So also tonight we want to congratulate eric and lara trump on the birth of their first child. Eric tweeted out he was excited to announce son luke. Grandpa now has 9 grandchildren. Good night, everybody. See you tomorrow. Tucker well, good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. You probably thought espn stood for entertainment and sports programming network. Now it looks likenedless stupid political nagging. The network has drawn criticism for pulling robert lee off a uva Football Game because his name bore some resemblance to that of a dead confederate general. Now it gets better Ge Jimmie Mel Hill White Supremacist surrounded himself with White Supremacists. More than a dozen followup tweets trump has empowered
White Supremacists see charlottesville. People noticed this and today espn released a statement in response saying quote the comments on quit from her jemele hill do not represent the position of espn. We have addressed this with jemele and she recognizes her actions
north carolina transgender bathroom law, he gets fired. if a guy like mike ditka says i don t think barack obama was a good president and i m voting for donald trump, he gets fired. but if jemele hill comes out and says donald trump is a white supremacist andth only reason he got elected president is because is he white and all of his supporters are effectively bigots. she gets rewarded, wrapped on the knuckles she continues to do her show because bob iger and john skipper the ceo of disney and president of espn agree with her and want left leaning politics to be the forward facing front of espn. tucker: remember when glenn beck said something like that about barack obama and the world stopped. and everyone denounced him immediately. is there a huge market for left wing sports analysis? well, the easy answer, tucker, would be look at espn s ratings. they are collapsing. another idea would be look at their business model.
white supremacists see charlottesville. people noticed this and today espn released a statement in response saying quote the comments on quit from her jemele hill do not represent the position of espn. we have addressed this with jemele and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate. whatever that means clay travis may know something about this. he joins us tonight. clay, what exactly does that mean we have addressed it with an anchor. is that punishment? it means that nothing actually happened because jemele hill is saying the higher ups at espn believe. i think this goes all the way to the top, tucker. bobble iger, the ceo of disney follows 59 people on twitter. one of them is jemele hill. i think what has happened is disney and espn has decided we want to be a left wing sports network. so if a guy like curt schilling comes out and he says oh, i disagree with the