Cox Should Be Taken to Task for Blaming the Media

“I hate the questions you ask the athletes,” Cox, a Republican, said during a Utah 2034 press conference in Milan, Italy, as reported by the Salt Lake Tribune.  “These are kids out there competing. I think you should be asking them about their sports and about their competition and let the politics take care of the politics and that will happen.”

Gov. Cox needs to be taken to task for three things:

1) Condemning the press. I am grateful for living in a land where the press can report things that don't reflect good on the government. What is happening in Minnesota is an embarrassment to our country. Gov. Cox should not condemn journalists who ask questions about it. Cox should be ashamed for blaming the press.

2) “These are kids out there competing." Cox should not be insinuating the athletes are too young. Everybody can have an opinion, regardless of age.

3) Cox should not be suggesting they need to stick to sports and let politics take care of itself. Bless them for offering their opinions. Having and expressing opinions is the American Way of doing things. It is shutting up and being forced to shut up that is not American.

Bless the halfpipe skier, Hunter Hess. I'm proud of him for standing up for freedom, even if that freedom pits him against this otherwise great country.