JAMELE HILL WAS IN A LOT OF TROUBLE BECAUSE SHE SAID THINGS
THAT WERE OBVIOUS, I WAS GOING TO SAY ON TV, BUT IT WAS ON
TWITTER.
SHE WORKS FOR ESPN AND SHE TWEETED OUT --
I FIND THIS TO BE SO SHOCKINGLY NORMAL THAT IT'S
HARDLY BELIEVABLE THAT IT'S A CONTROVERSY.
I GOT UPDATES ON
THIS STORY, I WILL GET TO APOLOGIES ON TOP OF RETRACTIONS,
ETC., AND A SECOND, NOT A RETRACTION FROM HER THOUGH.
BUT
IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE EARLIER STORY, TWO MORE TWEETS TO GIVE
YOU CONTEXT, SHE HAD ALSO WRITTEN AT THE TIME --
BUT THAT'S WHAT HE DID, HE RAN ON IT.
I'M GOING TO TARGET
ALL THE IMMIGRANTS, TARGET THE MEXICANS, MUSLIMS -- WE WILL GET
TO THAT IN A SECOND.
HOW DARE YOU SAY THINGS THAT ARE SO
OBVIOUSLY TRUE?
SHE ALSO WROTE --
SO THE MAGA CROWD GOES NUTS, THEY ARE LIKE, THERE ARE PEOPLE
WHO DISAGREE WITH US IN THIS COUNTRY, THEY SHOULD BE FIRED.
I
MEANT FREEDOM OF SPEECH -- WAIT, I'M CONFUSED.
THESE LIBERAL
SNOWFLAKES GET TRIGGERED SO QUICK -- SHE SAID SOMETHING
ABOUT THE DONALD, OH MY GOD, I'M MELTING.
CHECK YOUR TALKING
POINTS, YOU SEEM TO GET CONFUSED FROM TIME TO TIME.
ANYWAYS, IS
TRUMP A RACIST?
OF COURSE!
A QUICK REVIEW HERE, HE WAS
LITERALLY SUED FOR HOUSING DISCRIMINATION, AGREED HE DID
IT, PAID A FINE, HE IS A LITERAL, ADJUDICATED RACIST.
THE
GOVERNMENT SAID WE THINK YOU ARE A RACIST AND DISCRIMINATE
AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE, HE SAID YOU ARE RIGHT, HERE'S THE FINE.
WHY ARE WE STILL HAVING THIS CONVERSATION?
THAT WAS A WHILE
BACK.
ABOUT THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE?
THOSE WERE THE GUYS WHO AT
THE TIME WERE ACCUSED OF RAPING THIS WHITE WOMAN IN NEW YORK
CITY'S CENTRAL PARK, FIVE YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES, TRUMP
TOOK OUT A FULL-PAGE AD TO SAY THAT THEY SHOULD BE EXECUTED.
TURNS OUT THEY DIDN'T DO IT, THEY SPENT A LONG TIME IN JAIL,
WE FOUND OUT LATER THEY DIDN'T DO IT, THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY NOT
GUILTY, TRUMP WHEN FACED WITH THAT INFORMATION SET WHO CARES,
THEY SHOULD BE IN JAIL.
WHY?
WE KNOW THEY AREN'T GUILTY.
THEY
ARE BLACK, WHO CARES.
I DON'T CARE, THEY ARE GUILTY OF
SOMETHING.
SOME OF YOU MIGHT GO, LOOK -- I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT
YOUR DEFENSE WOULD BE.
SOMETIMES I TRY TO EXPLAIN -- WHAT, PEOPLE
WHO ARE INNOCENT SHOULD BE IN JAIL ANYWAY?
AND TRUMP DID IT
FOR WHAT OTHER REASON?
BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GUILTY, SO WHY DOES
HE STILL WANT THEM IN JAIL?
BIRTHERISM, OF COURSE, OBAMA IS
NOT FROM HERE.
JUST LOOK AT HIM.
BERNIE SANDERS OFTEN SAYS MY DAD
WAS FROM POLAND, NOBODY EVER ASKS FOR MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
I
WONDER WHY.
TOTAL BAN ON MUSLIMS, THAT'S WHAT HE PROMISED
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL, AND IF YOU ARE GOING TO BAN ALL
MUSLIMS, WHAT DO WE CALL YOU IF NOT A BIG?
I KNOW, RATIONAL,
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO FEAR MUSLIMS AND BAN THEM.
JUST LIKE THE
JEWS.
ACTUALLY THAT SOUNDS WEIRD.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, BIGOT?
I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU WOULD GET
THE IDEA THAT HE DISCRIMINATES.
HOW CAN YOU CALL HIM A WHITE SUPREMACIST?
I'M MELTING.
AND HE
CALLED MEXICANS MURDERERS AND RAPISTS.
AND WHEN ACTUAL NAZIS
AND KKK MARCHED AND RAN PEOPLE OVER AND KILLED THEM, HE SAID
THEY WERE GOOD PEOPLE ON THAT SIDE.
THIS IS A CONTROVERSY?
RIGHT WING, PLEASE BE RACIST, BUT I DON'T WANT TO CALL YOU OUT
AS A RACIST, I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND YOU.
YOU ARE FINDING
MEXICANS BY CALLING THEM CRIMINALS AND RAPISTS, OR
OFFENDING MUSLIMS BY BANNING THEM, WHO CARES?
TAKING PEOPLE'S
FREEDOMS AND RIGHTS AWAY, CARES?
BUT IF A RIGHT-WINGER'S IDEAS
ARE OFFENDED, EVER, HOW COULD YOU?
HOW COULD YOU.
UNSURPRISINGLY, JAMELE HILL HAD TO DO SOME SORT OF APOLOGY --
LOOK, I'M NOT BLAMING HER, SHE'S GOT A NICE JOB, SHE'S GOT TO
KEEP THE JOB, ESPN IS GOING TO PANIC BECAUSE THEY ARE ON TV,
ADVERTISERS WILL CALL AND GO SOME OF THOSE RACISTS ALSO BUY
PRODUCTS, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE NEUTRAL TO RACISM.
ANYWAY, SHE ISSUES THIS ON TWITTER --
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE WILL POINT OUT IT'S NOT MUCH OF AN
APOLOGY, IN THIS CASE IT'S NOT MUCH OF AN APOLOGY -- GOOD.
BECAUSE IT DOESN'T DESERVE ANY APOLOGY AT ALL.
AND I HEAR YOU,
I'M NOT GETTING ON YOU FOR THE APOLOGY.
IT'S JUST SHE DIDN'T
SAY IT ON AIR -- I DON'T CARE IF SHE SAID IT ON AIR EITHER, BUT
SHE SET IT ON TWITTER, SHE APOLOGIZED ON TWITTER, WHATEVER.
CAN WE LET THIS GO ALREADY?
YOU GUYS NEED A FURTHER SAFE SPACE
WHERE YOU CAN BE WHITE SUPREMACISTS BUT NO ONE IS
ALLOWED TO CALL YOU A WHITE SUPREMACIST?
AND THEN YOU YELL
AT PEOPLE AND SAY BLACK PEOPLE ARE MORE CRIMINAL THAN WE ARE
AND MUSLIMS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN WE ARE -- HOW COULD YOU SAY
WE ARE AGAINST MUSLIMS AND BLACKS?
WHAT KIND OF SAY SPACE
DO YOU NEED?
HOW BIG DOES IT NEED TO BE?
ALL OF TV, ALL OF
SOCIAL MEDIA?
WHAT ABOUT HER FREE SPEECH.
SCREW HER FREE
SPEECH, FIRE HER!
GET REAL.
ESPN PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING THIS
--
JAMELE HAS A RIGHT TO HER PERSONAL OPINIONS BUT NOT TO
PUBLICLY SHOW THEM ON A PLATFORM THAT IMPLIES THAT SHE WAS IN ANY
WAY SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ESPN.
SHE KNOWLEDGED THE TWEETS
CROSSED THE LINE AND WE ACCEPT HER APOLOGY.
LUCKILY SHE'S NOT FIRED OR SUSPENDED OR ANYTHING, WE CAN
ALL MOVE ON, AND GUESS WHAT, THERE WILL BE NO BOYCOTT OF
ESPN.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, NOT WATCH SPORTS?
I DON'T
BELIEVE YOU.
AND NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE.
SO, THIS IS A GIANT
PANIC OVER SOMETHING THAT'S VERY LITTLE.
AND IF YOU ARE WONDERING
WHERE THE BOUNDARIES ARE, AND WHO SPEAKS FOR WHAT -- LIKE, NOT
EVERY ESPN HOST, WHETHER THEY ARE A RIGHT-WINGER OR A
LEFT-WINGER, SPEAKS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF ESPN.
I DON'T KNOW
WHY THAT IS SO COMPLICATED.
DOES ANYONE REALLY THINK THAT?
RIGHT-WINGERS WILL SAY, BUT WHEN SOME RIGHT-WINGERS SAY RACIST
STUFF THEY ARE FIRED.
THAT'S TRUE, BECAUSE SAYING RACIST
STUFF IS REALLY, REALLY BAD.
THAT MEANS YOU ARE SAYING THIS
PERCENTAGE OF THE AUDIENCE, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH THEM, I JUST
THINK THEY ARE BAD PEOPLE BY THE VERY DEFINITION OF WHO THEY ARE.
THAT'S A DIFFERENT ANIMAL.
IF CURT SCHILLING OR SOMEONE SAYS I
THINK THE RICHLY TAX CUTS, NO ONE IS GETTING FIRED OVER THAT.
OR NAME IT, I THINK OBAMACARE IS WONDERFUL, TRUMPCARE IS
WONDERFUL.
NOT MANY PEOPLE AGREE BUT YOU WOULDN'T GET FIRED OVER
THAT, NOR SHOULD YOU.
IT'S NOT A MATTER OF POLITICAL THIS
AGREEMENT.
AND IF JAMELE HILL HAD SAID WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE
DEVIL, THEY ARE BY DEFINITION BAD, I WOULD SAY YOU'VE GOT TO
GO.
SHE'S NOT SAYING RACIST THINGS, SHE IS POINTING OUT
TRUMP IS SAYING RACIST THINGS.
IT'S A GIANT DIFFERENCE.
AND NO,
SHE DOESN'T SPEAK FOR ALL OF ESPN.
WE GET THIS SOMETIMES TOO
-- DO YOU KNOW WHAT ONE OF YOUR HOSTS SAID?
WE HAVE A LOT OF
DIFFERENT HOSTS, THEY HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS.
I'M NOT
GOING TO SAY EVERY HOST MUST AGREE WITH ME.
AS WONDERFUL AS I
THINK I AM, I THINK THAT'S KIND OF BORING.
OR THEY ARE ALLOWED
TO DISAGREE AND THEY SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY ARE
INDEPENDENT HUMAN BEINGS.
WOW, I SOLVED IT.
IT WASN'T THAT
COMPLICATED.