{"id":1545723,"date":"2022-07-09T08:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1545723"},"modified":"2022-07-09T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:21:08","slug":"megan-rapinoe-didnt-deserve-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-didnt-deserve-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Rapinoe Didn\u2019t Deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fmegan-rapinoe-didnt-deserve-the-presidential-medal-of-freedom%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=1545723&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Phil Mushnick\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>\u201cThough many can forgive injuries, none ever forgave contempt.\u201d<br \/>\u2014 Ben Franklin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I used to be naive enough to believe that the most important leaders in the country were surrounded by the best and brightest to serve them, and, by hopeful extension, us.<\/p>\n<p>But if they can\u2019t get simple, right-from-wrong matters correct \u2026<\/p>\n<p>In 1990 the first President Bush appointed Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose fame and fortune were predicated on steroids to win international bodybuilding glory, Chairman of the President\u2019s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.<\/p>\n<p>This was an absurd choice, antithetical to both physical fitness and sports. Surely there would be an outcry, widespread ridicule to reverse this misguided decision. But nothing. Everyone loved \u201cAhh-nold,\u201d scripted hero of adventure movies.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Biden White House, which has blindly supported ex-men unfairly competing in sports as women as champions of gender equality \u2014 an odd explanation for conspicuous, undeniable inequality \u2014 pulled another rock as it ignored what was impossible to miss in order to try to score more pandering political points.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-019.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>President Joe Biden shakes hands with Megan Rapinoe before awarding her the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor at the White House in Washington D.C. on July 7, 2022. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Megan-Rapinoe-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Megan-Rapinoe-2.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Rapinoe\" class=\"wp-image-22967195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Megan-Rapinoe-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Megan-Rapinoe-2.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Megan Rapinoe<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">EPA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Biden awarded soccer star and gay and<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/06\/leagues-networks-offer-no-answers-for-sports-most-dubious-decisions\/\"> female rights activist Megan Rapinoe<\/a> \u2014 repulsive in her obnoxious, self-smitten, classless conduct throughout the 2019 Women\u2019s World Cup in France that thoroughly open-minded Americans were moved to root against our team \u2014 the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor.<\/p>\n<p>The medal represents \u201cexemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Yet Rapinoe, during and after that World Cup, established herself as exemplary of unmitigated selfishness and classlessness, starting with her knee-takings during the U.S. anthem, eagerly demonstrating on an international stage her contempt for her country, beneath her citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>In a senseless 13-0 humiliation of Thailand, Rapinoe made sure to stand out as the biggest bully. Her easy goal to make it 9-0 was followed by her abandonment of assisting teammates in order to run the length of the field in nauseating self-aggrandizement.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, without that goal, it would\u2019ve been only 8-0, lots of time left for more!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-014.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden and Megan Rapinoe look on, as the President awards her the Presidential Medal of Freedom on July 7, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22968926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-014.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-014.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-014.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>President Joe Biden and Megan Rapinoe look on, as the President awards her the Presidential Medal of Freedom on July 7, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Fox, host Rob Stone, ostensibly assigned to wave the American flag, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/06\/13\/fox-analyst-risked-tv-treason-by-not-pandering-to-obnoxious-uswnt\/\">grew disgusted by Rapinoe\u2019s conduct <\/a>and the U.S. team\u2019s senseless bully-girl brutality. After all, the easiest thing to accomplish in a lopsided game is not to score, kill the clock, protect your dignity, spare your throughly vanquished opponents further humiliation, show them and the world your graceful side.<\/p>\n<p>But as Fox analyst Alexi Lalas spoke hollow rationalizations \u2014 \u201cWhat did you want them to do?\u201d \u2014 as if he didn\u2019t know, Stone said, \u201cBut 13-0? I understand your point, but this game was done. It became humiliating. It just became an exercise in target practice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And smitten by her own, indefensible devices, Rapinoe, the captain of the U.S. team that did dirt to the game and country \u2014 even mocking later opponents and their fans after scoring \u2014 became the well-deserved villain of the World Cup. Even here.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Yet, en route to the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Rapinoe wasn\u2019t done. In her NYC City Hall speech following the parade to salute the world champs, Rapinoe was unable to address a crowd packed with kids <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/07\/10\/megan-rapinoe-drops-f-bomb-during-speech-on-live-tv\/\">without shouting \u201cmotherf\u2014-r!\u201d<\/a> Pure class.<\/p>\n<p>No one on Biden\u2019s nominating staff was aware of any of this? No one did 10 minutes of research? Or were they all good with it, approved it?<\/p>\n<p>Thus, according to the White House, steroids-reliant Arnold Schwarzenegger was the national symbol of physical fitness, and swimmer Lia Thomas, the former William Thomas, fairly competes against biological women.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-015.jpg\" alt=\"Megan Rapinoe arrives at the White House to accept the nation&#039;s highest civilian honor on July 7, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-22968951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-015.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-015.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/megan-rapinoe-015.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Megan Rapinoe arrives at the White House to accept the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor on July 7, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet Rapinoe, Thursday, was awarded America\u2019s highest civilian honor by Biden for \u201cexemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public or private endeavors.\u201d She met all the qualifications.<\/p>\n<h2>Oh, no! Broadcast ruined by YES<\/h2>\n<p>Since there\u2019s no shaming the bottom-liners who run MLB, the Yankees and YES, this is how it will remain.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Yankees fans again were sentenced to hard labor (for which they must pay) as YES fed us Ryan \u201cRah Rah\u201d Ruocco and Carlos Beltran in the non-musical remake of \u201cHelp!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t yet know the name of the YES exec who added Beltran, but he\u2019s likely considered a flight risk \u2014 if it\u2019s not too late. There\u2019s nothing more to write on the subject other than that Beltran was the worst choice since the Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen.<\/p>\n<p>Ruocco continues to be easily excited by common happenstances, such as the Yanks turning a double play \u2014 as if he or we had never before seen such a thing. We just want to watch the ballgame, not attend a pep rally.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Ryan-Ruocco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Ryan-Ruocco.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Ruocco\" class=\"wp-image-22967137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Ryan-Ruocco.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Ryan-Ruocco.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Ryan Ruocco<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NBAE via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Then there was another Rob Manfred Friday Night. As Yanks-Cleveland was delayed by rain until postponed, the exclusive Amazon Prime streaming delivery displayed only a single stationery camera showing rain falling on the field.<\/p>\n<p>There was no audio, no graphics to indicate if the game was still on, no nothing, including DVR capabilities to those who might instead choose to watch something else not going on. This was the paywall version of the Ch. 11 Yule Log.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Friday, Rangers-Mets was hidden from greatest-good view as its appeared on Apple+, where play-by-player and inexhaustible weekly yakker Melanie Newman involuntarily allowed Howie Rose the remaining oxygen. Local radio salvaged the night from additional foresight-barren Manfred destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, Manfred\u2019s Ready! Fire! Aim! streaming plan was unprepared to succeed. Not unless neglect and rotten productions were the bait to purchase MLB-partnered streaming services. In other words, even if you can\u2019t see or hear it, take it or leave it!<\/p>\n<h2>SNY makes the right call<\/h2>\n<p>In this age of blind capitulation to pitching and batting analytics and optional running to first base, good fundamental baseball still shines like a lighthouse beam in the darkest storm.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, on deck, hit-the-deck Brandon Nimmo\u2019s signal to Dom Smith to slide \u2014 and toward the inside of the plate \u2014 when Smith scored in the 10th against the Reds, Wednesday, was immediately recognized and admired. OK, it wasn\u2019t a Manfred-certified MLB Network-highlighted bat-flip, but still \u2026<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Dominic-Smith-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Dominic-Smith-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Nimmo&#039;s signal to Dominic Smith to slide on the inside of the plate was a heads up play that SNY rightfully praised during the Mets&#039; comeback win over the Reds.\" class=\"wp-image-22967120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Dominic-Smith-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Dominic-Smith-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Dominic-Smith-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/Dominic-Smith-1.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Brandon Nimmo\u2019s signal to Dominic Smith to slide on the inside of the plate was a heads up play that SNY rightfully praised during the Mets\u2019 comeback win over the Reds.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Not that we\u2019re surprised, but Islanders and NHL TV voice Brendan Burke was solid subbing for John Sterling during Yanks at Pirates. He\u2019s a listeners-first pro, even politely suffering Suzyn Waldman\u2019s needless intrusions to identify \u201ca two-seamer\u201d from \u201ca four-seamer.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Let the record show that under Manfred the Yankees didn\u2019t play on the Fourth of July for the first time since 1915. Not that anything ever before happened, unless you count Lou Gehrig\u2019s 1939 farewell speech and Dave Righetti\u2019s 1983 no-hitter against Boston.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Chris Broussard, Fox\u2019s NBA \u201cexpert\u201d who this week strongly suggested, despite empty evidence and evidence to the contrary, that Toronto is a racist town, was low on credibility when he worked for ESPN, where he at least twice took credit for scoops first reported by others.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Pro tennis is now as loaded with as many insufferable creeps \u2014 men and women \u2014 as the rest of the modern sports junk pile. Rooting interests are now based on the lesser of two weasels. If Nick Kyrgios were hitting a ball against a wall, I\u2019d root for the wall.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Reader Kelly Feniger wonders what Ralph Kiner would do to the Marlins\u2019 Garrett Cooper given that Kiner regularly called Gary Carter Gary Cooper. I think he\u2019d have split the difference and called him Marlin Brando.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThough many can forgive injuries, none ever forgave contempt.\u201d\u2014 Ben Franklin I used to be naive enough to believe that the most important<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545723","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=1545723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1547288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}