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Hogg didn’t bother to adapt his script to speaking to Canadians.

Via Daily Caller:

Michael Moore cut off anti-gun activist David Hogg at a film premiere after he said Canadians might have to begin interfering in U.S. elections should Democrats not retake Congress in November.

Both Moore and Hogg took the stage for a Q&A session following a screening of the anti-Trump polemic “Fahrenheit 11/9” at the Toronto film Festival.

Before taking questions, Moore first let Hogg pump the audience up about what’s on the line in the upcoming midterm elections.

“I have a question for you guys,” Hogg said. “Who’s ready to save America?”

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Now, of course, Trump hasn’t threatened to shut any media down. But Obama actually did spy on and go after media.

Via Twitchy:

Obama shows up, makes some silly and pointless speech about himself … err … about the country, and the Left salivates like one of Pavlov’s dogs who just heard a bell ring. Not to mention the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth from the MEDIA crying for their Messiah, claiming he was a better president and they felt safe with him in the White House.

Brian Stelter was impressively pathetic.

But other media types remember President Obama a tad differently, like Sharyl Attkisson, who quotes several different outlets talking about the media ‘abuses’ from the Obama administration.

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Just say no to social justice.

Via WBRZ:

Mayor Ben Zahn is allegedly banning Nike gear from the City of Kenner recreation facilities.

“Under no circumstances will any Nike product or any product with the Nike logo be purchased or used…at any City of Kenner Recreation Facility,” the mayor’s office said in a memorandum to Parks and Recreation Department Director Chad Pitfield.

The memorandum was circulated on social media, bearing the City of Kenner letterhead and Zahn’s signature.

The memo says that. effective immediately, any booster club operating at city recreation facilities must have their purchases of athletic equipment, including clothing or shoes, approved by Pitfield.[…]

The memo from Zahn’s office does not mention Kaepernick or the Nike campaign.

In a post on the City of Kenner, District 1 Facebook page, Councilman Gregory Carroll said he is “100 percent against” the decision. Carroll said he plans to meet with the Mayor and other council members to rescind the directive.

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Colin Kaepernick’s advertisement for Nike has engendered quite a bit of talk about what “believing in something” means.

One Gold Star widow thinks the answer may lie in a far different place than Nike does.

In an appearance on “Fox & Friends” this weekend, Brittany Jacobs, who lost her husband in a training accident in 2011, said she wanted Nike executives and  Kaepernick to meet her at Arlington National Cemetery where her husband is buried, according to The Daily Caller.

“They can personally look in the eyes of my son and see what a dear sacrifice was made,” Jacobs said. “And they can look around and see thousands and thousands of people who also sacrificed everything for something that they believed in.”

Jacobs said that Nike’s decision to choose Kaepernick was one that was deeply insulting to those who really do know sacrifice.

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“They could have chosen anyone and they chose this person who disrespected the flag,” Jacobs said. “If they could look at my son for a moment, look at his eyes, they would see a dear sacrifice.

“There are so many great men and women in this country who have sacrificed everything and Colin Kaepernick, he’s not one of them.”

Jacobs told host Pete Hegseth that the decision was personally traumatizing for her.

“To me it’s upsetting. This is a man who knelt before the flag that my husband, and that me and my son, we love, it’s so dear to us,” Jacobs said.

“My husband did sacrifice absolutely everything for the flag, for the country and for all that it stood for. To see someone who knelt before it be able to say that he sacrificed everything, it’s hard.

“It’s sad. It’s not right,” she said.

Jacobs first came to prominence in 2017 when she and her son were photographed by The Associated Press with President Donald Trump at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.

But rest assured, there are plenty of people who’ve never been in the public eye who feel this way. This is why the Nike campaign has sparked such intense feelings. While it might play well in Nike’s liberal home state of Oregon, the company is alienating roughly half of its potential market.

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Or maybe it won’t even play well in a place like Oregon: A new survey by Morning Consult found that Nike’s favorability rating had declined from +69 favorable to +35 favorable in the wake of the Kaepernick advertisement.

In addition, the poll found that no demographic that liberals might think would be inclined to look favorably on the Nike advertisement — African-Americans, younger people and Nike buyers — felt more positively about the brand after the advertisement was unveiled.

The percentage of Americans who said they were likely to buy Nike products declined from 49 percent to 39 percent.

In other words, there area lot of people out there who agree with Brittany Jacobs — and who likely wouldn’t mind seeing Nike executives and Colin Kaepernick meet her at Arlington.

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