Misdirection follies

 Say this for the Washington Commanders, Daniel Snyder's fetid sinkhole of vindictiveness, incompetence and moral rot: They do have the misdirection thing down.

Better than Wonder Woman deflecting bullets with her bracelets, that's your Commanders and accountability. Muddy up the waters? Sure, they can do that, too.

Maybe you heard a few days back that the D.C. attorney general's office was looking into the Commanders' skeevy business practices. Well, yesterday, the AG for D.C., Karl Racine, announced there would be a "major announcement" concerning the Commanders this afternoon.

So how did the Commanders respond?

About how you'd expect.

A spokesman for the organization released a nasty statement blasting Racine's office for failing to do anything about D.C.'s violent crime rate. In doing so, it cited as evidence Commanders running back Brian Robinson, who was shot twice in the leg during a robbery attempt in August.

,"Less than three months ago, a 23-year-old running back was shot multiple times, in broad daylight," the Commanders statement said. "Despite the out of control violent crime in DC, today the Washington Commanders learned for the first time on Twitter the the D.C. Attorney General will be holding a press conference to 'make a major announcement' related to the organization ..."

OK, first off: D.C.'s violent crime rate doesn't have (bleep)-all to do with the investigation into the Commanders. They are two separate things. Implying D.C.'s crime rate means the AG shouldn't be bothering the Commanders is classic misdirection and a false flag. Just because the AG might have bigger fish to fry these days doesn't mean it should ignore all the other fish. 

And Robinson? 

Well, thankfully, his injuries were not life-or-career-threatening, and after surgery he played in a game six weeks later. But that didn't stop the Commanders from throwing him into the middle of its beef with the authorities -- and without his permission, of course.

That  bit of high-handedness drew a restrained but stinging rebuke from Robinson's agent, Ryan Williams.

"Although there are some great human beings in that building, whoever is hiding behind this statement is not one of them," Williams said.

No kidding.