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<\/p>\nRUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I\u2019m sure you are aware — you undoubtedly have heard about ESPN using a racial slur in two separate stories about the new basketball sensation Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. ESPN, on their website, early in the morning on Saturday put a headline or subheadline up. Lin had not had a good game, and they actually… Somebody at ESPN, who\u2019s been fired for this now, wrote a headline. I don\u2019t even think I should say the word in the headline, even though I\u2019m quoting them. Well, actually no. Actually, I have used the word but not the way they did. I use it all the time.<\/p>\n
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Their headline said about Jeremy Lin, who is Asian-American: “Chink in the Armor.” (interruption) Who said he didn\u2019t know it was offensive? (interruption) Oh, oh, come on! The reporter, the headline writer, said he didn\u2019t know that was offensive? Oh… (interruption) What a crock! He said he didn\u2019t know it was a racial slur. Anyway, what happened is they fired the guy who wrote the headline. An anchor on ESPN actually read the headline but because he didn\u2019t write it he only got suspended for 30 days. So the headline writer at ESPN was canned. The anchor who read it is suspended for 30 days. Now, here\u2019s where ESPN blew it. I\u2019ll give you people at ESPN a little guidance here, a little lesson.<\/p>\n
If you would have just mocked his Christianity, everything would have been fine, and the headline writer might have been promoted. If you would have come up with the word “devout” or “failing faith” or some such thing in your headline, you would have been celebrated as a hero inside ESPN! You took a shot at the wrong thing. You took a shot at the ethnicity, where you shoulda taken a shot is at his Christianity, if you\u2019re gonna take a shot at the guy. I know these people at ESPN. I know how they think. But nobody would have blinked an eye if they woulda made fun of him for being a Christian and made some headline about how his Christian faith failed him during the game.<\/p>\n
I hope you people at ESPN learned this. We want the best for everybody here at the EIB Network. I really hope you\u2019ve learned a lesson here. It\u2019s perfectly fine to make fun of anyone\u2019s religious beliefs as long as they\u2019re Christian, but you can never mock their ethnicity unless they\u2019re white. Now, I also was reading… Most Mondays I read Peter King\u2019s web column at SportsIllustrated.com called Monday Morning Quarterback. And Peter King has a hilarious entry about this, and it\u2019s quite telling. What did I do with it? Oh, here it is. It\u2019s on the second page. Here\u2019s the entry by Peter King. It\u2019s in the ten things he thinks, the very last page of his Web piece. “Great job with your cover story in SI this week, Pablo Torre, telling America lots it didn\u2019t know about Lin …<\/p>\n
“Amazing in this day and age that in college, in the Ivy League, for crying out loud, Lin got peppered with slurs like ‘chink\u2019 and ‘sweet and sour pork!” on the road.” So Peter King says we would expect these kind of slurs in Hickville, but not in the Ivy League! Oh, my God, what is happening? He got slurred in the Ivy League? How can that be? (laughing) That\u2019s funny to me. The Ivy League! He can\u2019t believe that there would be this kind of political incorrectness in the Ivy League. This is the kind of stuff that happens, you know, in Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, what have you. So, anyway, Jeremy, I heard him asked (paraphrased), “What do you think about this?” He said, “No, I don\u2019t care. I don\u2019t worry about it. I\u2019ve heard it before. The guy apologized. No big deal.” He\u2019s not caught up in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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