Dennis Rodman in North Korea WTF?

[whitehall]

Did the Hussein administration appoint former basketball player Dennis Rodman to be US ambassador to North Korea? What the hell was the dumb ass doing there? This is typical progressive pie in the sky amateur stuff. "Hey, little Kim likes basketball and Obama likes basketball" so why can't we all just get along? Rodman of course had no clue about the regime's systematic starvation of it's people. Former Clinton chief advisor Georgie Stephonolopis turned news anchor interviewed Rodman and gave him the usual left wing softball treatment.

 

[Katzndogz]

Rodman is black. He cannot be criticized.

 

[blastoff]

I'm guessing some kinky Korean got himself a new mail order bride.

 

[Katzndogz]

Someone gave approval for Rodman to visit North Korea. Someone in this regime. But, the regime being what it is, no one did it.

 

[Sallow]

Did the Hussein administration appoint former basketball player Dennis Rodman to be US ambassador to North Korea? What the hell was the dumb ass doing there? This is typical progressive pie in the sky amateur stuff. "Hey, little Kim likes basketball and Obama likes basketball" so why can't we all just get along? Rodman of course had no clue about the regime's systematic starvation of it's people. Former Clinton chief advisor Georgie Stephonolopis turned news anchor interviewed Rodman and gave him the usual left wing softball treatment.

You're kidding right?

Rodman has been known for shocking behavior all his career. It's also a free country..in that Rodman is free to do what ever he wants..so long as he doesn't engage in the same behavior that "somehow" the Treasonous Ronald Reagan got a pass for..

How do you attach this to the Obama administration?

 

[Sallow]

Someone gave approval for Rodman to visit North Korea. Someone in this regime. But, the regime being what it is, no one did it.

Yeah..he went to get a visa.

That's basically all you have to do.

 

[Katzndogz]

As a representative of the ruling regime in the US, he was able to get the visa. Democrats own Rodman. When he came back he made the rounds of the democrat controlled media.

It was superb seeing him plastered all over the television with his nose rings gleaming in the spot lights.

 

[TruthSeeker56]

Did the Hussein administration appoint former basketball player Dennis Rodman to be US ambassador to North Korea? What the hell was the dumb ass doing there? This is typical progressive pie in the sky amateur stuff. "Hey, little Kim likes basketball and Obama likes basketball" so why can't we all just get along? Rodman of course had no clue about the regime's systematic starvation of it's people. Former Clinton chief advisor Georgie Stephonolopis turned news anchor interviewed Rodman and gave him the usual left wing softball treatment.

You're kidding right?

Rodman has been known for shocking behavior all his career. It's also a free country..in that Rodman is free to do what ever he wants..so long as he doesn't engage in the same behavior that "somehow" the Treasonous Ronald Reagan got a pass for..

How do you attach this to the Obama administration?

I actually AGREE with you, Sallow.

Rodman is a freak, and I have seen NO indication that Rodman went to North Korea as a representative of the Obama administration.

In fact, the Obama administration has blown off Rodman, criticized him, and stated that Rodman in no way represents the views of the U.S. government towards North Korea.

Even the Obama news media has strongly criticized Rodman.

This topic is a non-starter. The only question I have is, did Rodman bring his wedding dress?

 

[Katzndogz]

If the media criticizes Rodman it follows that obama will not take responsibility for Rodman's visit.

 

[High_Gravity]

Dennis Rodman did not go to North Korea as a representative of the US.

 

[High_Gravity]

If the media criticizes Rodman it follows that obama will not take responsibility for Rodman's visit.

Should he? from the sound of it Rodman was very niaeve about what is actually going on in North Korea.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - he ain't just eccentric - he's nuts!...

Human rights group wants Dennis Rodman kicked out of the Hall of Fame over North Korea visits
une 21,`17 - Dennis Rodman’s odd, circuitous journey from superstar basketball player to self-appointed emissary to North Korea has drawn fire from a human rights group that is seeking to have him removed from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

After the death of American college student Otto Warmbier this week, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation posted a petition on Change.org calling for Rodman’s ouster. Warmbier was in a coma when he was released last week after 17 months of captivity in North Korea, a country Rodman has visited several times as he has established a relationship with its dictatorial leaders. “Otto Warmbier was murdered by the North Korean regime. The barbarous treatment received by this young American at the hands of his North Korean captors is sadly not a unique act,” VOC Executive Director Marion Smith said in a statement to USA Today. “North Korea’s government has a record of forcing innocent American tourists into decades of hard labor and of beating and torturing them to the point of death. Their own people receive the same treatment, or worse, on a daily basis. “Dennis Rodman’s complacency and coddling of Kim Jong-Un romanticizes and makes light of how dangerous North Korea is to its own people and Americans who travel there. Removing Rodman from the Hall of Fame will send a message that all Americans are united against this regime.”

Rodman returned over the weekend from his fifth trip to North Korea and this time, he did not meet with Kim Jong Un, although he did deliver a copy of President Trump’s book, “The Art of the Deal.” This was, as The Post’s Anna Fifield reported, one of his less eventful trips to the country. There was no meltdown during a CNN interview, no basketball game featuring rather embarrassed former NBA stars and no “Happy Birthday” sung to Kim. The release of Warmbier was apparently unrelated to the Worm’s arrival.

These trips of Rodman’s may be puzzling and, sometimes, embarrassing, but it seems unlikely that he will lose his Hall of Fame spot. Rodman, a ferocious rebounder and defensive player whose career was far more colorful off the court, was inducted in 2011. Sports Halls of Fame typically consider athletes’ contributions away from competition and basketball’s Hall, which has more than 300 members, is no exception, although athletes and others are extremely rarely removed from pro Halls. Although there was a cry for his removal after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, O.J. Simpson, who was found not guilty of the crimes, remains enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The basketball Hall of Fame allows for removal of someone who has “damaged the integrity of the game of basketball.” It isn’t clear, however, that Rodman has done that, although as he has called Kim a “friend for life” and sought to bond with him over their love of hoops. Removal would be, as Smith acknowledges, symbolic. As of Wednesday afternoon, the petition had 726 signatures. “Rodman has long been known for his eccentricities, but this has gone too far,” it states. “As a professional athlete and an NBA Hall of Fame member, Rodman is called to be a role model and set an example for the next generation. Individuals that praise murderers have no place being idolized by America’s youth or in any Hall of Fame in the United States.”

Human rights group wants Dennis Rodman kicked out of the Hall of Fame over North Korea visits