An ESPN reporter, Robert Lee, was pulled as an announcer based on his name… oh and he’s Asian. Lee was to call the University of Virginia football game Tuesday of this week when ESPN officials made the announcement.
And we’re not even kidding… they pulled him because of HIS FREAKING NAME!!
“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name. In that moment it felt right to all parties,” reads the ESPN statement posted at t he popular Fox Sports college-football blog Outkick the Coverage.
That’s like… seriously nuts, don’t you think? ESPN has taken this insane push by the alt-Left toward their own skewed view of political correctness just a little too far. Further than so far anyone else has done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPl6DPXRV2Y
As reported by The Washington Times:
“Did I mention that Robert Lee is Asian?” wrote disbelieving blogger Clay Travis, who first broke the story, citing “multiple Outkick fans inside ESPN.”
Mr. Lee had been scheduled to call the Cavaliers Sept. 2 game in Charlottesville against William and Mary.
“It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue,” ESPN said in its statement.
That wasn’t the “shame” Mr. Travis had in mind, ridiculing the sports-network leviathan for political correctness, calling it “MSESPN.”
“They were concerned that having an ASIAN FOOTBALL ANNOUNCER NAMED ROBERT LEE would be offensive to some viewers,” he wrote.
The fatal violence in Charlottesville earlier this month grew out of a white-nationalist and neo-Nazi march in favor of keeping up a statue of Robert E. Lee — “the Confederate General who died in 1870 and shares a name with” the ESPN announcer, Mr. Travis helpfully explained.