Jan 25 2008
Where is the consistency?
Dana Jacobson, co-host of ESPN2’s First Take, will remain off-air until Monday for comments at a social event she now says were “foolish and insensitive.”
Jacobson spoke at a roast of ESPN’s Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic in Atlantic City Jan. 1. Onstage there, according to The Press of Atlantic City, she was “swilling vodka” and “cursing like a sailor” and made “an absolute fool of herself” as the crowd booed.
That prompted her current one-week suspension. Says ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys: “She’s been disciplined.”
Ironically, the Orlando Sentinel says Jacobson was one of those who defended Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman when she was being criticized for using the word “lynch” in reference to Tiger Woods.
Read about it here.
[From me]
Apparently she dropped a few “F” Bombs about Notre Dame and Jesus. Why is she only getting a one-week suspension when Jimmy the Greek and Rush Limbaugh get fired for just expressing their opinions. Now their opinions were misguided and I don’t agree with them. But they didn’t use profanity. They didn’t say things about someone’s religion. Why weren’t they suspended for only one-week? No, they were fired. There is a double standard.
Jacobson offended the Catholic church for sure. But as a Protestant Christian I’m offended too. I’ll bet she would have been fired had she said the same about Muhammad, Buddha or made a racial slur. Should she be fired? I don’t know. I would rather give her a second chance.
But, where is the consistency?
What do you think?
[HT] bryan allain
