![]() “The biggest name, the biggest cat down here.”īut now Hansen was becoming a moral beacon to the world. “From the time he got to Channel 8, he has been the unquestioned alpha dog over everybody and everything,” said Mike Rhyner, a sports radio host for KTCK. “Jesus,” he said.įor more than three decades, Dale Hansen has been a blustering, vainglorious, near-mythic figure in Dallas sportscasting. You give me hope.’” Hansen considered the magnitude of that sentiment. “She wrote, ‘We always hear about how bad people are from your country. In this case, the Pakistani woman meant the 66-year-old who does sports at 6 and 10 p.m. This woman is just writing about, as she put it, ‘the West.’” “I’m assuming it was from Pakistan,” Hansen said last week. He discovered her email in his work inbox one night. And I think those men respected the country they fought for and founded - a great deal more than the self-proclaimed patriots who are simply hypocrites - because they want to deny the basic freedom of this great country… a country they supposedly value, and cherish so much.After being hailed by Ellen DeGeneres, George Takei, and MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, it was probably inevitable that sportscaster Dale Hansen would find a fan in Pakistan. They listed 10, and not one of them says you have to stand during the national anthem. Our forefathers made freedom of speech the First Amendment. There has never been a better use of pen to paper. “Maybe we all need to read the Constitution again. We wrap our bald heads in a flag bandana and stick it in our pants, because we disrespect that flag every day.” We use that flag to sell mattresses and beer. We have white men in America who waive the Nazi flag and the Confederate flag, and he’s concerned about taking a knee because it disrespects this flag. ![]() ![]() And when he finally tried to say the right thing, not one of them was called an S.O.B. But he says nothing for days about the white men who marched under a Nazi flag in Charlottesville, except to remind us there were good people there. “It has not gone unnoticed that Trump has spoken out against the Mexicans who want to come to America for a better life, against the Muslims, and now against the black athlete. And if you don’t think white privilege is a fact, you don’t understand America.” They, and all of us, should protest how black Americans are treated in this country. It’s a dog whistle to the racists among us to say otherwise. ![]() They are respecting the best thing about America. “The young, black athletes are not disrespecting America or the military by taking a knee during the anthem. And college kids in the 60s had no right to protest an immoral war.” Young, black Americans should have gone to a different college and found a different lunch counter. Martin Luther King should have marched across a different bridge. “Donald Trump has said he supports a peaceful protest because it’s an American’s right… but not this protest, and there’s the problem - the opinion that any protest you don’t agree with is a protest that should be stopped. Here are some excerpts from his segment on Monday night: His most recent “Hansen Unplugged” segment deals with national anthem protests. Hansen has spoken out on gun control, racism, and homosexuality. He has earned several awards - but he is more recently known for his commentaries. Now, a sportscaster in Dallas is getting national attention for his commentary on the anthem and the NFL.ĭale Hansen has spent the last 34 years at WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas. DALLAS – The Dallas Cowboys, along with owner Jerry Jones, took a knee before the national anthem on Monday night.
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