ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski apologized to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, today for an e-mail in which he said, "F --- you" to the senator. (Other letters were used instead of the dashes.)
Wojnarowski's e-mail was inspired by a Hawley tweet earlier today criticizing the NBA for limiting the types of messages players could wear on their uniforms.
"If @NBA is going to put social cause statements on uniforms, why not "Support Our Troops" or "Back the Blue." Or given how much $$ @NBA makes in #China, how about "Free Hong Kong."
Hawley attached a copy of a lengthy letter he sent to NBA Commission Adam Silver expressing the same sentiments.
Naturally, Hawley, milking the ill-advised response for every bit of political capital he could get, tweeted it for the world to see, complete with the three letters that were omitted earlier in this post.
"Don't criticize #China or express law enforcement to @espn. It makes them real mad."
Earlier this afternoon, Wojnarowski posted the following tweet:
"I was disrespectful and made a regrettable mistake. I'm sorry for the way I handled myself and I am reaching out immediately to Senator Hawley to apologize directly. I also need to apologize to my ESPN colleagues because I know my actions were unacceptable and should not reflect on any of them."
ESPN issued the following statement:
"This is completely unacceptable behavior and we do not condone it. It is inexcusable for anyone working at ESPN to respond in the way Adrian did to Senator Hawley. We are addressing it directly with Adrian and specifics of those conversations will remain internal."
Hawley's Twitter account does not show any response to Wojnarowski's apology, but then again, if the senator accepted the apology, he might not be invited to talk about the reporter's poor judgment on Fox News.
If @NBA is going to put social cause statements on uniforms, why not “Support our Troops” or “Back the Blue”? Or given how much $$ @nba makes in #China, how about “Free Hong Kong”! Today I wrote to Adam Silver to ask for answers pic.twitter.com/PthYR4OxmE
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 10, 2020
Don’t criticize #China or express support for law enforcement to @espn. It makes them real mad @Outkick pic.twitter.com/WJDxrotUBD
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) July 10, 2020
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 10, 2020
2 comments:
Hawley's naked ploy to take a page out of President Trump's playbook and score political points by exploiting cultural issues
That's some pretty lazy editorializing Randy.
This just in: There are literally two politicians in the world now who use cultural issues to score political points. A full 100% increase from yesterday.
When it becomes financially viable for ESPN to speak against China they will let their mouthpieces do that too. Right now though, the only thing that matters is that everyone who isn't black is a racist. Oh, and orange man bad and racist of course.
Well as long as the liberal apologizes then he did no wrong. He seems to be a very strong minded individual.
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