{"id":31411,"date":"2017-08-23T08:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31411"},"modified":"2017-08-23T08:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T12:42:30","slug":"in-what-universe-is-this-logical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31411","title":{"rendered":"In What Universe Is This Logical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/college\/espn-pulls-announcer-robert-lee-covering-virginia-football-article-1.3434079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Daily News<\/a> is reporting today that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"ESPN\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener\">ESPN<\/a> is changing its <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Announcer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Announcer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">announcer<\/a> for the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Virginia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.5,-79.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=37.5,-79.0 (Virginia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Virginia<\/a>&#8211;<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"William &amp; Mary Tribe football\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_%26_Mary_Tribe_football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">William &amp; Mary football<\/a> game this season. The announcer originally scheduled to cover the game was an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Race and ethnicity in the United States Census\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Asian<\/a> man named Robert Lee.<\/p>\n<p>This is one explanation of the decision:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESPN.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESPN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESPN.png 509w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ESPN-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/a>Are we so immature that allowing this man to announce a football game is a problem? Obviously he is not related to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Robert E. Lee\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_E._Lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Robert E. Lee<\/a>, nor should it matter if he were. Robert E. Lee lived more than a hundred years ago. He&#8217;s been dead a long time. How is he relevant to a football game?<\/p>\n<p>I would have believed this story if it had been posted by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Onion\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Onion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">The Onion<\/a>, but it is hard to believe that it is true. What has happened to the maturity level of the average American?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News is reporting today that ESPN is changing its announcer for the Virginia&#8211;William &amp; Mary football game this season. The announcer originally scheduled to cover the game was an Asian man named Robert Lee. This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31411\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11006,6741,10566,11013,1413,11029],"class_list":["post-31411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charlottesville","tag-espn","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-robert-e-lee","tag-virginia","tag-william-mary-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31413,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31411\/revisions\/31413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}