Harrison Butker or Rashee Rice, which KC Chief is the biggest problem for the NFL?
It was all so predictable. A conservative Catholic football player speaking at the graduation of a conservative Catholic university about upholding conservative Catholic values has drawn anti-God, anti-American media haters out like flies to honey. As MRC’s Tim Graham and others have pointed out, when Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, spoke about the role of mothers in families, President Biden’s hypocrisy in receiving Communion when he’s violating church teachings on abortion and his love of the Latin Mass, the NFL felt compelled to release a statement distancing itself. But when his teammate, Rashee Rice, was arrested for eight felony charges after he was caught drag racing at 119 mph in his Lamborghini on a Dallas freeway, the NFL said nothing. But then the NFL wasn’t “on defense after growing backlash over that controversial graduation speech given by one of their star players” with Rice. And “many,” according to NBC, weren’t “slamming” Rice’s antics as “homophobic and racist.” It didn’t have MSNBC news personalities asking about how the NFL is “gonna feel” when the Taylor Swift fans who started watching last year “start pushing back on some of the men that make up the league” – referring to Butker, not Rice. It didn’t have Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post christening a new term - Butkered. As in, to get “Butkered” is to be “preached to by a dude with a zealot’s beard that looks like it was combed with a harrow.” We’ve put the spotlight on the double standards, on the attacks on faith and American values. We’ve highlighted what Butker actually said, not the hateful and biased takes on his speech we’ve seen from leftist media. In his conclusion, Butker said, “I know that my message today had a little less fluff than is expected for these speeches,” which infuriated the media. He took this seriously. Today we’re taking up for Harrison Butker and his right to express decent and faithful views. Tomorrow it could be you.