NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN says it has accepted the apology of its “Sportscenter” host Jemele Hill for tweeting earlier this week that President Donald Trump was a “white supremacist” and “bigot.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday called Hill’s comments outrageous and something that could be considered a fire-able offense by ESPN.
The network said in a statement issued shortly before midnight that Hill has a right to her personal beliefs, but not to share them on a public platform that implies she is speaking for the network. ESPN said she’s acknowledged that her tweets crossed the line.
In her own tweet, Hill said she regretted that her comments painted her company in an unfair light.
What bullshit. For all intents and purposes they’ve made her apologize for stating an observable, documentable fact on her personal Twitter account.
Imagine if the white supremacist she tweeted about was held to the same standard.
In other words, fake news.
Trump goes to a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist diagnoses him as a narcissist and a racist. Trump responds: “I’d like a second opinion.” The psychiatrist replies: “Okay, you’re fat and ugly, too.”
BTW, did Trump ever apologize to President Obama for lying about him not being born in the United States, and wiretapping him?
Or, alternately: