A funny thing happened on my way recently to read an online USA Today story about Colin Kaepernick's football equipment being displayed in a Smithsonian exhibit on Black Lives Matter. Between the headline and the story appeared a "SportsPulse" video, hosted by Trysta Krick. I decided to watch the short video and opted instead to write on the double-barreled leftist diatribe heralding liberal athletes and attacking President Trump.
It seemed to me like a cowardly, dishonest bait-and-switch. USA Today headlined one story and delivered something very politically biased before getting to the intended story. Since then, I've been monitoring Krick's videos the past few days and found them to be snarky, in-your-face, hard-Left rants.
In "ESPN made right call with Robert Lee," Krick defends the network that yanked Lee off the broadcast of next week's Virginia Cavaliers' game in Charlottesville because he has the same last name as the Confederate general.
Krick begins the video, "Not so fast, Twitter trolls. THIS issue is more nuanced than it seems. So a week after the blunder that was a racially insensitive slash offensive draft auction skit, ESPN is now under fire again for being TOO sensitive to public perception." More:
ESPN says that they quote collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games while the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding. Of course Twitter exploded! In the attempt to prevent the PR disaster, they created one. Not great timing for ESPN, honestly. They looked like they overreacted and overcorrected for the draft blunder. And those anti-snowflake PC trolls on Twitter [she still doesn't get who the PC crowd is], no joke. But this is a nuanced issue.
Clay Travis of Fox Sports, who broke the Lee story last week, told Tucker Carlson on Fox News that ESPN was lying about that decision-making process. But Krick's claim lends one to believe ESPN is making broadcasting assignments while watching MSNBC. She takes ESPN's less-than-trustworthy word on faith. We know that liberal fascists try to claim conservatives are fascists, but this claim that people on the right own PC is laughable.
Krick believes ESPN gave Lee the option to either cover the Virginia game or another one. He chose the Pittsburgh-Youngstown State game, as she said, "to avoid becoming a meme as well." (Becoming a meme is apparently a worse fate than being forced to watch MSNBC for a whole day.) Travis has more credibility for his claim that powerful media execs call the shots and powerless people like Lee merely obey the big boss.
"Think about it: Robert Lee comes to Charlottesville to broadcast a game," Krick says. "You think that was just going to happen and go over without a hitch?" Of course not. And the race-baiting PC Left would be doing the hitching.
"It was a shrewd decison," Krick insists of ESPN's decision. "Every company does its best to limit reputational risk. And this is no different. Big companies do it all the time." That's not even true for the biased USA Today, which is doing its very best to kill the conservative subscription.
Still not convinced she has made a solid argument, Krick says: "But what this really highlights is more about where we are as a society than about ESPN and their decision making ability." It actually says more about where the left-stream media is -- and it's not in a good place.
Straining on, Krick closes: "We have two big polarized groups [in Charlottesville on August 12th] that are extremely vocal [violent is more accurate]. Lose-lose situation for someone like ESPN. Someone is going to be offended no matter what. So as easy as it would be to pile on with the Twitter trolls and the pundits, in my opinion, wouldn't be the right thing to do."
It's really a lose-lose situation for ESPN and USA Today when they veer away from sports and venture in over their heads into the political whirlpool. ESPN made the wrong call ... again, and USA Today foolishly endorsed it.
