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ESPN has failed to get out of politics

By Zachary Faria
Published June 9, 2022 8:03pm ET
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ESPN has failed to get out of politics
The poem incident comes the same week that ESPN announced it had let go more than 100 reporters and on-air personalities. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File) | David Kohl

ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro talked a big game about making the network less political and focusing on the power of sports to unite people. But ESPN has remained the same cesspool of liberal politics under his watch that it was before he took over in 2018.

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