While I don't spend much time with Le Batard's radio show, he was on his half
hour ESPN program today.
Maybe the suits in Bristol need time to figure out what to do? I'd figure
announcing any suspension on a Friday would help this story fade away.
David
On Friday, July 19, 2019, 7:58:18 PM EDT, PGage <[email protected]> wrote:
My days of watching non event programming on ESPN are pretty much over, but
might come back if they can start tolerating more of this. The whole “Send her
back” obscenity, and inability of mainstream Republicans and moderates to call
this the racist, in-American bullshit that it so obviously is, has literally
got me searching the help wanted ads for clinical psychologists in other
English speaking countries (seriously, that is what I have been doing this
week). I was in Norway last month and noticed that everyone can speak English
there, and I fell in love with Oslo and Bergen, not to mention Flam ( though
the latter is so beautiful they probably don’t have much need for
psychologists).
https://deadspin.com/dan-le-batard-goes-in-on-president-trump-rips-espns-c-1836512464
“We here at ESPN haven’t had the stomach for that fight, because Jemele [Hill]
did some things on Twitter and you saw what happened after that, and then here
all of a sudden nobody talks politics on anything unless we can use one of
these sports figures as a meat-shield in the most cowardly possible way to
discuss these subjects.”
[...]
“The only way we can discuss it around here—because this isn’t about politics,
it’s about race; what you’re seeing happening around here is about race and
it’s been turned into politics—we only talk about it around here when Steve
Kerr or [Gregg] Popovich says something. We don’t talk about what is happening
unless there’s some sort of weak, cowardly sports angle that we can run it
through, when sports has always been a place where this stuff changes.”
[...]
“We won’t talk about it unless Russell Wilson is saying something about it on
his Instagram page. Then we have the power to run with it. Weak-ass shield. It
is antithetical to what we should be, and if you’re not calling it abhorrent,
obviously racist, dangerous rhetoric, you’re complicit.”
It’s a great and angry and righteous monologue. By ESPN’s definition it is
surely “pure politics” before you even get to the part where Le Batard all but
explicitly calls Pitaro a coward and accuses him of complicity in a campaign to
foment racial hostility toward black and brown people. It seems inevitable that
Le Batard will now be suspended for saying true things on the air.”
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