Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences.
Also something my mother use to tell me all the time was just because that person can do something doesn’t mean YOU can do the same.
The guys are Barstool Sports have a lot of rope to say and do whatever they want. One of the reasons they have become popular is because they have no filters or worries about being fired for anything.
If you work for a network, you can’t just say whatever is on your mind, especially if it is racist and stereotypical comments and think no one is going to notice.
Emily Austen was a Fox Sports Sideline reporter until she went on The Rundown with Barstool Sports and said the following via Deadspin.
• That she “didn’t even know that Mexicans were that smart.”
• How the “Chinese guy is always the smartest guy in math class.”
• About how she “used to talk to Jews in Boca” when she was a server, saying one customer was “stingy” because he complained about how she poured his beer and that “they would complain and b—- about everything.”
Austen, 27, also referred to Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player Kevin Love as a “little b*tch-.”
Because of those comments she no longer has a job.
In a statement, Steve Tello, the GM/Senior Vice-President of Fox Sports Florida said, “We were made aware that Emily Austen appeared in a social media video unaffiliated with Fox Sports in which she made insensitive and derogatory comments. She was not speaking on behalf of Fox Sports, nor do we condone any of the statements she made in the video. Emily has been advised that her comments were unacceptable, and she is not scheduled to appear on any upcoming Fox Sports Florida or Fox Sports Sun broadcasts.”
Flip the page to see the entire video of her appearance.