Clay Travis: Kyler Murray's tweets should be ignored

Clay Travis on today’s Outkick the Show, said that every so-called journalist who reported on Kyler Murray’s tweets should be ashamed of themselves.

This is not the first time Clay Travis has discussed the unearthing of old tweets whenever someone achieves some degree of success. In discussing Kyler Murray’s tweets, Clay Travis also discussed Josh Allen’s tweets, and Kevin Hart’s tweets, and other people who have been criticized by the intolerant left for their tweets.

Clay Travis wrote about Kyler Murray’s tweets on his website “Outkick the Coverage” today.

Clay Travis wrote:

Murray apologized for the Tweets, but this is the latest string of stories like these which have been taking place over the past several years, a perpetual and never ending excavation of past Tweets from sports stars that are unearthed at the moment they achieve their greatest athletic accomplishments.

And I think it’s way past time these stories stop.

If we’ve determined as a society that teenagers shouldn’t be responsible for the crimes they commit as juveniles — lest those crimes be so heinous that the teenagers are tried as adults — how can we remotely justify turning teenage Tweets, which I think all of you would agree are infinitely less serious than teenage crimes, into stories in mainstream media sites? If your criminal past isn’t held against you as an adult, why should your teenage social media stupidity?

There was a time when adults made decisions after a reasoned and thoughtful deliberation. That’s how we ended up with the idea that kids shouldn’t be treated as adults when they committed crimes. Now we don’t have that, we have 18 year old’s making brand new apps and throwing them out into the marketplace before we have any idea what their impact will be. That vibrant dynamism is fantastic for American commerce, but it means our modern culture lacks the time and intelligence to understand what the impact of these new societal constructs are. The result in social media? If people click it, it’s good.

So let’s be straightforward about what stories like these are — they’re cheap, clickbait trash designed to allow a media outlet to capitalize on the surging interest in an athlete at the time of their greatest achievement. They also allow a cheap moralizing from the typical social justice warriors, who hold up the athlete as the latest symbol of everything wrong with American life. For the perpetually aggrieved in our modern days sports oppression Olympics, it’s manna from heaven.

Whether it’s winning the NCAA tournament because of your stellar play, pitching a no hitter or a perfect game, preparing to be drafted in the first round of the NFL, pitching in the All Star game, or winning the Heisman trophy, the stories are all the same — young adults who have just achieved their greatest athletic moment are immediately torn down by adults who should know better.

Think about who we’re rewarding here — we’re rewarding adult losers whose first thought when they heard of an athlete’s big accomplishment was to go search for “bad” words on the athlete’s Twitter account. Is that the kind of behavior we really want to encourage, an America where adult achievement is immediately ripped down in favor of childish misbehavior? Of course not.

Writer and editors in the world of sports should know better than to write pieces about these.

On today's show, Clay Travis mentioned Josh Allen's tweets and how Josh Allen was called out on the first day of the NFL draft for his tweets. He also mentioned Kevin Hart and his tweets and his decision not to host the Oscars because of all the venom directed at Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart will not be hosting the 2019 Oscars now because of his tweets.