Simone Biles and the RW media

[grumpyduck]

[begin rant]

After reading a few items this morning on the RW media coming down on Simone, three things seem obvious:

1) The RW media is doing this in their continuing efforts to feed their readers bullshit they can get mad about. Apparently the RW media thinks their readers are gluttons for anger, which says a lot about both the media and their followers. Either that, or the RW media is in cahoots with companies that make blood-pressure meds -- which would make an interesting plot for a movie.

2) At the same time, they're using this as just another distraction, in this case from the hearings.

3) They're basically saying that Simone (and, by extension, other athletes) is a commodity -- an object for their amusement. So the fact that she's worked her butt off to be able to do what she does is totally irrelevant to the folks who sit on their fat asses all day swilling beer and finding stuff to get angry about.

So, in my humble opinion, fuck them all.

[end rant]

[DemInBuckhead]

1. They always seem to be concerned about mental health...

...when someone shoots up a school or concert and kills dozens of people, but not so much in this case.

It's almost as if they don't give a damn about mental health, and just use it as a distraction when there's a shooting.

/obvious

[DURHAM D]

2. Don't forget the importance of race to their watchers.