NFL player and reigning Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce may have exercised too much freedom on social media for the left-wing populace to handle.
Kelce, who has become a media darling for his relationship with Taylor Swift and his promotion of Pfizer vaccines, went too far according to many when he liked an Instagram photo.
The photo was posted by former ESPN anchor Sage Steele, who has made appearances in conservative circles since leaving the network. Still, Steele landed on Bill Maher's network for her new podcast.
"What. A. Night. After years of covering [UFC] at ESPN, I FINALLY got to see it live & in person. Game changer. THANK YOU [Dana White] ... for EVERYTHING!" Steele wrote on Instagram.
"Great people, great event, great fights! (Check out the last video - it's the final minute of the main card fight .. so intense!!!) #ufc299 (cue the divisive, close-minded thoughts and unfollows in 3...2...1…" she added.
Steele's photos included her shaking hands with President Trump, as well as posing with several personalities that included entrepreneur Patrick Bet-David, political commentator Candace Owens, influencer SteveWillDoIt, and podcaster/actor Vincent Oshana.
It took a month after the images were posted for online sleuths to realize that Kelce had liked the post, an apparent faux pas among left-leaning voters.
As reported by Trending Politics, Kelce liked the post and dared to follow Steele's page. This elicited many strong reactions from social media users.
"Why is travis kelce following a trump supporter + just generally conservative a**hole," an X user, who referred to herself as a "Barbie" asked.
why is travis kelce following a trump supporter + just generally conservative asshole— (@)
"Travis Kelce can eat s**t for all I care. He’s a drunk, xenophobic, fat phobic, trump loving, a**hole," another user wrote.
Travis Kelce can eat shit for all I care. He\u2019s a drunk, xenophobic, fat phobic, trump loving, asshole.— (@)
The women at "The View" had varying opinions on the matter, as they appeared guilty of the same alleged crimes due to past micro transgressions.
"Travis Kelce sparked a lot of outrage online after he liked a social media post that featured multiple photos of you know who," Whoopi Goldberg said, of course referring to President Trump.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin added that she "lives in fear" of liking social media posts that she doesn't want to be seen interacting with and has the habit of removing her interaction with posts.
Joy Behar said that while she dislikes President Trump, she has public pictures with his son Eric and wife, Lara, and deemed those social media posts to not mean "anything" because they were taken before the Trump presidency.
Sunny Hostin, on the other hand, declared that she believed Kelce had liked the post by mistake and that he had since removed his approval since facing backlash. She was immediately corrected by a producer in her ear that he had indeed not removed his like from the post.
TRAVIS KELCE SLAMMED BY TAYLOR SWIFT FANS: #TheView co-hosts react to Swifties slamming the tight end for liking a post featuring former Pres. Trump on social media. https://t.co/cVclFZQU98— (@)
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Candace Owens’ departure from the Daily Wire appears to have sparked even more animus toward her, especially where it concerns the black conservative community.
Why?
This is the subject of Jason Whitlock and Shemeka Michelle’s conversation.
Owens has come under intense fire for using the phrase “Christ is King” during conversations surrounding the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine. Many have called her use of the expression "anti-Semitic" — granted, she has been openly critical of Israel’s war on Gaza — and even questioned the authenticity of her Christian faith.
“When I saw her say [Christ is King] the first time a few months back, I didn't really believe it simply because she hadn't been talking that way previously,” says Shemeka. However, “I think that people can find Christ and then all of a sudden just become very spirited and passionate about it.”
Jason agrees, adding, “I do think it's possible that she's just on fire right now for Christ, and I want to give her grace, even if she's making some missteps.”
Last week, Owens was interviewed on “The Breakfast Club” podcast, hosted by Charlamagne Tha God, and apparently, the political commentator missed an opportunity to connect with the black community when she performed poorly on a quiz that referenced various aspects of black culture.
Further, on March 15, Owens had a conversation with Joe Budden on “The Joe Budden Podcast,” during which she disapproved of specific black artists in the hip-hop community, including Lizzo, Ice Spice, and Sexyy Red, which only fueled the accusations that Owens is “anti-black.”
Jason, however, thinks much of the animosity toward Owens is a result of jealousy.
“Some of these attacks on Candace are just jealousy” stemming from “the attention she gets and the opportunities she gets,” he says.
Shemeka thinks that in addition to jealousy, there’s something else playing into the hatred for Candace Owens.
“Candace not being married to a black man is going to” lead many black people to ask: “If you love [black men] so much, why didn't you marry one?” she tells Jason.
But Jason understands that Candace has “[limited her] dating pool with black people tremendously,” considering her political affiliations.
On “The Breakfast Club,” when asked why she speaks openly about the black family when she married a white man, Candace explained that love, not race, led her to marry her husband, who she says is intellectually compatible with her. Many, of course, took this as a slight against black mens’ IQs.
“I thought her answer was transparent and appropriate and not in any way disrespectful to black people,” says Jason.
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip below.
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A 22-year-old student was murdered on her University of Georgia campus by a 26-year-old illegal immigrant, and the mainstream media is showing its true colors.
The student, Laken Riley, was going for a morning jog when Jose Antonio Ibarra allegedly kidnapped and killed her.
However, in stories published on the tragedy from publications like the Associated Press, the reporters neglect to add in a very important detail: the alleged murderer is an illegal immigrant, and he already had a criminal history here in the United States.
According to ICE, Ibarra was caught crossing illegally into El Paso in September 2022 and was released into the United States via parole.
Nearly a year later, New York police arrested him for acting in a manner to injure a child less than age 17, and, yet again, he was released.
“I’m sure that it was just, you know, an oversight,” Sara Gonzales mocks, “just a little oopsy. Surely, they wrote a follow-up that highlighted the glaring omission that this man should not have even been in this country in the first place.”
“You have to imagine — surely, it’s incompetence rather than a deliberate act of deception,” she adds sarcastically.
The Associated Press did write a follow-up on the story in which it blamed toxic masculinity for her death rather than the allowance of a criminal into the United States.
The author then used the death of Mollie Tibbetts as another example of toxic masculinity but neglected to mention Tibbetts was also brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant.
“Both women were murdered by illegal immigrants, but that doesn’t fit the narrative. That’s not good for optics,” Gonzales says.
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U.S. children are being kicked out of schools to make room for illegal immigrants. Airports and other spaces are being repurposed to house illegal immigrants. American taxpayer dollars are being used to provide care and resources for illegal immigrants.
You get the picture: illegal immigrants > American citizens.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the pattern will shift anytime soon, at least while Biden remains in office.
“I could not believe what I was watching this morning when I was on Twitter,” says Sara Gonzales before playing a clip of the local news report she stumbled across.
“Airline passengers are advised to check in with your Airlines mobile app as soon as possible — up to 24 hours in advance — and arrive at the airport with at least two hours before your plane takes off. That's because asylum seekers illegally released by the Department of Homeland Security are waiting on standby for seats, and if you aren't at the boarding gate when agents start to fill empty seats, you could be bumped,” a reporter warned.
She goes on to tell the story of one patron who “had trouble checking in on the American Airlines app” but still “arrived at the airport an hour before his flight” only to find out “had been bumped from the flight.”
Sara, who’s outraged by the situation, has witnessed firsthand how illegal immigrants are given priority at airports (and everywhere else).
“They get priority through TSA ... they get to take your seat on the plane, and then they get to come to a city near you where they get to keep your kids out of school because they get a cot in your kids’ school,” she says, referring to the many incidents of American children being forced out of school to house illegal immigrants.
“The state has to be paying these airlines in some capacity,” adds BlazeTV contributor Eric July. “That’s the only reason they would bump somebody off of a plane ... They’re getting their pockets lined."
In addition to Americans being treated as second-class citizens, there’re also serious implications to consider as the 2024 presidential election draws nearer.
“What does a legitimate election even look like with 50/60/70 million illegal immigrants in your country?” asks Blaze Media digital strategist Logan Hall.
To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip below.
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Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro are no strangers to controversy.
As two of the Daily Wire’s most famous talking heads, they’ve spent years slamming the Left as well as other conservatives — but now they’re taking shots at each other.
The pair’s differing views on the Israel-Hamas conflict have escalated any tensions they already had with each other rapidly, to the point that Shapiro is now calling for Owens to quit the Daily Wire.
And this is all playing out for the world to see on X.
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God,” Owens tweeted, quoting the biblical verse.
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other.”
“You cannot serve both God and money,” she added.
Shapiro, either correctly or incorrectly assumed the tweet was a dig at him, and responded: “Candace, if you feel that taking money from The Daily Wire somehow comes between you and God, by all means quit.”
Owens then accused Shapiro of acting “unprofessional and emotionally unhinged” for the past few weeks regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict.
It appears the timing of Candace’s tweet was important, as Candace had just recorded an interview with Tucker Carlson — who was set to release parts of the interview later that night.
In the interview, he plays a video of Ben Shapiro calling Owens’ behavior toward the Israel-Hamas conflict “disgraceful.”
Owens told Carlson she refuses to respond to Shapiro with the same ad hominem attacks and said she would be embarrassed if caught disparaging co-workers on camera like Shapiro was.
“I think the video speaks more to Ben’s character then it does to mine,” she added.
Dave Rubin, who has been acquainted with Owens and Shapiro for years and was even at Owens’ wedding, believes that Owens might be trying to get fired.
“Candace’s contract has got to be coming to an end — I suppose in six months or a year or something like that. And obviously Ben has sort of had it with her,” Rubin says. “And she kind of wants to get fired.”
“The best thing for her would be to be fired because then she could use that as fuel to go do something else,” he adds.
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A glaring problem in the online pundit class is now impossible to ignore.
Many talking heads will confidently preach about delicate and intricate topics like Israel and Hamas as if they know everything, when in reality, they're rather ignorant.
This was made clear during a recent interview between Candace Owens and Jewish comedian Ami Kozak, during which Owens was brutally corrected by Kozak.
“When people call it, you know, this ‘bastion of freedom’ or it’s ‘just like America,’ that’s not the sense that I had when I was there,” Owens tells Kozak regarding Jerusalem.
“When I’m walking through Jerusalem,” Owens continues, “and they say, ‘These are the Muslim quarters, this is where the Muslims are allowed to live’ — that doesn’t feel like a ‘Bastion of Freedom to me.’”
Kozak corrects her, noting that it’s not where they’re “allowed” to live.
“There’s an Armenian quarter. It’s not saying the Armenians can only live here, it’s that there are communities just like there’s a Jewish community in Jersey here and there’s a Muslim community here,” Kozak says.
Owens then continued on to say that the Muslim community was “noticeably a lot dirtier” and “darker” and it made her feel “as a black American” who knows her own history that "this isn’t freedom to me.”
“Imagine if you went into an inner city in the United States and somebody told you, ‘This is a predominantly black neighborhood’ and you said it looked more rundown, would you say that America’s systemically racist?” Kozak fires back.
Ian Haworth, columnist and host of ‘Off Limits,’ tells Dave Rubin that what Owens is demonstrating is a “problem with the general commentary class on both sides.”
“It gets a little sticky when we’re talking about things with very deep consequences, like the deep levels of anti-Semitism we’re seeing exploding all over the world based on really a conspiracy theory of anti-Semitism and a conspiracy theory of Israel,” Haworth adds.
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