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Matt Vespa Matt Vespa |Posted: Sep 16, 2017 12:00 PM
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2017/09/16/espn-employee-im-tired-of-pretending-this-company-is-not-full-of-st-n2382428It was another bad week for ESPN. Controversy erupted when host Jemele Hill tweeted that President Donald Trump was a white supremacist. The network said that this issue had been addressed, and that she realized her actions were inappropriate. Oh, and those tweets don’t reflect the position of ESPN—classic public relations move here. They also didn’t fire her. That’s fine. On its face, what Hill did was not an offense that would warrant termination, but was worthy of a reprimand and a social media torching. It was a stupid remark. We all know that. Then again, Curt Schilling was fired for an offense of a much lesser degree concerning transgender bathrooms.
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Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.
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Yet, where it gets into eyeroll territory (again) is what happened to anchor Linda Cohn, who was suspended when she said that politics might be a contributing factor to ESPN’s declining subscription base. She said this in April:
