ESPN Pulls Football Announcer Robert Lee Because Of His Name

ESPN HAS MOVED ONE OF THEIR ANNOUNCERS FROM THEIR GAME
AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA VERSUS COLLEGE OF
WILLIAM AND MARY, GO UVA, AND THEY ARE MOVING HIM TO
ANOTHER GAME BECAUSE HIS NAME IS ROBERT LEE.
REUTERS TODAY TWEETED OUT THAT ESPN IS MOVING A
CONFEDERATE DOPPELGƒNGER, MEANING SOMEBODY WHO IS A
DOUBLE, LOOKS EXACTLY ALIKE, LET'S SHOW YOU ROBERT LEE
AND ROBERT E. LEE TO SHOW YOU THE DOPPELGƒNGERS THAT THEY ARE.
WHICH WAS THE GENERAL?
HE WORE A TIE, BUT THAT DOESN'T GIVE IT AWAY.
IT MUST BE THE GUY ON THE LEFT.
THIS IS A RIDICULOUS STORY ON THE ONE HAND BECAUSE HERE IS
WHAT ESPN SAID, THE INTENT THAT ESPN HAD HERE WAS JUST TO KIND
OF AVOID ANY KIND OF CONTROVERSY AND IT WAS NOT A JUDGMENT ON
ROBERT LEE BUT THEY KIND OF BLEW IT.
AT FIRST BLUSH, IT IS PREPOSTEROUS.
AT SECOND BLUSH, IT IS TOO.
AND ON THIRD BLUSH, PREPOSTEROUS.
NOT IN DEFENSE OF IT, BUT I THINK THE ONLY THING I WILL
SAY AND WHEN I FIRST READ IT LAST NIGHT I WAS LIKE ESPN,
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.
THAT IS SO DUMB.
DON'T MISTAKE ME.
THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT WAS NOT THE RIGHT MOVE.
THE ONLY DEFENSE OF IT IS THAT IT HAS NOW BEEN TWISTED TO
MEAN THEY WERE TRYING TO AVOID OFFENDING PEOPLE AND THAT
WAS NOT WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO.
THEY SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN NO, WE WERE JUST TRYING TO
NOT CATCH GRIEF LIKE HEY, WHY DID YOU PUT A GUY NAMED
ROBERT LEE AT THE UVA GAME.
YOU ARE SO STUPID FOR ARRANGING
IT LIKE THAT AND PARTLY BASED ON THEIR STATEMENTS, THEY KEEP
SAYING WE MUTUALLY AGREED, WE WERE TRYING TO PROTECT HIM.
WHICH I DO BELIEVE BY THE WAY.
I THINK
THIS GUY WOULD'VE HAD TO ENDURE A LOT OF GRIEF, MEMES, TWEETS
AND FOR THEM TO SAY, WHY DON'T YOU JUST OF THE OTHER GAME?
I COULD SEE IT BEING MATTER-OF-FACT.
BUT WHY DID THEY DO A PRESS RELEASE.
I HEAR YOU ON
ALL THAT.
WHEN I HEARD THAT THIS MORNING ñ
THEY ONLY PRESS RELEASE WAS THE RESPONSE.
REGARDLESS, WHY.
THEY MADE IT WORSE BY MAKING IT A STORY SO THAT IT LEAD IN
THE MORNING SHOWS, TODAY SHOW DID A THING, AND HERE
WE ARE IN THE EVENING, STILL TALKING ABOUT IT AND IT HAS
BECOME A BIGGER STORY.
YOU KNOW, I LIVE IN A TOWN AS A STATUE OF SPORTSCASTER
ROBERT LEE AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE IT DOWN.
IT'S ACTUALLY REBRANDING.
THEY PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE, I AM REBRANDING ROBERT
LEE.
TAKING OVER HIS NAME.
THE NEW CONFEDERACY.
NO ONE IS GOING TO PLAY THE JEFFERSONS ANYMORE ON TV
BECAUSE -
NOTE THAT ONE OF THE STATUES BY THE WAY THEY WENT TO
PROTECT WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON AT THE ALT-RIGHT RALLY, HENCE THE
REFERENCE TO THE JEFFERSONS.
LET ME SAY THIS AS WELL, ESPN PROBABLY HASN'T OUT WITH A
LOT OF THIS, LITTLE BIT AROUND THE EDGES BECAUSE SOME
CONSERVATIVES THINK ESPN IS TOO LIBERAL.
THEY CALL THEM MSESPN.
OKAY THE REASON FOR THAT IS REMEMBER THEY HAD RUSH
LIMBAUGH AND THEY HAD TO LET HIM GO BECAUSE YOU MADE RACIST
COMMENTS.
ONE, HE MADE RACIST COMMENTS DIABETES IS NO BIG DEAL THE
PROBLEM MIGHT NOT BE THEM.
AND REMEMBER, THE OTHER GUYS WHO HIRED RUSH LIMBAUGH IN THE
FIRST PLACE.
THEY ARE THE COMPANY TO HIRE DENNIS MILLER.
THEY'VE HIRED CONSERVATIVE AFTER CONSERVATIVE.
IT IS NOT AN
ISSUE FOR THEM.
THIS DAMN LIBERAL NETWORK DOESN'T, CAN'T ENJOY THE
RACISTS.
LIBERALS ARE THEY.
THEY SHOULD HIRE COLIN KAEPERNICK TO FILL IN.
BUT EVEN SO, I DON'T THINK THEY'VE EVER DEALT WITH
THIS LEVEL OF TROLLING SO SOME OF THE CONSERVATIVE
WEBSITES PRETENDED THAT THEY HAD FIRED ROBERT LEE AND THEY HAD TO
AT LEAST COME OUT SAY, WE DID NOT FIRE HIM.
WE LIKE HIM.
WE JUST MOVED HIM TO A DIFFERENT GAME.
HE IS WORKING, IT'S THE SAME WEEKEND, DIFFERENT GAMES.
GET OFF OUR ASS.
AND LEE SURRENDERED.
IT WAS GOOD UP UNTIL THEN.
YOU WERE HOLDING THAT IN.
I WASN'T, I JUST CAME UP WITH THAT.
WE DIDN'T FIRE HIM, HE
SURRENDERED.
ANYWAY, THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE MOVED HIM AND NOW AFTER
MAKING FUN OF THEM, LET'S GET OFF THEIR ASS.
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ESPN Pulls Football Announcer Robert Lee Because Of His Name

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