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ESPN Anchor Addresses ‘White Supremacist’ Tweets: I Regret Painting Network in ‘Unfair Light’
freebeacon ^ | September 14, 2017 | David Rutz

Posted on 09/14/2017 7:27:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

ESPN anchor Jemele Hill released a statement late Wednesday about her tweets that President Donald Trump is a "white supremacist," saying her remarks expressed her own views but regretting she put the network in an "unfair light."

"My comments on Twitter expressed my personal beliefs," the SportsCenter host wrote in a screen-shotted statement she tweeted. "My regret is that my comments and the public way I made them painted ESPN in an unfair light. My respect for the company and my colleagues remains unconditional."

ESPN released a statement through CNN's Brian Stelter that Hill had a right to express her political opinions but not in a way that suggested it represented the network. ESPN has dealt with perceptions of a liberal bias in its coverage.

"Jemele has a right to her personal opinions, but not to publicly share them on a platform that implies that she was in any way speaking on behalf of ESPN," she said. "She has acknowledged that her tweets crossed that line and has apologized for doing so. We accept her apology."

Hill fired off a series of tweets Monday night about Trump and his team, calling him a white supremacist and the most "ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime." ESPN's public relations Twitter account released a statement Tuesday that her tweets were "inappropriate."

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders condemned Hill from the podium Tuesday, calling it a "fireable offense."

Other ESPN employees have publicly expressed support for Hill in the wake of the controversy, as has NFL quarterback and national anthem protester Colin Kaepernick.

Colin Kaepernick ✔ @Kaepernick7 We are with you @jemelehill ✊🏾 10:32 PM - Sep 12, 2017

Michael Wilbon ✔ @RealMikeWilbon Happy to stand w my friend and colleague Jemele Hill any time and anywhere...especially now...

Jalen Rose ✔ @JalenRose #StandWithJemele https://twitter.com/MarcJSpearsESPN/status/908121739418374145 … 8:19 PM - Sep 13, 2017

Jorge Sedano ✔ @SedanoESPN We are. @Locs_n_Laughs wrote a great piece and it's on his timeline. #StandWithJemele https://twitter.com/thechrisarmas/status/907958484972343296 … 9:29 AM - Sep 13, 2017

It was the latest public relations headache for ESPN, coming on the heels of an embarrassing episode where it yanked Asian-American broadcaster Robert Lee from covering a Virginia football game in the wake of the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va.

The reasoning: His name was too similar to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and ESPN feared he would become an online punchline.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 09/14/2017 7:27:12 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

She’ll be forgiven. They always are


2 posted on 09/14/2017 7:29:55 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspiration)
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To: MarvinStinson

She has a right to express liberal opinions. Curt Schilling, Mike Ditka, and Rush Limbaugh don’t.

If you have an ESPN app on your phone or computer, delete it now.


3 posted on 09/14/2017 7:30:41 AM PDT by Luke21 (he)
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To: MarvinStinson

The network? The network? She’s even dumber than previously reported. Then again, espn hasn’t been seen in years at our place.


4 posted on 09/14/2017 7:32:17 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: MarvinStinson

This leftist wench had a right to her opinion says ESPN but Rush Limbaugh or Hank Williams Jr do not. I see where ESPN is coming from and its not a good place.


5 posted on 09/14/2017 7:32:45 AM PDT by TexasCruzin (Trump is the man. #TrumpPence16)
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To: MarvinStinson

First rule of life: When you are in a hole, stop digging.

Extremely Socialist Propaganda Network (ESPN) should learn that.


6 posted on 09/14/2017 7:32:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Remarks made by Jimmy the Greek, Rush Limbaugh, Kurt Schilling, Mike Ditka, etc., represented their personal views also...


7 posted on 09/14/2017 7:35:00 AM PDT by Salvey
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To: KosmicKitty

She’s just a “placeholder”; no real expectations of her, but when blacktivists and lawyers show up you trot out the placeholders and they go away.

Token dupe...


8 posted on 09/14/2017 7:36:07 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MarvinStinson

Well ESPN, YOU except her apology is not really the point is it?


9 posted on 09/14/2017 7:37:27 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: KosmicKitty

Of course they’re her own views. That’s what got Ditka, and Curt Schilling and others fired. She expresses no remorse or apology.


10 posted on 09/14/2017 7:39:41 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Let's get Newt in there to help...)
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To: MarvinStinson
SHe WILL NOT be fired.

WHY?

Because she's BLACK.

It's called "BLACK PRIVILEGE."

11 posted on 09/14/2017 7:41:21 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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Never watch ESPN again!


12 posted on 09/14/2017 7:41:44 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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The ESPN boards are getting hammered by people demanding this woman be fired! You wouldn’t of seen this years ago on ESPN’s boards, but people have had it with the suffocating liberalism the network espouses daily. People are waking up folks!


13 posted on 09/14/2017 7:41:45 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: MarvinStinson

This is more of an “I’m sorry I got caught”

than an actual apology for the offensive remarks.


14 posted on 09/14/2017 7:42:32 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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By not firing her they are basically condoning what she said.

A white person would have already been let go and ESPN would by spewing a bunch of anti-white gobbelty gook about it and the white person would be on their knees asking forgiveness.


15 posted on 09/14/2017 7:43:18 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: MarvinStinson
... that Hill had a right to express her...

But Curt Schelling didn't? We have a double standard.

16 posted on 09/14/2017 7:43:21 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: MarvinStinson

Wonder how someone would have been treated if they called black racist Barrack Obama a black racist?


17 posted on 09/14/2017 7:43:34 AM PDT by ZULU (DITCH MITCH!!! DUMP RYAN!! DROP DEAD MCCAIN!! KIM FATTY the THIRD = Kim Jung Un)
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To: KosmicKitty

IOWs “I deeply sorry for the embarrassment this caused the network.”


18 posted on 09/14/2017 7:46:36 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Let's get Newt in there to help...)
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To: kearnyirish2

“My respect for the company and my colleagues remains unconditional.”


Spoken like a true brain-dead ass-kisser. If ESPN took a jog to the right, she’d melt down.


19 posted on 09/14/2017 7:47:47 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: VideoDoctor

High Melanin Content + Vagina = Lifetime Job Security


20 posted on 09/14/2017 7:50:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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