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I'm named after my grandfather who's first and middle names were Robert Lee. Nice knowing you guys but I've got to turn myself in for my entirely justified execution.

Wait up Leemur and I'll go with you. My dad's father was born in Virginia and his first and middle name was Robert Lee. I'm named after him.

Fuck ESPN. They got nothing I need. Pisses me off that they are part of the Spectrum cable package but you've got to pick your battles. My wife wants the deluxe cable package so she gets it.

I think all media stations as well as leaders in Congress should prevent this woman from ever getting another appearance on TV or ever showing her face again in our nation's Capitol for the sake of those who might be offended.

A new meaning for the PCI acronym: Politically Correct Idiocy.

Well, it will all be entertaining until they start trying to kill us and destroy property on a serious scale.

Then it becomes game on!

For the moment, its just plain silly.

RMD

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Originally posted by bobtheelf:

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UPDATE: ESPN ISSUES OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name. In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue.”

You regret that it's become an issue? YOU made it an issue you blithering idiots.

Please tell us this is fake news, because that is just incredible if not. More so than the original stupidity by infinity. And beyond.

I'm not sure OKTC is a legit source, and apparently this is nowhere else on ESPN??

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Originally posted by Georgeair:

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Originally posted by bobtheelf:

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UPDATE: ESPN ISSUES OFFICIAL STATEMENT:

“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name. In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue.”

You regret that it's become an issue? YOU made it an issue you blithering idiots.

Please tell us this is fake news, because that is just incredible if not. More so than the original stupidity by infinity. And beyond.

I'm not sure OKTC is a legit source, and apparently this is nowhere else on ESPN??

Confirmed with quote from ESPN spokesman:

Washington Post:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...his-name-robert-lee/

ESPN removes Robert Lee from calling U-Va. game in Charlottesville because of his name

Robert Lee lost something in Virginia — and 152 years later, another Robert Lee did too.

The living Robert Lee, an ESPN broadcaster, was pulled from calling the University of Virginia home opener against William and Mary on Sept. 2 because he shares a name with the Confederate general at the center of unrest in Charlottesville.

“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name,” Derek Volner, an ESPN spokesman, told The Washington Post in an emailed statement.

“In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue,” he said.

Volner declined to say if the network made a preemptive decision or responded to outside pressure to pull Lee from the broadcast. Lee, a sportscaster for 20 years, began his career calling games at Syracuse, his alma mater. He is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese, according to his online resume.

He did not respond to a request for comment on Twitter. Volner, the ESPN spokesman, did not say if Lee was available for comment.

According to Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, another ESPN representative said the company did not “mandate Robert Lee change his assignment” and that Lee was “more comfortable” not doing it. Clay Travis of Outkick the Coverage broke the story.

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members clashed with counterprotesters in Charlottesville earlier this month during protests against the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue.

A counterprotester, Heather Heyer, was killed and 19 others were injured when a man allegedly linked to neo-Nazi beliefs drove his car into a crowd, according to the authorities.

News of the unlikely coincidence — that Robert Lee would not, in fact, be coming to Charlottesville for a football game — gave social media users a rare chance to find glimmers of humor in an incident that sparked violence, a public affairs disaster at the White House and increasing calls to remove Confederate monuments nationwide.

***Lots more reaction and photos at the link**

Reuters, I guess trying to provide cover to MSESPN, ran this headline:


https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/900407307615567872

I posted their pics in the first post in the thread, they look nothing alike, obviously.

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Originally posted by BamaJeepster:
Reuters, I guess trying to provide cover to MSESPN, ran this headline:

That doesn't even make any damn sense!

Doppelganger refers to someone who looks like someone else, not having the same name. WTF!

^^^ Yep, more stupidity.

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Originally posted by PASig:

That doesn't even make any damn sense!

Doppelganger refers to someone who looks like someone else, not having the same name. WTF!

Dopplegangers are usually an evil twin. So, they are making this guy out to be Robert E. Lee's evil twin. Top men I tell ya.

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Originally posted by LDD:
So, does Robert Lee get to sue ESPN for racial discrimination?

His name isn't going to change at the next game either, so isn't ESPN basically telling him that he's unemployable?

The way I heard it on the radio this morning, Lee actually went to the powers that be as ESPN first and told them he wasn't comfortable doing a broadcast in the south. That doesn't absolve ESPN of stupidity, but it sounds like it wasn't entirely their doing.

SNL is going to have a field day with this one.

In a related note, comedian George Wallace reported to be conflicted.

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Originally posted by fiasconva:
SNL is going to have a field day with this one.

SNL isn't going to touch anything that makes liberals sound or look stupid. I highly doubt if you'll hear anything more than a 10 second mention on Weekend Update if that.

The head of ESPN is also Asian...a Korean.

His name is SUM DUM FUC.

I swore when I heard this it was a joke. WOW....

I heard this somewhere today:

I think we would all understand if ESPN pulls the announcer if his name was Robert Yee Lee.

Dennis Miller made a joke about this on Facebook. Now I know what he was referring to.

He may have made a joke about it, but it isn't runny. It's a sign that stupidity has reached new lows.

flashguy

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Originally posted by TXJIM:
Ho Lee Fuc!

Well Mark Steyn said it shouldn't be racist if you pronounce it Lobert Ree.