{"id":121529,"date":"2021-02-08T20:24:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121529"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:43:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T01:43:02","slug":"no-cnn-the-super-bowl-does-not-need-more-politics-it-needs-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-cnn-the-super-bowl-does-not-need-more-politics-it-needs-none\/","title":{"rendered":"No, CNN, The Super Bowl Does Not Need MORE Politics; It Needs None"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-cnn-the-super-bowl-does-not-need-more-politics-it-needs-none%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121529&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1300929929.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Even though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossingbroad.com\/2019\/07\/espn-poll-74-of-fans-dont-want-to-hear-about-politics.html\">studies<\/a> consistently show sports fans don\u2019t want to hear about politics while watching games \u2013 and ratings support this \u2013 one can\u2019t watch something like the Super Bowl these days without getting leftist politics jammed down their throats.<\/p>\n<p>But CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2021\/02\/07\/entertainment\/super-bowl-2021-tv-coverage-highlights\/index.html\">highlight coverage<\/a> of the game insisted it needed <em>more<\/em> politics. In the past year, I\u2019ve taken to switching to football games only right when the game is supposed to start in an attempt to avoid all the political messaging. Based on the CNN highlight article, that seems to have been a smart move, as I was not aware of most of the political brainwashing that occurred before and after the game.<\/p>\n<p>CNN, of course, included these moments in its \u201chighlights\u201d section, except for one that was included in the \u201clowlights\u201d section \u2013 but only because the NFL\u2019s \u201canti-racism\u201d public-service announcement didn\u2019t include ex-Quarterback Colin Kaepernick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFL delivered a strong public-service announcement regarding its financial commitment to a campaign against systemic racism, but the failure to make any reference to Colin Kaepernick \u2013 the outspoken quarterback who hasn\u2019t found a home in the league \u2013 felt like a glaring oversight,\u201d CNN\u2019s Brian Lowry wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, <em>that<\/em> was the problem with the PSA, not the completely meaningless gesture or the fact that the $250 million will do nothing to stop \u201csystemic racism,\u201d a term whose definition is constantly changing in order to keep victimhood alive.<\/p>\n<p>Is there racism in America? Absolutely, though not at the levels many who profit from the claim allege. Is there systemic racism? Maybe, but again, the people who insist it is pervasive are the ones who stand to make a fortune from continuing the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Super Bowl always occurs during Black History Month, we get a yearly reminder of the history of black NFL players, which is always fine and interesting, but this year we also had to listen to James Brown suggesting NFL team owners are racist because there aren\u2019t as many black coaches or black front-office workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat might not sound like much, but it always takes some guts for a network to call out the NFL, given the value of those football contracts,\u201d Lowry wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it takes no guts at all, considering the current political environment. It was an utterly pointless statement with no teeth. It aired once, so NFL owners may not have even seen it, and it\u2019s not going to make them change anything.<\/p>\n<p>It also didn\u2019t put CBS\u2019s NFL contract in jeopardy at all. It was easy to ignore, and unlikely to anger any team owners to the point that they band together and force the NFL to end its contract with CBS. It\u2019s just not realistic. Do you think Jerry Jones gives a hoot about Brown\u2019s complaints, or that he would be angry enough to demand CBS lose its NFL contract?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re also living in a political environment where the \u201cbrave\u201d thing to say is exactly what the Left wants to hear. It\u2019s why so many companies pointlessly pledged allegiance to Black Lives Matter. Saying they\u2019re \u201canti-racist\u201d was a no-brainer, supporting a Democrat-approved organization \u2013 regardless of whether that organization hates American principles and prefers Marxism or is quietly tolerates violent \u2013 took no bravery whatsoever. They were all just statements and empty commitments, no one is asking for updates and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>The same goes for the NFL\u2019s commitment to spend $250 million on fighting systemic racism. That commitment is spread over 10 years, and will go to \u201cprograms that address criminal justice reform, police reform and economic and educational advancement for African Americans,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-commits-250m-over-10-year-period-to-combat-systemic-racism\">a press release<\/a> from the NFL. That same press release said the league had already donated $44 million to social justice programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat money had funded 20 national social justice grant partners and made matching contributions to 350 local grassroots organizations identified by players and former players,\u201d the press release said.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so what has that money accomplished? Has \u201csystemic racism\u201d been dismantled in any measurable way?<\/p>\n<p>The truth is the accusation that America is racist will never go away, because a billion-dollar industry exists to keep that accusation alive, constantly morphing to demand more and more money. Think about it, diversity training programs and anti-racism campaigns have been going on for decades, yet apparently America just keeps getting more racist or, at the very least, doesn\u2019t improve in the slightest. How many billions of dollars have gone to organizations fighting racism over the decades without any improvement?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there has been an improvement, but it\u2019s just too tempting to keep the gravy train going, and that requires new and constantly shifting definitions of racism.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t matter, because the Left has decided to push its agenda at every opportunity. We\u2019re never allowed to escape politics \u2013 not in sports, TV shows, movies, or the products we buy. And let\u2019s be real, the message isn\u2019t simply \u201cdon\u2019t be racist,\u201d it\u2019s much more inflammatory, insisting white people are racist no matter what, minorities are constant victims (an infantilizing message), and capitalism is evil \u2013 agree with the Left or stop existing.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to watch just one game that was all about sports, not politics.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though studies consistently show sports fans don\u2019t want to hear about politics while watching games \u2013 and ratings support this \u2013 one can\u2019t watch something like the Super Bowl &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892940,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4785,5891,3826,4874,5894,4783],"class_list":["post-121529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bowl","tag-does","tag-more","tag-need","tag-politics","tag-super"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}