ESPN has been through its fair share of turmoil. They had to crack down after it was found that they had a cultural of sexual harrassment. It can best be characterized as a place where grown men who get paid obscene amounts of money to talk about games go to cheat on their wives. For the most part, they get a pass; unless they’re conservative.
Now they have an opportunity to correct that. As the Daily Caller explains:
ESPN, the Worldwide Leader in Sports, is not saying whether it will punish talk show host and frequent Obama golf partner Tony Kornheiser for comparing the tea party to ISIS on his radio show last week.
The network declined to comment after The Daily Caller pointed out the similarities between Kornheiser’s comments and those that got ESPN baseball analyst Curt Schilling suspended in September for the remainder of the baseball regular season.
Schilling was benched after he sent a tweet comparing Muslim extremists to Nazis.
Kornheiser ventured into similar territory during an interview on his radio show on Friday with Howard Fineman of the Huffington Post. (RELATED: ESPN Radio Host Compares Tea Party Congressmen To ISIS)
Fineman asserted that Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan will struggle to tame the small government wing of the Republican party if he is elected Speaker of the House. He said that the tea party faction of the GOP rebels “dictatorial” leaders.
“Are they like ISIS trying to establish a Caliphate here?” Kornheiser asked.
“Yes, yes. That’s a very good analogy,” Fineman responded. “Without the violence obviously, but yes, they are a rejectionist front.”
Kornheiser’s comparison is as outrageous as it is puerile. ISIS engages in the worst sort of savagery. The Tea Party advocates for low taxes and more accountable government. That Kornheiser can find any sort of comparison between the two suggests that he’s completely deranged. Better to take him off the air before he starts muttering about the Lizard People.
This is a test for ESPN, to see if they care about discrimination against all Americans, or just politically popular, favored interest groups. We’ll keep you updated.
AAN Staff
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