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Fox Host Calls Lebron Dumb, Implies He’s Not Entitled To Free Speech Because Trump Won The Election

Fox Host Calls Lebron Dumb, Implies He’s Not Entitled To Free Speech Because Trump Won The Election

Written by Dana Sanchez

Feb 16, 2018

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Laura Ingraham mocked superstar LeBron James Thursday on Fox News for “talking politics again,” attacking his intelligence, grammar, and even eligibility to talk about Donald Trump.

Could it be because Uninterrupted, the media startup James founded with his business partner Maverick Carter, is being credited with turning the sports business — and traditional ways of delivering news — upside down?

Ingraham resorted to a Trump tactic — name calling — when she described James, who plays basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers, as going on a “barely intelligible — not to mention ungrammatical” rant about Trump.

Ingraham tried to make her point with a short clip from a video made by James, Kevin Durant, and Cari Champion for James’ media platform, Uninterrupted. Ingraham derisively referred to the venture as an “ESPN podcast” even though it’s not on ESPN and not a podcast, Slate reported.

James said Trump “doesn’t understand the people, and really don’t give a fuck about the people.” Durant said “Our team, as a country, is not run by a great coach. It’s not even a surprise when (Trump) says something. It’s laughable.”

Ingraham mocked Lebron for using the word “like.”

“Must they run their mouths like that?” she said. “Unfortunately, a lot of kids and some adults take these ignorant comments seriously. There might be a cautionary lesson in LeBron for kids. This is what happens when you leave high school a year early to join the NBA. It’s always unwise to seek political advice from someone who gets paid $100 million a year to bounce a ball.”

James is considered one of the greatest NBA players of all time. An entrepreneur off the court,  he invests heavily in technology.  James has said that we would like to own an NBA team.

The fact that Ingraham would say something vile and racist isn’t all that newsworthy, Slate reported. It does, though, present an opportunity to give some publicity to James and Durant’s Uninterrupted video, which is worth watching in full.

In it, James talks about how his status as a rich celebrity doesn’t insulate him from racism.

Ingraham ended her Fox rant by telling James and Durant, “you’re great players but no one voted for you. Millions of people voted for Trump to be their coach, so keep the political commentary to yourself … shut up and dribble.”

It’s Ingraham’s job to say nice things about Trump “and generally seem kind of impatient, a job that she carries off while exuding all the charisma and personal warmth of a clenched butt cheek,” Deadspin reported:

There is nothing about LeBron’s comments that are remotely hard to understand or parse, and yet Ingraham goes straight for an attack on his ‘ungrammatical’ and ‘barely intelligible’ words. She even gets in a sneering dig at his standard use of the word ‘like.’ I wonder why that is?”

James’ media startup, Uninterrupted, is the latest evolution of a movement in which athletes, celebrities and other public figures are using social media and other technology to control their images and communicate directly with the public, Ben Cohen wrote in the Wall Street Journal.

“In the process, they are loosening traditional media’s grip on the way sports is delivered and consumed,” Cohen wrote.

By insulting James, Ingraham just proved his point about racism, a headline asserts in Slate.

https://twitter.com/Claryse2/status/964356317900021760

 

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