Posted on 10/09/2017 9:24:54 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
ESPN suspended Hill for calling for a boycott of the Dallas Cowboys’ advertisers after Cowboys owner Jerry Jones threatened to bench any player who kneeled during the anthem. Hill’s boycott was her second violation of ESPN’s social media policies, the network said. She previously stirred controversy by calling President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter.
The backlash against ESPN for Hill’s suspension began almost immediately among left-wing activists and celebrities, many of whom used the hashtag “#BoycottESPN” on social media.
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perfect.
Exactly. This is the exact same conundrum the NFL faces. Either way they go is going to cost them half or more of their potential customers. Entertainment and politics do not mix.
Boycott those who call for boycotts and boycott those who boycott boycotts.
Makes a lot of sense.
Didn’t they fire Rush Limbaugh after he criticized a black NFL quarterback?
Or was that a different racist network?
ESPN should have never entered into the realm of partisan politics. It’s a lose-lose situation for a network supposedly dedicated to sports. Because they have no idea what they are doing they’ve found away to annoy both sides of the political aisle and ruin their brand with many people. My advice to ESPN: cover sports like you used to. That’s your charter and what you know. It’s pretty common sense. I have the same advice for the NFL. When you make political statements, people react. Just play football.
“My advice to ESPeeN which they won’t heed, trade the wench to MSNBC and be apolitical, stick to sports.”
Yep. The lo$$e$ are mounting. And if this AA hire wasn’t an AA, she’d have been bounced when she first decided to go off the script.
p.s. Mitch (((Trubiski))): Almost pulled it off.
...backlash against ESPN for Hill’s suspension began almost immediately among left-wing activists and celebrities, many of whom used the hashtag “#BoycottESPN” on social media....
The vast majority who never watched ESPN anyways.
Getting both sides to boycott ESPN would be quite an accomplishment for ESPN.
This is the stupid woman who called President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter.
#BoycottESPN” on social media.
ESPN’s pain is my pleasure!
I’m still trying to figure out who thought pizzing off the majority of your consumer-base, then doubling down is a great business model.
After he criticized the sports media's "kid gloves" approach to black QBs.
Please do, and let us know where it can be found.
Just heard this on the radio: A group of unnamed NFL owners met with Goodell and discussed banning the national anthem altogether.
They’re quadrupling down on their suicide. May they succeed.
The black ones do. Good grief look at all the tokenism on ESPN and other sports broadcasts. Same formula: one or more blacks in the booth or panel. Young pretty “sideline reporter” females
Can’t be explained any other way than intentional racist and sexist selection
Many in the media, entertainment and sports are going to be hung on their own petard, and that petard is not their specific political view but that they use their media, entertainment or sports venue to promote their view.
If they really want to quit offending people, they need, all of them, to become much more political agnostics. Leave the politics for the politicians.
I think eventually social media is going to find the same thing. I hear more people on social media turning off all attempts to sell political views.
Over the last year and a half or so.
I threw out cable years ago. At that time I was not sure I wanted to do without fox news. But in fact I have not missed it.
1. The ESPN brass thinks the lunatic left is their audience, so they must be worried.
2. Higher up the food chain, Disney/ABC has to consider the threat of Black subscribers cancelling or boycotting.
ESPN = Every Sportsfan’s Pissed Now
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