{"id":438467,"date":"2021-04-21T11:50:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=438467"},"modified":"2021-04-21T11:51:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T15:51:01","slug":"exclusive-clay-travis-says-identity-politics-is-reason-for-lack-of-coverage-in-deshaun-watson-sexual-assault-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-clay-travis-says-identity-politics-is-reason-for-lack-of-coverage-in-deshaun-watson-sexual-assault-story\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Clay Travis Says Identity Politics Is Reason For Lack Of Coverage In Deshaun Watson Sexual Assault Story"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fexclusive-clay-travis-says-identity-politics-is-reason-for-lack-of-coverage-in-deshaun-watson-sexual-assault-story%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=438467&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3084.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>As the Deshaun Watson saga continues, a strange phenomenon is being played out \u2014 the story isn\u2019t getting the coverage it deserves. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Watson is accused of sexual assault or harassment by 22 separate women who\u2019d allegedly been solicited for massages by the Houston Texans quarterback over the last two years. Two of the women, and there may soon be more, have identified themselves publicly and filed criminal charges against the NFL star.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>With such a high profile case, and with an athlete as famous as Watson, one would expect the media to be in a feeding frenzy. Morning shows and sports radio stations around the country should be leading with the story, right? Well, not really.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apart from perfunctory updates when new details emerge, most major outlets have offered scant coverage, focusing their attention on other stories, despite the relative lack of news, with the NFL in the middle of their offseason.<\/p>\n<p><span>Not only is the conversation surrounding the case muted, the NFL has also held off on disciplining the franchise quarterback. Watson has yet to be placed on the NFL\u2019s commissioner\u2019s exempt list, but based on past decisions handed down by the NFL, he should land on it soon.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clay Travis, founder of Outkick The Coverage and Fox Sports Radio Host, told The Daily Wire he believes there\u2019s a deeper reason the Watson story has been covered the way it has, and that the quarterback won\u2019t be playing anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think the probability of him playing in 2021 is low,\u201d Travis told The Daily Wire.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s possible that he\u2019s the NFL\u2019s version of Bill Cosby or Jeffrey Epstein before all is said and done. The next shoe to drop, proverbially, is whether or not there\u2019s going to be criminal charges brought. And there are now criminal investigations, potentially in multiple states, looking into whether Deshaun Watson can be potentially liable from a criminal perspective for sexual assault.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRight now, it\u2019s all civil related but Nike, Beats By Dre, ATB Department stores\u2026 all of them have backed away from Deshaun Watson,\u201d Travis continued. \u201cI would be very surprised if he plays in 2021 and I think he\u2019s approaching severe criminal legal peril as well which could throw into question whether he\u2019s able to ever play football again. That\u2019s what is at stake right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Travis elaborated, saying he thinks identity politics has played an integral role in shaping coverage of the story.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat I love, in terms of difficulty for those in sports media, is you have two different identity politics colliding which is why I think you have people not picking sides,\u201d Travis told The Daily Wire. \u201cYou\u2019ve got \u2018Me Too,\u2019 with 22 different women. The majority of whom are minorities who are alleging this powerful, rich, fortunate quarterback took advantage of them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd then you have the black quarterback who stands at the pyramid of victimization culture in the NFL and in college football in general, so you\u2019re going to alienate one side of the identity politics equation. You go against the black quarterback or you go against the 22 women, the majority who are minority women, alleging sexual assault. So as a result, there\u2019s an inability to discuss this case in a reasonable fashion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The NFL, and the media, seem hesitant to rush to judgement. The American justice system allows for those accused of crimes to have their day in court. \u201cInnocent before proven guilty\u2019 is one of the key pillars of our democracy after all. But in recent years, this pillar has been toppled.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The \u201cMe Too\u201d movement changed everything. In many ways, it changed things for the better. It brought more awareness to sexual assault and the power that men of influence hold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, it\u2019s also blurred the lines between innocent and guilty. \u2018Believe All Women\u201d was a common phrase that came out of the movement. It immediately assumed men accused of sexual assault as guilty without giving them their day in court. The same cannot be said about the Watson case.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The media and the NFL have painted themselves into a corner. In handing down a definitive judgement on Watson, they risk appearing to damage the image of \u201cmarginalized groups\u201d in the context of sports.\u00a0In refusing to condemn Watson, they\u2019ll be going against all that the \u201cBelieve All Women\u201d crowd stands for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhich is why, under American justice, we need to treat everybody the same regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or politics,\u201d Travis said. \u201cAnd unfortunately we are not in that universe right now.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Deshaun Watson saga continues, a strange phenomenon is being played out \u2014 the story isn\u2019t getting the coverage it deserves. \u00a0Watson is accused of sexual assault or harassment &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276380,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3084.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: Clay Travis Says Identity Politics Is Reason For Lack Of Coverage In Deshaun Watson Sexual Assault Story","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3084.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"EXCLUSIVE: Clay Travis Says Identity Politics Is Reason For Lack Of Coverage In Deshaun Watson Sexual Assault Story","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438467","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}