But Jezebel taught me that only female actors are subjected to this sort of scrutiny over their appearance.

A worthy conversation, but a bit tangential to the core topic at hand. In your original comment you asserted the key factor in the respective reactions to Trump’s commentary regarding the black community and Kaepernick’s gesture was race, the implication of course, being that racism accounts for the negative response…

Now you’re applying your own arbitrary rules and conditions based on your own biased interpretations to define what types of criticisms qualify as a middle finger to the country and which don’t, all convenient to your personal political philosophy. It’s nonsense, really. Neither the questioning Obama’s place of birth…

That’s just your bias talking. Somehow, I doubt you viewed the Democrats’ questioning of then-President George W. Bush and attempts to delegitimize him as a middle finger to the United States during his presidency. Again, there’s a huge difference between questioning a politician and rejecting the universal symbol of…

Actually, no, it isn’t. Not even close. The questioning of a politician’s qualifications, whether valid or invalid, is not an FU to the country. The flag is a non-partisan, national symbol. Obama is not.

Of course, the difference that you fail to acknowledge is that one of those people is trying to effect change by running for public office and the other is making a statement by objecting to the very symbol of the United States, in essence giving a middle finger to the entire country. To pretend that the only…

The author makes a convenient omission. The reason the Trump campaign has singled out Pennsylvania for election day vigilance is because of well-documented “anomalies” in the state, particularly Philadelphia, where in 2008 Obama’s ACORN group was caught in voter fraud and the new black panther party was intimidating…

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