Eagles

FOX News Ridiculously Portrays Praying Eagles Players as Kneeling For The Anthem

By Kyle Scott

Published: Jun 5th, 2018 · 8:51 AM EDT

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Ladies and gentlemen, FOX News– using praying Eagles players to make it appear as if they kneeled for the flag:

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1003845673073238016

This is the problem with being conservative in America– your torch bearers are Donald Trump and the absurd, propaganda-ish FOX News. That’s not Republicanism, it’s outright distortion of facts over petty, feigned outrage. Don’t get me wrong, the left does it as well, but not like this.

The best part is two of those pictures feature Zach Ertz, a religious white dude whose blonde wife is literally draped in the flag as a member of the US womens national soccer team. Derp.

This can’t be serious…. Praying before games with my teammates, well before the anthem, is being used for your propaganda?! Just sad, I feel like you guys should have to be better than this… https://t.co/kYeyH2zXdK

— Zach Ertz (@ZERTZ_86) June 5, 2018

And you know you have a problem when Bill Kristol thinks your right-wing message is too much:

It's true that several Eagles players briefly kneeled before or after football games. That's because they were praying, something with which Donald Trump is unfamiliar.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 5, 2018

Trump’s National Anthem demagoguery is so cynical, and his followers’ fetishization of the anthem so credulous, that I find it hard to take seriously. But maybe that’s been a mistake on my part. Because there is something not only creepy but even sinister about the whole thing.

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 5, 2018

Meanwhile, I suspect that blonde on the left will read whatever is on the prompter.