ESPN announcer Rebecca Lobo apologized on air for saying, “That’s what makes America nice,” throughout ESPN protection of Sunday’s recreation between the Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces.
Lobo’s remark was met with an icy silence by WNBA play-by-play announcer Pam Ward who was apparently triggered by the point out of “make America nice.”
Earlier than the period of leftist political correctness and Trump derangement syndrome, it was frequent for Individuals to reward the U.S. for tolerating variations of opinion by saying, “That’s what makes America nice.”
Pam Ward, under left, Rebecca Lobo, heart, ESPN promo graphic.
Lobo was speaking with Ward a few foul name on an Aces participant.
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Ward: “So that they disagree with you?”
Lobo: “They do, and I disagree with them, and that’s nice. That’s what makes America nice, proper, Pam Ward?”
(Lengthy, icy silence.)
Lobo: “I ought to rephrase that.”
Ward: “Sure.”
Crosstalk.
Ward: “Yeah, I did assume variations of opinion are completely nice.
Lobo: “Sure, that’s a greater technique to say it. Sorry about that.”
Lobo, a former WNBA All-Star and member of the 1996 Olympic gold medal successful girls’s basketball staff, has been an ESPN commenter since 2004.
Ward, a sports activities journalist, has been with ESPN since 1996, overlaying the WNBA and girls’s faculty basketball and softball, in addition to internet hosting quite a few exhibits over time.
