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| The NFL has rejected a one-page ad for this year's Super Bowl program. | |
| The ad, submitted by AMBETS, features a military guard holding an American flag and the text, hashtag, please stand. | |
| The NFL said it rejected the ad because it made a political statement. | |
| Preston's reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us of why we salute our flag, why we put our hands on our hearts. | |
| For the Pledge of Allegiance, and why we proudly stand for the National Anthem. | |
| Go, he's gonna start talking. | |
| The NFL. I hope they show the whole audience with this one, because I want to see the Democrats sitting. | |
| Yeah. | |
| There they are, all seated. | |
| The Democrats don't stand for the anthem because they hate America. | |
| Wouldn't you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now, out? | |
| He's fired. | |
| He's fired! | |
| We have breaking news tonight in the war between Donald Trump and the NFL. There is an unmistakable racial element to this story. | |
| It's hard to ignore the racial component here. | |
| The president went on this jag on Friday night in front of a largely white audience. | |
| That is racism. | |
| You cannot deny it. | |
| You cannot run for it. | |
| And I kneel in honor of... | |
| A lot of talk now about coded language. | |
| You think about what he said, disrespecting our heritage, we, to that largely white crowd. | |
| I think there's a lot of folks out there that look at this and say, what are you really trying to say here? | |
| This feels like a culture war that's exploding right before our eyes. | |
| Is he trying to wage something of a culture war? | |
| Not at all. | |
| The president's not talking about race. | |
| The president's talking about pride in our country. | |
| What you saw yesterday were players and fans of all races joining together as Americans to honor our service members. | |
| That's what the president's talking about. | |
| That's what his focus is on. | |
| You're not going to find many... | |
| Voices of support outside his base, his extreme base for these remarks. | |
| We have a white supremacist president of the United States. | |
| The president of the United States chose to pull the sheets off and reveal himself. | |
| He thinks apparently that he is the slave master of black people in the NFL. He wants us to be kneeling in the cotton fields again. | |
| The idea that this doesn't have something to do with race is preposterous. | |
| This country that he wants to make great again is all about making it white. | |
| His whole thing is, when would America make America great again? | |
| Now we see that 1817 is more likely when he's thinking about America being great as opposed to us kneeling on behalf of righteousness and justice. | |
| The national anthem is not a white supremacist symbol. | |
| Some of the words of the national anthem are white supremacists. | |
| You think the national anthem is racist? | |
| I think this is a country whose history is racist. | |
| The president of the United States. | |
| Came out attacking NFL players for them exercising the freedom of speech. | |
| Because that's a total disrespect of our heritage. | |
| That's a total disrespect of everything that we stand for, okay? | |
| Everything that we stand for. | |
| All right, Lisa, as they take a knee collectively, boos can be heard from this sellout crowd in Arizona. | |
| I'm not sure if our president understands those rights. | |
| That every American has the right to speak out and also to protest. | |
| As a white father having raised three boys, there were a million things to worry about on a daily basis. | |
| But it's impossible for me to truly understand the challenges that an African-American father faces at every turn while raising his children. | |
| It's like you're at the 50, you know, the 50-meter mark in a 100-meter dash. | |
| You got that kind of a lead. | |
| Yes, because you were born white. | |
| This idea that black people should be grateful is some sneaky-ass racism. | |
| Trump continued. | |
| It is about respect for our country. | |
| Flag and national anthem. | |
| NFL must respect this. | |
| Dude. | |
| You're going after the NFL? A lot of these players, they've got feelings, they've got emotions, they've got opinions. | |
| And many of the players I spoke to feel that their voice is not being heard. | |
| And more specifically, that the president's comments on Friday, particularly calling them SOBs, were a slap in their face. | |
| One of the things, though, about football is that it always has a way of kind of unifying us and pulling us together. | |
| We hope that this unity that spread throughout the league yesterday will spread throughout America in the weeks and months to come. | |
| When people like yourselves turn on television and you see those people taking the knee when they're playing our great national anthem... | |
| The only thing you could do better is if you see it, even if it's one player, leave the stadium. | |
| I guarantee things will stop. | |
| Things will stop. | |
| Just pick up and leave. | |
| Pick up and leave. | |
| For all you people who just seem to not understand, let me clarify this for you, okay? | |
| It's not about the act of protesting. | |
| It's not about the act of believing in something and pursuing it. | |
| It's the way you're doing it. | |
| The NFL players, all you assholes who are kneeling during the national anthem, let me explain something to you because obviously you're too stupid to get it. | |
| You're not getting your message out. | |
| It's not resonating with America. | |
| Your message is being lost because of the methods. | |
| That you're taking to get your message out there. | |
| I'm burning my jerseys. | |
| I'm not going to support the Dolphins anymore. | |
| This is for America! | |
| Shelton organized a Dolphins t-shirt burning in his Davy backyard. | |
| You're talking about an anthem of hope and unity within this country that have made people become great, that have made the poor become rich and give people opportunities. | |
| You're just talking about a flag that represents hard work, dedication, blood, sweat, and tears. | |
| Sacrifice. | |
| It's not about race. | |
| It's not about the fact that these players are black. | |
| It's about the fact that they are disrespecting America. | |
| That's the problem that I have. | |
| It's the problem that President Trump has. | |
| It's the problem that every American who loves this country has. | |
| You know what this flag stands for to me? | |
| Every day, I wake up as an American knowing I can do better. | |
| I take it really personally. | |
| So, this is what I have to say to the NFL. And if I'm not the commissioner in this room right now, I'd kick his f***ing ass. | |
| Explain something to you f***ing overpaid morons who chase a ball down a field and think somehow you're God's gift to America if you speak. | |
| Nobody gives a f*** about your feelings. | |
| Nobody gives a s*** about your message because you've s***ed on everybody to get it out. | |
| And the thing that makes me most upset is that you have these people who turn around and take a knee. | |
| And want to attribute all the negativity to the flag and the anthem, but don't want to attribute the positive. | |
| Listen, if you feel that the American flag represents negativity and slavery and all this other stuff, then you have to give credit and credence to a flag that have given you an opportunity to go from cornfields and picking cotton to being the president of the United States of America. | |
| You want to convince America that this is about social justice and the Constitution? | |
| Then maybe you ought to get off your butts and do something positive. |
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