{"id":244691,"date":"2025-09-21T20:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244691\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:37:10","slug":"im-not-going-to-hide-the-ball-were-not-smu-ponies-and-other-quotes-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/244691\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m not going to hide the ball. \u2026 We\u2019re not SMU Ponies\u2019 and other quotes of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe\u2019re reinvigorating the FCC\u2019s enforcement of the public interest, and I think that\u2019s a good thing.<\/b>\u201d \u2014 FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, reacting to the suspension of ABC\u2019s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d (Thursday, The Associated Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we have signed on to \u2014 painful as it may be at times \u2014 is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth<\/b>. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.\u201d \u2014 Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East in a joint statement reacting to the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late night show off the air. (Thursday, Reuters<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have regressed<\/b>\u2026 We are in a worse place now than when countries and companies came together to say never again to violence and hate speech online.\u201d \u2014 Graham Brookie, the senior director of the Atlantic Council\u2019s Digital Forensic Research Labs, which studies online speech, talking about social media companies\u2019 lack of moderation for inflammatory or hateful content. (Tuesday, The New York Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201c#RIP<\/a> & thank you RobertRedford, a tremendously influential cultural figure for the creative choices made as an actor\/producer\/director & for launching the Sundance Film Festival which supercharged America\u2019s Independent Film movement<\/b>. Artistic Gamechanger.\u201d \u2014 Filmmaker Ron Howard on X, commenting on Robert Redford\u2019s passing. (Tuesday, Hollywood Reporter<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s always a shock to people. <\/b>… Millions of birds pass through Texas each spring and fall, and most people don\u2019t realize 80% migrate at night. They\u2019ve evolved for millions of years to navigate by the night sky, and in just the last hundred years, we\u2019ve created these deadly obstacles.\u201d \u2014 Jake Poinsett, education manager at the Trinity River Audubon Center, part of a group that advocates for bird-friendly glass for the new Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. (Tuesday, The Dallas Morning News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went from all this grass to cement.<\/b> The water is now free-flowing throughout everywhere, and it impacts drainage drastically\u2026 Without an updated plan, that can end very badly for us.\u201d \u2014 Princeton City Council member Cristina Todd, talking about the North Texas city\u2019s growing pains. (Thursday, The Dallas Morning News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal on this trip is to reinforce the long-standing friendship between Dallas and Sendai<\/b>, highlight our shared history, and explore future opportunities for collaboration. \u2026 It is also an opportunity to showcase Dallas as a truly international city that values cultural exchange, economic opportunity, and cooperation with global partners.\u201d \u2014 A statement by Dallas Council member Adam Bazaldua, responding to questions about a trip to Japan as the council is debating budget cuts. (Wednesday, The Dallas Morning News<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I had to say it all over again, I don\u2019t know that I would say that \u2018Pony Up has died a natural death.\u2019 There may still be opportunities for us to use that theme. But fundamentally, I\u2019m not going to hide the ball. We\u2019re SMU Mustangs. We\u2019re not SMU Ponies.<\/b>\u201d \u2014 Southern Methodist University Board of Trustees Chair David Miller, commenting on the uproar caused by his comments about the end of the popular SMU catch phrase. (Tuesday, The Dallas Morning News<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re reinvigorating the FCC\u2019s enforcement of the public interest, and I think that\u2019s a good thing.\u201d \u2014 FCC…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":244692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,11890,1596,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-244691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-commentary","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115244213503959994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}