There have been plenty of complaints about sports reporting outlets, such as ESPN, hewing to the political left, but now a sports writer says the entire NFL is going that way, too.
And it’s not necessarily because the league’s Millennials are pulling it that way.
Sports pundit Jason Whitlock is openly wondering if the NFL’s decision on the kneeling controversy is just the latest move by the league to purposely turn to the political left.
Whitlock wrote a commentary for The Wall Street Journal in which he pinpointed the genesis of the move left to the hiring of a former Bill Clinton White House spokesman as the NFL's executive vice president of communications:
It makes sense to blame ineffective leadership. But what if the problem is effective leadership? Football is headed exactly where Mr. Goodell has steered it—to the left. The NFL has long been a combatant in America’s larger culture war. ...
By contrast, a year ago Mr. Goodell hired a Democratic political strategist, Joe Lockhart, as the NFL’s executive vice president of communications. Mr. Lockhart, best known as President Clinton’s press secretary for two years, also worked for Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis and John Kerry. Last week the New York Times credited him with crafting the NFL’s message on the anthem controversy.
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