WATCH: Fox Sports’ Clay Travis Says I Only Believe In Boobs And First Amendment
Fox Sports journalist Clay Travis shocked CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin Friday when we went on the air and loosely said he only believed in two things: boobs and the first amendment. Baldwin asked him to repeat himself, just in case she heard him wrong. To triple check, she even spelled the word out.
Travis was unapologetic for what he said, promptly taking to Twitter to share the news with his 443,000 followers after he filmed the segment. “Just went on @cnn and said I only believe in two things completely, the first amendment and boobs and the host lost it. Need video now,” he tweeted.
Even after the show aired, Baldwin was still shocked. “That was... I just... it was one of those thought bubbles ‘did he actually say that on MY SHOW?!’ Note to men — that is never okay. #smh” she wrote.
Travis fired back: “You can't say you like the first amendment and boobs? I say and write it every day. Need to make tshirts now.”
CNN didn’t immediately release a statement on Travis’ comment.
Travis criticized ESPN after host Jemele Hill called President Donald Trump a white supremacist Tuesday. “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself [with] other white supremacists,” Hill said in now-deleted tweets. “[I]f he were not white, he never would have been elected.”
Even though she wasn’t sorry for her views, she apologized for putting ESPN in a bad spot. “My comments on Twitter expressed my personal beliefs,” Hill wrote. “My regret is that my comments and the public way I made them painted ESPN in an unfair light. My respect for the company and my colleagues remains unconditional.”
EPSN stood by their anchor. “Jemele has a right to her personal opinions, but not to publicly share them on a platform that implies that she was in any way speaking on behalf of ESPN,” they said. “She has acknowledged that her tweets crossed that line and has apologized for doing so. We accept her apology.”
While Travis didn’t want Hill to be fired because he “believes in the first amendment,” he didn’t like the way ESPN worded their statement. “What in the world does this statement even mean?” he wrote in a blog post.
“ESPN shouldn’t be in the business of deciding what political opinions are appropriate and inappropriate, but when they fired Curt Schilling entirely for his political opinions nearly a year and a half ago they put themselves in the business of analyzing employee speech and determining what was permissible and what was impermissible,” he argued.
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