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:
ESPN Forces Anchor To Apologize For Telling Truth
It was actually her interns inadvertent tweet.
Those weren’t lies.
You’ll notice that the WH didn’t say the claims were untrue, only that they were outrageous. It’s sort of like if you accuse Trump of being a short-fingered vulgarian, he will deny that he has short fingers.
Also misogynist or was that massaginst?
Again, Republicans have no appreciation for irony, and Ms. Hill’s entirely accurate and level assessment of the President’s actions will now be used to self-victimize the conservative base.
I thought truth was a defense in these cases.
It’s okay, Jemele. They can make you apologize, but most of America knows you’re right.
(Besides, she had her fingers crossed behind her back. 
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ESPN just caved to political pressure from the WH over a free speech issue. What she said is demonstrably true, Trump IS a white supremacist and a bigot, he himself has publicly proven it repeatedly in the past year and half. I’d like to hear from the spineless coward and/or white supremacist supporter at ESPN that pressured her into apologizing.
This woman was hired by an entertainment company to entertain a mostly white male audience. Her job is to keep eyeballs glued to television screens. Anything that increases the number of viewers makes her more valuable to the network. Anything that decreases the number of viewers (like insulting the networks core demographic group) makes her less valuable to the network. At some point, if she starts losing money for the network they have a duty to their shareholders to fire her. Whether she spoke the truth is not even an issue. She can take her severance pay and go stand on a corner and speak the truth at the top of her lungs if that’s what she chooses. To their credit, ESPN didn’t overreact and fire her. To her credit, she decided she would rather keep her job than to stand on a corner speaking the truth to nobody.
“… shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both, and disqualified from holding in office of honor, trust or profit under the United States.” 18 U.S. Code § 227
Following Spareus Huckleberry’s call for Jemele Hill’s firing yesterday, former Director of the United States Office of Government Ethics tweeted “Interesting law on the books” and attached this.
In a court of law, yes. But not in a court of executives who somehow manage to pull of the counter-intuitive feat of being simultaneously arrogant and craven.
“I just want to apologize. If anything was said that offended someone, I deeply regret that impression, even though it was the truth.”
F3ck you, ESPN. Guess it’s more important to maintain a “safe space” for snowflake wannabe-jocks who can’t handle a little truth.
F3333333333333333333333cccckkkkk youoooooooo.
The true threat to democracy is this fascist bullshit from ESPN. Not to mention the capitulation on the part of the employee.