NR Daily: The Olympics of Chutzpah: Awards Go to the NFL, the IRS, and the CFPB

Several Americans at or near the tops of some of this country's major institutions have become portraits in brass. How dare they behave this way? Their hubris and high-handedness are award-worthy — if nothing else, to showcase them as people not to emulate. Let's call these the Olympics of Chutzpah. The 2017 gold medal for chutzpah goes to Roger Goodell. The NFL commissioner did little more than let his knees knock while leftist players turned a previously apolitical sports enterprise into a coast-to-coast social-justice workshop. Goodell should have told his league's overpaid, childish athletes to get off their knees and reserve their activism to off-duty hours ...

November 28 2017

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