Posted on 11/09/2016 5:59:51 AM PST by C19fan
The 2016 presidential election season has been one most of us will never forget. The tone has been ugly, the controversies endless, the coverage unrelenting. Our social media feeds are full of politically charged statements, and what dialogue does exist between differing sides more often resembles a WWE match than nuanced debate.
Thankfully, I get to write about ESPN, where the focus on sports means I never have to deal with politics.
Ah, if only that were true.
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Yes, use the impersonal to evade the fact that you are the subject of that verb. You in the media set the ugly tone. You threw every filthy dirty disgusting thing you could at this man. You slung it all over the place, and now, don your overalls because YOU need to clean it up.
I reserve the dreaded “Double Finger Salute” to any ESPN dork, should I ever spy the low IQ, drivel spouting college dropout on the street.
FUESPN.
ESPN, and the entire sports-media complex, can get stuffed.
I’m not watching any of it.
I have given up on Monday Night Football, etc. I watch College Gameday, college ball, but that is about it. Too many whiny little bitches on that channel who think they are important. They’re NOT
ESPN stands for Exceptionally Socialist Politics Network, doesn’t it?
At least ESPN has an excuse, it’s sports, not politics and anything the least political gets you fired.
However, they go too far. Saying a player has a “chink in his armor” is innocent metaphor.
But ESPN fired the person that said it.
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