Dana Jacobson has managed to get herself suspended from her job at ESPN for comments she made at a roast. You need to look pretty hard to find out what it was that Dana Jacobson actually said, rather than everyone’s outraged reactions to it:
ESPN personality Dana Jacobson has been disciplined for remarks she
made Jan. 11 at a roast in Atlantic City, N.J., for colleagues Mike
Greenberg and Mike Golic. According to various reports, Jacobson
appeared inebriated when she used an expletive in connection with Notre
Dame, Touchdown Jesus and Jesus.
Jacobson, co-host of "First
Take" on ESPN2, apologized in a statement and said, "My remarks about
Notre Dame were foolish and insensitive. I respect all religions and
did not mean anything derogatory by my poorly chosen words. I won’t
make excuses for my behavior, but I do hope I can be forgiven for such
a poor lack of judgment."
Her remarks come on the heels of two highly publicized media incidents that dealt with race.
Expletives? Which expletives?
What ESPN personality reportedly had a little too much to drink and
dropped F-bombs onstage during a "Mike & Mike in the Morning" roast
Jan. 11 in Atlantic City?
Nope, not him. Forget the likely suspects.
It was "First Take" co-host Dana Jacobson, who reportedly has been
suspended a week. ESPN confirms only that she’s being disciplined, but
she wasn’t on the ESPN2 show Wednesday morning.
Here’s how the Press of Atlantic City described it:
" … Jacobson made an absolute fool of herself, swilling vodka from a
Belvedere bottle, mumbling along and cursing like a sailor as Mike
& Mike rested their heads in their hands in embarrassment."
Jacobson, a Bloomfield Hills native and Michigan grad, reportedly
dropped F-bombs on roastee Mike Golic’s alma mater, Notre Dame — with
football coach Charlie Weis in the crowd.
"F-bomb?" You mean she said fuck? Good lord, that an adult woman should use such a word…clearly, we must burn her!
The Christian Defense Coalition plans to lead a public demonstration and prayer vigil outside of ESPN Headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, on Friday, January 25, at 12:00 noon.
Coalition says hate speech, bigotry, and religious intolerance should have no place in the public square and the only proper response for ESPN is to release Ms. Jacobson.
OK, not burn her, but fire her. OK, so what did Dana Jacobson really say?
Dana Jacobson and Kelly Tilgham: Who’s Foot is Farther in Their Mouth? What is worse in this country? Saying you are going to lynch a celebrity or someone saying "f*** Jesus? Over the past couple of weeks, major controversy has come from 2 major networks: ESPN and the Golf Channel. As most people had heard, Kelly Tilgham of the golf channel talked about how the other tour players should take Tiger out back and "lynch him."
This obviously created an uproar. A little more recently Dana Jacobson, an ESPN on-air personality, had an expletive ridden drunken "roast" of her colleagues of the "Mike and Mike Show." Some of the highlights included "f*** Notre Dame," "f*** touchdown Jesus," and leaving it with "f*** Jesus." She was booed off the stage and later suspended for a week. While neither of these two women will be cracking the favorite on-air personality list, but which one is worse.
Hmm, distressing for some perhaps but not really a reason to fire Dana Jacobson now, is it?
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