{"id":852881,"date":"2021-10-06T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=852881"},"modified":"2021-10-06T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T17:44:19","slug":"ousted-espn-anchor-jemele-hill-attacks-sage-steele-over-comments-on-obama-women-in-media-clown-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ousted-espn-anchor-jemele-hill-attacks-sage-steele-over-comments-on-obama-women-in-media-clown-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousted ESPN Anchor Jemele Hill Attacks Sage Steele Over Comments On Obama, Women In Media: \u2018Clown Behavior\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\">34<\/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%2Fousted-espn-anchor-jemele-hill-attacks-sage-steele-over-comments-on-obama-women-in-media-clown-behavior%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=852881&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\/10\/GettyImages-492826356.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Last week, ESPN anchor Sage Steele went on former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler\u2019s podcast and had a wide-ranging conversation.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The two discussed ESPN\u2019s vaccine mandate, former president Barack Obama, and women in media.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And Sage finds herself in trouble as a result of every single topic covered.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When discussing Obama, Steele said that she found it \u201cfascinating\u201d that Obama \u2014 who is biracial, as is Steele \u2014 identifies as a black man, as Steele identifies as both white and black.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/espn-anchor-fascinating-obama-identifies-as-black-though-black-dad-was-nowhere-to-be-found\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, \u201cThe commentary was raised when Steele recalled a colleague asking her to \u201cchoose\u201d to identify as either black or white, noting that Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/10\/05\/sage-steele-president-obama-race-black\/\">identified<\/a> himself as black on the census back in 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think that\u2019s fascinating considering his black dad was nowhere to be found, but his white mom and grandma raised him,\u201d Steele said. \u201cBut hey, you do you. I\u2019m going to do me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Steele also discussed women in the media, and how they deal with inappropriate comments from athletes, putting some of the onus on women to be aware of the way they present themselves.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen you dress like that, I\u2019m not saying you deserve the gross comments, but you know what you\u2019re doing when you\u2019re putting that outfit on too,\u201d Steele said. \u201cWomen are smart, so don\u2019t play coy and put it all on the guys \u2026 and again, I\u2019m not saying anyone deserves anything. But, we need to be responsible as women too, because we know what we\u2019re doing when we put certain things on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"13.324250681199\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sage Steele believes women \u201cneed to be responsible as well\u201d for inappropriate comments directed at them.<\/p>\n<p>Sage tells young women, \u201cwhen you dress like that, I\u2019m not saying you deserve the gross comments, but you know what you\u2019re doing when you put that outfit on too.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6CrxOoXILN\">pic.twitter.com\/6CrxOoXILN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Resist Programming \ud83d\udef0 (@RzstProgramming) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RzstProgramming\/status\/1445075062311247884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>As could be expected, the blue checkmark brigade on the Left pounced, including former ESPN anchor and The Atlantic writer Jemele Hill.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo on top of thinking former President Obama shouldn\u2019t identify as black because he didn\u2019t have a relationship with his black father, Sage Steele also thinks female journalists who dress a certain way \u2018know what you\u2019re doing when you\u2019re putting that outfit on,\u2019\u201d Hill posted to Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cClown behavior.<\/span><span>\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.519444444444\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So on top of thinking former President Obama shouldn\u2019t identify as black because he didn\u2019t have a relationship with his black father, Sage Steele also thinks female journalists who dress a certain way \u201cknow what you\u2019re doing when you\u2019re putting that outfit on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clown behavior. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/edgTVopQqg\">pic.twitter.com\/edgTVopQqg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jemelehill\/status\/1444794416770609160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>For those that are not aware, Hill has never been afraid to express her political opinions, calling former president Donald Trump a \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d in September 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though Hill was not suspended for her comments on Trump, she was suspended for two weeks by the company in October 2017 after suggesting that people should boycott businesses associated with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones after he said that players who disrespected the flag would not play for the Cowboys.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In February 2021, Hill called for the end of the singing of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d at sporting events, arguing that it has become a \u201cweaponized\u201d patriotic symbol, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jemele-hill-demands-an-end-to-weaponized-patriotic-symbols-at-sporting-events\">The Daily Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hill also wrote on the NBA\u2019s decision to require Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to play the National Anthem before games, calling on the league to \u201crevisit its anthem rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mavericks should have held their ground because playing the anthem shouldn\u2019t be a pregame ritual in American sports,\u201d Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jemele-hill-demands-an-end-to-weaponized-patriotic-symbols-at-sporting-events\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cNot during a time when many people\u2014including many athletes of color\u2014are deeply uncomfortable with how patriotic symbols have been weaponized to undermine and diminish the humanity of Black and brown Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of forcing Cuban\u2019s team to back down, the NBA as a whole should revisit its anthem rule. Other leagues should do the same. The ritual enforces a rote, narrow idea of patriotism\u2014one that pro sports should be working to change, not uphold,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p><span>Steele\u2019s comments on her company\u2019s vaccine policy also drew the ire of the Left.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Steele weighed in on ESPN\u2019s requirement for employees to be vaccinated, calling it \u201csick\u201d and \u201cscary.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI work for a company that mandates it and I had until September 30th to get it done or I\u2019m out,\u201d Steele said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI respect everyone\u2019s decision, I really do, but to mandate it is sick and it\u2019s scary to me in many ways,\u201d Steele continued. \u201cI just, I\u2019m not surprised it got to this point, especially with Disney, I mean a global company like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/espn-anchor-sage-steele-removed-from-air\/\"><span>Front Office Sports<\/span><\/a><span>, Steele will not appear on SportsCenter this week and will not be a host of the upcoming espnW: Women + Sports Summit. While FOS reports that Steele has tested positive for COVID, her recent comments on Cutler\u2019s podcast are also playing a role in her absence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to&nbsp;<\/i><i>sports@dailywire.com<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, ESPN anchor Sage Steele went on former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler\u2019s podcast and had a wide-ranging conversation.\u00a0The two discussed ESPN\u2019s vaccine mandate, former president Barack Obama, and women &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-852881","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\/852881","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=852881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852881\/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=852881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}