BLESS THEIR HEARTS: NBC Frets Super Bowl Halftime Show is ‘Personal Affront’ to Colin Kaepernick.

[Today Show Co-host] Craig Melvin conducted a softball interview with Kaepernick’s attorney Mark Geragos, who was given a platform to push conspiracy theories about his client’s professional football career coming to an end.

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Melvin followed up by worrying that musicians agreeing to perform in the Super Bowl halftime show were offending Kaepernick: “As you know, a number of the halftime acts have taken heat for performing at the Super Bowl this year, Maroon 5, Big Boy, Travis Scott among them. Does Collin Kaepernick see their participation during the halftime show as some sort of personal affront?”

Gergagos launched into a tirade condemning the performers:

I think what it says is, number one, they do take a lot of heat, and I think rightfully so. I mean, the idea that you’re going to basically cross a picket line – because that’s what they’re doing, they’re crossing an intellectual picket line. They’re saying to themselves, “I care more about my career than I do about whether what I’m doing is right”….could cross the intellectual and ideological picket line, I think there’s something wrong with that and they should be called out.

Melvin lamented that given the “successful season for the NFL” in which “ratings are up,”  Kaepernick’s “mission” might have “failed.” Geragos rejected the notion and bizarrely tried to blame Russia for the controversy swirling around his client’s national anthem protests: “I think he opened the door to a robust discussion. And I think there’s also an element of this, there’s been quite a bit of reporting, that basically the so-called divisiveness that this caused was actually ginned up or generated by a Russian disinformation effort.”

Umm, during the 49ers’ 2-14 season in 2016, Kaepernick wore socks depicting cops as pigs embroidered on them, kneeled during the national anthem, and wore a pro-Castro T-shirt during his postgame press-conference after losing to the Miami Dolphins. Wasn’t the goal of all that SJW cosplay to gin up plenty of “so-called divisiveness?”

In any case, as a prominent employee of both NBC and Comcast, Melvin has direct access to the corporate boardroom. If he concurs with Kaepernick’s attorney that the NFL should come to a halt until his client can lace up his cleats again, shouldn’t he be publicly demanding that NBC blackout their Sunday Night Football show each week, and/or Comcast blackout NFL coverage on all their cable channels until Kaepernick has a starting job somewhere? Why is he so eager to cross the “intellectual picket line” himself?