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So, as the NFL season is approaching, there has been some updates to whether the football teams will have fans this year or not. The updates are that only 3 teams that will have some fans in their stadiums. The Chiefs which they play the Texans tomorrow night, Dolphins, and Cowboys are those teams who will have the fans to start off the season. While I am talking about the NFL season, I am going to predict that the Chiefs will beat the Texans tomorrow 42-17. I just think that the Texans might get off to a rough start against the Chiefs.
NFL Updates: The Jaguars have traded defensive end Yannick Ngakoue to the Minnesota Vikings, the Seahawks traded defensive end Jadeveon Clowney to the Tennessee Titans, and the Minnesota Vikings have traded defensive end Everson Griffin to the Dallas Cowboys! Wow that is big for the Cowboys in my opinion! Speaking of big, The Arizona Cardinals have signed safety Budda Baker to a 4-year $59,000,000 contract including $10,000,000 signing bonus, $33,100,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $14,750,000! That is big time money right there in my opinion!!! Not only that, the Cardinals also signed a massive contract extension for wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to a two-year extension with a $54.5 million that includes $42.5 million guaranteed. All of this information came from the NFL bleacher report.
I can’t wait for the NFL season to start basically tomorrow and on Sunday. So, make sure to stay tuned for more NFL updates.
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When Bob Woodward shared some revelations from a series of interviews he did with Donald Trump earlier this year, people were angry. Much of the anger was directed at Trump, obviously, who can be heard in recordings talking about how deadly the coronavirus is at a time when he was downplaying its threat to the public, comparing it to the flu and calling it a hoax being pushed by the Democratic Party for political gain. He told Woodward that he was downplaying the virus knowingly and deliberately because he didn’t want to “create a panic,” choosing instead to gaslight a country while hundreds of thousands of people died.
So of course people were angry with Trump. But people were also angry with Woodward for keeping these interviews to himself, only releasing them six and more months later in the lead-up to his book release.
Now Woodward is trying to defend his decision to sit on this information so long. The AP writes:
“He tells me this, and I’m thinking, ‘Wow, that’s interesting, but is it true?’ Trump says things that don’t check out, right?” Woodward told the AP during a telephone interview. Using a famous phrase from the Watergate era, when Woodward’s reporting for the Post helped lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation, Woodward said his mission was to determine, “What did he know and when did he know it?”
It’s totally understandable for Woodward not to rush out and hastily publish this story before he knows what’s what. But the more he tries to explain why he waited so long, the more callous and calculating he ends up sounding.
“If I had done the story at that time about what he knew in February, that’s not telling us anything we didn’t know,” Woodward said. At that point, he said, the issue was no longer one of public health but of politics. His priority became getting the story out before the election in November.
“That was the demarcation line for me,” he said. “Had I decided that my book was coming out on Christmas, the end of this year, that would have been unthinkable.”
So he wanted to influence the election but has nothing to say about the nearly 200,000 people who have died between that interview and this week when he released the audio as promotion for his book?
Some are defending Woodward, saying it wouldn’t have made any difference if he’d shared what Trump told him earlier. And maybe that’s true. But we don’t know that, and it seems like a journalist has an ethical obligation to share something like this with the public. Also, who does it help to be so complacent about Trump’s actions and the reactions of his base?
There is no ethical or moral defense of Woodward’s decision to not publish these tapes as soon as they were made. If there was any chance it could save a single life, he was obligated to do so. Bob Woodward put making money over his moral and professional duty.
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) September 9, 2020
This is the same shit people were telling me about Bob Woodward. “It wouldn’t have mattered if he said anything.” You don’t know that. Why are you defending these people. They don’t care about you. Stop it https://t.co/IE0rBPR0QA
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌏🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) September 10, 2020
Like, as a young Woodward got information, he published it, as fast as it was coming in, and brought a horrifying scandal to light in front of a critical nation, eventually forcing the President to resign in shame and disgrace.
Which turns out to be great for book sales.
— Sean Kelly (@StorySlug) September 10, 2020
Meanwhile, Donald Trump is trying to weaponize Woodward’s delay.
Earlier today he tweeted: “Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic!”
Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 10, 2020
Then at a press conference this afternoon, he said the Woodward revelation was “stuff that everyone knew,” which it was not. “If Bob Woodward thought what I said was bad, then he should have immediately, right after I said it, gone out to the authorities so they can prepare and let them know.”
But which authorities is he talking about exactly? Isn’t Trump the authority here? Or maybe the team that briefed Trump on the dangers of the virus, whom he then ignored? Who is Trump suggesting Woodward should have gone to with this information?
In this quote he 1) blames Bob Woodward for not making a public health announcement; 2) says the “fake media” knew it was bad, but somehow Woodward didn’t (he’s not part of the media?); then says 3) he did the interview only because he wanted to see if Woodward can “write good.” https://t.co/TB9inlU4gZ
— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) September 10, 2020
Trump trying to pin him lying on Woodward, like: if it was so bad, why didn’t he report. Which is a trap that Woodward didn’t need to walk into.
— Person Woman Man Camera TV (@ClaraJeffery) September 10, 2020
Trump then blamed Bob Woodward for not telling people that he lied earlier. https://t.co/ZZRSVqi4Rp
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 10, 2020
President Woodward really screwed up his covid response. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/r8tX3nNBeL
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) September 10, 2020
After defending intentionally downplaying the coronavirus threat, blaming Bob Woodward and listing off the extensive amount of television he watched last night, President Trump leaves the briefing room after only taking three questions.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) September 10, 2020
Every single part of this whole story is awful.
(image: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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Sigh. Here come the stories that Wonder Woman 1984 is going to be delayed yet again, because Tenet didn’t exactly do well in the American market (just about $20.2 million in the U.S.). Right now, the world of movies is very uncertain, which … yeah, everything is, and instead of just waiting until things are safe for theatrical releases, studios are trying to push movies out and it … clearly isn’t working.
Tenet, which would have made well more than $20 million if this were a normal year (despite bad reviews), wasn’t as successful in the European market as they’d hoped, and without the benefit of also doing a VOD release, the movie was completely reliant on its theatrical box office haul.
And now, with Wonder Woman 1984, they’re looking at pushing it from an October release date into maybe even December—which would then push Dune, which just released a first trailer, into 2021, and … you get the problem here right? We just keep going in a circle with these movie release dates.
And look, I don’t want movies to be released on VOD. I want to see Black Widow and Wonder Woman 1984 in theaters, but right now, it feels like we’re either in an outrage about movie theaters being open or we’re talking about a movie release getting pushed. Those are the two moods. That’s it. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: EVERYTHING SHOULD WAIT. We’re so set on trying to return to normal that we’re all being put in danger and delaying that very return by making things worse.
Look, I want nothing more than to go see Tenet and not be afraid. I’d love to be getting ready for Wonder Woman 1984 and not be worried that I could end up getting sick, or get someone else sick, because I want to go to the theater to see it. It’s rough out there right now, and the little joy we do have, in my opinion, is knowing that if we stop and do what we’re supposed to, we can go back to the movies one day and get to see our faves onscreen again.
So yes, Wonder Woman 1984 is probably going to get pushed again, and honestly, it should. I don’t want cases to be connected with people rushing to see Diana Prince. I don’t want that to be her legacy. The world needs to be smart and safe, and if that means waiting until there’s some kind of normalcy again, then fine.
The reality is that the United States is kind of ruining it for everyone because movie studios aren’t going to keep losing money, and so it means the rest of the world, who kind of has their shit together, is also going to have to wait. So … hopefully the U.S. starts to take it seriously (highly doubtful when our president is tweeting ridiculous things about letting kids go back to school when teachers are dying), but until then, we don’t deserve to go to the movies.
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