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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt tweeted
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The great Jim Ryun will be honored this morning at the White House with the presentation of The Presidential Medal of Freedom. Congratulations to Jim and the entire Ryun family. 11:00 A.M.
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It tweeted (Original Post)
soothsayer
Jul 2020
OP
dalton99a
(81,700 posts)1. Next athlete to be recognized: O. J. Simpson
LuckyCharms
(17,472 posts)2. Seems to be sports week at the White House. n/t
Docreed2003
(16,900 posts)3. Sigh....🙄🙄
Wtf has Ryun done to deserve such an honor other than being a conservative prick?
moose65
(3,169 posts)4. Whew
Is it bad that I read this and my first thought was, "Who??"
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)5. Ha, I had to look him up
moose65
(3,169 posts)6. Yeah, me too
His name didn't ring a bell. For a minute, I thought that maybe Trump had misspelled his name!
Ryun was an athlete before my time. I don't think I'd ever heard of him before I just looked him up!
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,500 posts)7. Presidentin' by Tweet is so hard.
KY
Ohiogal
(32,168 posts)8. How much did he donate to Dumpy's re election campaign
Must have been sizable.
Or maybe this is merely a distraction
Ohiogal
(32,168 posts)9. Next athlete up.....
Curt Schilling
Wawannabe
(5,689 posts)12. Then Tonya Harding
Then Lance Armstrong
Then Big Mac Mark McGwire..........
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)10. One of the great middle distance runners
And one of the few athletes from the University of Kansas to be widely known (the other one also from the 1960s - Gale Sayers)
and, unfortunately, a "conservative prick"...
GoCubsGo
(32,100 posts)11. Whatever. He cheapened the MofF ages ago.
Sad that it's nothing but a meaningless thing now.
bamagal62
(3,275 posts)13. I have no idea who that person is.