NFL Star Startles Laura Ingraham By Daring To Disagree With Fox News Talking Point

[JonLP24]

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New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson wrong-footed Ingraham when he told the prime time host he agreed with Jemele Hill’s latest essay in The Atlantic, which explored whether Black athletes should leave majority-white colleges and take the money and attention they generate elsewhere.

"She had some great points in that article,” Watson told Ingraham.

“What [Hill] was saying was simply, if we are trying to pump money and revenue into some of these communities that there is still this big disparity, this may be a way to do it,” Watson continued. “Obviously that’s in a vacuum, there are other factors that figure into that, but when you read her argument, she lays it out very cleanly and it’s actually something that I agree with.”

Ingraham told Watson that his alma mater, Duke University, would “have not been thrilled at you not being there” and that “college sports would certainly be a lot different today if we went down a color-coded way of figuring out college admissions. That’s re-segregating the country. Why do we want that?”

“Segregation, as you know, is government-mandated. This is not segregation. If you read the article,” Watson corrected Ingraham, before she cut him off.

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[RockRaven]

1. '...If you read the article," Watson corrected Ingraham, before she cut him off.'

It is almost like FOXNews would prefer their viewers not actually read the article... clearly if they did so they might learn something, and FOXNews can't have that!!!

It is actually quite dis-spiriting that FOXNews viewers cannot (or don't *want* to) spot the pattern of FOXNews cutting short interviews or cutting off interviewees who deviate from their pre-determined narrative. FOXNews doesn't even bother rebutting them with evidence and reason (no matter how tenuous or specious), they just cut the convo off and change the subject. Loo-loo-loo, nothing to see here, loo-loo-loo, let's talk about something else, loo-loo-loo... And their viewers are like: "yup! sounds good"

[thesquanderer]

3. The text doesn't accurately describe the content.

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'...If you read the article," Watson corrected Ingraham, before she cut him off.'

She "cut him off" by saying "I read the article. I read the article." Which would not lead to your otherwise reasonable interpretation of "It is almost like FOXNews would prefer their viewers not actually read the article."

[greyl]

2. She is vile. nt