Belichick turns down Presidential Medal of Freedom (1/12)
Nothing Personal with David Samson
David Samson
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🗓️ 12 January 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here you go. Here you go. |
| 0:12.6 | Frost, nothing personal word of the day for Tuesday, January 12, 2021 is crossed. |
| 0:20.2 | As in when you cross your fingers and cross your toes, when you say something, |
| 0:25.8 | as a way to indicate that actually you don't mean anything that you're saying. |
| 0:32.8 | Fingers crossed. You know what's funny, Coco? |
| 0:37.8 | When you say, I'm going to tell you something when you cross your fingers, |
| 0:42.3 | isn't the expression like cross your fingers hope to die? Like that means it's true. |
| 0:46.2 | I thought that you're supposed to do when you say something when you cross your |
| 0:49.1 | fingers and your toes, that means that you're allowed to not tell the truth. |
| 0:52.5 | So why did I choose crossed as the word of the day because Bill Bellichek in what is making |
| 0:59.2 | news on every outlet near and far conservative liberal doesn't matter. |
| 1:05.5 | Rarely does this make news. It says something about where we are as a country that this is making |
| 1:11.1 | news. Bill Bellichek had been awarded the presidential medal of freedom, |
| 1:17.1 | which used to be a major deal. |
| 1:19.6 | When you got a medal of freedom, it was an honor. There was a ceremony at the White House with the |
| 1:24.2 | president. He pins it from like a like a war medal almost on your chest. |
| 1:31.7 | There's a ceremony at the White House, much like there was just a few days ago, |
| 1:35.4 | the day after the insurrection at the Capitol was a rescheduled presidential medal of freedom |
| 1:41.4 | ceremony for Gary Player and another hockey player named Anika Sorenstam. |
| 1:47.2 | But what happened yesterday that is a true crossover story is Bill Bellichek, |
| 1:52.2 | who is the head coach of the New England Patriots and a well known Trump supporter and |
| 1:59.2 | an unabashed Trump supporter. And there is nothing wrong with having political views. |
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