Pence Staged Exit.

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(10-09-2017, 05:38 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: The left messed up by making this an anti trump situation.   Trumo jist turned the tables and made it a flag/patriotic issue.  

now the NFL has caved and even Miami's owner who was one of the first to support protests has caved.

Trump was flailing and needed something to get people angry about. He picked up an issue that had been a non-issue for months. And the media, his base, and his detractors took the bait instead of just saying "Why are you talking about a football player instead of balancing the budget?"

(10-09-2017, 05:54 PM)jason Wrote: Whole thing looked pretty spontaneous to me.

I dunno. Supposedly the media pool was advised to stay in their vehicles as the Veep's visit would be short and they would be left if they wandered off.

(10-09-2017, 06:10 PM)bfine32 Wrote: When the Notre Dame grads walked out of his commencement speech was that staged and did it outrage anyone?

Who knows what his motive was: I've heard everything from flying in to pay tribute to Manning to He cost the taxpayers 1 Billion Dollars. But at least the Colts fans didn't boo him like the crowd of Hamilton did.

I didn't care about their walk off.

I do care about him using tax dollars to make a statement. 

If all he cared about was getting his message out — that he disapproves of the Colts protesting Trump's comments — then he could've done it for little to no cost by picking up the phone and calling the media relations office. BAM, saved enough money to buy new textbooks for a few schools in Indiana next year.