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ESPN Faces Liberal Boycott After Suspending Jemele Hill
Daily Caller ^ | 10/09/2017 | Peter Hasson

Posted on 10/09/2017 9:24:54 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

perfect.


61 posted on 10/10/2017 4:04:55 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Maybe they should have stuck to sports.

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.

62 posted on 10/10/2017 4:05:02 AM PDT by IamConservative (Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Boycott those who call for boycotts and boycott those who boycott boycotts.

Makes a lot of sense.


63 posted on 10/10/2017 4:13:31 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Didn’t they fire Rush Limbaugh after he criticized a black NFL quarterback?

Or was that a different racist network?


64 posted on 10/10/2017 4:25:52 AM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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.


65 posted on 10/10/2017 4:29:07 AM PDT by Mustangman
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To: Impy

“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.


66 posted on 10/10/2017 4:33:24 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

...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.


67 posted on 10/10/2017 4:38:37 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Getting both sides to boycott ESPN would be quite an accomplishment for ESPN.


68 posted on 10/10/2017 4:40:27 AM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
WHO OWNS ESPN?? That;s right Disney .....everyone should boycott them and all their products....

This is the stupid woman who called President Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter.

#BoycottESPN” on social media.

69 posted on 10/10/2017 5:04:00 AM PDT by mastertex
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

ESPN’s pain is my pleasure!


70 posted on 10/10/2017 5:07:45 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: All

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.


71 posted on 10/10/2017 5:16:51 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: savedbygrace
Didn’t they fire Rush Limbaugh after he criticized a black NFL quarterback?

After he criticized the sports media's "kid gloves" approach to black QBs.

72 posted on 10/10/2017 5:22:20 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: cgbg

Please do, and let us know where it can be found.


73 posted on 10/10/2017 5:38:55 AM PDT by gogeo (Leftists are a parasite that destroys the host.)
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To: Impy; NFHale; KC_Lion; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker; DarthVader

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.


74 posted on 10/10/2017 5:53:16 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Fledermaus

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


75 posted on 10/10/2017 6:07:47 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("I am SpartaLee" Hey, NFL, why didn't you any of you bold guys hire Kaepernick? #GoodbyeGoodell)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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.


76 posted on 10/10/2017 6:15:17 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Over the last year and a half or so.


77 posted on 10/10/2017 7:01:42 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Kozak

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.


78 posted on 10/10/2017 7:38:15 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: Steven Tyler
The vast majority who never watched ESPN anyways.

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.

79 posted on 10/10/2017 7:53:37 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

ESPN = Every Sportsfan’s Pissed Now


80 posted on 10/10/2017 8:06:02 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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