The other day Paul Azinger, a golfer and ESPN commentator, sent out a tweet that said he’s created more jobs than President Obama and golfs less. Or something like that.
Well, he should have known better. His employer’s parent company spent a lot of money to help elect Obama, and they aren’t going to stand for one of their employees trashing the guy. So Azinger has been told to shut up, or else.
ESPN is coming down on Paul Azinger for mocking President Barack Obama on Twitter. The golf analyst tweeted Thursday the Commander-in-chief plays more golf than he does — and that Azinger has created more jobs this month than Obama has.
On Friday ESPN ‘reminded” Azinger his venture into political punditry violates the company’s updated social network policy for on-air talent and reporters.
“Paul’s tweet was not consistent with our social media policy, and he has been reminded that political commentary is best left to those in that field,” spokesman Andy Hall told Game On! in a statement.
ESPN’s Hall would not comment on whether Azinger, who won the 1993 PGA Championship, will be fired, suspended or punished in some way. “We handle that internally,” he said. …
Dana Loesch pointed out that another ESPN employee, Kenny Mayne, hasn’t been the least bit shy about his disdain for conservatives or his love of liberals. But apparently fantasizing about ramming cars with Palin bumper stickers is acceptable to ESPN, while cracking a joke about Obama’s lame performance is grounds for firing.
No, there’s no double standard there at all. Nothing to see here, just move along.
Update: Scared Monkeys linked – thanks!
Tags: ABC, double standard, ESPN, Kenny Mayne, obama, Paul Azinger
This is why I have quit watching ABC,CBS, NBC, MSNBC and any other network with a political agenda.
I watch fox because they make no bones about leaning conservative but these other networks use the old Alinsky deny, deny, deny and refuse to be pinned down.
Unless and until they become honest about their agendas then I REFUSE to watch anything they do to the point that I have even stopped watching football and baseball and now watch those games via the NFL network and the MLB network.
I refuse to endorse their agenda by watching something that is “Entertaining” yet supporting their liberal bias, cloaked in lies of denial.
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[...] PERTAINS TO ONLY MOCKING BARACK OBAMA. Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that the parent company of ESPN, ABC, paid beaucoup bucks to elect Obama now does it. How pathetically sad is it that even sports media has become so liberal that they [...]
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[...] blows. ESPN tells golfer Paul Azinger to stop puttering on about Obama on Twitter. And some people are outraged. Of course some of these outraged people were outraged with what Phil [...]
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This is so-outside the world of golf. Golfers are conservative by nature. There may be the odd one, but not many. I hope Azinger tells them what they can with their criticism.
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