Posted on 10/11/2017 5:20:34 AM PDT by C19fan
On Monday, ESPN suspended SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill for two weeks after a series of tweets critical of Dallas Cowboys’ owner Jerry Jones’ stance on standing for the national anthem—as well as calling for a boycott of Cowboys advertisers. The network said Hill had violated the company’s social media policy.
As you might remember, ESPN seemingly went to bat for Hill last month, after she slammed President Trump on Twitter, calling him a “bigot” and “white supremacist.” That said, there were reports that the network had, at the time, attempted to replace Hill on that evening’s SportsCenter broadcast, but received pushback from her co-anchor Michael Smith, among others.
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ESPN has been sitting out of reality and sports reporting for a long time...yes they are the sports arm of antifa, blm, bet, and the dnc....
She was ‘suspended’ with pay.
In the real world that is called a PAID VACATION......
ESPN learned a valuable lesson yesterday.
In 2017 the word “racism” has been redefined as “telling a black person something they don’t want to hear.”
Black sportscasters from another country are not african-american.
Today's activists believe that the company owes its success to them, so they get to make the rules.
The company believes that the talent's success is due to working for the company, so the company gets to make the rules.
In today's environment, I can't guess which side will blink first.
-PJ
Bingo, and thus they don't have the baggage.
Surrender vacation or sick days in exchange for the absence.
It is amazing the hubris these people have and they are allowed to get away with it.
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