Imagine the Balls on the Failing Boston Globe Playing the Victim in Best Buddies-Gate??

Jerry Thornton 6/3/2017 5:00 PM

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Boston Globe  – Tom Brady and the folks at Best Buddies International are apparently still smarting about a recent Boston Globe story detailing the financial arrangement between the charity and the Patriots quarterback. (In case you missed Bob Hohler’s piece: The nonprofit, which is dedicated to helping people with intellectual disabilities, has paid Brady’s charitable trust nearly $3 million since 2011.)

Friday, TB12 was at Harvard Stadium to play in a flag football game benefiting Best Buddies. …

In past years, the Globe has been invited to attend the game and to photograph Brady tossing TD passes to his celebrity friends. Not this year. Friday, a Globe photographer showed up at Harvard Stadium and was told he was not allowed into the event. He was then ordered to “leave immediately” and a security officer was summoned and the photographer was escorted to his car.

Attempts to contact a representative for Best Buddies were unsuccessful Friday.

It’s been a big week for victimhood around here. First Kathy Griffin feels bullied by the Trumps when all she did was mock-behead the President of the United States six months after threatening to come after his 11-year-old. And now the Globe is triggered by those notorious jackbooted thugs who run security at Best Buddies events.

And for what? What did the Globe do that was so bad? So they ran a piece accusing Brady of stealing money from developmentally challenged kids. So they said implied Best Buddies gives him kickbacks in order to keep him on the fundraising payroll. Perhaps they flat out said the money Best Buddies donated was going to Brady’s pet projects and glossed over the fact it’s been donated to the legitimate charities of other football players and to fund schools. And sure, they played the class card, bringing Brady and Gisele’s net worth into the discussion to suggest they don’t donate enough to their own charities. But why would that be any reason to not give Globe photographer full and unfettered access to your private event?

By their own math, Brady is responsible for raising $46.5 million for Best Buddies. They in turn donated $3.5 million to other, worthwhile causes that are important to him. That’s about 7.5 percent. And these are legal charities. That are heavily regulated by the government. I sit on the board of Wheelchair Strong. a registered charity to help people with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. The amount of paperwork and legalese you have to file with the state Attorney General’s office is astounding. The meetings are conducted like we’re the board at Wayne Enterprises. Yet in spite of all that regulation, the Bolsheviks at the Globe manage to paint it like Brady’s running a Ponzi scheme and question why the organizers are not OK with that.

Imagine the towering sense of self-importance it takes for Globe management to sit there in their little echo chamber convinced Brady and Best Buddies owes it to them to let their guy in. To be convinced that in 2017 a newspaper still has enough power and influence that the people on the receiving end of their hatchet pieces need to play nice or else. Like that photographer was there to raise awareness and help the cause. Bull. Shit. He was there hoping to find Brady putting bags with dollar signs on them into the trunk of his car and get pictures of Gisele forcing Downs Syndrome kids to give her a mani-pedi and act as her footstool.

So honk off, Globe. Take your fake news and shove it up your collective ass. And maybe next time you’ll put your resources into investigating the actual scumbags who are actually ripping needy people off, and not charities that help other charities.

P.S. Here’s what the photographer missed. Brady and Julian Edelman caught in the act of stealing from these disadvantaged children. The shame.

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