Yesterday ESPN’s First Take excoriated Tiger Wood’s statements about Donald Trump and respecting the office of the presidency.
Clay Travis writes:
Here’s MSESPN sports media trying to drag @TigerWoods into politics by attacking his relationship with @realDonaldTrump. This is what athletes deal with all the time now, left wing sports media trying to use them to advance their own political beliefs. pic.twitter.com/6B40CC5X7r
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 26, 2018
Tiger’s comments here — made in a sports press conference after just coming off the course — were an attempt to avoid interjecting himself into the political discussion. In so doing, Tiger Woods was following the example set by Michael Jordan, who decided to let his dominance on the basketball court speak for itself rather than constantly immerse himself in politics and let others use his name to advance their own political agendas.
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The member of the media asking these questions of Woods — he writes, not surprisingly, for The New York Times — had a clear agenda at play here, he wanted Woods to attack Donald Trump.
Why?
Because many members of the sports media use sports figures as megaphones to espouse their own political viewpoints. Members of the sports media who are not opinionists — that is, they aren’t columnists or radio show hosts paid for their opinions — are in the business of reporting actual, unbiased news. So the only way this reporter could rip the president, which he probably wants to do based on the tone of the questions he asked, is if he gets to write a news piece quoting Tiger Woods ripping the president.
Despite Wood’s judicious decision not to get political – arguing that the presidency deserves respect even if you don’t agree with everything the president does – that wasn’t good enough for ESPN’s Max Kellerman and Stephen A. Smith, questioning Tiger’s blackness and intelligence.
In less than 20 seconds on @FirstTake, @stephenasmith and @maxkellerman completely insult Tiger Woods’s intelligence and then race card him because he said that he respects Donald Trump, or whoever is in office. @ClayTravis pic.twitter.com/AaYCEo7mWV
— Ryan Moses (@RMoses10) August 27, 2018
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