EARLIER THIS WEEK ESPN MADE THE DECISION TO SUSPEND ONE OF
ITS ANCHORS, OVER THE FACT THAT SHE VIOLATED THE SOCIAL
MEDIA POLICY AND SHARED HER POLITICAL OPINION ON TWITTER.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT, HERE IS THE
REASON WHY SHE GOT SUSPENDED.
THESE TWEETS INCLUDED, HERE YOU GO, JERRY JONES ALSO HAS
CAUSED
GREATER PROBLEMS FOR HIS PLAYERS SPECIFICALLY THE BLACK ONES.
IF THEY DON'T KNEEL, SOME WILL SEE THEM AS SELLOUTS.
SHE GOES ON IF YOU STRONGLY REJECT WHAT JERRY JONES
SAID, THE KEYS IS ADVERTISERS.
DON'T PLACE THE BURDEN SQUARELY ON THE PLAYERS.
AND THEN IN THIS WHOLE STRING, SHE LATER CLARIFIES WITH
HER COMMENTS PUTTING THIS.
JUST A CLEAR: I'M NOT ADVOCATING AN NFL BOYCOTT.
BUT AN UNFAIR BURDEN HAS BEEN PUT ON PLAYERS IN DALLAS
AND MIAMI WITH ANTHEM DIRECTORATES.
OF COURSE, SHE IS RESPONDING TO OR COMMENTING ON THE
FACT THAT DALLAS COWBOYS OWNER JERRY JONES SAID THAT HE
WOULD NOT TOLERATE ANY OF THE PLAYERS ON THE TEAM
KNEELING DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM.
HE SAID THAT HE WOULD BAR THEM FROM PLAYING IF THEY DID SO
AND HILL REPORTS ON SPORTS AND THIS HAS TO DO WITH SPORTS
AND I DON'T THINK SHE SAID ANYTHING PARTICULARLY
CONTROVERSIAL, BUT OKAY, ESPN DECIDED THEY SHE IS
VIOLATING OUR SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY.
TO GET SUSPENDED AND OF COURSE THE MANCHILD THAT WE HAVE
AS PRESIDENT DECIDED TO CHIME IN BECAUSE THERE ARE NO OTHER
IMPORTANT ISSUES ARE TO FOCUS ON.
EARLY MORNING TWEETS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE HURT HIS
FEELINGS ARE WAY MORE IMPORTANT.
HE TWEETS OUT THE FOLLOWING:
YOU KNOW, HE DOESN'T REALLY EVER TALK ABOUT HIS RATINGS BECAUSE
HIS RATINGS ARE DOING VERY POORLY.
AROUND 40% APPROVAL RATING.
AND HE'S ALSO NOT A MAN OF SUBSTANCE THAT WE DOESN'T
CARE IF YOU ARE RIGHT OR WRONG, HE JUST CARES, ARE YOU
RATING WELL OR NOT?
AND OF COURSE HE IS WRONG ABOUT THIS.
ESPN HAS ISSUES.
IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH JEMELE HILL.
THEY HAVE LOST 12 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS IN THE LAST 12
MONTHS.
PEOPLE ARE CUTTING THEIR CABLE PACKAGES.
WHAT IS THE NUMBER ONE CHANNEL ON ALL OF THE CABLE BUNDLES?
ESPN.
THEY ARE THE TIP OF THE SPEAR FOR THE CABLE INDUSTRY SO
THEY LOSE THE MOST AMOUNT OF SUBSCRIBERS WHEN PEOPLE CUT
THEIR CABLE CORD AND THEY DON'T SUBSCRIBE ANYMORE.
THE REST OF CABLE ALSO LOSES SUBSCRIBERS BUT NOT AS MANY
AS IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IN AS MANY HOMES.
I TOLD YOU WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.
THEYíRE GOING TO START FIRING A LOT
OF THEIR HOST.
BILL SIMMONS SAID THE WRONG THING, KEITH OVERMAN SAID THIS.
NO, THEY HAD TO THROW SALARIES OVERBOARD BECAUSE THEY
STARTED LOSING SO MUCH MONEY BECAUSE OF THE DYNAMIC OF
THE INDUSTRY HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH THE HOSTS OR WHAT
THERE'D PUTTING ON AIR.
BUT TRUMP OF COURSE IS WAY TOO UNINTELLIGENT TO UNDERSTAND
OR CARE ABOUT THE INDUSTRY DYNAMICS.
HE WOULD KNOW IF IT SLEPT IT ACROSS HIS FACE.
THE RATINGS MAN, IT MUST BE WRONG AND MUST BE BECAUSE
THE PERSON CRITICIZE ME.
I'M NOT APPRISED AT ALL THAT HE IS INTENTIONALLY MISLEADING
ABOUT WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON WITH ESPN AND ITS RATINGS.
TO ME THAT'S NOT EVEN THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY.
THE IMPORTANT PART OF THE STORY HERE IS THAT WE HAVE THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES PUNISHING SOMEONE SPEECH.
THAT IS NOT ALLOWED.
THAT IS NOT ALLOWED BASED ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF OUR
CONSTITUTION.
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
IF PRIVATE CITIZENS WANT TO CRITICIZE HER, OF COURSE
THAT IS FAIR.
THEY'RE ALLOWED TO DO THAT.
IF ESPN WANTS TO SUSPEND HER, THEY ARE NOT FUNDED BY THE
GOVERNMENT.
THEY ARE NOT A GOVERNMENT ENTITY.
THEY'VE ALL THE RIGHT IN THE WORLD TO SUSPEND HER, EVEN
THOUGH I DISAGREE WITH THEIR DECISION.
BUT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CANNOT PUSH FOR
PUNISHMENTS TOWARDS PEOPLE WHO EXERCISE SPEECH THAT HE
DISAGREES WITH.
HE IS A MANCHILD.
HE IS LITERALLY THE TOP SNOWFLAKE IN THIS COUNTRY,
PROBABLY INTERNATIONALLY.
HE CANNOT HANDLE ANY TYPE OF CRITICISM WHATSOEVER AND
WHY IS HE SO HYPER FOCUSED ON NONSENSE LIKE THIS?
THIS TWEET HAPPENED AT 3:42 IN THE MORNING.
THE GUY IS A LUNATIC.
GO TO SLEEP.
I WILL TELL YOU WHY.
WHY IS HE OBSESSED WITH BLACK PLAYERS KNEELING OR JEMELE HILL.
YOU KNOW WHY.
HE IS A WHITE SUPREMACIST.
HE IS.
IN HIS BONES, HE IS RACIST THROUGH AND THROUGH.
THAT IS WHY NOT ONLY DID HE NOT BELIEVE THAT OBAMA WAS A US
CITIZEN, HE DEMANDED HIS COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS BECAUSE HE THOUGHT,
HOW COULD A BLACK GUY GET GOOD GRADES AT COLUMBIA AND HARVARD?
HE IS DEEPLY RACIST.
THAT IS HIS ASSUMPTIONS.
CENTRAL PARK FIVE, WE'VE BEEN OVER ALL OF THE STUFF.
GUYS WHO DIDN'T DO IT.
HE IS LIKE I GUESS YOU ROT IN JAIL ANYWAY.
THEY ARE BLACK, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?
SO JAMELE
HILL GETS UNDER HIS SKIN BECAUSE SHE IS POINTING OUT WHAT HE
IS, HE IS A RACIST MONSTER AND THAT IS WHY HE HATES THOSE
BLACK PLAYERS WHO ARE PROTESTING POLICE ABUSE.
I LIKE THAT SOME OF THE OTHER ON THEIR PEOPLE AT ESPN AND ARE
FIGHTING BACK.
THEY ARE FIGHTING BACK.
SOME OF HER COLLEAGUES HAVE TWEETED IN SUPPORT OF HILL
AND I APPRECIATE THEM FOR DOING IT BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW
THAT THEY MIGHT GET SUSPENDED OVER THIS.
LET ME GIVE YOU A FEW EXAMPLES.
JOSINA ANDERSON SAYS:
I WANT TO STOP THERE FOR A SECOND BECAUSE I WANT THOSE
ON THE RIGHT WHO CANNOT HANDLE ANYONE CRITICIZING YOUR
DEAR LEADER TO IMAGINE THE SHOE ON THE OTHER FOOT.
IMAGINE OBAMA PUSHING FOR PUNISHMENTS AGAINST SOMEONE
LIKE SEAN HANNITY.
1ST OF ALL, WE WOULD CONDEMN HIM FOR THAT AND YOU WOULD
DEFINITELY CONDEMN HIM FOR THAT AS YOU SHOULD BECAUSE THAT
IS A VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.IN THIS CASE,
TRUMP IS DOING IN THE RIGHT WING IS LIKE YEAH, WHATEVER.
SHE SHOULD GET FIRED.
THEY DO NOT BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF SPEECH AT ALL
THAT HE TELLS THEM THAT THEY SHOULD SHUT UP, THE PLAYERS.
NOW JEMELE HILL AND YOU APPLAUD HIM.
AS ANA POINTED OUT, ESPN CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AND WHEN IT
COMES TO THEIR ADVERTISERS THEY GET EVEN TOUCHIER, BUT WHEN THE
PRESIDENT IS PRESSURING ESPN OR THE COWBOYS OR THE NFL TO FIRE
PEOPLE OR NOT PAY THEM OR SUSPEND THEM, THAT IS A
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUE, AND IF YOU CARE ABOUT THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH
AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, YOU SHOULD BE OUTRAGED AND IF YOU
ARE NOT OUTRAGED, JUST UP PRETENDING YOU CARE ABOUT
THE FIRST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION.