{"id":48979,"date":"2021-04-06T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T23:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48979"},"modified":"2021-04-07T08:15:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T15:15:45","slug":"holy-shhh-trumps-baseball-boycott-babble-on-newsmax-is-totally-incoherent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48979","title":{"rendered":"HOLY SHHH: Trump&#8217;s Baseball Boycott Babble on Newsmax is Totally Incoherent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current news cycle is bursting with critical issues that are important to the American people. We are still in the midst of a deadly pandemic. Congress just passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill and is considering infrastructure legislation that could run up another $2.2 Trillion. A nationally significant trial is in progress in Minneapolis deciding the fate of the police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. But right-wing media has other priorities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-straight-jacket-insane.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Insane, Straight Jacket\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Naturally networks like Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN are only concerned with matters that they can spin to bash President Biden and other Democrats. So their top stories aren&#8217;t any of those itemized above. Instead, they are obsessed with the notion that Biden might have had something to do with Major League Baseball moving their All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver. That relocation was wholly the decision of the MLB, due to Georgia passing a bill designed to suppress the voter rights of Democrats in general, and people of color in particular.<\/p>\n<p>In an especially revealing example of the intellectual vacancy of the conservative position, Trump called in to Newsmax to rant about his displeasure with America&#8217;s pastime. Which led to this bizarre exchange:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Heather Childers:<\/strong> So, should we boycott baseball?<br \/>\n<strong>Trump:<\/strong> Well, I am just not interested in baseball for the last number of years. It&#8217;s just not appropriate. You want to find a game. It&#8217;s on every channel, and yet you can&#8217;t find anything. It&#8217;s the weirdest thing. It used to be a nice easy thing to follow. And you know what I mean by that. It was on one network and it was nice and good and beautiful. Today you don&#8217;t even know what the hell you&#8217;re watching. So I would say &#8220;Boycott baseball?&#8221; Why not?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;You want to find a game. It&#39;s on every channel, and yet you can&#39;t find anything. It&#39;s the weirdest thing&quot; &#8212; on Newsmax, Trump complains that he doesn&#39;t like baseball anymore because it&#39;s on too many TV channels <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hWXgqCwXgj\">pic.twitter.com\/hWXgqCwXgj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1379521435350228999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>WUT? So now Trump thinks that baseball is <em>&#8220;not appropriate&#8221;<\/em>? And he can&#8217;t find a game on TV because it&#8217;s on every channel? It&#8217;s abundantly clear that Trump doesn&#8217;t know what the hell he&#8217;s saying. But he still concludes that the sport must be boycotted in order to make it <em>&#8220;nice and good and beautiful&#8221;<\/em> again. This is the same guy who has been demeaning Biden as struggling cognitively. (although even a Fox News poll shows that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46720\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most voters say that Trump is the one who is mentally unsound<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><em>[NOTE: Heather Childers is a former Fox News presenter who <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6796\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">once wondered in a tweet<\/a><\/strong> whether Obama threatened To kill Chelsea Clinton.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As for Fox News, their White House correspondent, Peter Doocy, was the victim of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48729\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yet another <em>&#8220;Psaki Bomb&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> after he asked Biden&#8217;s press secretary, Jen Psaki about the MLB situation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Doocy:<\/strong> Is the White House concerned Major League Baseball is moving their All-Star Game to Colorado, where voting regulations are very similar to Georgia?<br \/>\n<strong>Psaki:<\/strong> Well, let me refute the first points you made. First let me say on Colorado, Colorado allows you register on election day. Colorado has voting by mail where they send to 100% of their people in the state who are eligible. [&#8230;] I think it&#8217;s important to remember the context here. The Georgia bill is built on a lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PETER DOOCY: Is the WH concerned MLB is moving their All Star Game to Colorado, where voting rules are very similar to Georgia?<\/p>\n<p>PSAKI: Let me refute that. CO has same-day registration, universal mail voting&#8230; it&#39;s important to remember the context. The GA bill is built on a lie <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TaDLU0mYNP\">pic.twitter.com\/TaDLU0mYNP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1379487125083717636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The right-wing press is not the least bit concerned about the voting rights aspect of this story. They are only worried about whether the corporations, that conservatives used to regard as reliable sources of support and donations, are now cowering under the weight of supposedly fearsome Democratic bullies. Consequently, people like the GOP Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell, are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48972\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lambasting corporations and threatening to revoke the tax benefits<\/a><\/strong> that Republicans have showered on them for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has even weighed in to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48962\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">direct his cult followers to boycott<\/a><\/strong> not just baseball, but Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, JPMorgan Chase, UPS, Merck, and numerous other companies that had the audacity to stand up for voting rights when their customers demanded it.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, conservatives are adamant that somehow all of this is Biden&#8217;s fault. The Republican National Committee even tweeted that Biden ordered the MLB to move the All-Star Game. But the funny thing about that is that the video they posted proved that he did no such thing. He merely expressed his support for a decision that they were making themselves. But right-wingers have never let themselves be bogged down by reality before. Why should they start now?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden&#39;s Press Secretary Jen Psaki gaslighted today, falsely claiming that Biden didn\u2019t call for moving the MLB All-Star Game\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Roll the tape! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S4MDu1Fs84\">pic.twitter.com\/S4MDu1Fs84<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1379147641297240065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current news cycle is bursting with critical issues that are important to the American people. We are still in the midst of a deadly pandemic. Congress just passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus bill and is considering infrastructure legislation that could run up another $2.2 Trillion. A nationally significant trial is in progress in Minneapolis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[554,33,987,1410,377,923,256,1075,397],"class_list":["post-48979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-heather-childers","tag-jen-psaki","tag-joe-biden","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-newsmax","tag-peter-doocy","tag-rnc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-straight-jacket-insane.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cJZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59281,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=59281","url_meta":{"origin":48979,"position":0},"title":"Newsmax Tells Slack-Jawed GOP Chair that He and His Biden Probe &#8216;Looked Like a Joke&#8217; on CNN","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/11\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican Party in the House of Representatives is preparing to vote on whether to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry for President Biden, despite not having been able to produce a single shred of evidence of any wrongdoing after years of frantic digging. 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