-By Warner Todd Huston
If this isn’t the dumbest thing in the news today… According to reports, ESPN pulled an Asian American announcer off the William and Mary at University of Virginia college football game afraid he would enflame racial tensions because, like the famed Confederate General, his name is Robert Lee.
The story was first reported by Clay Travis of the popular sports website OutKickTheCoverage.com.
“To avoid offending left wing idiots,” Travis wrote on August 22, “Robert Lee, the Asian college football announcer, not the Confederate General who died in 1870 and shares a name with him, was switched,” with another announcer.
Travis cited “multiple Outkick fans inside ESPN,” as his source for the story of announcer Lee’s reassignment.
“Is there anything more pathetic than ESPN believing people would be offended by an Asian guy named Robert Lee sharing a name with Robert E. Lee and calling a football game?” Travis wrote.
The Asian-American sportscaster works for ESPNU and ESPN3 according to his Twitter profile.
First place at stake in @BigSouthMBB! @UNCAbasketball and @Winthrop_MBB in rematch of '16 title game. @hupnlstN8 and I on @ESPNU at 9! pic.twitter.com/z8o1lNqsbG
— Robert Lee (@RobertLeePXP) January 20, 2017
Travis claimed Lee was transferred to Pittsburgh to call the Pitt Panthers game while Dave Weekley was to replace the Asian announcer in Virginia.
“I’m sorry you work for such an idiotic company, Robert Lee,” Travis stated.
The report of ESPN’s announcer imbroglio comes on the heels of fatal violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, as protesters and counter protesters clashed over the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
No wonder ESPN is losing millions of viewers a year.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, YoungConservatives.com, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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