KD, When Hillary Losses said...

Obama: Most will be ‘pleasantly surprised’ by health plan costs"

you might think a guy as delusional as the above made that statement years ago, when this "Train Wreck"*Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont* , nope, the ONE BIG OBimbo still Believes.

KD, What if Hillary Loses said...

“f**king dumb” young people" Clinton


Well, those young bright Americans, are not voting for you, and they are not signing up for the punitive O'Hillary Care.

I have faith.


IF, Hillary's Losses, what will the left do then?

Will they burn the MutherFucker Down?

Why is BlackLivesMatter a NO-SHOW, in these closing weeks, they have gone into hiding. Showing that the Progressive created them and treat them like slaves.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

NOAM BRANSON* SAYS:
Work To Beat The GOP On November 8 And To Save It Starting November 9

Barring an unprecedented collapse at the finish line, Hillary Clinton is about to make history as the next President of the United States. Democrats are a better-than-even bet to take the Senate and have a small outside shot at the heavily-gerrymandered House. Even deep-red states like Arizona and Utah are in play.

After this wretched 18-month root canal of a campaign, during which the terms of our national civic dialogue were set mainly by Donald Trump’s toxic Twitter feed, there is a certain grim satisfaction in watching the GOP dramatically implode. Never has a party more richly earned and deserved defeat, and Democrats can be forgiven a little gleeful anticipation in the home stretch.

But we are wrong to take pleasure or solace in the Republican collapse, because the GOP’s grave illness will continue posing a frightening risk to American institutions long after November 8th. When one of America’s two major political parties rejects the norms of liberal democracy, then liberal democracy itself is threatened.

The origins of the GOP’s illness are no mystery. For two generations, the Republican elite treated their alt-right, White Nationalist supporters like a restive racehorse to be ridden to victory and then sent to munch on oats in the stable between elections. Meanwhile, the jockey enjoyed cocktails in the clubhouse. If you spend years stoking racial populism to scare up votes, while simultaneously pursuing high-end tax cuts, free trade agreements, and entitlement reductions, don’t be surprised when your political coalition turns angry and unstable.

Trump has been a catalyzing agent. Upending this whole cynical game in spectacular fashion, he exposed the agenda of the Republican elite as completely lacking mass support and exposed the Republican elites themselves as outnumbered by (and politically non-competitive without) their White Nationalist base. Indeed, more than just exposing, Trump has inverted the relationship. The horse has become the rider. This fully explains the neutered paralysis of top GOP officeholders, who privately acknowledge that Trump is an unqualified monster, yet cannot disengage from him.

By openly presenting to the world a face that repels a whole lot of people in the political middle, Republicans squandered their chance to win the presidency this year, and they will remain a debilitated party going forward. But here’s what’s important: they are not fatally debilitated.

In a two-party political system like ours, a major party nominee is never out of contention. That’s the unmistakable lesson of this election, in which strong partisan loyalty has kept things close for the most flagrantly unfit candidate in history.

Moreover, nearly every presidential election comes down to a contest of “Change” vs. “More-of-the-Same,” meaning that the party of “Change,” even if hobbled, is always just a single bad recession or a single lurid scandal away from victory. If the present contest were unfolding in the midst of a deep economic downturn, or if President Obama’s approval rating were in the 30s instead of the 50s, it seems likely that Trump would be leading.

Finally, in future elections, it is entirely possible that the alt-right, White Nationalist plurality within the Republican Party will find a more appealing delivery vehicle for its views: a strong-fisted champion of the Fortress America entho-state, but without any of the unpleasant groping and grifting of You-Know-Who.

So don’t believe for a second that this new incarnation of the GOP can’t win a national election. It can win, and given enough time and enough rolls of the historical/economic dice, it eventually will win.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

This makes the Republican Party, in its current injured, squalid form, the most dangerous political organization on Earth — not, to be clear, because it somehow rivals ISIS, or Hamas, or the North Korean regime, or other such murderous entities in the malevolence of its intent; rather, because its sheer proximity to power gives it vastly greater capacity to inflict harm. No other group on the planet is a single election away from controlling the world’s largest economy, strongest military, and loudest megaphone. No other group could plausibly usher in a dark age on a global scale.

Prior Republican leaders may have advocated and implemented lousy and cruel public policy, but at least they believed in the fundamental norms of democratic governance, frowned upon overt racism and misogyny, and proved capable of peacefully, even graciously, transferring power. It was all crudely comforting, because as long as the White Nationalists never had any chance of directly calling the shots - as long as the horse and rider maintained their positions - there wasn’t any real threat to the essential fabric of America’s institutions.

That’s over. And now for however long one of our major parties is dominated by White Nationalism, every Presidential election will be an existential crisis for democracy. It will be 2016, over and over and over again.

Diagnosis is often easier than treatment, and there’s no obvious cure for this patient. It is wishful thinking to believe that Trump is a one-off who won his nomination primarily because of a fractured field. Combine the dwindling band of Republican main street moderates, national security realists, and boardroom free marketeers, and they still don’t add up to a viable, competitive party - not without the alt-right. They can’t put enough troops in the field; there’s not a big enough traditional-right and center-right constituency in America. That’s why the Republican political calculus depended on alt-right, White Nationalist support in the first place.

But those who care about the health and endurance of American democracy, including Democrats with a partisan interest in weak opposition, should still earnestly pray for the success of capable, sane GOP leadership. The GOP needs to be healed.

To a degree that may be galling for the triumphant Democrats and unprecedented in our history, it is the losing party that holds the future in its hands. The fate of the Republic and the fate of the Republicans have become one and the same.

For the sake of America, work to beat the GOP on November 8th, then work to save the GOP on November 9th.
______
*Mayor of New Rocelle, NY

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

*BRAMSON

Myballs said...

New highly damaging audio tape of Hillary is out. In it she proposes rigging the Palestinian election.

And comey is opening up the fbi email investigation.

She's toast.

KD< FBI COMEY ROUND 2 said...

IS COMEY taking a 2nd Bite at the Apple?

"James Comey said in a Friday letter.


"In previous congressional testimony, I referred to the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had completed its investigation of former Secretary Clinton's personal email server. Due to recent developments, I am writing to supplement my previous testimony," Comey wrote.

"In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation. I am writing to inform you that the investigative team briefed me on this yesterday, and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation," he added. "
OCTOBER 28th, 2016
Opening another Criminal Investigation.

KD, Comey Criminal Investigation said...

Balls, At some point you have to believe even the Progressives will get tired of covering for HER.

I mean , what happen to the clear thinking Democrats that once Ran the Party?

Loretta said...

"OCTOBER 28th, 2016
Opening another Criminal Investigation."

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

KD, Comey must have something to do this now said...

NBC News reported that the agency was reopening the investigation and shared a letter from FBI director James Comey informing key lawmakers of the investigation."

Cable news is making this story their LEAD Story.

It just could not happen at a better TIME FOR TRUMP.

Does anyone know her schedule, because she can not hide from this, IF their is an HONEST Reporter Left in the USA, he/she will ask her about this with follow up questions.

This still has not been posted on DizzyKOS, HuffingtonPostal or a few other leftist site I visit.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

RCP OBAMA
APPROVAL/DISAPPROVAL
plus 11, Gallup----- 54/43
plus 12, Pew-------- 54/42
plus 11, Rasmuss. 55/44
plus 12, CNN/ORC 55/43

wphamilton said...

Do we have any reason to believe that re-opening the investigation isn't just to get that out of the way now? Why wouldn't the FBI whitewash it just like before?

KD, Comey Nukes Hillary said...

WP are you still in-bed for Hillary?

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

Wp, I would like to hear you comment intelligently on the posts I put up at 11:55, 11:58, and 12:11/12:12.

wphamilton said...

I didn't particularly disagree that the two parties need each other, and for a lot more than as sounding boards and checks against hackneyed ideas. Imagine two parties, competing against each other to lift Americans to greater heights of prosperity, opportunity and security, instead of trying to hinder the other's efforts. It's a nice vision.

The Democrats can't fix what ails the GOP however, and I wouldn't want them to try. The party could collapse, with a new coalition arising from the rubble but more likely the voters will ultimately reject the do-nothings and ideological fantasies, fostering a more responsible governing. It would be unfortunate to have that democratic process tainted by the directions of the political elite of the Democratic Party.

I didn't read the two long posts with the copy of someone's editorial, so I'll decline to comment.

wphamilton said...

Anonymous KD, Comey Nukes Hillary said... WP are you still in-bed for Hillary?

I don't know what this intends to mean.

Myballs said...

The rise of Trump, and Ted Cruz for that matter, only Trump out-outsidered him, rose from the tea party supporters who have been insulted when not ignored since Obamacare. Voters are fed up.

And the repeated alt right white nationalists is insulting and bullshit. These are mainstream Americans, just as the tea party has been.

Loretta said...

"WP are you still in-bed for Hillary?"

Good Lord, WP isn't in bed for Hillary......or anyone else as far as I can tell.

Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...

It's pretty stupid, Wp, to say or imply that the Democrats are out to "fix" the GOP. Nobody can fix the Republicans but themselves, and it's not certain that they have not reached a point where even they simply cannot do that.

Those two long posts above really are worth reading.

Too bad you decline to tell us whether they are or are not wrong, and if wrong, then where.

wphamilton said...

To be frank James, no one is going to comment on the cut and paste editorials because we don't appreciate them in this blog.

The first sentence of the first one was stupid, which further disinclines me to skim through it.