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re: When did ESPN start going full on lefty?

Posted on 8/29/16 at 11:44 am to
Posted by Hog Leg
NWA
Member since Dec 2010
970 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 11:44 am to
Bro, i'm not sure how much time you've spent in that part of the country but if you havent let me tell you that it makes perfect sense to me.
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
134026 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 11:54 am to
quote:

I am pretty disgusted at the number of people that think what he did is justified.



This.
Posted by goldennugget
Hating Masks
Member since Jul 2013
24514 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 12:01 pm to
When Disney acquired them

Disney is the problem
Posted by double d
Amarillo by morning
Member since Jun 2004
16416 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 12:01 pm to
quote:

quote:going full on lefty?

They really never did. They were usually embracing Tiger, and covered Mickelson sparsely. I'd say for the first time when he won his first major.


ISWYDT. Well played sir.
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
35467 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 12:35 pm to
I don't care about their politics but ESPN has been trending toward being the MTV of sports stations.

Soon, like videos, they won't even show a ton of sports.
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
112438 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 1:44 pm to
I noticed it about 10 years ago.
Posted by 4WHLN
Drinking at the Cottage Inn
Member since Mar 2013
7581 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 1:53 pm to
quote:

Stephen A. Smith
Ever hear him on Mark Levin's radio show? Pretty sure hes not a Democrat.
Posted by Keltic Tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2006
19278 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 5:23 pm to
GeauxTiger, it is not the same thing by any means. Literally every sports channel & ESPN's new sister Channel, CNN, are covering it non stop. Rather hard to ignore when it's in your face all day long. But just consider who ESPN uses as its social justice experts every time a political ..racial usually...comes up: their go to analysts are Hill, Jones, Smith, today Jabar combined with Bugga & Spears on the bamaN. With regards to players' right to pay, it goes straight to Jay Bilas, as liberal a sports journalist as is out there. There is no debate on ESPN, its liberals are all lecturing us. Who is the one/only ? conservative talking head on ESPN: Curt Schilling, who was fired for airing his conservative views on a very divisive issue.
Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 5:26 pm to
they are in New England not too far from NYC, and they hire a lot of Canadians.

I think they were always left.

Olbermann was a star for them early on.

Posted by IAmReality
Member since Oct 2012
12229 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 6:52 pm to
Disney took a hard left turn about 10 years ago and ESPN has followed suite.

Truth is they probably always were hardcore leftists, but they kept it more on the downlow.

The media has gotten very bold the last 4-5 years in taking off their mask.
Posted by IAmReality
Member since Oct 2012
12229 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 6:53 pm to
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You know what is awesome? Only turning on ESPN when it is time to watch a game.


Absolutely this. Outside of Gameday and actual sports broadcasts I don't spend a single second on ESPN. Just a vile network of vile people spouting vile propaganda and TMZ style gossip.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
260203 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 6:54 pm to
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When Disney acquired them

Disney is the problem


Yep. The whole culture changed.
Posted by IAmReality
Member since Oct 2012
12229 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 6:54 pm to
quote:

I am pretty disgusted at the number of people that think what he did is justified.


A huge % of the left hates almost everything about America and has had to pretend like they don't for PR reasons.

They sense the political climate has shifted and are now being more open about their true ideology.
Posted by bayou2003
Mah-zur-ree (417)
Member since Oct 2003
17646 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 7:00 pm to
I don't even get into that dumb "left" "right" shite. Crazy how so many people talk about that stupid crap. Then they wonder why there are labels. "If you don't like my views, you are WRONG"
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 7:06 pm to
What a fricking dipshit

The way shitass liberal whites use black people as a rhetorical tool is appalling.
Posted by AlonsoWDC
Memphis, where it ain't Ten-a-Key
Member since Aug 2014
8760 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 7:10 pm to
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It's in the northeast, is over 50% black employees. Doesn't surprise me


Posts like this are how I know this site operates in a different reality from the rest of us.

A huge media conglomeration like ESPN and you think a MAJORITY of their employees are BLACK?

Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 7:10 pm to
I think it is the canadians plus the NYC people.

I grew up near the ESPN HQ

When you get the local news, local weather and sports, they give the Canadian weather too. They had Canadians on from the beginning.
That and the NYC people.

I really like Canadians. They are pleasant.

Blame it on Canada.


Posted by Peter Venkman
Jackson, TN
Member since Aug 2016
2459 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 8:51 pm to
I have to admit that when I first saw this thread I immediately thought it was referring to Phil Mickelson.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
70990 posts
Posted on 8/29/16 at 9:09 pm to
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Blame it on Canada


I knew it!

With their beady eyes and flapping heads....
Posted by RBWilliams8
Member since Oct 2009
53417 posts
Posted on 8/30/16 at 5:57 am to
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Only turning on ESPN when it is time to watch a game.


Thank you!
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