On today’s episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan and co-host John Kiriakou discussed current events, including Antony Blinken expressing concern over China s.
5 Jun 2021
Ken Blackwell, former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, told Breitbart News on Friday that a court order for Major League Baseball (MLB) to return its All-Star Game to Atlanta “would be a win-win for everyone.”
The MLB rescheduled its All-Star Game moving it from Atlanta to Denver following Georgia’s enactment of election laws in March. Dubbed the “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” the bill implements voter ID requirements across all methods of voting. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred acknowledged the political motivation of his decision, saying it was “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport.” He added, “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.”
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5 Jun 2021
Here’s a story to lift the spirits on World Environment Day: a woke clothing company getting totally roasted by an oil industry executive.
The woke clothing company is North Face, the mountainwear manufacturer which in December last year refused an order for 400 branded jackets with the Innovex logo. According to Adam Anderson, CEO of Houston-based Innovex Downhole Solutions, this was “because we were an oil and gas services company.”
Perhaps, it was suggested, North Face didn’t want to taint its image in the eyes of its woke target audience by being seen to big up the fossil fuel industry?