Jay Maxson, the Media Research Center’s mysterious sports blogger, absolutely hates the U.S. women’s soccer team in general, and star player Megan Rapinoe in particular, for being too gay — which is to say being gay at all, not a surprise given Maxson’s anti-gay activism. Now he’s serving up perhaps the most bizarre attack on Rapinoe he could conjure. In a July 29 post, Maxson complains that because Rapinoe says she didn’t feel bullied by President Trump’s tweets attacking her, Trump thus could not have been trying to bully her:
The truth is coming out. Soccer firebrand Megan Rapinoe is not the poor little victim of presidential bullying that her media enablers have been making her out to be. In a Vox Recode interview with Kara Swisher (in photo) she goes to the extreme of claiming membership in the “Squad” as a victim of President Trump’s bullying. Trying to have it both ways, Rapinoe tells Swisher that Trump’s tweets made her famous and spurred Team USA onto World Cup victory.
Rapinoe is a Colin Kaepernick-inspired social justice warrior who said this spring she refuses to honor America during the playing of the national anthem as a ”big F-you” to President Donald Trump. During the World Cup, she told a reporter she would not go to the “fucking White House” if the U.S. won the championship. Trump responded on Twitter that she should win first before talking White House, then invited the team win or lose. To many in the media, Trump was the villain, Rapinoe the damsel in distress.
Of course, whether Rapinoe ultimately felt bullied is irrelevant to the apparent intentions of Trump in attacking her.
Obsessing again over Rapinoe’s sexuality and triggered by Colin Kaepernick Derangement Sydrome, Maxson went on to huff that “Rapinoe the role model indicates her inspirations are Kaepernick and wine. And her significant other, WNBA player Sue Bird, whose virtues were extolled by CNN’s commie Van Jones,” adding further freakout-level annoyance at a writer who noted that “This power couple has surpassed Ellen DeGeneres and her partner.”
Anti-gay freakouts, sadly, are very much on-brand for Maxson and the MRC.