Last night in Arizona, Bernie Sanders held a rally in a Navajo casino. As you might expect from the venue, his speech was heavy on issues that directly affect American Indians. One controversy Sanders briefly touched on was the Washington Redskins, the National Football League team with a slur right there in their…
The real ideological battle in the Republican primary will not be over taxes, or foreign policy, or immigration. Rather, it is a contest to find who will capture the valuable “Racist Hick Football Fan” demographic.
Ed Gillespie is the Republican candidate for Senate in Virginia. On Monday Night Football last night, he ran this campaign ad vowing to oppose attempts to make the Washington Redskins change their name.
Over the weekend, we learned that a Daily Show-staged showdown between Native American activists and supporters of the Washington Redskins name left at least one of the Redskins fans feeling "in danger" and "defamed." Last night, that segment aired.
The Washington Redskins—the team of choice for dumb, angry white men—may be a racist disgrace, but let's not forget that they're also a case study in hilariously incompetent propaganda-mongering.
This week, fifty U.S. senators signed a letter urging the Washington Redskins to change their name, because it is a "racial slur." Needless to say, conservatives are outraged. If you start doing away with racism, where does it end??
Washington D.C.'s NFL team, with an All-Pro roster of PR scumbags defending its racist name, is now concern-trolling about Native Americans' "high unemployment, life threatening health problems, inadequate education and many other issues more pressing than the name of a football team."
For some reason, the Washington, D.C., NFL team is observing Native American Heritage Month on its website this year. The tribute begins with a photo of Native American sports legend Jim Thorpe meeting original franchise coach William "Lone Star" Dietz, whose ethnic background goes unspecified.
Charles Krauthammer is a conservative columnist with a permanent sourpuss etched into his self-impressed face. He is not a sports columnist, okay? Yet he has managed, quite impressively, to come up with the single most inane solution yet for the "Washington Redskins" name controversy.
A premier political-messaging firm in the D.C. area will hold a focus group this week about whether the Washington Redskins football team should change its name to something that's not a racial slur. Let's save everyone a lot of trouble: Yes, it should.
Having decided that the only embarrassing failure he wants to deal with right now is his football team, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder announced that he's dropping his baseless lawsuit against the Washington City Paper. The Redskins still suck. [WaPo]
