Urban Meyer: Anyone paying attention to this?

[_Kevin Graham]

Because I've been following it and I'm stunned how this parallels Trump and his supporters.

Ohio State fired a coach because of a domestic violence police report this year. The wife claims there was an incident in 2015 and no one from the football program did anything about it because there was no arrest.

Meyer flat out lies to a journalist about knowing his assistant was beating his wife in 2015. He said this was the first time he's heard anything about 2015. He then mocks the sports journalist for asking the question saying he doesn't know who would come up with a story like that, insisting that if he had known at the time he would have made a coaching change long ago.

So the next day the abused wife shared cell phone texts proving Urban Meyer's wife was aware of the abuse. Those texts included photos of the abuse.

Immediately the Ohio Nation fan base began to divide, with what seems like a large minority of them attacking the abused woman, insisting she was lying about everything and then Alex Jones type rumors starting coming up on the sports forums saying she is crazy, has had multiple DUIs, has called 911 so many times the cops no longer pay her any attention, etc.

Ohio State puts Urban Meyer on paid administrative leave while they investigate.

The next day Urban Meyer released a statement written by his lawyers contradicting his claim in the interview. Now he is saying that he DID know about the abuse in 2015, but he did everything he was supposed to do because he reported it to the Athletic Director.

When people start criticizing him for lying about it the first time, his defenders insist he was justified because he was only lying to "the media." Because you see, this is a problem with the MEDIA blowing things up and reporting on things they don't know.

As it is the school is in the middle of an investigation they said would last about 2 weeks. In the meantime the victim is shamed, the proven liar (Meyer) is given a pass and the real villain is the media.

Sound familiar?

[_Ceeboo]

Sound familiar?

Yes, Kevin, it does sound familiar.

All of your posts sound familiar. Every one. They all take a nonpolitical disturbing scenario or event that happened (no matter what the event/scenario is/was) and then you use your enormously large bottle of superglue to make it political and then you cement and connect said particular disturbing and specific event to 60 million American citizens.

[_moksha]

Wouldn't it have been more effective to enlist the police or even Omarosa Manigault rather than a football coach? Did she want him to tackle or block? Joe Namath would probably have thrown a pass, but neither men could execute a warrant.

[_Chap]

... the proven liar (Meyer) is given a pass and the real villain is the media.

Sound familiar?

That's how the Trump team manages things, certainly. But what blame attaches to his supporters for these tactic?

Credulity is blameworthy, certainly, especially if it takes the form of a hungry willingness to believe anything that feeds one's prejudices.

But 95% of the blame goes to Trump himself and the team that supports him. He is the one who has got his supporters addicted to the political equivalent of opioid painkillers: dull your sense of a life devoid of the possibilities you once hoped for, by idolising a political saviour and letting him feed you on fear of the enemies he promises to vanquish on your behalf.

That does sound familiar, certainly.

[_Kevin Graham]

Sound familiar?

Yes, Kevin, it does sound familiar.

All of your posts sound familiar. Every one. They all take a nonpolitical disturbing scenario or event that happened (no matter what the event/scenario is/was) and then you use your enormously large bottle of superglue to make it political and then you cement and connect said particular disturbing and specific event to 60 million American citizens.

It doesn't take "superglue" to see the obvious parallels here, especially how the anti-Media theme from Trump's administration/rallies has been applied to other facets of the lives of morons who have an affinity for worshiping compulsive liars like Trymp and Meyer.

But thanks again for jumping in with an irrelevant sidebar. I guess you'll stick around just long enough for people to complain about you not answering questions, defending your position, etc., at which point you'll bring up this post as proof of your willingness to engage in Christianesque, civil discourse.

[_schreech]

[_subgenius]

Because I've been following it and I'm stunned how this parallels Trump and his supporters.

Ohio State fired a coach because of a domestic violence police report this year. The wife claims there was an incident in 2015 and no one from the football program did anything about it because there was no arrest.

Meyer flat out lies to a journalist about knowing his assistant was beating his wife in 2015. He said this was the first time he's heard anything about 2015. He then mocks the sports journalist for asking the question saying he doesn't know who would come up with a story like that, insisting that if he had known at the time he would have made a coaching change long ago.

So the next day the abused wife shared cell phone texts proving Urban Meyer's wife was aware of the abuse. Those texts included photos of the abuse.

Immediately the Ohio Nation fan base began to divide, with what seems like a large minority of them attacking the abused woman, insisting she was lying about everything and then Alex Jones type rumors starting coming up on the sports forums saying she is crazy, has had multiple DUIs, has called 911 so many times the cops no longer pay her any attention, etc.

Ohio State puts Urban Meyer on paid administrative leave while they investigate.

The next day Urban Meyer released a statement written by his lawyers contradicting his claim in the interview. Now he is saying that he DID know about the abuse in 2015, but he did everything he was supposed to do because he reported it to the Athletic Director.

When people start criticizing him for lying about it the first time, his defenders insist he was justified because he was only lying to "the media." Because you see, this is a problem with the MEDIA blowing things up and reporting on things they don't know.

As it is the school is in the middle of an investigation they said would last about 2 weeks. In the meantime the victim is shamed, the proven liar (Meyer) is given a pass and the real villain is the media.

Sound familiar?

Yes, it sounds familiar...sounds like how the Clintons operated for decades.
Or maybe it sounds a little like JoePa and Penn St.

But really it just sounds like more desperation from a Lib/Dem.