No one believes that
I call b.s. Does anyone believe the vice president when she says that as she travels around the world, one issue that comes up is interest in the WNBA? Yet, there she was, speaking to the Phoenix Mercury team in their locker room before Brittney Griner played her first game since her release from a Russian prison telling the women that malarkey.
Kamala Harris can’t be bothered to pop down to the southern border to check on how things are going but she had time to go to the Phoenix Mercury vs Los Angeles Sparks game on Friday night in Los Angeles. Brittney Griner and her wife had a private visit with Kamala and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff before Kamala addressed the whole team. It’s reported that she also spoke with the Sparks team, too. They posed for pictures with both teams.
Griner and her team lost to L.A. with a score of 94-71. She made six rebounds, four blocks, and 18 points during the game. That’s nothing to sneeze at but a loss by the team is anti-climatic, isn’t it? Isn’t she supposed to be the best WNBA player or something, and that’s why it was so urgent that she be released from Russian detention? Other Americans have served longer sentences and are still there but Griner got a prisoner swap deal and was released. She’s been given the red carpet (literally) treatment ever since. To be clear, I don’t want any American to be held hostage on trumped-up charges in a Russian prison but it seems to me that Griner received special treatment from the Biden administration in working for her release. YMMV.
When Kamala and Doug met with Brittney and her wife in a small room off the locker rooms, she told her how wonderful she was before the detention. Remember, Griner was a political activist who refused to honor the national anthem before games, for example. She was vocal in anti-America rhetoric. Kamala called it courageous.
“Even before all that happened, BG, you led with courage, and while it was happening, you showed such poise and dignity and grace,” Harris told Griner as they discussed her wrongful detention abroad.
Harris told Griner that she inspired so many because “learning that nothing is going to knock you down is good. That’s really good stuff.”
She pointed to Griner as a role model and example of overcoming overwhelming adversity.
“So you just do your thing,” Harris added.
