{"id":1172408,"date":"2021-12-30T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172408"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:19:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T16:19:31","slug":"deadspin-deletes-racist-tweet-referring-to-espns-sage-steele-as-the-black-candace-owens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deadspin-deletes-racist-tweet-referring-to-espns-sage-steele-as-the-black-candace-owens\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadspin Deletes Racist Tweet Referring To ESPN\u2019s Sage Steele As \u2018The Black Candace Owens\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeadspin-deletes-racist-tweet-referring-to-espns-sage-steele-as-the-black-candace-owens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1172408&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sports outlet Deadspin, which advertises its own brand on Twitter as \u201csports news without fear, favor, or compromise,\u201d was forced to delete a tweet Thursday that referred to ESPN\u2019s Sage Steele as \u201cthe black Candace Owens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIDIOT OF THE YEAR #6: Sage Steele, the Black Candace Owens,\u201d the original tweet read.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Caller\u2019s David Hookstead was among those who called out Deadspin for the racist comment, sharing a screenshot of the now-deleted tweet with the comment: \u201cWhat the hell is this garbage, @Deadspin? She doesn\u2019t agree with your views so you launch a racist attack against MULTIPLE black women? There\u2019s something seriously wrong with these people, and it\u2019s downright pathetic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What the hell is this garbage, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Deadspin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Deadspin<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>She doesn\u2019t agree with your views so you launch a racist attack against MULTIPLE black women?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something seriously wrong with these people, and it\u2019s downright pathetic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YvAjpz5rQS\">pic.twitter.com\/YvAjpz5rQS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Hookstead (@dhookstead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhookstead\/status\/1476514552326074372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnsurprisingly, there isn\u2019t an author\u2019s name on this garbage. If you\u2019re going to publish racist nonsense about&nbsp;@sagesteele, at least have the guts to put your name on it @Deadspin,\u201d Hookstead continued, noting that the article itself boasted no individual byline, but rather: \u201cBy Deadspin Staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Unsurprisingly, there isn\u2019t an author\u2019s name on this garbage.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re going to publish racist nonsense about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sagesteele?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sagesteele<\/a>, at least have the guts to put your name on it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Deadspin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Deadspin<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZzM2sms0Qh\">pic.twitter.com\/ZzM2sms0Qh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Hookstead (@dhookstead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhookstead\/status\/1476515895816114187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamcarolla\/status\/1476462623637995521\">Adam Carolla<\/a> defended <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/espns-sage-steele-rips-companys-sick-vaccine-policy\/\">Steele<\/a>, saying, \u201cSage Steele has more talent &amp; intelligence in her little finger than the entire Deadspin staff combined.\u201d&nbsp;He later <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamcarolla\/status\/1476460366779478021\">added<\/a>, \u201cSage Steele is the best thing to happen to ESPN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deadspin later replaced the tweet with a new one, changing the text to read, \u201cIDIOT OF THE YEAR #6: Sage Steele, the Candace Owens of ESPN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">IDIOT OF THE YEAR #6: Sage Steele, the Candace Owens of ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vOLgW2z8XS\">https:\/\/t.co\/vOLgW2z8XS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadspin (@Deadspin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Deadspin\/status\/1476220950697947137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 29, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the Deadspin article, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/report-sage-steele-iced-out-of-race-special-after-espn-colleagues-complain-not-black-enough-heres-her-response\/\">Steele<\/a> qualified as one of their top <a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/idiot-of-the-year-6-sage-steele-the-black-candace-ow-1848281206\">IDIOTS OF THE YEAR<\/a> for 2021 because she happened to notice that the city of Chicago had a violent crime problem.<\/p>\n<p><em>First, she teamed up with Clay Travis on Twitter and did the whole \u201c<a class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 kGbjEv js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/sage-steele-and-clay-travis-team-up-for-double-the-idio-1847745763\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/deadspin.com\/sage-steele-and-clay-travis-team-up-for-double-the-idio-1847745763&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\">well, what about Chicago?<\/a>\u201d thing \u2014 as they implied that the Black city was more dangerous than COVID-19.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She also ranked high on Deadspin\u2019s IDIOT list for complaining about vaccine mandates and then having the audacity to get COVID-19 even after she was vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\"><em>\u201cLet\u2019s also keep in mind, guys, she got COVID. Not only did she have to get the Covid vaccine but then she had one of these breakthrough cases of COVID which seem to be occurring at a fairly regular rate,\u201d <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 kGbjEv js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/clay-travis-espn-suspending-sage-steele-vaccine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/clay-travis-espn-suspending-sage-steele-vaccine&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\">said Travis<\/a>. \u201cDr. Fauci says they don\u2019t track them. I think a lot of people listening now who know someone in their own friend or family circle who had this happen to them. The reality is Jemele Hill, when she was working at ESPN called Donald Trump a white supremacist and nothing happened. ESPN didn\u2019t do anything. Steele is getting suspended for saying she doesn\u2019t think the company should have a vaccine mandate? That\u2019s absolute madness.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\"><em>Then, she went on Jay Cutler\u2019s podcast and publicly complained about ESPN\u2019s vaccine mandate. Cutler also called her \u201cThe Candace Owens of ESPN,\u201d something <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 kGbjEv js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/sage-steele-is-espns-candace-owens-and-its-time-for-he-1844470068\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/deadspin.com\/sage-steele-is-espns-candace-owens-and-its-time-for-he-1844470068&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\">our Carron Phillips had already dubbed her in 2020<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\"><em>And finally, Steele wound up missing weeks of work because she <a class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 kGbjEv js_link\" href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/sage-steele-tests-positive-for-covid-because-of-course-1847802696\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;Internal link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/deadspin.com\/sage-steele-tests-positive-for-covid-because-of-course-1847802696&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\">tested positive for COVID, because of course she did<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other public figures who made Deadspin\u2019s list included <a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/idiot-of-the-year-40-of-the-dullest-tools-from-2021s-s-1848251972\/slides\/37\">Enes Kanter Freedom<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 apparently because he was willing to call out China\u2019s treatment of the Uyghur Muslims but did not have shoes painted to reflect human rights abuses in Palestine \u2014 and Republican Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/idiot-of-the-year-40-of-the-dullest-tools-from-2021s-s-1848251972\/slides\/41\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>, whose crime appears to be his staunch defense of biological females in collegiate sports.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden\u2019s vaccine mandate in federal court.&nbsp; Join us in this fight by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lp.dailywire.com\/osha-petition\/\">signing our petition<\/a>&nbsp;to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports outlet Deadspin, which advertises its own brand on Twitter as \u201csports news without fear, favor, or compromise,\u201d was forced to delete a tweet Thursday that referred to ESPN\u2019s Sage Steele as \u201cthe black Candace Owens.\u201d \u201cIDIOT OF THE YEAR #6: Sage Steele, the Black Candace Owens,\u201d the original tweet read. The Daily Caller\u2019s David &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}