I predicted this from the get-go. Are you really surprised?
More than that,Wilbon has gone off countless times about Incog, what a POS he is, how he should be banned without ever hearing the full story in perspective. It's like a drooling rabid dog staring at a piece of raw meat. However, the other day, he cautioned Kornheiser to wait to get the full story before making any judgments over this "alleged" Rice act. A day after his last rabid diatribe over Incog, they announced that this was the anniversary of Temple coach John Chaney going crazy in a press conference, trying to attack coach Calipari who was sort of goading him and threatening to kill him. Wilbon's response? Oh, what a great fun guy he is and epic coach.
He also treats his buddy Charles Barkley with whom he co-wrote Barkley's biography with kid gloves if not outright reverence. Never does he mention (as he more or less glossed over it when it happened) how Barkley got 2 DUIs and 1 speeding citation a few years ago in Scottsdale for driving fast and drunk to commit adultery with someone he told the arresting cop gave the best BJs he ever got (who turned out to be a transvestite). Yet I'm sure he'll be foaming at the mouth any time Incog's name is mentioned going forward.
This is largely [strike] a raci[/strike] an agenda and agenda-enabling network where players of color are often automatically either given the benefit of the doubt (as they and everyone should until the full facts are disclosed), soft pedaled or if so egregious then treated with the judgmental disdain they deserve - but only then. This is the network that quietly fired Hugh Douglas for calling Stephen A. an "uncle Tom" for taking an unpopular position and first suspended Rob Parker for labeling RG3 a "cornball brother" because he wasn't black enough with his Caucasian wife - with the intent to reinstate him until the groundswell of outrage became too discordant and persistent to ignore, and only then did they fire him.
Now everyone should be treated the same and no one should be discriminated against nor favored - but it's obvious that ESPN is pandering to a certain demographic market that their advertisers covet. And don't get me started on the hypocritical Monday night crew of miscreants, purveyors of faux reports, indicted and punished homicide co-conspirators, drug addicts and/or team cancers on their hypocritical shaky pulpits. Only Ditka refused to tow that party line so more power to him. Just try to fire him, he's so iconic.. and see how that works out. And then of course there's their mixed bag of misfits - on air talents who have sexually exploited, harassed and adultery-ized (yeah I made that word up) from a position of power with their female underlings (although I'm still waiting for reports of male interns and associate "producers" one day also being reported.)
Finally, although BSPN jumps on the critical bandwagon when it suits them, Ted Simmons has been suspended twice for criticzing the on air behavior of their personalities, one a local radio guy and the other, ridiculous Skip Brainless for his interaction with Richard Sherman. If they are not open to self-criticism, why the **** should anyone take them seriously when they selectively get on their high moral horse over anyone else?
I understand that the foregoing may be viewed negatively by some and it's not my intent to offend anyone; but the regrettable risk of that is trumped by my intense hatred of media controlled hypocrisy and compulsion to call things as they are :idk:
