Mariano Rivera will enter the MLB Hall of Fame today. He's also spent the last three years serving at the pleasure of a racist president, cozying up to apocalypic bigoted loons, and doing propaganda on behalf of an apartheid state. @thedailybeast https://t.co/D6IBUFsisf
— Robert Silverman (@BobSaietta) July 21, 2019
Vile.
Via Breitbart:
The Daily Beast published an article Sunday accusing Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Mariano Rivera of “secret far-right politics,” solely on the basis of the fact that he is a Christian who supports the State of Israel.
The story, by Robert Silverman, is titled, “Inside Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera’s Secret Far-Right Politics.”
But there is no evidence of “secret far-right politics” in the article.
Instead, there is just an extensive recounting of Rivera’s support for Israel.
Silverman says that despite the admiration the legendary New York Yankees closer has received from fans, he has “served at the pleasure of a racist president, taken part in thinly veiled propaganda on behalf of an apartheid government in Israel, and gotten chummy with outright bigots and apocalyptic loons.”