Sports people just don't "get" political correctness
"Televison sports network ESPN has fired an employee responsible for an offensive headline referring to New York Knicks basketball sensation Jeremy Lin.
The headline "Chink in the Armour" was used on Friday on ESPN's mobile website after Lin had nine turnovers in New York's loss to New Orleans.
In a statement on Sunday, ESPN apologised for that headline and said it was also aware of two other "offensive and inappropriate" comments on ESPN outlets.
An ESPNEWS anchor who used the phrase has been suspended for 30 days. And ESPN says a similar reference was made Friday on ESPN Radio New York, but the commentator is not an ESPN employee.
Lin is the National Basketball Association's first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent.
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12 comments:
No free speech under the liberaal ESPN dumb rules
You know, I might be stupid, but I honestly thought that was the real expression, forgetting it was "kink in the armor". Perhaps it was a freudian slip?
The liberal media buried this story from NPR radio show.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/02/14/npr-where-they-sneer-vanilla-side-town-and-laugh-kill-whitey-jokes
If you don't like the liberal media, then don't watch it, read it, or listen to it. I for one, avoid the right wing media at all costs. And I do not complain about it like most of the posters here.
@ Bird on a wire: So why do you come to a right wing website then? Enjoy your Al Sharpton on MSNBC. Nothing racist he's ever done :rolleyes:
"So why do you come to a right wing website then?"
Pure entertainment.
can't blame you, I go to left wing websites like the huffpost to see how out of touch with reality liberals are. It's pretty entertaining, but scary given how much power liberals have due to buying votes with other people's tax money.
@Anon9:13- unlike republicans that buy corporate sponsors with tens of billions of dollars of other peoples tax money. The corps then give the republicans tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions to buy add so they can influence idiots to vote for them.
Hey look! It worked on you...
We should all know by now that there's no help for the Kool-Aid gulpers of the left. If they were able to recognize and accept common sense, logic, and reality, they wouldn't make for good useful idiots, now would they.
It's all about the money. ESPN is trying to tap the Chinese market, whether here or abroad. Lin is now a very rich source and any risk could lead to a backlash. I doubt in this case is one solely on PC. Watch what happens when Lin's star fades and how quickly ESPN PC changes. By th way, isn't ESPN part of CNN parent company? Guess we know lib's true colour, attitude and bigotry to even allow the original comment to go out.
Wow anon 5:52 I am just like ESPN. I have a few chinese, ahem, "markets" that I am trying to tap too. Still, that headline was just plain old funny.
annon 2:42, please take a look at even this blog site. Even here some words are not used and represented by euphanism. I challenge anyone to go up to a black co-worker and call him "boy". Or see what would happen if a Londoner ask for a "fag" in a San Fransisco gay bar (better call an ambulance first). Or just go to a female co-worker and text she's looks a HO lot sexier today. Until we can overcome this PC favoritism for one group over another, we will always fall short (my apology for those height challenged and dwarfs, oops sorry again).
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