Looking for an escape from the left-of-center networks and the breathless – and often erroneous – “reporting” by the cable outlets of the tragic mass murder at the Washington Navy Yard, I turned on the left-of-center ESPN to catch the beginning of Monday Night Football.

Switching from NBC News and CBS News, I prepared to watch some football on the sports network that prizes liberal diversity over experience and fired Hank Williams Jr. for daring to exercise his First Amendment right to freedom of speech.