Colin Kaepernick is the young wealthy (6 years – $128 million)  quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers who last week prior to a preseason game decided to sit down during the playing of the National Anthem, saying, ” I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.”    Hmmmmm.   Guess he overlooked the fact that his bi-racial parents were unwilling to raise him, giving him up for adoption to a supportive white family.  Oops, and did I mention that he received a free college education in exchange for playing football ?

Well, Colin certainly does have first amendment rights, but aren’t there more constructive ways for an individual in the public eye to express opinions, or better yet, do something about the injustice he lazily comments on while he sits on his fanny ?   In Bill O’Reilly’s lingo, Colin clearly comes down as a pinhead and not a patriot.           WHAT THE HECK !

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people” was Kayne West’s unfiltered utterance following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.    Hmmmm, with our current emperor on uninterrupted vacation on Martha’s Vineyard while stormwaters envelop large swaths of land in south central Louisiana, just who really cares about whom.     And why doesn’t the press care ?                 WHAT THE HECK !

The ABC Network (All ‘Bout Clinton) fell over themselves today in adoration of the mass media’s anointed one.  Following Hillary’s shameless piggybacking onto this week’s USA Olympic successes, suggesting at a Detroit rally on Thursday, “if Team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room “,  ABC’s World News Tonight could not resist the temptation to pile on, touting Hillary’s “Olympic strategy” while displaying a “going for gold” visual behind the anchor.   Thank goodness for Fox News, where at least an attempt is made (not always successful) to remain even-handed in coverage.                                WHAT THE HECK !

This past week, with absolutely nothing for their newshounds to do during the long hot Summer months, the Associated Press decided to unleash the powerful forces of the American media on dental floss.    Yes I said dental floss !    Contending that twenty five years of medical study have shown no correlation between regular flossing and declines in decay, gum disease and plaque removal, these bold crusaders for the American public again stand up to protect us from ourselves.    I say to these energetic American patriots, “GO FLOSS YOUR TEETH TONIGHT AND NOTICE ALL THE GROSS PIECES OF LEFTOVER AND UNCHEWED FOOD THAT ARE DISLODGED “.     WHAT THE HECK   !  

When I was a kid, there were three video news outlets, and they all spouted pretty much the same old stuff, each packaged a bit differently and delivered by well-respected and overpaid talking heads.    There may have been an agenda, but I was probably too young and ignorant to notice.    But today, all we have is one-sided touts and totally blatant political agendas.  Fox comes the closest to “fair and balanced”, but I’m not so naïve to ignore that network’s tilt rightward.

Today at the gym I was given a startling one hour eye-opening reminder of the powerful forces aligned behind the ruling Proglibocrat movement that is destroying America.    I forced myself to watch 60 solid minutes of MSNBC, hoping to get a glimpse of the day’s leading news stories.  What I saw was a 60 minute, uninterrupted infomercial for Hillary Clinton and her evil Proglibocrat legislator consorts.   With nary a break, headlines scrolled across the bottom of the screen, highlighting in bold letters the “stories” the yet-to-shave male commentator/salesmen were touting.    Examples included things like “GOP Lawmakers Backing off Trump Bandwagon”, and “Trump Holds Maine Rally Amidst Campaign Turmoil”, and “Allegations Swirl Around Melania”, and “Hillary’s Work with Children Feted at PA event”, and “Clinton Offers Massacre Tribute and Sympathy’, and “Will Trump Fall on Campaign Sword”.

Now I do not wish to tout the Republican candidate here (or maybe ever), but my goodness, what’s happened to the press ?  If an innocent person just picked up information from CNN or MSNBC or the HuffingPuffing Post (on-line) or New York Times (print), what a lopsided and contorted view of the world of politics they would be indoctrinated to.    WHAT THE HECK !