Don’t ask how we did it, but we got the transcript from ESPN’s sit down with Jemele Hill following her tweet thread in which she called Donald Trump a white supremacist.
Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
ESPN: Jemele, you know why we brought you in.
Silence in the room.
ESPN: You can’t call the President a white supremacist. We don’t want you to feel that you can’t express yourself. But you have to be subtle.
Secret transcriber’s inner monologue immediately jumped to Stringer Bell asking Shamrock if he knew what subtle meant.
ESPN: Asserting that the President of the United States is a bigot and a white supremacist without facts to back that up can’t be tolerated.
Jemele Hill:
He has surrounded himself with white supremacists — no they are not “alt right” — and you want me to believe he isn’t a white supremacist?
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
ESPN: Unless you have indisputable evidence that the President is indeed a bigot or a white supremacist, you just can’t use those terms.
Jemele Hill: Indisputable evidence? The NFL may spend five years trying to define what is and what isn’t a catch, but anyone can connect the dots and see that Trump has put himself in lock step with white supremacists. Don’t believe me? Ask former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke.
ESPN: Jemele, you have to understand that a lot of our viewers are still angry about Hillary Clinton’s emails and Benghazi. It isn’t like Trump has done anything outwardly racist. It’s all circumstantial evidence.
Jemele Hill:
You yell about Benghazi but I bet you didn’t care at all about him having to settle the largest racial housing discrimination case in NYC
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 12, 2017
ESPN: Surely the settlement included an acknowledgement that liability was disputed. He hasn’t actually come out and aligned himself with any neo-Nazi groups.
Jemele Hill: There are many sides to that statement.
There was A LOT of emphasis on the words “many sides” when Ms. Hill said it.
ESPN: We don’t know what you’re referring to. You’re not going to get us to believe that Trump is a white supremacist or even a racist.
Jemele Hill:
You just don’t want to believe it because it’s too unpleasant. But that doesn’t change the facts.
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 12, 2017
ESPN: Jemele, you’re missing the . . .
Jemele Hill: Bannon.
ESPN: You’re missing the . . .
Jemele Hill: Gorka.
ESPN: Can you just . . .
Jemele Hill: Miller.
ESPN: Damn it, Jemele!
Jemele Hill: You’re right. I’m sorry *cough* Arpaio *cough* about that.
ESPN: Jemele, you have to understand. We like you. We think you and Michael do great work. And we hate doing this, but we are a corporate entity and we just can’t back you on this.
Jemele Hill: Got it. You do know it’s going to look bad that you’re publicly scolding me the same week that you hired Hank Williams Jr. back to do the Monday Night Football song, right?
ESPN brass looking at each other with blank stares.
Jemele Hill: He compared President Obama to Hitler. Adolf Hitler.
Secret transcriber would like to point out that Hank Williams Jr. also compared John Boehner to Benjamin Netanyahu, but that’s just because he’s a moron.
ESPN: That’s not fair.
Jemele Hill: Seriously. Hitler.
ESPN: Hank Williams Jr. is a complex individual. There’s more than one way to view what he says.
Jemele Hill:
so is there more than one way to view a swastika?
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) September 11, 2017
ESPN: Anyhow, we’re going to need you to make a statement acknowledging that what you said about President Trump was not appropriate.
Jemele Hill: That’s not happening.
ESPN: Ok, well, we’re going to release a statement saying that you acknowledge that your actions were inappropriate.
More silence in the room.
ESPN: And we’re going to need you to stay off of social media for about a week or so. Roger Goodell has been helping us with off the network discipline the last few years. He thinks a week makes sense.
Jemele Hill: Can I go now?
Sorry, that’s all our secret transcriber could get before his legal pad was taken away.
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She’s needs to get a suspension from work like everyone else that has gotten disaplind or should I say fired from espn for their comments ..
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