{"id":225988,"date":"2017-03-17T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=225988"},"modified":"2017-03-20T16:09:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T20:09:47","slug":"did-you-hear-about-that-poor-guy-on-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/03\/17\/did-you-hear-about-that-poor-guy-on-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Hear About That Poor Guy on ESPN?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Did you hear about this poor guy at ESPN, this reporter? He\u2019s actually a sportscaster, play-by-play for tennis coverage. His name is Adler. He was doing the Australian Open and Venus Williams was playing in the Australian Open, and in one particular moment during play she charged the net, and she slammed a shot back at her opponent, got the point, and this Adler guy said that she was employing guerrilla tactics, look at that, and it was praised, guerrilla tactics.<\/p>\n

Doug Adler<\/p><\/div>\n

Well, the New York Times reporter heard that and tweeted that this guy was the worst of racists. “How come the Williams sisters are still referred to in this way in 2017?” And it wasn\u2019t both. It was Venus Williams. So this New York Times reporter tweets that he was a racist by calling them gorillas and the New York Times ran this, made a big deal about it, and ESPN fired the guy.<\/p>\n

Do you remember the story — this is some years ago now — there was a member of the Washington, D.C., city council, they\u2019re talking about the budget, and he was being critical of a certain part of it and called it niggardly. And all hell broke loose on that. N-i-g-g-a-r-d-l-y, means stingy. They accused this guy of using the N-word or something that sounded close to it and, therefore, unacceptable, and this guy got canned.<\/p>\n

Well, the ESPN reporter has since suffered a heart attack because of the stress due to the fact that his reputation has been destroyed, his name has been destroyed, and all he was doing was complimenting Venus Williams\u2019 style of play. In fact, Nike even described guerrilla tennis in an ad in 1995 featuring Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi.<\/p>\n