Jimmy Pitaro, the President of ESPN, has finally realized that allowing their on-air personalities to push their leftist political propaganda, and attacking conservatives, has pretty much destroyed the once-great sports network.

“Without question our data tells us our fans do not want us to cover politics.” – ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro

Up until today, ESPN has been trying to spin their dismal ratings as being caused by “cord-cutting and increased competition from the Internet ― not politics” but that is just more fake News & lies. Everyone knew that ESPN’s excuses were total bullshit though.

Pitaro now claims that their “data” tells them that their fans don’t want them covering politics.. but honestly, if Pitaro or ESPN needed specific “data” to realize that half of their sports fans are conservative, and the leftist views pushed on the air would turn off the conservative viewers, then these people need different jobs, because my cat could use his judgement to build and run a far better company than these leftist douchebags.

Now that ESPN has realized how bad of a job they are doing, maybe things will get better, and I may even eventually start to tune in again.
I had actually already completely stopped watching any ESPN channel due to the leftist political propaganda pushed by the network’s libtard TDS-inflicted losers, but I will think about giving ESPN another chance.. until they screw up again… Then there is no going back.

ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro conceded defeat Monday by finally admitting, “Without question our data tells us our fans do not want us to cover politics.”
Well, no shit.

You needed your data to tell you that, Jimmy?

You needed to convene something to do a tabulation that deliver some data, Jimmy?

Was it the 15 million lost subscribers? Was that the “data?”

How about the endless complaints across social media, the editorials…?

Maybe the layoffs? Those massive layoffs — were the layoffs the data, Jimmy?

Perhaps it was the ratings crash?

Consumer sentiment?

Seriously, Jimmy, please do share with us this data of which you speak.

After years and years and years and years of Disney straight up lying to us, telling us again and again that the infusion of left-wing politics in its sports coverage was not hurting the network, here we have no less than the president of ESPN taking a knee.

Here’s his whole comment, where Pitaro also makes clear he has sat down with his anchors and told them to shut up about their personal political opinions and to focus instead on the players and games:

Pitaro has also satisfied ESPN’s more traditional fans by steering commentators away from political discussions on-air and on social media, which heightened during President Trump’s criticism of NFL player protests against social injustice during the playing of the national anthem.

“Without question our data tells us our fans do not want us to cover politics, ”Pitaro said. “My job is to provide clarity. I really believe that some of our talent was confused on what was expected of them. If you fast-forward to today, I don’t believe they are confused.”

Naturally, the far-left L.A. Times buries its own headline by burying this news deep in the interview.

But let’s compare Sunday’s comments to what ESPN told us back in January of 2017:

So many of you write in every time we say something that you disagree with politically, even though we don’t talk politics around here. We talk race, we talk about cultural issues — we don’t talk politics. So many of you write in, ‘That’s why ESPN is losing subscribers, because of its liberal leanings.’ It’s just a basic misunderstanding of what is happening with ESPN that confirms to your biases. That is not why ESPN is losing subscribers at all. ESPN is losing subscribers because in 2017, all of the technology has changed and 99 million of you have been paying for something that 98 million of you may not be using at any given time. It’s not about the politics of the company. The company doesn’t have politics.

How about the good old days when former ESPN presidents were so deep in denial they claimed the network was not getting political — oh, no, not getting political at all:

It is accurate that the Walt Disney Company and ESPN are committed to diversity and inclusion. These are long-standing values that drive fundamental fairness while providing us with the widest possible pool of talent to create the smartest and most creative staff. We do not view this as a political stance but as a human stance. We do not think tolerance is the domain of a particular political philosophy.

My personal favorite was when ESPN’s media apologists blamed the ratings death spiral on everything but politics:

A deeper dive shows the primary causes of this decline are likely cord-cutting and increased competition from the Internet ― not politics ― as people turn away from linear television and to their computers to follow sports, including live events, which now air on Hulu and Amazon.

Talk about fake news.

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