As part of his ESPN derangement, mysterious Media Research Center sports blogger Jay Maxson has long despised ESPN commentator Jemele Hill for tweeting that President Trump is a “white supremacist.” For example, Maxson raged when Hill received an award from a group of black journalists that she didn’t deserve it after a year of “failure, suspension and demotion.”
So when Hill announced she was leaving ESPN, Maxson couldn’t be happier. Maxson raranted in an Aug. 27 MRC post that Hill is a “bombastic race-baiter” who “talked, tweeted and finally bought her way out of ESPN.”
“Bought her way out of ESPN”? Actually, according to the Sports Illustrated article (Maxson falsely states it’s from the Sporting News, making this the second error in his/her piece) from which Maxson quotes, Hill’s departure from ESPN “includes a buyout” of her contract. Typically, that means ESPN paid Hill an agreed-upon amount to be released from her contract — not that, as Maxson appears to assume, Hill paid ESPN for the contract release. Indeed, ESPN reportedly paid Hill $6 million.
Maxson is not the sharpest knife in the MRC drawer. Last year, he/she tried to insult Caitlyn Jenner but couldn’t figure out what “nee” means.