It's basketball, for heaven's sake
Duke University head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski didn't take the bait last week when asked about the religious freedom law in Indiana, where his team was playing in college basketball's Final Four over the weekend.
The veteran coach said he wasn't discussing the Indiana law, poverty or anything else but his team and basketball, which is what he should be doing.
What did he get for doing the right thing? An attack piece by CNN, where host Carol Costello claimed that others involved in the athletic world were talking about the bill, so why shouldn't he. To buttress the network's one-sided viewpoint, it brought on former NFL player Chris Kluwe, a supporter of gay rights that some say would be threatened with the Indiana law (that now has been updated).
He said people in the Duke coach's realm shouldn't talk about athletics as if it was in "some kind of bubble" and that "athletes live in the same world as everyone else." He said Krzyzewski was probably worried about "saying the wrong thing" and "would bring undue media attention down on [his team]." Yet, he gave athletes a pass for not wanting to talk about such matters but said it was "an obligation" for someone who is a "superstar coach."
She's teaching children
Jess Dooley, a coach at Concord High School in Elkhart, Ind., didn't like the fact that the owner of a pizza parlor in Walkerton, Ind., expressed her faith last week in answering a hypothetical question about whether she would cater a wedding if a gay couple tried to hire her for the job.
"We are a Christian establishment," the pizza shop owner said.
Dooley, the head coach of the school's girls golf team, used Twitter to express her ire. "Who's going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me? Agree with #FreedomofReligion bill? 'That's a lifestyle they CHOOSE' Ignorant."
Not long after the tweet was posted, Dooley's entire Twitter account was deleted, according to Breitbart.com. Late last week, the school reported the coach had been suspended pending an investigation of her comments.
Our way or else
So far into an environmentalist religion than in reality is a group of scientists who wrote a recent open letter complaining that entities like the Smithsonian's Museum of Science and Natural History in Washington, D.C., and the American Museum of Natural History in New York City compromised their "integrity" by accepting money from conservative philanthropist David Koch.
The "only ethical way forward," the 39 scientists wrote, is for the Smithsonian to "cut all ties" with Koch and other climate skeptics and the fossil fuel industry.
The museums, in response, noted that Koch, a board member, has not influenced their content and, like all donors or sponsors, "signed our standard gift agreement, which prohibits donor or sponsor involvement in content."
Ironically, one of the critics of a recent museum exhibit sponsored by Koch, who is a contributor to Republican Party causes, was Think Progress, a liberal blog that is part of the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, which has received $10,117,186 from Soros, a contributor to Democrats and other left-wing activities, since 2000.
Mighty cozy relationship
How closely related are left-wing politics with the mainstream media? Late last month, according to the Media Research Center, the list of people going through the revolving door between working for President Barack Obama and positions in the news media reached 30.
Among the 30 who went from media to the White House and back into media: Jay Carney, the onetime Time magazine Washington bureau chief who became the White House press secretary and is now senior political commentator for CNN; Linda Douglass, the former ABC News Washington correspondent who became assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services and went on to become vice president at The Atlantic/National Journal; and Peter Gosselin, a former Los Angeles Times Washington and economics correspondent who became chief speechwriter for Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and is now senior health care analyst with Bloomberg Government.
The list doesn't even include people who have or had roles as news "contributors" or those in the news media who went to work for other Democrats or liberal groups who advance the Obama agenda.