ESPN's Jemele Hill: 'I deserved that suspension'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post




By Matt Bonesteel October 21 at 1:38 PM

Jemele Hill will return from her ESPN suspension on Monday, a little more than two weeks after the network sanctioned her for suggesting that NFL fans could boycott advertisers and vendors associated with the Dallas Cowboys, whose owner Jerry Jones has ordered players to stand for the national anthem or be benched.

We haven’t heard much at all from Hill over the course of the suspension — she hasn’t been active on Twitter — but TMZ bumped into her at Los Angeles International Airport and got her to say a few words about what happened, namely that she understands why she was punished by the network.

“So, here’s how this works: It doesn’t really matter what I think. It matters to people, but here’s the reality: ESPN acted what they felt was right, and, you know, I don’t have any argument or quibble with that. I would tell people, absolutely, after my Donald Trump tweets, I deserved that suspension. I deserved it. Like, absolutely. I violated the policy; I deserved that suspension,” she said. Before the suspension, Hill had drawn the ire of her ESPN bosses when she called Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter. She was warned about making such statements but was not punished at the time.

“The only thing I’ll ever apologize for is, I put ESPN in a bad spot. I’ll never take back what I said. I put them in a bad spot, that’s the truth of it. I regret the position I put them in. I regret, a lot of the people I work with, the position we put our show in. I’ll never take back what I said.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2017/10/21/espns-jemele-hill-i-deserved-that-suspension

[procon]

1. Sounds like a hostage statement. No doubt ESPN forced her to apologize

to keep her job, but the truth will out, "I’ll never take back what I said.” Right on!

[DrToast]

3. They gave her a warning the first time

Then suspended her a second time. ESPN has a right to run things how they see fit. I don’t have a problem with how they handled things.

[rockfordfile]

4. Shows that ESPN is a pos company. Their choice to support a racist and traitor Trumpf says it all.

[DrToast]

5. It shows they dont want employees getting involved in politics

They suspended and fired Curt Shilling for things he said about Obama.

[RhodeIslandOne]

8. Bullshit

It was a stupid call for a boycott (by someone whose job is to be a journalist) just like the Commander in Stupid Drumpf when he did it. Unfortunately ESPN has no power over Drumpf.

[Blue_Tires]

7. +1

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Gutsy on her part.

ESPN was mad of course because boycotting advertisers hits their bottom line directly. Props to her for the guts to look past that.

[Va Lefty]

6. I have a lot of respect for Ms. Hill

If this is what she has to do to keep her job, so be it.