I don't know, could be a resemblance. You make the call.
Posted on 08/24/2017 1:46:49 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
ESPN thought sports fans wouldn't know the difference between an Asian-American ESPN football announcer named Robert Lee and the commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, whose name was Robert E. Lee...
And who said network executives think their audiences are stupid fools?..
I don't know what kind of broadcaster Gen. Lee may have become if he lived long enough. He probably spoke in the formal cadence of an Army officer from West Point, of the Southern gentry, meaning he spoke in complete sentences and we wouldn't understand him...
Who made it an issue, ESPN? You fools made it an issue.
They sensed a tingle of unreasonable, indefinable fear running up some other pinhead executive's leg, and they panicked, and decided to remove Lee and someone probably said, "Hey, no worries. No one will even notice."
And now, when we turn on ESPN, some of us won't be thinking of sports. Some of us will be thinking about careers burned, corporate hacks hiding under desks, scared of their Twitter shadows. Some might even think of George Orwell and Room 101 and the rat cage.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
When other members of the liberal MSM are turning on ESPN over this, it is clear to everyone that ESPN went Full Retard.
ESPN idiots think they’re in a 1964 movie - when those brave enough to stand up to white racist were true heroes...
Yes, standing up to racists like Al Gore’s father, Robert Bryd, Morning Joe’s family etc took courage... BACK IN ‘64.
But today the old Southern Establishment has flipped into today’s Liberal Elites... and the new victims aren’t black they’re working class Americans.
So, ESPN once again YOUR type is standing with the powerful majority of Establishment thugs...
I’m embarrassed for ESPN... really... sorta. They deserve the shame.
stupidity training?
Why, they have that down pat!..........
I don't know, could be a resemblance. You make the call.
One is Chinese-American.
The other would be 207 years old.
DUUUUUUUHH!!!!!
Both have the customary parts, in about the same locations?
I already contacted ESPN and explained to them that I was triggered by their stupidity and I put them on a one year do not watch list.
Since that is a super secret probation there is no way they will figure out how to un-trigger me. :-)
just as the left pushes for sensitivity training on social issues in business and government. I think The right should push for stupidity training to counter the damage done by the sensitivity training.
The world is a dangerous place, about half of all people are of below median intelligence!
And they are allowed to vote.
“And who said network executives think their audiences are stupid fools?..”
I am a good way through reading a book about the late Gene Rayburn (host of Match Game) and in it contains the story about what caused the show’s ratings to drop dramatically in about 1977-78, after being on top in years like 1974, 1975, 1976, and a good deal of 1977.
Apparently, some executive at CBS (who had been fired previously by Chuck Barris) decided that MG should be moved from 3:30pm to 11:00am over most CBS stations. The ratings cratered because that took away the junior high/high school crowd immediately. In his own notes for a memoir he was not able to fully write or complete, Gene was still very angry all those years later at that executive over that decision. Seems like the same boneheaded mentality is still present in this situation with ESPN.
Given the state of education in this country and the composition of ESPN’s audience, they might be right.
I agree. Stupidity has become second nature to ESPN. They need no more training.
” I think The right should push for stupidity training to counter the damage done by the sensitivity training.”
IMO and many agree, you cannot fix stupid.
“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”
-Oscar Wilde
...to make the people who want to tear down statues look like fools.
“Stupidity Training” will do absolutely nothing change the thinking of HupA’s.
They are going to need market training for their ex-employees after this round of BS.
“I don’t know, could be a resemblance. You make the call. “
Never seen them together.
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