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    ESPN pulls announcer because his name is Robert Lee

    On Tuesday night, the network confirmed that its management moved an Asian-American announcer, Robert Lee, off the University of Virginia's home opener football game "simply because of the coincidence of his name."
    http://www.wptv.com/news/national/es...-is-robert-lee

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    I wonder what they would have done if the announcer happened to be a black man named Robert Lee?


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    I'm hoping, but doubting, that this is "fake news".

    Why not solve the problem by calling him "Bobby Lee"?

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post
    I'm hoping, but doubting, that this is "fake news".

    Why not solve the problem by calling him "Bobby Lee"?
    Not fake news.

    It's completely bizarre.

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    ESPN has been on a financial down slide for awhile. It all began when they jumped on the PC wagon.

    When people watch sports, they want to watch SPORTS, they don't want PC thrown in their faces.

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    It really does read like an Onion story. If Bookie has posted it as one I would have believed it.

    Gutfeld on ESPN Pulling Announcer Named Robert Lee: It's Like an 'Onion' Story

    http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/2...m_medium=email

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    Bingo...tho I would say that whoever made the call is an idiot too:

    "MSESPN Pulls Asian Announcer Named Robert Lee Off UVa Game To Avoid Offending Idiots."

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    Good stuff.

    The website Outkick the Coverage broke the story -- with a headline invoking a popular conservative nickname for ESPN, "MSESPN," which derides the network as the sports equivalent of the liberal talk shows on MSNBC.

    The headline said, "MSESPN Pulls Asian Announcer Named Robert Lee Off UVa Game To Avoid Offending Idiots." The story was so popular that the site's servers were overloaded on Tuesday evening.

    The criticism didn't let up on Wednesday morning. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee shared a series of tweets mocking ESPN's trigger-happy decision-making.

    "ESPN will not broadcast games of any kind from Jackson, MS for fear it might honor Stonewall or Andrew Jackson and trigger someone," he wrote.

    And: "ESPN will no longer air football games on TV as referees are dressed in black and white and that could be viewed as binary racism."


    http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/23/medi...ame/index.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by njtom View Post
    I'm hoping, but doubting, that this is "fake news".

    Why not solve the problem by calling him "Bobby Lee"?
    That's just it.....there IS no problem...there was no problem....

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