[LOCKED] OT: Golden State Warriors unanimously vote to skip customary White House visit
It didn’t take the Golden State Warriors long to decide to skip the traditional championship White House visit.
Less than 24 hours after winning the 2017 NBA Finals on Monday night, the Warriors unanimously voted to decline the White House ceremony honoring their Finals win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to several reports including one by CNBC analyst Josh Brown.
The Warriors attended the White House ceremony to honor their 2015 NBA Finals title when former President Barack Obama was in the White House.
http://www.ajc.com/sports/warriors-unanimously-decline-white-house-visi…
MOD EDIT - ....and locked. It's interesting news, to be sure, but this thread.....yeesh. - LSA
And yet he's very Catholic, and very pro-religion / pro-life, which have nothing to do with Democrats.
Face it, the man supports what he believes regardless of party affiliation. Something we should all aspire to...
Exactly.
Catholics are the most politically divided religious group in the United States and regularly vote close to 50-50.
In fact, Catholics are the bellweather religious group generally. They voted for Trump by 7 points in 2016, Obama by 2 points in 2012 and 8 points in 2008, and voted for Bush by 5 points in 2004. The last vote Catholics "lost" was in 2000, when they voted for Al Gore by 3 points.
(Although, there is a significant divide between White Catholics, who are becoming steadily more Republican over time, and Hispanic Catholics, who are solidly democrat and are increasing their share of overall Catholics in America at a high rate, while the relative prevelance of White Catholics decline).
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/
There are 16 Democrats and 9 Republicans in the US Senate that are Catholic. There are 65 Democrats and 59 Republicans in the US House that are Catholic. Harbaugh's being a Catholic doesn't indicate which party he favors more.
at all. I think if they are invited, it should be completely their choice whether to take the visit.
And if he fires Mueller, he's not going to be there very much longer so it would probably be under different circumstances anyway.
I bet Harbaugh would take a vote and it would be a team decision. I can't see him showing the world that his team is divided.
I just keep looking at that offensive line and thinking "this is a line that is going to keep us from worrying about whether we will or won't visit a Trump White House."
Given the things Trump has said/done (I know I'm getting political) I understand and support the Warriors choice.
That said, in the past I've liked seeing presidents involved in something that brought people together across political divisions (since most teams/sports have fans from both sides of the aisle). I suspect that, whoever follows Trump, this tradition may die out as attending will be seen as supporting the current occupant's policies.
don't really think this is about "policies" in the way that we have always understood the term. From what I can remember, pretty much everybody on every championship team visited G.W. and many of policies were very polarizing. This is something else entirely.
Yikes. So many uniformed programmed people on here.
I don't always agree with our politicians' decisions to send them into war, but I do respect their willingness to serve.
in 2011, Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas refused to visit the White House to meet with President Obama, with Thomas explaining, “I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties and Property of the People.”
Back in 2011, the leftist media ripped Thomas, as Heat Street reports:
Joe McDonald of ESPN wrote “Tim Thomas put himself above the team….When the president of the United States invites you and all your teammates to the White House to honor your Stanley Cup championship, you go and represent the team. On Monday, Thomas instead chose to represent himself.”
James Hardie from Bleacher Report wrote: “If Thomas was a real man, he would have gone to the Boston Bruins management and ownership, returned the money from his contract and quit the balance of it by retiring—so he could exercise his rights as a free citizen.”
Over at Sports Illustrated, Stu Hackel wrote, “[…]Tim Thomas decided to exploit a non-political event to expose his personal political views.”
We all know the left plays by different rules.
Yes, ESPN leans pretty far left being a company owned by Disney...
You missed the memo; everything is #LEFTIST media nowadays if they don't agree with 100% of the right's beliefs and actively work to support them.
Unless you're Fox. I don't think anyone is confusing Fox with being 'Leftist Liberal Media'...
everyone is #RACIST if they don't worship everything a minority or Muslim has ever done. Did I Left that correctly?
Tim Thomas is an asshole.
TB12 did not visit Obama and got ripped. Then he didnt go for Trump, *crickets*.
I remember reading several articles about Brady's decisions.
I think you are remembering articles written after he skipped Obama. I have Boston sports radio on every time I get in the car.
I would love for you to find more than one article that talks about his decision not to visit the WH for Trump that does not use it as a footnote.
Well I listen to NPR. Even they talked about it. Just a simple google search and the whole page is articles on it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=brady+visit+white+house.
But, hey, my Boston Radio station was *crickets*...
sweet google search, MAN!
lol that proves they were on the same level. got me
Did I say "same level"? Sweet reading comprehension there. "*crickets*" indicates NO articles. There were articles and it was discussed in the sports and news media. But, hey, just because you didn't (choose to) hear about it, it didn't happen.
Some athletes did their job and won a relatively meanlingless championship, in the grand scheme of things. They don't need to visit the White House.
Riggo? Is that you? Lighten up, Donny, baby!!!
Is ridiculous nowadays.
It's highly divisive and they all follow a political agenda. Nobody should take any news dissemination at face value.
It seems kind of strange that in the midst of such a celebration, someone would call a vote on this subject.
Maybe Dennis Rodman can smooth things out.
unless it hurts someone's feelings
Really hoping this is sarcasm.
it is
You're right! We can't report or say anything that hurts the President's very, very, very sensitive feelings!
Even reports on crowd sizes at easily verifiable public events are too tough for our commander in chief to take. God forbid you talk about his hands or the fact he lost the popular vote by 3,000,000.
Untrue. We have every right to say what we wish (barring the whole yelling FIRE in a crowded theater trope).
But that doesn't shield you from consequences if you choose to say something someone else doesn't like. Because they have the right to speak out against you, too.
