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🗓️ 5 January 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Clay Travis, author of the book, "Republicans Buy Sneakers Too", talks about how the bias in sports journalism including broadcasters like ESPN is dividing and killing its own audience.
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0:30.2 | And he's the author of a brand new book, Republicans Buy Sneakers 2. |
0:35.0 | That's a good one. |
0:36.0 | How the left is ruining sports with politics. |
0:40.0 | I was just talking prior to having you on about Nike making Colin Capranick a poster boy and people people don't realize the guy wore police pictured as pigs on his socks during a football game. |
1:01.0 | Is this something that this would be something that you describe in your book I assume? |
1:10.0 | Yes certainly it was actually during practice, but I know, I know that. Yes. They have to wear a specific team issued socks, but yeah, he wore socks depicting police officers as pigs to San Francisco 49er practice |
1:26.7 | and even worse than that I think in the wake of his protest he tweeted that police were modern day slave catchers |
1:36.6 | uh... which is uh... i mean just i think beyond inflammatory |
1:41.9 | and so the idea that n would reward him not for his |
1:45.4 | athletic excellence but for 100% his politics to me represents everything |
1:51.5 | that is wrong with with the intersection of |
1:54.7 | sports and politics in our modern culture. Do you remember the the sports writers |
2:07.0 | hysteria over the Washington Redskins name? Yeah and then they had the report that came out that determined that something like 90% of Americans did not care at all about the name |
2:16.3 | of the Washington Redskins. |
2:17.3 | Of Native Americans. |
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