And what about that one reality show host from a few years back that kept insisting that Obama wasn't born in the United States?Haven't a number of folks called obama a terrorist
I haven't watched any of those ESPN talking heads shows in years, but Jemel Hill is just awful as a sports reporter.
the White House calling for a personality on a cable channel to be fired is so stupid though.
This bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
Reading her articles? Hearing her on the radio? Seeing her Twitter feed?If you haven't been watching, how do you know she's awful
ESPN SportsCenter host Jemele Hill called Donald Trump a bigot and white supremacist on Twitter Monday night, and the backlash to these pretty standard and well-founded opinions compelled the network to give Hill a talking-to and to release a statement.
Reading her articles? Hearing her on the radio? Seeing her Twitter feed?
This bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
This bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
So you don't even know what happened in that situation but you're qualified to call it stupid as fuck? Jlaw.gifIt was still stupid as fuck.
Man espn threads really bring out the crazies around hereThis bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
Jemele Hill said:In an editorial describing why she could not support the Celtics, Hill wrote: "Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan. Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics."
I just stalked you and your profile says you're from Southern California. How could you disagree with her take on the Celtics?!?!?From Wikipedia
Not a huge fan of hers but the "White House" is fucking ridiculous in demanding her fired for calling Trump what he is.
Hey look, another alt to squish
I just stalked you and your profile says you're from Southern California. How could you disagree with her take on the Celtics?!?!?
I just stalked you and your profile says you're from Southern California. How could you disagree with her take on the Celtics?!?!?
This bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
This bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
To be honest, I absolutely hate how political ESPN has gotten. I used to watch it all the time and all I got was sports with none of the political crap. Nowadays it seems like they always wanna talk about politics and sports on the side.
On this topic, it was her personal twitter account, so I personally don't give a shit. This, though, is a perfect example of when people tell you - even when you're not famous - to be careful what you post online and in social media. It can always bite you in the ass. Hill created this situation for herself. Worth the headache? Maybe it is to her, or maybe it isn't. I surely wouldn't want that kind of headache though. The WH calling for her to be fired seems overkill to me, but again I don't really care about this issue. Obviously right wingers are gonna want her gone the same way that left wingers would if the roles were reversed. I actually think Hill is horrible at her job and ESPN should replace her because of that, but that's a whole other conversation that I don't feel like having.
Ahhh the Massachusetts will always show! Just having a go at you lolHow could I disagree with her comparing a basketball team to Hitler? I dunno. It's pretty easy.
Half of my family is from Mansfield, Mass so I'm biased.
Bomani and Lebatard are always giving Boston so much shit on their shows and I agree about it making her take less inflammatory lolman her take is pretty lukewarm compared to whats get said on the radio. But she's held to a higher standard for reasons unkown
she's also from detroit so that probably explains her dislike of the celtics
lol you've said plenty
https://deadspin.com/espn-issues-craven-apology-for-jemele-hills-accurate-de-1804057051
I remember when Trump retweeted white supremacists propaganda from a nazi account, dangerously wrong anti-black fear mongering and all.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...mp/trump-tweet-blacks-white-homicide-victims/
Then there was the time he etc etc etc
a little more proof that our sitting president is a white supremacist to shut up any "give more reasons" types, not that they'll probably actually be convinced but still
He called for the death penalty of the central park 5 even after they were exonerated by DNA evidence
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/20...tral-park-five-are-guilty-despite-dna-n661941
He settled with the Justice Dept. over accusations of rase based housing discrimination
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/politics/donald-trump-housing-race.html
The time he didn't denounce white supremacists or well known KKK leader David Duke, as if never heard of him or the kkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9geYl9J_Mc
Then there was the whole birther movement where Trump questioned whether Obama was born in the US... Basically there's tons of evidence of Trump being a white supremacists, it's not like he's trying to hide it.
Glad she didn't apologize for stating the truth yet was still happy to go on record to hopefully put this matter to bed.Jemele tweeted a statement
UmmmmmmmmThis bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
Jemele tweeted a statement
Dear White House, work on your own employee issues before you start telling businesses how to deal with theirs.
This bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
Did you mean to post this hot take with your alt account?This bitch needs to be fired ASAP.
Putting aside that she is 100% correct, the government trying to take action or calling for action to be taken against someone for what they said is an actual, egregious attack on free speech. I wonder how many "but mah free speech" people will stick up for her. I figure not many :/
The irony of President Trump and his ilk being able to spout of whatever bullshit they like with zero consequence because they're just ”tellin it like it is" while literally anyone that says anything against them has to apologize and grovel for fear of an angry backlash from mouth-breathing morons is... well, I don't know if it's depressing, hilarious, or outrageous anymore. It's something, that's for sure.
Trump has had many obvious fascist tendencies, like this one.Putting aside that she is 100% correct, the government trying to take action or calling for action to be taken against someone for what they said is an actual, egregious attack on free speech. I wonder how many "but mah free speech" people will stick up for her. I figure not many :/
Qwerty does his own stunts.Hey look, another alt to squish
If ESPN fired her I'd understand, as I'd understand that action coming from many businesses who don't want their hosts to get too partisan or controversial, even if whats spoken is the truth. I say this without knowing if or how ESPN has handled political issues from their other personalities though.
But my heart is with Carlos Danger is my Spirit Animal - one of the comments to the Deadspin article - on this:
This administration has absolutely no leg to stand on when it comes to social media, making insults, or alleging the worst about people.
Thisthe White House calling for a personality on a cable channel to be fired is so stupid though.
Jemele tweeted a statement