Dana Jacobson

[Pumchavas28]

The local Radio Guys here in Bama brought up an interesting point about her suspension at ESPN.


1st, if you don't know the story by now, here is it...


http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/01/23/espn-suspends-dana-jacobson-one-week-for-saying-f-jesus-at/
ESPN First Take co-host Dana Jacobson (http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/tag/DanaJacobson/)has been suspended for one week for her comments during a celebrity roast celebrating ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning.

The suspension, first reported in the Chicago Tribune (http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/notredame/cs-080122dana_jacobson_notre_dame_rant,1,6339882.stor y), comes after Jacobson reportedly said "F*** Notre Dame," "F*** Touchdown Jesus," and "F*** Jesus" in an attempt to talk trash to Mike and Mike co-host Mike Golic (http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/tag/MikeGolic/), a former Notre Dame football player.

An ESPN spokesman e-mailed me the following statements:


But their point is this.... Jacobson dropped F' Bombs in reference to Notre Dame, Catholics or Jesus Christ (something along those lines)....

What there point is... Had it been a roast for Steven A. Smith & she had done something like that referencing the Black Community or MLK, that all hell would have broken out & she would have been fired...

They are saying that people have their priorities screwed up because making comments like that about Jesus or Catholics should weigh more than comments about someone's race....

What do ya'll think????

[Pflugerville Ag]

Interesting debate. I think she would have been fine if she would have left it with F*** Notre Dame and F*** Touchdown Jesus. She crossed the line with F*** Jesus.

Good point about race though. I guess in our society, the color of our skin is more important than our creator. :(

[Pumchavas28]

They've been asking why haven't Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson been outragged by her words about Jesus???

They are supposed to be men of God before men of race..... Yet they say nothing, but had it been about Tom Jackson, Steven A. Smith, or Marcellus Wiley (new to the ESPN family), that both would have been up in arms....

It's just a sad case that it's all true..:sad:

[DCAggie]

Sounds about right to me. Though, I think they should fire her.

As for the reverends, isn't one of them not actually an ordained reverend, but just uses the moniker in order to tie himself into the old school civil rights stuff? So really only one of them is a man of God.

[aggie1997]

How pathetic. She should be fired. Amazing how people can show such a lack of responsibility and everyone brush it off because she had a bottle of vodka in her hand.

As for the coalition brothers....worthless. They only get involved in causes that will bring them publicity. They are just around for the attention.

[Superaggie79]

First things first. This was a private pay event. It was not televised and was not open to the media. If any of you got drunk and said this at a private event would you expect to be suspended from your job or fired? I doubt it. Just because she talks on tv doesn't mean that something she does that gets leaked out should get her fired. And who is to say that she's not an atheist and those are her views? It's her right to believe what she wants to believe and if she was fired by her employer she'd have a huge civil rights suit. If someone didn't leak this no one would know.

[Superaggie79]

And I'm not saying she was right or wrong.

[Pumchavas28]

First things first. This was a private pay event. It was not televised and was not open to the media. If any of you got drunk and said this at a private event would you expect to be suspended from your job or fired? I doubt it. Just because she talks on tv doesn't mean that something she does that gets leaked out should get her fired. And who is to say that she's not an atheist and those are her views? It's her right to believe what she wants to believe and if she was fired by her employer she'd have a huge civil rights suit. If someone didn't leak this no one would know.


The Roast was on the Internet that day also... Mike & Mike kept going on & on about how folks could view it on-line....

So while it wasn't on TV, it was out there for folks to view...

[Superaggie79]

Oh they were saying it was completely private on am 1300

[Superaggie79]

And roasts are usually pretty rough and foul mouthed.

[DCAggie]

First things first. This was a private pay event. It was not televised and was not open to the media. If any of you got drunk and said this at a private event would you expect to be suspended from your job or fired? I doubt it. Just because she talks on tv doesn't mean that something she does that gets leaked out should get her fired. And who is to say that she's not an atheist and those are her views? It's her right to believe what she wants to believe and if she was fired by her employer she'd have a huge civil rights suit. If someone didn't leak this no one would know.

If she's an atheist she's excused? It doesn't exactly sound like she's a Christian, but I don't think that means she gets to get say those things. Just because it wasn't on espn doesn't make it a purely private event. It was a bunch of espn people roasting two espn employees from what I can tell. To go back to the original comparison, had someone said something that was equally offensive and racist, do you think that the fact that it was a private pay event would have saved her? Obviously, it's speculation, but I kinda doubt that espn could have stood by and done nothing. Whether or not they broadcast something like that, they'd be seen as tolerating the speech.

As for her civil rights being violated if she were fired, the same argument would hold for a suspension. Does she have a lawsuit because religion is involved or because of free speech?

[Pumchavas28]

Well here's another example.... to further prove the point about race vs religion....

Why does Rush get fired from ESPN for a comment about McNabb being a Black QB, but she can say F*** Jesus & only gets 1 week without pay?????

Liberal Media at it's finest..... :mad:

[phatbc]

1st of all, holy crap with the last statement she made. that is ridiculous regardless of her beliefs.

2nd of all, if we want to say its not so bad to say F Jes, then its not so bad for someone to say F Black People. Do we draw the line at one isn't proven real? That's ridiculous. Both are offensive, hateful, and harmful. AND Actually, most Christians would rather you say F Christians than F their savior. So in many ways its way worse.

[WesTxAg]

Just because she talks on tv doesn't mean that something she does that gets leaked out should get her fired. And who is to say that she's not an atheist and those are her views? It's her right to believe what she wants to believe and if she was fired by her employer she'd have a huge civil rights suit. If someone didn't leak this no one would know.
1st - being a member of the media, and especially the national media, is not a right, it's a priveledge. you're always in the public eye, whether you're at the grocery store or at the club, you're marked. i know people on tv who can't do a number of things or go to certain places because they are in the public eye--it comes with the territory and she knows that. ou baseball coach got fired for making a racist joke in private to a colleague

2nd - believing in something and beligerently spouting off on someone else's religion are TWO WAY DIFFERENT THINGS.

3rd - the whole lawsuit idea doesn't exactly hold ground because, since she is in the public eye, she holds a very strict morality clause in her contract that probably not even my boy roger cossack could get her out of

[Superaggie79]

I still think she'd have a legitimate case if she wanted to. It would kill her career but by law she'd have a case. And no one knows what she believes and do you really know she has a clause in her contract?

[WesTxAg]

I still think she'd have a legitimate case if she wanted to. It would kill her career but by law she'd have a case. And no one knows what she believes and do you really know she has a clause in her contract?
it's assumed...they're not gonna let her go on air consistently without it. it's standard: you're a "public figure"