CBS Reporter Backtracks Claim That Colin Kaepernick Would Stand For National Anthem

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A CBS sports reporter who said Sunday that Colin Kaepernick would stand for the national anthem if given the opportunity to play in the NFL again later admitted that he never discussed the issue with the former quarterback.

Jason La Canfora made the statement while appearing on CBS’s “The NFL Today.” When asked if Kaepernick would kneel in protest if a team signed him, La Canfora said, “He’s not planning on kneeling. He’s going to donate all his jersey sales, and he’s planning on standing for the anthem if given the opportunity.”

Soon after, the Know Your Rights Campaign, a youth campaign fully funded by Colin Kaepernick, posted a note to social media written by Kaepernick’s girlfriend, Nessa Diab, that said the report was “completely false.”

Kaepernick retweeted the denial. He also tweeted, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on,” which he attributed to Winston Churchill. Scholars debate whether Churchill ever said this.

Many news outlets that published La Canfora’s initial statement, including the Associated Press, later issued corrections.

CBS Sports did not release an official statement or retraction of the statement.

La Canfora, who interviewed Kaepernick Saturday, said in a series of five tweets that he never spoke to him about whether he would kneel during the national anthem if picked up by an NFL team. The columnist said he made the assertion based on previous reports, which he did not identify.

“I cant say if they are true or not,” he tweeted. “Colin and I didn’t discuss.”

“Colin would have to address any future demonstrations,” La Canfora said in another tweet. “I didn’t ask him if he would sit or stand. Our chat primarily about his will to play.”

He then said in another tweet that what Kaepernick “would do during the Anthem I do not know.”

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3 COMMENTS

  1. Not only are these ingrates supported with our taxpayer’s money, they also get huge tax breaks. WHY? WHY? WHY? They’re millionaires and, if anything, should pay more than anyone else. We must boycott them and stop funding them.

    • Sounds as if you are referring to the Haredim in Eretz Yisrael:

      Supported by taxpayers’ money and they don’t respect the National Anthem or the Flag.

      • That’s a lie and real motzi shem ra. They’re not supported more by taxpayers’ money that they themselves pay than universities who get 500% more. NK who do not respect the flag are not even supported by the govt. So go tell your lies to your dogs.

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