AOL: SportsCenter anchor Sage Steele is suing ESPN for what she claims was illegal retaliation against her for comments she made on Jay Cutler’s podcast last year, according to Joe Flint of the Wall Street Journal
The comments in question came last September. Among other things, Steele called ESPN’s vaccine mandate “sick,” said female reporters dressed a certain way share the blame when athletes make inappropriate comments about them and questioned former President Barack Obama identifying himself as Black “considering his Black dad was nowhere to be found but his white mom and grandma raised him.”
The social media backlash was swift, followed by a professional backlash that Steele is reportedly alleging breached her contract and violated her free speech rights.
Steele claims ESPN forced her to apologize for the comments before temporarily suspending her from the air. The apology, which was released by ESPN in October:
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You go girl!
Never heard of her…
Her right to free speech ends when she is getting paid to speak for ESPN.
“In a statement, ESPN said, “Sage remains a valued contributor on some of ESPN’s highest profile content, including the recent Masters telecasts and anchoring our noon SportsCenter.””
…which would not be the case were she White and Male…
C’mon. Doesn’t espn know she’s black and female so she gets all kinds of entitlements, more than the average straight White person.
…you think you have free speech issues NOW, wait ’till the Pedo Homeland Security Ministry Of Truth starts clamping down, toots. Some of your comments, particuarly complaining about the poison the government is pushing in their fascist private/public partnership, will land you in re-education camp once they get fully up and running, one more election theft ought to do it…
I don’t watch ESPN – thus I’ve never heard of her – but I’m guessing the legal weasels are going through her contract with a magnifying glass.
Don’t know if she signed away her 1st Amendment rights or not but some sleazy “judge” will surely decide (probably depending on who has the thickest envelope).
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
A black woman questioning the blackness of a half black man raised exclusively by white people, not okay. A white man questioning the blackness of thousands of black voters for not voting for him, okay. Liberals are so fucked in the head with retardation.