January 22, 2015, - 4:23 pm
The NFL’s Deflated Balls Aren’t the Problem, But Here’s What Is . . .
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We live in a spoiled country. What better evidence is there than the whole national media blaring their chosen top headline of current events: “The NFL’s Deflated Balls!” ? America’s real central problem is NOT the NFL’s deflated balls, it’s America’s deflated balls. Barack Obama’s deflated balls.
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I think back to when I was a kid. Several people commented to me and on the site that I was wrong in looking back on the ’70s as a better day in America (in a movie review this past Friday). And while in many ways it was (kids had a childhood, everything wasn’t pornified and Kardashianed, and we were a whole lot less depraved and dumbed down), in several ways, America was not better off in the ’70s. We were exactly the same under Jimmy Carter as we are now–with America wearing a “Kick Me!” sign around the world. In many ways, though, it is far worse than under Jimmy Carter. It’s Jimmy Carter on steroids.
Barack Obama has turned America into an apologizing, blithering, cowardly actor on the world’s stage. He’s spent the last six years apologizing to Muslims for America’s hardly belligerent (actually weak) behavior in defending ourselves against non-stop Muslim attack on our soil and our interests elsewhere. He’s spent the last six years telling Muslims how great they are, serving as an apologist for their extremism. He’s spent the last six years making nice with America’s enemies, and not just Muslim Iran, but Communist Cuba, etc. Instead of detaining Muslim terrorists bent on our destruction, Barack Obama has released them into the great world abyss to attack us and other Westerners again. Yes, President Bush started the Gitmo catch and release of terrorists, and he had deflated balls, too, and helped to also deflate America’s balls. But Barack Obama was so much worse–is so much worse on all of this. His deflated balls are the kind you need a microscope and tweezers to examine, despite his bluster at the State of the Union about winning two elections.
We used to be the mightiest, most respected and feared, most effective nation on earth. We lost that long ago. Now we are the nation of TMZ and Kardashian-Jenners, where everyone gets riled up when Kardashian-Jenners visit extremist mosques (a repetitive phrase) and wear Islamic garb of oppression; and where everyone is riled up NOT because the Kardashian-Jenners showed respect and submission to Islam and its oppression (which they did in spades) but because the Kardashian-Jenners were “disrespectful” to this religion of oppression. Huh?
And we are a nation of nannies whose kids aren’t allowed to have cupcakes or candy or soda. We must protect the kids from sitting alone in a park or walking alone through a neighborhood. We protect kids from things that will give them the necessary toughness in life and don’t shelter them at all from Hollywood’s and pop culture’s gutter-dwelling garbage. We are soft. We are weak. We are gutless.
America is impotent. We just don’t have the balls. And, so, instead of correcting that problem, we are now obsessed with how much air is in a projectile used in a sports game by coddled multi-millionaires working for billionaires.
Sorry, but I couldn’t care less whether or not Tom Brady (the DebbieSchlusselcom Girlie Man of the Year for more than one year) or Unabomber-lookalike Bill Bellichick used deflated balls.
The problem is not the NFL’s deflated balls. It’s America’s deflated bills.
We need to grow a new pair to get the world’s respect again. And by respect, I mean fear.
*** UPDATE: Forgot to mention that there is one area in which Obama always seems to get some cojones: when he’s attacking Israel. For that, the balls suddenly come out. But not in any way that helps America.
This NFL obsession is becoming bizarre. We have a president who thinks(or at least proclaims)that our economic woes are for the most part at an end, despite shocking proof to the contrary. Mr. Obama takes pot shots at Republicans, but cowers in the face of Iran and its Houthi minions. Our low information voters are up on deflated footballs, but only have the vaguest(and often inaccurate) notion of who Martin Luther King Jr. was. We are sinking in quicksand as a nation, and there is no obvious relief from the situation from any direction.
Worry01 on January 22, 2015 at 4:34 pm