Patriots Should Suffer Same Punishment As Stricken Black Little League Champs
The fallout from the “Deflategate” report released Wednesday remains very much up in the air (sorry), with most informed opinion pointing to at least a several-game suspension for quarterback Tom Brady. The media coverage of the report has focused largely on the highly-qualified language of its conclusion (“more probable than not” that Patriots staff cheated, and that Brady “was at least generally aware”), rather than on the far more damning details of the report.
Patriots (and Brady) apologists like to point to this language as an indication that the report doesn’t meet the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard of proof, but fail to note that in an actual court proceeding, Brady would not have been able to refuse to provide email, texts and other documents, and the Patriots could not have refused to produce a key witness for followup questions, or demanded for them to submit “in advance the subjects we proposed to cover,”and to “submit written interrogatories.”
The witness they wouldn’t produce was Jim McNally, whose text messages with assistant John Jastremski paint a crystal-clear picture of a memorabilia-for-deflation scheme that dates back to…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
2 responses to Patriots Should Suffer Same Punishment As Stricken Black Little League Champs
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tracey marie May 8th, 2015 at 16:15
Wealthy white men rarely pay for their cheating and lying.
liberalMD May 9th, 2015 at 01:27
The Jackie Robinson West situation is a horrible situation and I’m surprised that very few influential people have taken up the issue on their behalf.
As for Tom Brady, he probably deserves the same place in the Football Hall of Fame that Pete Rose has in the Baseball Hall of Fame.