Even though Rush is not me and the situa... by Gregg Easterbrook

Writer Author journalist Football Acting

Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

- Gregg Easterbrook

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Punishment

And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Boss

I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.

- Gregg Easterbrook

History Now Being

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Controversy Writing Writer

For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Thoughts Wrong Nothing Now People

Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.

- Gregg Easterbrook

Present Day Now

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

- Gregg Easterbrook

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