Herschel Walker: All-American, dunce
Herschel Walker was the 1982 Heisman Trophy winner at the University of Georgia.
(Note: He happened to break at least five school rushing records that had been held by Uniontown无毛视频檚 Kevin McLee.
Walker was also an Olympic bobsledder 无毛视频� and a mixed martial artist.
He could even be considered a renaissance man if he hadn无毛视频檛 been a man with such a checkered set of family lives.
Now he hopes to become a U.S. senator for the state of Georgia.
That won无毛视频檛 be easy.
He无毛视频檚 having a series of problems trying to convince some potential voters to take him seriously.
Also, when he speaks 无毛视频� word salad.
On the subject of gun violence, for instance, he waxed philosophically in ways nobody had ever waxed philosophically before. Something about disinformation: 无毛视频淲hat we need to do is look into how we can stop those things. What about getting a department that can look at young men that无毛视频檚 looking at women that无毛视频檚 looking at their social media.无毛视频�
Georgia无毛视频檚 race for the U.S. Senate could be key in determining if Democrats or Republicans will take control.
So, whatever Mr. Walker, or his opponent, incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, says or does can be of great importance.
Enter the Daily Beast, which reported last week that Mr. Walker, a staunch opponent of abortions under any circumstance, paid a woman to have an abortion in September 2009.
That story was accompanied by the woman无毛视频檚 $575 receipt she claims came from the abortion clinic.
If true, it proves Walker is a garden variety hypocrite. If false, it无毛视频檚 about low-grade political skullduggery.
This isn无毛视频檛 about either.
It无毛视频檚 about the fallout from it.
Walker immediately ran for cover. He appeared that evening on Fox News, with Sean Hannity giving him every chance to refute the story.
Walker denied even knowing the woman.
But Walker无毛视频檚 23-year-old son wouldn无毛视频檛 have any of it.
He called out his father as if he knows the truth behind the story.
无毛视频淓very family member of Herschel Walker asked him not to run for office because we all knew (some of) his past. Every single one,无毛视频� said Christian Walker, as part of several highly emotional videos he posted online.
It was the kind of one-day story that seems to pop up all of the time before elections.
Ex-president Donald Trump, while wearing his kingmaker hat, vigorously defended Walker.
He无毛视频檇 known Walker since the early 1980s when he owned the New Jersey Generals of the USFL, and Walker was his prized running back.
无毛视频淭hey are trying to destroy a man who has true greatness in his future, just as he had athletic greatness in his past,无毛视频� said Trump.
By the end of the day that report was published, many Republicans were rushing to defend Walker, verbally and financially, by helping to fill his campaign coffers.
That can be expected.
Republicans would prefer to avoid discussions about abortions when they have their eyes set on control of Congress.
The Walker story doesn无毛视频檛 help.
But they无毛视频檒l stand firm behind him if it means they can get what they want.
Yet, there无毛视频檚 a bit of nastiness that bubbled to the surface with the Walker abortion story.
Dana Loesch is a sharp-tongued former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association.
She无毛视频檚 now the host of a nationally syndicated radio show.
When she offered her opinion about the Walker story, she was one of those people whom they say 无毛视频渟aid the quiet part out loud.无毛视频�
无毛视频淚 don无毛视频檛 care if Herschel Walker paid to abort baby eagles, I want control of the Senate.无毛视频�
OK. That无毛视频檚 how she feels 无毛视频� about baby eagles, I suppose.
She may have stopped there. But the vitriol just felt too good for her.
无毛视频淚f the Daily Beast story is true, you无毛视频檙e telling me Walker used his money to reportedly pay some skank for an abortion. And Warnock wants to use all our monies to pay a whole bunch of skanks for abortions,无毛视频� she said proudly.
Well, there you have it.
According to some pro-lifers, people who have abortions are skanks.
It无毛视频檚 come to that.
Edward A. Owens is a multi-Emmy Award winner, former reporter, and anchor for Entertainment Tonight, and 50-year TV news and newspaper veteran. E-mail him at freedoms@bellatlantic.net.