Dan Le Batard claims ESPN is run by McAfee and ‘White people’ after layoffs, slanders OutKick in unhinged rant
Welp, Dan Le Batard is signaling a comeback and cashing in on left political points. This is nothing out of the ordinary for the former ESPN personality, as he offered his analysis of layoffs at ESPN, which included Ryan Clark, his polarizing personality and one of the network’s most prominent race-baiters. Le Batard also took a shot at OutKick for his racially illogical speech on Friday’s show.
If you don’t know, OutKick broke the news on Monday that the “World Leader in Sports” would be dropping Ryan Clark, but our reporter Bobby Burack learned of the move on Friday. When Burack and fellow reporter Dan Zaksheske reached ESPN in the afternoon and said they would air the story within the hour, ESPN panicked. What they do next is being examined. They used that hour to take Ryan Clark off the air during the commercial break and passed the story to The Athletic so they could air it before we did. Since then, Jemele Hill has attempted to slander OutKick and Burack. Le Batard now jumps on the slanderous bandwagon, inadvertently offering a race-focused approach that might be the most Ryan Clark could ever say.
Dan Le Batard arrives at Shaq’s Fun House at Mana Wynwood Convention Center on January 31, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Jason Koerner/Getty Images)
“Disney and ESPN somehow continue to be called too woke,” Le Batard said. “All the journalists are out the door now. All the Black people, or almost all the Black people who would say things that Black people strongly agree with, are all gone. You’re going to have a hard time finding Hispanics, you’re going to have a network run by McAfee, and now it’s going to be all White people on staff there.”
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Here it is! The race card has been drawn. Classic Le Batard. Remember the unwritten rule for liberal sports personalities just like Ryan Clark: If you don’t have a viable argument or anything truly intelligent to say, make it about race.
Le Batard then turned his attention to OutKick.
“It’s quite shocking to see Ryan Clark released in this way,” Le Batard said. “To end up shaming a proud Black man, because the reporting is done by a tainted institution. Someone is leaking information to a tainted institution, it’s a perpetual scam,” Le Batard claimed, without any evidence, while slandering our reporting.
ESPN is parting ways with longtime NFL analyst Ryan Clark after his 11-year run with the network. (Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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He continued: “Someone at ESPN decided I was finally going to screw Ryan Clark.
“They have it planned for Tuesday. Let me embarrass this guy because this is the game I played with something that wasn’t even the media at a dishonest time. [OutKick’s] just a dishonest entity in a media costume.”
Le Batard did not respond to a text message when asked to provide evidence of “our fraud.” He also did not respond to questions about the lack of Black people in charge of his show.
Mistakes are made in the sports media. Over the years, reporting on OutKick, like others, has been corrected. legitimate but to claim that the entire company is “dishonest” and in fact fake media is extremely unfounded.
Instead of objectively criticizing ESPN for how it handled Ryan Clark’s departure, including waiting days to address it, Le Batard fired back at us. Where is journalistic integrity in this? There is none.
Dan Le Batard (right) on his ESPN2 show “¿Highly Suspicious?” with co-hosts Bomani Jones (right) and Le Batard’s father, Gonzalo. ( )
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This is also another example of a leftist calling someone and something they don’t like a “fraud”. This is a low IQ way of distracting and diverting attention from the real issue. Fraud is sharing content and creating a platform based on things you don’t actually believe in. This couldn’t be further from the truth on OutKick.
OutKick drives the national conversation about sports and American culture with original, smart, fearless reporting as well as common-sense analysis. We question the consensus that Le Batard often falls into and expose the subversive nature of the “woke” activism propagated by people like him. OutKick is the antidote to mainstream sports media, which often caters to an elite, left-leaning minority rather than American sports fans.
