Longtime Sports Journalist: ‘NFL players need Obama’s support’
According to his University of Maryland faculty bio , Kevin Blackistone “is a former award-winning sports columnist for The Dallas Morning News from September 1990 to September 2006.” He has written for AOL's FanHouse; his most recent column is here ); he was likely released when AOL recently laid off its FanHouse employees as a result of what I refer to as ” Huffington's Heist .” In a Monday opinion piece at Politico (HT Hot Air ) entitled “NFL players need Obama's support,” Blackistone criticized the President of the United States for not supporting the players in their dispute with the league's owners, and — I kid you not — said it “differs very little” from the recent public-sector collective-bargaining controversy in Wisconsin. Blackistone even brought Martin Luther King into the mix (bolds are mine): … President Barack Obama refused early last month to support — or even get involved in — the players’ labor fight against NFL owners. He dismissed the players as millionaires fighting billionaires, saying he was more concerned about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s attack on state-employee unions.
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