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   From: whore@cnn.com   
      
   Sports anchor Sage Steele is off the air at ESPN after she called   
   vaccine mandates "sick" and "scary" and questioned why former   
   President Barack Obama identifies as Black even though he was raised   
   by his white mother.   
      
   Steele made the comments last week on the podcast Uncut with Jay   
   Cutler, and her removal from the air was reported by Front Office   
   Sports.   
      
      
   ESPN also shared a statement from Steele. "I know my recent comments   
   created controversy for the company, and I apologize," she said. "We   
   are in the midst of an extremely challenging time that impacts all   
   of us, and it's more critical than ever that we communicate   
   constructively and thoughtfully."   
      
   Steele opined on vaccine mandates, Obama and women journalists   
   A week ago on the podcast, Steele told Cutler, a former NFL   
   quarterback, that she had just gotten her COVID-19 vaccine after   
   being required to by Disney, which owns ESPN.   
      
   "I respect everyone's decision. I really do. But to mandate it is   
   sick, and it's scary to me in many ways," she said. "But I have a   
   job, a job that I love and, frankly, a job that I need."   
      
   The COVID-19 vaccine has been shown to greatly reduce the risk of   
   hospitalization and death in people who are infected with the   
   coronavirus.   
      
   On the subject of race, Steele said she thought it was "fascinating"   
   that Obama identified himself as Black on the U.S. census   
   "considering his Black dad was nowhere to be found but his white mom   
   and grandma raised him."   
      
   Steele also said young female journalists bear some responsibility   
   for preventing any harassment they may face in the male-dominated   
   world of professional sports.   
      
   "When you dress like that, I'm not saying you deserve the gross   
   comments, but you know what you're doing when you're putting that   
   outfit on, too," she said.   
      
   Supporters and critics respond to Steele's comments   
   In a tweet, Cutler linked to a story about Steele getting pulled off   
   the air after appearing on his podcast and called it "ridiculous."   
      
   Carron J. Phillips, a senior writer for Deadspin, noted a contrast   
   between how ESPN treated Steele and how it responded when former   
   anchor Jemele Hill called then-President Donald Trump a "white   
   supremacist," characterizing the company's responses as "sooooooo   
   different."   
      
      
   Hill, in a tweet this week, said Steele's remarks on Obama and up-   
   and-coming female sports reporters amounted to "clown behavior."   
      
   For the record, Jemele Hill is a racist nigger whore.   
      
   https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043680295/espn-sage-steele-   
   vaccines-obama   
      
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