USA Today is getting dragged this morning for their story on Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray. Why? Because reporter (and I use that term loosely) Scott Gleeson dug up tweets from when Kyler was 15 years old. FIFTEEN. The supposedly problematic tweets used a word that is now considered homophobic.

What are the tweets in question? Here’s a link since, late last night, Murray deleted those tweets from his account after Scotty posted his little story.

Ok guys? Context here. Murray was having a twitter conversation with his friends and called them queer! Cue the fainting couches and Pause Pods! Did Scotty Gleeson even look to see if Kyler’s friends were responding back in kind? Doubtful. Do you think any of Murray’s friends were upset about what Murray said? I bet not.

Kyler Murray was awarded the Heisman Trophy and it is well deserved.

Murray is an outstanding athlete.

Murray, who was drafted by the Oakland A’s with the No. 9 overall pick in the 2018 MLB draft, led the Sooners to a Big 12 championship this season and a spot in the College Football Playoff. The junior threw for 4,053 yards and 40 touchdowns this year.

But sure Scotty, you go ahead and do you. You go ahead and dig through years of social media in order to drag someone into the dirt because of something they said, did, or wrote when they were a kid!

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Last night, instead of freely celebrating his win, Murray had to tweet out an apology.

I apologize for the tweets that have come to light tonight from when I was 14 and 15. I used a poor choice of word that doesn’t reflect who I am or what I believe. I did not intend to single out any individual or group.

— Kyler Murray (@TheKylerMurray) December 9, 2018

We are indeed living in stupid times.

The media wonders why we don’t like nor trust them. This story about Kyler Murray is Exhibit A. If you read the responses to Murray’s unnecessary apology tweet, you’ll see that the majority of folks completely understand that Kyler did nothing wrong and it is USA Today who should be ashamed of themselves.

Someone just made this point (I don’t remember who), that our garbage media waits until someone accomplishes something great, like a life long dream, then drags this stuff out. They’re a vipers nest. Treat them that way. https://t.co/DHCs5cxRhx

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 9, 2018

These tweets have been out there for this kid’s entire career. They didn’t care, until he accomplished something. Also ahem.. black.

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 9, 2018

A majority white newsroom like USA Today gets news that a gifted black athlete wins the a historic award, and they’re first thought is “okay guys, start searching his tweets for offensive key words.” and their colleagues are just cool with that. Great work guys.

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 9, 2018

You people earn the “enemy” label with every single one of these dumb fucking stories.

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 9, 2018

I couldn’t agree more. It wasn’t that long ago when the media was all up in our grill insisting that some woman named Christine Blasey Ford had to be believed because Trump! It wasn’t that long ago that the media went after other sports figures such as Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen because of supposed racist or homophobic slurs on social media from when they were also young.

The media has appointed themselves as the thought police. Now we see that if you are fortunate enough to accomplish something great, the trash media is ready and willing to gleefully stomp all over your accomplishment because of something that THEY have determined is bad.

Kyler Murray shouldn’t have apologized. Period.

USA Today is in the wrong here. Scott Gleeson is in the wrong here. YOU are the reason why we don’t like the media. YOU are the reason why we don’t trust the media. You don’t like being called vipers or vultures? Then quit writing crap like this.

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