Has ESPN Lost Its Mind With The Robert Lee Controversy?

Toucher & Hardy

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Sports

4.3 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 6 minutes

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T&R started off The Stack by addressing ESPN's decision to remove an announcer named Robert Lee from a Virginia-based broadcast because of his similarity to the name of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Rich and Hardy discuss the controversy, after making sure the story wasn't fake.

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0:00.0	Now it's time to get to the stuff that we couldn't get to.
0:05.6	It's the stack.
0:06.6	It's the stack, stack, stack you know, stack, stack you know,
0:10.6	Stack, Stack, Stack, Stack, Stack, Stack, Stack, Stack, You know.
0:13.0	Stats, Stack, Stack, you know.
0:14.3	Stats, Stats, Stack, You know.
0:18.9	985 of Sports, of its toucher and rich.
0:22.3	This is a, by the way, morning drive is driven by the professional grade GMCC area.
0:26.7	This is a story that, as Hardy mentioned before, I saw it first come across my desk,
0:31.7	and I had to check three different places to make sure that this was a real story,
0:36.1	because this sounds like something from the onion.
0:39.0	So ESPN was set to have a basketball game for the universe,
0:41.6	I'm sorry, a football game, rather, from the University of Virginia.
0:44.5	And the guy who was set to do the telecast is an Asian-American announcer
0:50.7	whose name is Robert Lee.
0:53.8	So ESPN announced yesterday that they are going to pull Robert Lee from calling this
0:59.1	University of Virginia football game.
1:01.0	Why?
1:01.9	Because his name is Robert Lee, which is similar to Robert E. Lee.
1:08.7	And it might be insensitive.
1:11.6	Have we lost our effing minds?
1:13.7	Have we gone insane?
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