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Anti-Trump Protests Tag

At Yom Kippur break-fast Saturday night I discussed the NFL players' "Take a Knee" protest and Trump's tweets. One of the people, who is not anti-Trump, thought it was a mistake for Trump to tweet about it as he did. That it simply made it a bigger deal and probably generated sympathy for the players. I disagreed.

There are many different ways to poll the current controversy over NFL players protesting the National Anthem and flag on the sideline by kneeling down. One way to poll is whether the players "have a right" to protest. It's not at all inconsistent to take the position that they have "a right" to protest but also to criticize and object to the protests.

I appeared on The Michael Koolidge Show on 1440 WROK Talk Radio on September 26, 2017. We discussed several of my posts about the NFL "take a knee" protests: Here are some excerpts from the interview: