ESPN provides Barack Obama with an hour-long, commercial-free commercial for free in primetime that advertises the president’s views on race.
“The President and The People: A National Conversation,” a townhall-style event with an audience — at least in part — hand picked, simulcasts on ESPN and ABC at 8 p.m. Eastern this Thursday.
“With the nation on edge in the immediate aftermath of horrific events in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis and Dallas, Disney Media Networks will host a landmark town hall discussion with President Barack Obama and Americans who have been directly affected by recent events,” the network release reads. “World News Tonight Anchor David Muir will moderate a frank and intimate conversation about race relations, justice, policing and equality, produced by ABC News. It will include many of the people whose lives have been changed forever in the last week as the nation sees these issues play out through their eyes.”
Jemele Hill, co-host of ESPN’s His and Hers and a Christmastime visitor to the president at the White House last year, works alongside Muir on the broadcast. Hill’s Twitter account features a picture of the president and first lady posing with her and her husband and a pinned tweet noting her December visit to the White House.
Though Hill hosts a show ostensibly about sports, her viewers know the ins-and-outs of her beliefs in the political arena better than her cheering interests in the sports stadium. She recently asked about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, “Why are we taking him seriously?” In the wake of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, Hill tweeted that Americans lacked standing to criticize Islamic views on homosexuality. “So in a country where we have done everything possible to undermine the LGBTQ community,” she wrote, “we are suddenly lecturing Islam on homophobia. Oh.”
But Hill appears on no topic as controversial as she does on race. When citizens of Baltimore looted and vandalized in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death, Hill remarked on television, “A lot of times riots have been a catalyst to a greater movement.” Earlier this week, the host of the midday ESPN program criticized off-duty cops for walking off a security detail in response to WNBA players wearing Black Lives Matter shirts. “If I’m the Minnesota Lynx,” she declared, “I say, ‘Good. Good riddance.’”
The decision to install Hill on the politicized broadcast comes after the Worldwide Leader in Hypocrisy instituted a purge at the network that included firing baseball analyst Curt Schilling for a social-media post in support of keeping males out of the women’s room and demoting football talking-head Mike Ditka immediately after he opined on a radio program in March that “Obama is the worst president we’ve ever had.
They know this shit will just escalate problems.
That's why they fucking do it.
Who the fuck thinks this will somehow better the chimpouts?
>overpay billions in sports broadcasting rights
>watch other networks split your piece of the pie while doing nothing for years
>get bullied by the Bowl committee into an awful seven-year NYE CFB final and suffer absymal ratings
>lose most eminent broadcasters in Tirico, Simmons, Skip, etc because you can't afford them anymore
>hemorrhaging millions of dollars every fiscal quarter
>finally
>FINALLY
>have a primetime sit-down live with the President of the United States
>just in time for another terrorist attack to distract the media and the President from your months-in-the-making plan
J U S T
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>>69549759
>m-muh conspiracy
it's literally the opposite.
I wonder how much Disney gets in government kickbacks
>>69549787
Drawing division between races isn't helping anything.
>>69549787
>endless media talk about this shit leads to this shit including 4 officers dead and 9 church goers dead
>I know, we should have more 'discussion about race' with sensationalism, it will make things back to what they were like when Bush was president
You're a fucking idiot
Black baiting and and black herding are the last "sports" ESPN has the rights to.
Better than poker and human cockfighting, I guess.
Jemelle Hill is so whack and Michael Smith tries way too hard to be 'the cool black guy'
White """"""people"""""" should be exterminated.
>>69549811
Does it sound like this is meant to draw divisions? Chimpouts are bad politics for democrats. Black people still watch ESPN. This is Obama trying to settle them down to prevent a Nixon-esque "silent majority" from being activated. Chances are it won't work, as the attacks in France + BLM will have already done enough damage.
>>69549787
>alive for the last 5 years
>is this naive
>>69549829
>/r9k/ attends a pool party
>>69549812
see
>>69549845
and look in the mirror, fucking idiot. chimpouts and copkilling is bad for business. unless you think a global racewar is the endgame here. in which case, enjoy your alex jones alternate reality.
>>69549829
that guy's got some ethnic shit going on. and he's also a manlet which tells you all you need to know
obama cutting into my battlebots
fuck that nigger i want to see robots fight
>>69549824
should have seen him dancing with some nba fag today
>>69549845
>is this meant to draw divisions
Well it certainly fucking has you deluded retard
I can't even grasp how far away you are from actual real world repercussions
Tbh
>>69549812
>>69549811
>>69549759
>Guys race relations are terrible and it's all Barack's fault, everything was so much better before he... said some words?
These problems have been in America since slavery ended and are nothing new, but they are far better than any other time in America. The only reason people are whining about "muh divisiveness" is because Black people are being vocal about it on social media and irl
Side note, the South set back race relations in America by about 100 years, and are the reason we have these problems.
>>69549974
You're a fucking straight up sack of shit.
This is a direct result of media pushing stories. Die
At least this bullshit will be completely shadowed by Muslims killing 70 French people today
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