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ESPN Gets Wrecked Online For Decision To Pull Announcer Named Robert Lee

Amanda Prestigiacomo

On Tuesday evening, ESPN (AKA MSNBC with footballs) went full-on parody when they pulled an announcer named Robert Lee, an Asian man, from a game at the University of Virginia because the network thought his name, apparently too close to dead Confederate general Robert E. Lee, might offend their viewers.

For real.

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