- MLB Boycott of Georgia Highlights Moral Cowardice in American Professional Sports
Commentary On Oct. 6, 1965, the Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Minnesota Twins in the World Series. Excitement was in the air and tensions were running high as the biggest event in Major League Baseball (MLB) was taking place that year. Sandy Koufax, the Dodgers’ ace left-handed pitcher who was widely expected to start Game […]
- White House Says It Has Not Asked Corporations to Sanction States
The White House on Monday said officials have not pushed corporations to take specific actions like sanctioning states, several days after President Joe Biden voiced his support for Major League Baseball (MLB) moving its All-Star game from Georgia in retaliation for a new voting reform law. “We’ve not asked corporations to take specific actions. That’s […]
- Barack Obama Cheers MLB for Moving the All-Star Game
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday celebrated Major League Baseball (MLB) for its decision to move the All-Star game out of Atlanta after the Georgia legislature passed legislation on election integrity. Obama tweeted, “Congratulations to the MLB for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights for all citizens. There’s no better way for American’s pastime to honor the […]
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Praises MLB Moving All-Star Game: ‘This Means Something to Everybody’
Former professional basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Major League Baseball moving the All-Star Game from Atlanta, GA following the passage of a new voter law “means something to everybody.” Melber asked, “Kareem, what does it mean for Major League Baseball to take a stand like this right now?” Abdul-Jabbar said, […]
- Nolte: Woke Gestapo at Coke and Delta Wage War Against Voter Integrity Laws
So the fascist corporations Hollywood and science-fiction writers spent decades warning us about have finally arrived, and it’s not just the Big Tech Nazis. Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines are now trying to meddle in American elections by using lies and hypocrisy to wage war against voter integrity laws. This week, the Woke Gestapo at Coke […]
- NTD News Today Full Broadcast (April 7)
U.S. Border Patrol arrests an illegal immigrant convicted of child sex offenses. And experts warn that some border crossers are renting children to get into the United States as family units. Arkansas is the first state to ban children from having gender reassignment surgery. But rights groups say they will fight the law in court. […]
- Rubio pens letter to MLB commissioner asking if he plans to keep his membership at a GA golf club
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) on Monday penned a letter to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred asking him if he plans to continue his membership at an exclusive Georgia golf club amid of the league’s decision to withdraw its 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to protest the state’s divisive new election law. RELATED: MLB withdraws All-Star […]
- Trump Calls for Boycott of MLB, Coca-Cola, Delta Over Opposition to Georgia Election Reforms
Former President Donald Trump on April 2 urged people to boycott Major League Baseball (MLB), Coca-Cola, Delta, and other corporations which are openly opposing election reforms enacted by Republicans in Georgia. “Baseball is already losing tremendous numbers of fans, and now they leave Atlanta with their All-Star Game because they are afraid of the Radical […]
- MLB withdraws All-Star Game, Draft from Atlanta in protest of new election law
On Friday, Major League Baseball (MLB) announced that it was withdrawing the 2021 All-Star Game and Draft from Atlanta, in response to Georgia recently enacting a new election law that many have criticized for restricting voting access of residents. It is the latest major business to condemn the new law. “Over the last week, we […]
- ViacomCBS Slams Georgia Voter Integrity Law, Claims It Impedes ‘Equal Right to Vote’
ViacomCBS is the first major Hollywood studio to speak out against Georgia’s voter integrity law, claiming without citing evidence that the legislation intended to fight voter fraud actually impedes the “equal right to vote.” The media conglomerate, which owns Paramount Pictures and the CBS network, stopped short of endorsing the left’s demands to boycott the […]
- Biden: Georgia needs to ‘smarten up’ to avoid losing business
President Joe Biden praised businesses for opposing new voting laws while telling Georgia and other states to “smarten up.” Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Biden said “it’s reassuring to see that for-profit operations and businesses are speaking up about how these new Jim Crow laws that are just antithetical to who we are.” “There’s another side […]
- Gov. Abbott declines invite to throw out first pitch at Rangers’ opening game
In a Monday statement, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he will not be throwing out the first pitch at the opening game of the Texas Rangers’ season. “I was looking forward to it – until Major League Baseball adopted what has turned out to be a false narrative about the election law reforms in Georgie, […]
- House Republican Drafting Bill to Yank MLB’s Antitrust Exemption Over Political All-Star Game Move
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) on April 2 instructed his staff to draft a bill that would remove the federal anti-trust exemption granted to Major League Baseball (MLB) after the professional baseball monopoly moved the All-Star game from Georgia as a political statement against election reforms enacted by the state’s Republican legislature and governor. “In light […]
- ‘Economic Blackmail’: Georgia Elections Official Blasts Biden for ‘Disgusting’ MLB Statement
President Joe Biden’s support for Major League Baseball moving the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia’s recent enactment of an election integrity law is both “disgusting” and a form of “economic blackmail,” Georgia elections official Gabe Sterling said Friday. “I think it’s morally reprehensible and disgusting that he’s perpetuating economic blackmail over a […]
- Georgia House Passes Bill Removing Delta Tax Break After CEO Criticism
Georgia Republicans voted to strip Delta Air Lines of a multi-million dollar jet fuel tax break Wednesday. Later on the same day that Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian released a memo to employees on what he called “unacceptable” new voting laws in Georgia, the state’s House of Representatives voted to strip the company of […]
- MLB Announces All Star Game, Moved From Georgia, to Be Held in Colorado
Major League Baseball (MLB) on Tuesday said its all star game will be held in Colorado. MLB moved the game and its 2021 draft from Georgia to protest lawmakers passing and Gov. Brian Kemp signing a new election reform law. MLB said it chose Denver because the Colorado Rockies, the state’s baseball team, was already […]
- Biden Adviser Cecilia Rouse on MLB’s Georgia Boycott: ‘Undoubtedly Going to Be a Cost’ to Stadium Workers
Council of Economic Advisers chair Cecilia Rouse said CBS’s “Face the Nation” that “there is undoubtedly going to be a cost” to the majority-black city of Atlanta’s stadium workers because Major League Baseball moved it’s All-Star game move out of Georgia to protest the new voting law. Partial transcript as follows: BRENNAN: This past week, we had a […]
- Donald Trump: ‘Boycott Baseball’ and ‘Woke Companies’ Opposing Georgia Election Law
President Donald Trump called for a boycott of Major League Baseball (MLB) Friday after they canceled the 2021 All-Star game in Atlanta to protest the new Georgia election law. “Boycott baseball and all of the woke companies that are interfering with Free and Fair Elections,” Trump wrote. “Are you listening Coke, Delta, and all!” Over […]
- Stacey Abrams: Don’t Boycott Georgia Businesses ‘Yet’ over Election Law
Left-wing activist Stacey Abrams is calling on opponents of Georgia’s newly-enacted election integrity law not to boycott the state’s companies — “yet” — and is instead urging them to pour money into efforts supporting Democrats’ federal election policy changes. “The companies that stood silently by or gave mealy-mouthed responses during the debate were wrong,” Abrams, who […]
- Coca-Cola CEO Quincey: ‘Unacceptable’ Georgia Voting Law ‘Needs to Be Remedied’
Coca-Cola Company chairman and CEO James Quincey said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” that the recently passed Georgia voting law “is wrong and needs to be remedied.” Quincey said, “Let me get crystal clear and unequivocal this legislation is unacceptable. It is a step backward. It does not promote principles we have stood for in […]
