Conservatives Try to Get to the Bottom of This Anti-'Redskins' Movement

After President Obama added his voice to the growing calls to change the name of the Washington Redskins football team, several conservative commentators doubled down in support of the name, and tried to figure out the real reason the liberal media opposes it. Despite the racially offensive name, for these conservative pundits, the whole controversy is just a liberal ploy for their own ends. And they have plenty of theories on what those ends are.

The majority of people still do support the Redskins name, as an Associated Press poll this summer found 80 percent opposed to changing it. But Obama's position —