Super Bowl winner rejects Trump's invite: Idon't want my kids thinking I'm okay with his misogyny

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

It’s refreshing.

NFL football player and Super Bowl winner Alan Branch turned down an invitation to the White House on Wednesday in order to stand up for his daughters, his son and women everywhere. The New England Patriots team member told CNN:

“It’s nothing about the politics; it’s about the person and what he said.” 

Branch was so repulsed by what Trump said in the Access Hollywood tapes released last October, that he had no desire to even meet this president. Though Trump and his misogynist supporters deemed the tape of overtly abusive and disturbing discourse as “locker room” talk, Branch said during his 10 years of playing in the NFL and also playing college football, he never heard locker room talk so “aggressive and disrespectful.”

“What President Trump said on the bus really struck a nerve with me. I’m a father of three daughters and I have a son as well. I can’t see myself having any type of interest to go see a person who would say those things. I have a baby boy, not even a year old yet. I don’t want him to grow up thinking saying stuff like that is all right at any point in his life...

It's disgusting the way that he talks about women and I just can't deal with it and that's why I have no interest in going and shaking his hand. I've gotta go back home and look my daughters in the eye, and I don't want them to view me in a different light just because I did that.”

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/4/20/1654926/-Patriots-star-rejects-Trump-s-invite-I-couldn-t-shake-his-hand-look-my-daughters-in-the-eye?detail=email&link_id=3&can_id=861a9125edc6ec9480b5e7910a47b2d9&source=email-george-will-predicts-obamacare-to-become-single-payer-because-of-this-inconvenient-fact&email_referrer=george-will-predicts-obamacare-to-become-single-payer-because-of-this-inconvenient-fact&email_subject=george-will-predicts-obamacare-to-become-single-payer-because-of-this-inconvenient-fact

[Phoenix61]

1. That is the attitude of a real man

Concern about the women and little man in his life and how his own actions will shape their views of right and wrong.

[Lotusflower70]

2. Good for him

He is setting a great example for his children.

[PsychoBabble]

3. Not sure you can say it any better than that.

Would love to see THAT on endless video loop online ...

[demmiblue]

4. Thank you Alan Branch... you are a wonderful role model.

[smirkymonkey]

5. +1000

He really is. It is so refreshing to see a sports hero with such an enlightened attitude.

[stuffmatters]

6. Awesome clarity

And it will certainly get under Orange thin skin.

[KPN]

7. Damn straight!