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"So it was good this past week to note the justified calling to account of past stars Bobby Orr and Jack Nicklaus for their endorsement of Donald Trump, and of two celebrated golfers who accepted honours from the outgoing president on the day after he incited one of the most appalling incidents in American history.
On Wednesday, Trump urged his followers to march on the U.S. Capitol in a way that resulted in a breach of the Capitol building and the deaths of a rioter and a police officer.
Trump appeared shortly afterwards by video to say he loved the rioters and called them “special people.”
Orr and Nicklaus were entitled, of course, to use their affluence and status to voice their opinion.
It’s just that those views ran so risibly counter to reality and — in the aftermath of the Trump-fomented attack — are so wrong-headed that they merit public withdrawal.
Orr took out a full-page newspaper ad just before the Nov. 3 presidential election and called Trump – the very opposite of a team player – just the sort of chap he’d want on his team.
Many avid Orr fans expressed disgust. Not least among the disillusioned, Ken Campbell of The Hockey News reported, was former journeyman NHL player Mark Fraser.
“Hey, Bobby,” Fraser tweeted from Ottawa after the riot. “That’s the kind of teammate you want?”
Campbell called on Orr to recant his election-time advocacy.
Similarly, Christine Brennan of USA Today shredded Nicklaus and the two golfers – Gary Player and Annika Sorenstam – who met Trump on Thursday, the day after the assault on the Capitol, to receive from him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Just before the election, Nicklaus tweeted that he’d been “very disappointed at what (Trump’s) had to put up with” when he had shown such “determination to do what’s right for our country.”
Nicklaus, Brennan noted, had been happy to earn a living at golf clubs that for much of his career banned women and minorities.
Player, she added, was a South African by birth who at one time supported that country’s apartheid regime.
Even Player’s own son, Marc, tweeted disbelief at his father accepting an award from Trump. “Tone deaf. In denial. Wrong!!”
Brennan was most disappointed, however, by Sorenstam, who was once a ground-breaker for women in her sport and – a day after Trump’s egregious behaviour — chose to receive an award from a demonstrated misogynist who famously feels entitled to grab women by their private parts.
Brennan noted that the presentation was held in secret or, more properly, “in shame.”
These former icons were masters in their fields, but they blundered into an arena not their own.
Having used their fame to support a man who may be prosecuted for crimes against his own country, having been made fools of for their credulous praise, they would do well to withdraw their deluded endorsements and speak up for the nobler ideals of the United States."