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LeBron James, told by Laura Ingraham to 'shut up and dribble,' calls her out over Drew Brees
Source: Washington Post
LeBron James, told by Laura Ingraham to ‘shut up and dribble,’ calls her out over Drew Brees
By Des Bieler
6/4/2020, 10:56:40 p.m.
LeBron James couldn’t help but notice that Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who once dismissed political comments he made by telling him to “shut up and dribble,” was far more encouraging of Drew Brees’s criticism of protests during the national anthem.
In an animated post Thursday on Twitter, the Los Angeles Lakers star told his 46.3 million followers that “this treatment right here,” referring to Ingraham’s remarks the night before, helps explain “why the protesting is going on” in the first place.
On Ingraham’s show Wednesday, she declared that Brees “finds himself in this scalding cauldron of hate” after the New Orleans Saints quarterback said earlier in the day that he “will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.” With protests roiling the country in the wake of the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer, Brees had been asked if NFL fans could expect to again see demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice, as first staged by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, when the league resumes play.
Brees’s comments immediately drew a huge backlash, including from some Saints teammates and from James, and on Thursday the quarterback issued an apology for making “comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country.”
To Ingraham, though, Brees should have been “allowed to have his view of what kneeling and the flag means to him."
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By Des Bieler
6/4/2020, 10:56:40 p.m.
LeBron James couldn’t help but notice that Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who once dismissed political comments he made by telling him to “shut up and dribble,” was far more encouraging of Drew Brees’s criticism of protests during the national anthem.
In an animated post Thursday on Twitter, the Los Angeles Lakers star told his 46.3 million followers that “this treatment right here,” referring to Ingraham’s remarks the night before, helps explain “why the protesting is going on” in the first place.
On Ingraham’s show Wednesday, she declared that Brees “finds himself in this scalding cauldron of hate” after the New Orleans Saints quarterback said earlier in the day that he “will never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America or our country.” With protests roiling the country in the wake of the killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer, Brees had been asked if NFL fans could expect to again see demonstrations against police brutality and racial injustice, as first staged by former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, when the league resumes play.
Brees’s comments immediately drew a huge backlash, including from some Saints teammates and from James, and on Thursday the quarterback issued an apology for making “comments that were insensitive and completely missed the mark on the issues we are facing right now as a country.”
To Ingraham, though, Brees should have been “allowed to have his view of what kneeling and the flag means to him."
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/06/04/lebron-james-calls-out-laura-ingraham-over-drew-brees/
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