But it’s also a callback to a legendary Black athlete and celebrity, to remind people that Walker is a Black athlete and celebrity. Which is basically all that Walker has to offer in the first place.
There are a lot of layers to that onion, all in one t-shirt.
Even the shirt’s color is significant (but only in the most obvious way).
Yes, I hadn’t even though of your two points. If this was just an accident, it’s an incredibly good one!
As was said earlier, no doubt he was told to wear it by someone on his team. And I’d go further, and guess that Walker has no idea who Cassius Clay was, either the politician or the athlete.
Funny enough, here is a guy a month ago comparing Walker (favorably) to Ali.
Ok come on! Have some sympathy.
You spend so much effort and time to make sure that voters who vote wrong have long lines on election day, malfunctioning machines, getting people there to make sure they aren’t given water or are allowed to take a piss and intimidate them and all that hard work…
Just to allow people to vote on more days? It makes the above much MUCH harder to do!
It has to be infuriating to them. All that hard work. Does no one have any empathy?!
Although I 'm an outsider, it did strike me that the rhythm and style (if not the content) of his rhetoric was some sort of attempt to sound like Muhammad Ali.
I guess I’m the only one who saw it as “Assius Lay” on some sort of sled. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’m currently reading Team of Rivals, and the politician is the first person that came to my mind. I really doubt Walker’s ever heard of him.
Herschel’s campaign group should’ve viewed the SNL cold-open segment as a documentary and not a satirical skit. If he were locked up in a room with Lunchables, things might be going better for him.
There should have been late night talk show hosts down there stumping for Walker.
They learned their lesson from John Oliver.
There is a god.
Muhammad Ali has GOT to be spinning in his grave right now.
He’s actually floating like a butterfly.
Hopefully he will also sting Walker like a pointy-ended insect (for best irony, one of those ones that build a papery nest).
NYTimes:
BREAKING NEWS
Senator Raphael Warnock held on to his seat, fending off Herschel Walker to give Democrats a 51-49 Senate advantage.
Walker: “I want a recount! I’m the real mayor!”
I expect that tomorrow morning he’ll give a speech saying: “What’s wrong with you white people? I did everything I could to lose. I admitted I’m a terrible person. I said crazier things than Marjorie Taylor Greene. You know how hard that was? I tried really, really hard to be the worst candidate in electoral history. And you still came within a whisker of electing me. Think about what you did. Then never do it again.”
We can only dream…
I’m listening to Warnock’s acceptance speech. What a class act (unlike HW).
I also can’t believe they called it without 100% returns, but I wasn’t there.