Barack Obama Cheers MLB for Moving the All-Star Game Cheers the man who once led the Free World, gave pallets of cash as ransom for his sailors and most of the Middle East to the Russians and ISIS.
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"Guess who gets hurt in the estimated $100 million impact from the loss of the MLB showcase. That would be the little guys who work at hotels and restaurants, who are vendors at the game, and who work in other service industries. The local Dem pols realized this quickly. Last Friday, Laura Ingraham reported:
[T]he blowback against this is growing, which forced even liberal Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff to put out a statement last night saying, "I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia." But then he said that look, corporations that are disgusted, like we are with this voter suppression bill, should stop any financial support for the Georgia Republican Party. . . .
Do Springsteen or other rockers have concerts scheduled for Georgia? Better avoid that, because if you do, they will be your master and owner. Dare to offend them in any way and they will cancel on you just as Bruce did to North Carolina, costing millions of dollars. TD
Fact Check: Major League Baseball Moves All-Star Game over Law that Expands Some Voting . . . "VERDICT: FALSE. The new Georgia law actually expands some voting, contrary to claims by Democrats and the media.
"MLB became the latest victim of a hoax about Georgia’s voting law when it announced Friday that it would move the 2021 All-Star Game out of the state. In a statement, MLB said it supports voting rights and “opposes restrictions to the ballot box.”
"Major corporations based in Atlanta, such as Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines, have also criticized the new law harshly. But as the Wall Street Journal noted in an editorial Thursday, “They’re denouncing Georgia’s election law, but have they read it?”
"Fact-checkers have already taken President Joe Biden to task for false statements about the law, as Breitbart News noted:" . . .