Posted on 04/22/2021 8:05:42 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Thursday, ESPN “First Take” co-host Max Kellerman defended Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James for his now-deleted “YOU’RE NEXT” tweet in response to the Ma’Khia Bryant shooting in Columbus, OH.
Although Kellerman acknowledged James jumped the gun in his tweet showing the image of the police officer involved, he said it “obviously” was not a call for violence. He added that politicians who are accusing James of inciting violence are either “stupid or corrupt.”
“First of all, LeBron’s tweet, let me be very clear about this, obviously means to anyone with even a below-average I.Q. and any semblance of education at all — like, you have to be living on another planet or not understand basic language to know what ‘you’re next’ means,” Kellerman emphasized. “Are we coming out of a situation where there was vigilante mob justice against police? No. We’re coming on a situation where a cop who murdered someone on camera was tried and convicted of all charges. So, obviously, clearly, duh. That is what LeBron is referring to. Number one, that is what he is referring to. And a politician who is would use this for political gain — or let me rephrase that. Politicians who instead would lead people to believe that what LeBron was doing was attempting to incite violence either suffer from extremely low comprehension or are lying to their constituents to curry political favor. One or the other. Stupid or corrupt, right? That’s what it is.”
He added, “[W]hat is happening now, it seems to me, Stephen A., it is that LeBron reacted before the facts were out, admitted that he did so, and now it is being used as a political football in bad faith. That is what seems to me to be happening.”
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Exactly the same argument that Lemon guy used to defend Nancy Pelosi.
Oh. Okay then. I'm good.
“You’re stupid if you disagree with me” isn’t an argument, it’s a desperate avoidance of the truth.
Is it racist to disagree?
Why does Lebrun get a pass and not called to account for his statements.
Oh Was obvious Huh?
Amazing the way these white bois in sports go out of their way whether it’s herbsteit fake tears crying or the rest of them performing fellatio on LeBron and his boys
It's "the argument from intimidation."
The only thing that Max has intelligent comments about is boxing. If he’s not talking about that, Kellerman should STHU.
An electorally defrauded president calls for peace and receives a permanent Twitter ban.
Some high school dropout NBA idiot calls for violence against a hero cop and isn’t even suspended.
That's a flat-out lie. LeBron said nothing of the sort.
You really have to ask?
I’m gonna wager he thinks Trump incited violence when he asked his supporters to protest peacefully and patriotically which would by his own definition make him stupid and corrupt
I think people — including the VAST majority of our good, law-abiding, black friends and relatives — are SICK of BS comments like LeBron’s.
I cannot even imagine being an American who happens to be black being assaulted day after day, by a media which portrays black people as being thugs to be pitied or dullards who have no idea how to vote.
WHY is no one talking about how the ridiculous Leftist media is right now stereotyping black people as they’ve NEVER been stereotyped before.
Didn’t he pull his tweet right away???
LOL, that’s it...if he believed what he said, he wouldn’t have deleted it as quickly as he did.
he definitely was inciting violence to a specific police officer
Now I know what ESPN really stands for: “Especial Stupid Professional Nutcases”.
Glad I never watch them. Many of “ze little gray cells” are happy about that because they can live another day.
What a mealy-mouthed lying a-hole.
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