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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Progressive Voice Bursting From Texas and Spreading Everywhere
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/sports/football/dale-hansen-nfl-wfaa.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&referer=https://t.co/sxlmV242EF?amp=1By JULIET MACUR at the NY Times
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Hansen, a white-haired grandfather who hasnt voted since 1972, has become an unlikely viral video star at age 69. You probably have noticed him scroll by as you traverse the Facebook feeds and Twitter timelines and pop culture websites that now serve as Americas secondary news source. All of them have helped to disseminate the folksy commentaries Hansen delivers on WFAA in Dallas, the ABC affiliate that has employed him for more than 30 years, to a much, much wider audience.
Maybe youve seen Hansen talking in remarkably personal terms about sexual abuse. Or about violence against women. Orracism in sports. Or, to borrow his words, nuts with guns.
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What he had to say most recently was a bit aboutthe national anthem protests in the N.F.L. But what has made Hansens words reverberate, both in conservative North Texas and elsewhere, is that his resounding voice often delivers a point of view one might not expect from a local TV newsman: a progressive one.
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The Progressive Voice Bursting From Texas and Spreading Everywhere (Original Post)
applegrove
Oct 2017
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. I really like this guy
applegrove
(118,759 posts)2. He said all the things African American football players said but sadly
an older, white, broadcaster needs to be the delivery vehicle for other red state white people to hear It.
Lochloosa
(16,067 posts)3. At least it's getting said.
applegrove
(118,759 posts)5. Oh yes. I like this man. We need a hundred just like him. But it is aad
that some of the people who so enjoy football can't get the message from their favourite player directly. Which is what Trump was intentionally disrupting. Which blew up in his face.
JI7
(89,262 posts)4. they need to say it . this guy is calling out his own on their hypocrisy
al sharpton went to black churches and criticized those who opposed gay rights.
sellitman
(11,607 posts)7. Why doesn't he vote?
And why are we celebrating someone who doesn't vote?
Talk is cheap.
Not impressed.