Stanek wkend video: Hearing impaired NFL player & little girl bond
by Hans Johnson
One of the most inspirational stories in this year’s Super Bowl is that of Seattle Seahawk’s fullback Derrick Coleman. He is the first legally deaf offensive player in the league, and the subject of a viral TV commericial. Among those who saw it was nine-year-old Riley Kovalcik of Roxbury, New Jersey who, like Coleman, needs two hearing aids. Her twin sister Erin has one.
Riley was moved to write the Seahawks player a letter, which her father Jake tweeted to him. Not only did he retweet it, but he replied “Dear Miss Kovalcik. Thanks for the letter. Reallly was great hearing from a friend who I have so much in common with.” He encouraged her: “Even though we wear hearing aids, we can still accomplish our goals and dreams.”
Riley and her family were interviewed on Fox and Friends.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/78ZVi01drJY[/youtube]
But the story doesn’t end there. The sisters had a surprise visit by Coleman on the set of Good Morning America, bearing tickets to the game.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Aaaw, awesome.
(The rightwingers might not like it, but …)
LifeJoy,
I hope you’re joking. Otherwise it sounds like you’ve suddenly stooped to the level of the latest MSNBC foot-in-the-mouth scandal:
http://twitchy.com/2014/01/29/self-unaware-overload-despicable-msnbc-pounded-by-reality-after-saying-right-wing-will-hate-bi-racial-family-pics/
-regarding this commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuQrKeGe6g
A puzzled right-winger.
We’ve got to assume that LifeJoy is joking. Conservatives (the “rightwing”) are not racists. There is nothing in the conservative platform, programs, or hopes that targets minorities with harm.
Racist opinions slip from the unguarded mouths of left-wingers often enough to be embarrassing. And racism is why the abortion industry preys so heavily on Black and Hispanic women — because they are still racists, like Margaret Sanger was. The believe that extermination is the solution to “fewer poor children.”
I genuinely miss the old-school liberals who truly wanted to help the poor and minorities, without killing them.
Yeah, Hans and Del, I’m mocking that crazy talk.
I can’t believe that happened. Heck, I can’t even believe anyone thinks like that. But I’m so naive.
“I genuinely miss the old-school liberals who truly wanted to help the poor and minorities, without killing them. ”
There are plenty of us still around.
Lifejoy,
Sorry about that. Now all is right with the world. Except for that thing about people being willing and able to kill their own offspring.
DLP Jack,
I’ve always been an old-school liberal when it comes to friends and family. I’m just conservative with other people’s money, because excessive taxation is just another way of saying stealing.
Sorry for the emotional rollercoaster Hans! =)
Next time I’ll consider a little more transparency!