{"id":31674,"date":"2017-10-03T19:25:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T23:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31674"},"modified":"2017-10-03T19:25:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T23:25:43","slug":"actions-have-consequences-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31674","title":{"rendered":"Actions Have Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2017\/10\/03\/monday-night-football-ratings-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> is reporting today that the ratings for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"NFL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"hulu noopener\">Monday night football<\/a> dropped precipitously this week.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cAgainst a packed Big 4 primetime,\u00a0<em>MNF<\/em>\u00a0snared an 8.4 in metered market numbers. That\u2019s down 10% from the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dallas Cowboys\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dallascowboys.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Cowboys<\/a> and Cardinals game of September 25. Year-to-year, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chiefs (rugby union)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chiefs.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">Chiefs<\/a>\u2019 fourth straight win this season dipped 8% in the early numbers from the comparable <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Minnesota Vikings\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minnesota_Vikings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Minnesota Vikings<\/a>\u2019 24-10 win over the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New York Giants\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_Giants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">New York Giant<\/a> on October 3, 2016 \u2013 a season of sliding ratings that the NFL wants to forget, but may repeat.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Football fans generally respect their flag.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Colin Kaepernick\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kaepernick7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"twitter noopener\">Colin Kaepernick<\/a>&#8216;s original statement as the why he was kneeling:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Black people\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">black people<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Person of color\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Person_of_color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">people of color<\/a>,&#8221; Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. &#8220;To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before he protests the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Flag of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">American flag<\/a>, he might want to take a look around the NFL. There are a disproportionate number of players who have been arrested for serious crimes. That might be the place to begin to clean up America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart is reporting today that the ratings for Monday night football dropped precipitously this week. The article reports: \u201cAgainst a packed Big 4 primetime,\u00a0MNF\u00a0snared an 8.4 in metered market numbers. That\u2019s down 10% from the Cowboys and Cardinals game of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31674\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11049,3450,11052,4198,475],"class_list":["post-31674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-flag-of-the-united-states","tag-national-anthem","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31675,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31674\/revisions\/31675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}