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  1. When given an opportunity to address fact, Acosta makes up something that suits the narrative…an empty easily rebuttable claim…a meaningless anecdote not evidence. Who here is surprised?

    Enemy of the people. It sticks like glue because it’s true.

  2. Google “trump scouted by phillies” and get a buncha hits (no pun intended). He was also scouted by the Red Sox.

  3. As an 11 yr old refugee, Acosta’s father’s family must have fled Castro’s communist regime. Making Acosta’s embrace of America’s socialistic/Marxist left… irony writ supreme.

    Unless of course, Acosta is simply in it for the fame, wealth and notoriety. In which case, FOX can lure him away from CNN if they’re willing to offer him his “30 pieces of silver”.

  4. “So what on earth is Acosta talking about? Is he completely ignorant about the history of baseball in Cuba? Or does he think we are?”

    I am not by any means a sports fan, but only a total hermit could escape knowing that Cuban players dominate baseball even in America.

    Almost every thing I read about Acosta puts him on the losing side against Sanders. He never listens to her answers, talks over her, and generally makes a whiny show of himself, then wonders why he gets shredded in the conservative press.

    I appreciate Sarah’s integrity in not being bullied into giving a statement she knows would be a lie.
    Sorry, Jim, but some members of the press ARE the enemies of the American people.

    “As an 11 yr old refugee, Acosta’s father’s family must have fled Castro’s communist regime. Making Acosta’s embrace of America’s socialistic/Marxist left… irony writ supreme.” — QED

  5. I watched that video, which I rarely do, to see how the press refuted Trump’s description of them. They didn’t.

  6. All Acosta has ever done as a journalist was to perform a Cathy Newman impersonation and misrepresents everything Sanders says, puts a racist spin on her every word and uses his bastardized version of what she said to attack her.

    I am against any form of violence against anyone, but stop trying to refute the fact that CNN is the enemies of the people, their false reporting of hands up don’t shoot had cause 5 cops shot on live TV and a surge of cops before ambushed around the country.

  7. Glad you brought up baseball, Neo. Ever since you remarked on the dance-like grace of baseball players, I’ve been waiting for your new site in order to post two links to baseball and dance. The first is dugout dancing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEjswHgPaM&t=4s&ab_channel=SportingVideos

    Lots of Pirates clips, but at least two of Red Sox players . . .
    The second clip is from the Washington Ballet’s version of the Nutcracker Suite, with the Nats’ Racing Presidents starring in the “Russian Dance” movement:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73N8S1bz42Q&ab_channel=TWBallet

    (hey, the Presidents are wearing red socks . . . hope that counts!)

    Hope you enjoy these . . . thought a little baseball humor would take away the bad taste of Acosta.

  8. Frankly, I have tuned it all out. I just cannot bear the constant yapping and bickering. Nor do I see this situation headed to a happy ending. Fortunately, I have rediscovered fishing.

    Having said that, I did skim the above and took note of Costa’s Cuban baseball reference, and the response. That struck a chord. Back in the post-WWII ’40s, as a kid, in Tampa, Fl, the cigar capital of North America, and home to the largest ex-pat Cuban population in the United States long before Castro, I was a baseball fan. The Tampa Smokers (cigars, get it?) played in the deep minors of the Florida International League (but we loved them)–international because the Havana Cubans were part of the league. When Havana came to town the ball park was full, and noisy. It resembled a three ring circus with everything but elephants. Costa, you are so inane. Cubans and baseball are like Americans and apple pie. Always have been. Never mind the fact that Costa’s folks presumably came here legally, just as millions have done, and many still do.

    Someone will correct me if I am wrong, but, I believe we still accept more immigrants than any other country in the world.

  9. His dad is wearing a shirt with the Cuban flag. The flag or a foreign communist country. Assimilated???

  10. We need to unassimilate some folks.
    Maybe little Acosta did not fall far from the tree.

  11. There are “Fake News” tee shirts for sale at the “Newseum” in DC.

    Hysteria ensues.

    Oh Oh, the ID is not being saved now.

  12. There are quite a few Cubans playing major league baseball right now. Seattle has one: Guillermo Heredia.

  13. As to baseball and dance: the pitcher’s wind-up is quite like ballet. I pitched when I was young, and it took a while to perfect my wind-up. But when I did I developed much better control. Success followed.

    Great pitchers in history whom you can see on YouTube and view their perfectly balanced wind-ups include Sandy Koufax, Jim Palmer, Bob Gibson and, to see someone who might alter and vary his motion to sow confusion: Luis Tiant.

  14. Hey Skippo, maybe the old man is just wearing the flag of his birth country when they come to town. It isn’t always about politics, sometimes it’s just beisbol.
    As for the son, his public persona is an unmitigated ass, and the fact he likes baseball is of small redeeming value.

  15. The Left have always been able to dish it out, but completely unable to take it. As Eeyore would say, ” How like them “.

  16. Trump apparently thinks his constant friction with the press is worth keeping up, and for him perhaps it is. For me, I would treat the press as we should treat school shooters: no notoriety, as little mention as possible. Not that they’ll go away, but perhaps they’ll stop reporting on how oppressed and mistreated they are.

  17. Acosta reminds me of an obnoxious spoiled brat that wants something and won’t shut up until he gets it. I was waiting for him to throw himself on the floor and start kicking and screaming.

  18. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/cog/tcc/2018/00000018/00000001/art00005

    “The Gendered Natures of Polar Bear Tourism

    This article offers a critique of nature-based Arctic tourism through a gender-aware analysis of representations associated with polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. The guiding purpose of our study was to analyze how “nature” is gendered in its construction and presentation through tourism, and to what effect. Our study focused on revealing dominant gendered expectations and understandings (re)produced in the Churchill polar bear tourism promotional landscape. Drawing on a critical discourse analysis of qualitative and visual promotional texts, we show how various representations of polar bear tourism impose hegemonic gender roles onto polar bear bodies, which are emplaced within a conventionally gendered landscape. As the “Polar Bear Capital of the World,” Churchill’s wildlife viewing industry relies on the (re)creation, dissemination, and maintenance of particular meanings and natures attributed to polar bears, as well as human–polar bear relationships, for economic benefit. This gives rise to questions about how power circulates with respect to Churchill’s tourism production practices, gender being one of many axes of identity through which power operates and is interpolated. Ultimately, the article advances literature on gender-aware analyses of tourism and environment, and argues the promotion of gendered natures must be consistently questioned to create space for more equitable tourism practices. ”

    I could not make tjhis up if I trred.

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