This should be in any other non-politically correct American newspaper a Pulitzer Prize winning photo. As I suspect most of you know there are Pulitzer Prizes issued up and down the dial in the media for award-winning journalism, television, radio, print and photography.
How in God’s green earth could this picture miss? What a dichotomy. An elderly security guard standing at attention in the tunnel while Denver Broncos Demaryius Thomas and the darling of the Front Range press Brandon Marshall taking a squat, not kneeling for our nation’s song, the National Anthem. Look at the woman at attention; hand over her heart, eyes straight ahead. All the time I’ve been staring at this photo I wonder exactly what she must be thinking. At her age maybe her father was at the Battle of the Bulge, maybe an uncle on Guadalcanal. Maybe one of her mom’s relatives on Pork Chop Hill. A brother at Khe Sanh in Viet Nam. A son or a daughter in the battle for Fallujah. You gotta ask yourself why this picture has never appeared in any Denver media outlet. We placed it on our award-winning 710 KNUS website and it received over 17,000 views. How can the Front Range corporate media not be humiliated?
I feel like monthly we come here to the headquarters of the Daily Planet and I play an ongoing game of whack a mole with The Denver Post, television stations and other radio outlets. We’ve become a voice in the wilderness. Why can’t someone else at least challenge the behavior of these players? I’ve said many times I know nothing about X’s and O’s, I know nothing about how football is played or operated or sold. But I do know a little bit about how the media business works.
We have talked and written for years about Brandon Marshall’s lies, but the showstopper on this one is Demaryius Thomas. I don’t know how many of you know that in this horrible racist country that we live in Demaryius’ mom and grandma have had their prison sentences granted clemency. Both of these women were doing a 20-year drug stretch for not only selling but also manufacturing crack cocaine. In fact Demaryius has spoken about the family cooking crack on the stove in the kitchen where he grew up. I can see why he’s mad. I was able to read about the raid where the cops found hundreds of dollars in rolled up cash in a drug ring led by Demaryius’ grandma Minnie Pearl [Thomas]. She took the beef on conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
Now under this current racist regime of Donald Trump, President Trump is currently working on commuting sentences of other African American women who also have taken some drug beefs. Donald has commuted a sentence of a grandma doing life on drug charges. The woman’s name is Alice Johnson. Alice is 63 years old, had been in the federal joint for 21 years and would have died behind bars without President Trump’s clemency. Donald Trump, along with an unlikely partner Kim Kardashian, working toward the release of other women facing similar sentencing.
So why, as my colleague Chuck Bonniwell has pointed out, why don’t Demaryius and Brandon go to Trump and seek help in finding more people who need the Presidential pardon. But that would take some effort.
According to the first couple of weeks of television ratings this NFL season is off to a resounding flop. So Demaryius Thomas was 11 when mom and grandma were jailed for 60 years. And in this bigoted system they squat because he [Trump] has released them. More women to follow and points like this as I look at our competitors in the Denver media scene and ask why the hell for once can’t you tell the truth, or better yet show the truth??
I’m glad Demaryius’ mom is home. You’d think he’d be grateful.
I guess its easier for these morons in television studios to turn Tom Tancredo into a Klansman than show a photo of disrespect that would get them an audience or sell them papers. You really gotta ask yourself why. Happy Halloween.
— Peter Boyles