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Employment trends tend to be cyclical: older, experienced professionals are replaced by younger, cheaper inexperienced professionals until the employer sees why older, experienced professionals were hired in the first place. Case in point: ESPN's elevation of Katie Nolan, a sports commentator who previously hosted a radio program called Garbage Time for Fox Sports Radio. While ESPN has to publicly (and politically correctly) stand up for their hire, we all know the ramifications would be much more harsh had Nolan said something similar against former president Barack Obama, and she certainly wouldn't have said that he was a "f**king stupid person" flanked...

<p>ESPN has opted to give host Katie Nolan a warning rather than a suspension for her vulgar comments this week about President Donald Trump.</p> <p>The sports network said it addressed the matter with Nolan, but it will not punish her beyond that, TMZ reported Friday. Nolan said that Trump was a "fucking stupid person" on Viceland's "Desus & Mero" talk show on Wednesday.</p>

Recent ESPN hire Katie Nolan blasted President Trump with some pretty disparaging remarks on Wednesday night, and her new employer is not happy. While appearing on Viceland’s talk show “Desus and Mero,” the 30-year-old sports talker called POTUS a "f—ing stupid person." Nolan clamored to cover up her harsh words, saying she was on "medicine" because she had the flu. While Nolan's comments occured on a talk show and not on Twitter or Facebook, her attempt to quickly explain away her outburst may have been due in part to ESPN's social media guidelines for journalists, implemented after fellow network employee...