If the destruction of monuments and the politically correct rewriting of history continues, America will never be great again despite the best efforts of Donald Trump
As everyone who has been at least semi-conscious in the past few days knows, ESPN pulled Asian American Robert Lee from covering the opening college football game between the University of Virginia and William and Mary. The reason Lee was replaced was because his name is the same as Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The network, now being referred to in some circles as MSESPN, was afraaaaiiiiiid memes might appear on social media about Robert Lee marching into Charlottesville. As well, given the current climate we all know anyone named Robert Lee will bring horror to the multitude of little snowflakes currently found in the United States.
Robert Ley was a high-level Nazi during Hitler’s Third Reich
If Lee is prevented from merely covering one game, then Bob Ley should absolutely be fired from the network that’s main job has changed from covering sports to ensuring no one on the left is made to feel bad.
Bob Ley is the network’s longest serving on air employee of ESPN, having been employed there since three days after the network began in 1979. After the story broke Ley, whose full name is Robert E. Ley, joked he was not sure he would be allowed to get into work with his employee ID because of his name.
Well if Lee (the Asian American ESPN broadcaster not the civil war general) should be pulled from broadcasting a football game because of his name, Ley should be fired because Ley’s name is a twofer. Not only does his name sound like the Robert E. Lee whose name instills fear in the hearts of the squeamish left, but Robert Ley is a Nazi.
And no, not a Nazi under the current definition of the word that defines Nazi as anyone who is white and supports Donald J. Trump. Robert Ley was a high-level Nazi during Hitler’s Third Reich. Of course the Nazi Robert Ley was not the same guy as Robert Ley the sports guy but ESPN has taught us that really doesn’t matter.
ESPN’S Bob Ley is a whole lot worse than ESPN’s Robert Lee
Robert Ley the Nazi (not Robert Ley the sports anchor and reporter) was put in charge of German labour shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933 and banned unions. During the war, his position entailed recruiting, supervising and mistreating slave labour. He was captured by the Allies a few days after the war and charged with war crimes. Ley committed suicide in his Nuremburg jail cell before his trial could be held.
So ESPN’S Bob Ley is a whole lot worse than ESPN’s Robert Lee. He was right; he should never have been allowed to go to work with his employee ID.
During the McCarthy Senate hearings in the early 50s, lawyer Joseph Welch represented the U.S. Army. Joseph McCarthy accused a young lawyer in Welch’s Boston law firm of being a communist. During the televised hearings, not a usual occurrence in those days, Welch responded, “Until this moment senator, I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness. Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?”
Welch’s now famous reply changed the course of the hearings and McCarthy’s hunt for communists in every government department went downhill quickly. What the senator said was too much for many of his supporters and the media turned against him.
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Destruction of monuments and the politically correct rewriting of history
ESPN’s reassigning Robert Lee to another broadcast should be a defining moment in the left’s attempt to rewrite history and destroy anything and everything associated with a past they don’t like. While we are used to seeing “educated” college students do and say things as silly as banning all Robert Lees, this is the most ridiculous thing to come out of the mainstream media that includes CNN. The network should be ashamed of itself. Even the politically correct left are making fun of ESPN. This insanity has got to end.
If the destruction of monuments and the politically correct rewriting of history continues, America will never be great again despite the best efforts of Donald Trump.
