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| Drinking and slurring got a ESPN host fired. |
Some news on the television front. Former Current TV and MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann returns to the sports desk. He was hired to ESPN this year. He's still feuding with former Vice President Al Gore over the unceremonious firing from Current TV.
Olbermann will launch his television program in the fall and have "the numbers man" Nate Silver as a co-producer of the show. Silver is considered the most accurate pollster based on his predictions of President Barack Obama trouncing that perennial loser Mitt Romney.
Current TV will cease production by the end of the week. That displaces liberal agitators Stephanie Miller, Bill Press, John Fugelsang, Joy Behar, and Cenk Ugyur out. They're kind of pissed with Gore because of his apparent sale to Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera is now coming to the American households. Expect the conservative agitators to whine about it.
Maybe the network would hire a sports commentator!
ESPN send a commentator his walking papers after he called a person a "HOUSE NIGGER".
Hugh Douglas, a former defense end football star and Black sports commentator was sent to the lockers after he got into it with Michael A. Smith, a Black sports commentator. While in Orlando, Florida, the Numbers Never Lie hosts were being sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalist.
I'm guessing Douglas was drunk and belligerent. There was a verbal altercation between these him and Smith. After conducting its own investigation of Hugh Douglas’ apparent meltdown at an nightclub, ESPN fired him on Tuesday.
“He no longer works for us,” an ESPN source said.
The New York Daily News reports that Douglas, according to industry sources, was not fired specifically for calling Michael Smith, his “Numbers Never Lie” co-host a “House n-----.” He got the boot for his overall behavior on the evening in question, when he was alleged to have been drunk.
“I am very disappointed to be leaving ESPN and will have more to say about this situation and my future at the appropriate time,” Douglas tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
No one involved in ESPN’s investigation would claim Douglas used the N-word that evening. Douglas, a first-round pick of the Jets in 1995, apparently accosted Smith and was ready to rough him up at a party thrown by the National Association of Black Journalists at the House of Blues on Aug. 2.
Douglas, a 6-2, 280-pounder who spent 10 seasons in the NFL, was trying to get on stage to join the D.J.
He became incensed when Smith was hesitant to assist him. That’s when Douglas threatened to punch Smith out. Smith attempted to walk away, but Douglas grabbed him by the wrist before party-goers intervened to break things up.
The Big Lead website reported Douglas called Smith an “Uncle Tom” and a “House n-----.”
Seeds of the ruckus may have been planted a day earlier when Smith and Jemele Hill, another ESPN personality, spoke at an NABJ event. Douglas, who appeared to be drunk, wanted to take over the microphone but Hill wouldn’t let him. Smith and Hill are longtime friends.
I'm guessing those blows to head drove this man to drink. And alcoholism is probably the reason why he's off the team and off ESPN.
So Al Jazeera, are you looking for a sports commentator?
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