"What offensive nonsense," Hawley wrote in the open letter. "No amount of profit can justify collaborating with a regime for which violent suppression and enslavement are routine tools of governance."
Posted on 07/12/2020 9:32:26 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
ESPN reporter Adrian Wojnarowski sent an email reading "F—k you" to the office of Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) on Friday in response to the senator's criticism of Chinese influence in the NBA.
The note came in response to Hawley's open letter to the National Basketball Association condemning its new policy on players’ jerseys, and Wojnarowski apologized later on Friday after Hawley publicized the email. The new policy allows players to wear messages in response to recent police brutality cases that prompted protests across the nation, but does not allow players to select messages criticizing human rights violations in China.
"Conspicuously missing from the list of approved phrases are any in support of the victims of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including the people of Hong Kong, whose remaining freedoms are being extinguished by the CCP’s newly enacted national security law," Hawley’s statement reads.
Wojnarowski tweeted Friday afternoon to apologize for his conduct.
"I was disrespectful and I made a regrettable mistake. I'm sorry for the way I handled myself and I am reaching out immediately to Senator Hawley to apologize directly. I also need to apologize to my ESPN colleagues because I know my actions were unacceptable and should not reflect on any of them," the tweet reads.
Wojnarowksi is a senior NBA reporter at ESPN. He has won the national sportswriter of the year award for three consecutive years and is famous for his eponymous "Woj bombs," or insider scoops on NBA trade and free agency intrigue.
Prior statements from NBA players and administrators exhibit an unwillingness to take a stance on China. Hawley’s letter highlights the NBA's apology to Beijing after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey expressed support for the Hong Kong protests. Instead of backing Morey, NBA commissioner Adam Silver "chose to apologize to the CCP."
NBA superstar LeBron James previously made headlines with his own controversial statement about the protests. Morey "either was misinformed or not really educated on the situation," James said. He later backtracked those comments.
"What offensive nonsense," Hawley wrote in the open letter. "No amount of profit can justify collaborating with a regime for which violent suppression and enslavement are routine tools of governance."
"What offensive nonsense," Hawley wrote in the open letter. "No amount of profit can justify collaborating with a regime for which violent suppression and enslavement are routine tools of governance."
NBA’s apology to Beijing after Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey expressed support for the Hong Kong protests:
Instead of backing Morey, NBA commissioner Adam Silver “chose to apologize to the CCP.”
Adrian Wojnarowski has such an impressive vocabulary.
I’m impressed/NOT.
We continue to find out who is bought and paid for by the CCP.
I’m done with all pro sports.
Let them get real jobs.
You know you’ve got a problem when half the country doesn’t recognize blatant hypocrisy.
Well Wojnarowski is a fat, bald white man who writes homoerotic mush about athletic black males.
Some people live in the gutter just to skim a buck.....
It seems like a lot of people are getting paid off by the Chicoms.
Lebron the dumbass and that jock sniffer from ESPN probably believe that China holds elections.
Adrian Wojnarowski, a senior NBA reporter at ESPN, has won the national sportswriter of the year award for three consecutive years.
Especially at ESPN where nearly every commentator or announcer, so entralled with “safety” and “the virus”, consist of scared women and scared-sh!tless “men” who act and sound like the other scared women. Pathetic at best!
Way back in the day I used to watched The Sports Reporters hosted by Dick Schaap on Sunday mornings. But it eventually devolved into a political show and I could not abide that dweeb Mike Lupica. It's a microcosm of what has happened to ESPN in general. Remember that race baiter Jemele Hill?!
Keep it classy, Dems.
I doubt the leftist hypocrites understand anything about something beyond their own minds. Example: college students now believe freedom of speech should be shut down if the speech is “hate speech” (such as campaigning for Trump) or is something with which they disagree.
The Founders went through debates and a lot of effort to properly guarantee our God given rights and now the morons on the left are so stupid they don’t know a tyrant someday could label THEM as needing to be suppressed and shut down.
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter said decades ago that the most difficult freedom to defend is freedom for the thought you hate.
Sickening, isn’t it?
‘follow the money’ never fails!
That’s what all this take a knee crap is all about in professional sports. It’s a marketing decision to make the NFL, NBA, and NASCAR more acceptable overseas, esp to Chinese audiences. At this point, I doubt whether pro sports managment cares if they keep American audiences or not. Potentially, there’s 1.4 million Chinese viewers vs. 330million domestic viewers. They’d pledge allegiance in a heartbeat to Xi Jin Poo for the kind of money they expect to make.
Black NBA pimps for the Chinese.
He certainly commands a great f’ ing vocabulary.
That was about the final nail in the nba coffin for me. They’ve only further confirmed my disdain for that organization with their “social justice” nonsense.
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