Imagine not being liked by Halle Berry?
I would go cry in my car if I was Sage Steele. None of her ESPN co-workers like her, her white ex-husband, who she told us to worship, doesn’t like her, management who used to like her doesn’t anymore after she turned on them with this lawsuit, and now we have information that Halle Berry didn’t even want anything to do with her.
Even golf balls don’t like her.
Here is the latest via Awful Announcing.
It’s not surprising that ESPN is defending itself against anchor Sage Steele’s “very unusual” lawsuit and filing to dismiss that suit, but one of the tactics they’re taking is interesting. As per Ben Strauss of The Washington Post, ESPN’s filing to dismiss the lawsuit claims they didn’t actually punish Steele after her controversial comments last fall on ESPN parent company Disney’s vaccine mandate (which she called “sick” and “scary”), former U.S. president Barack Obama identifying as Black (“I think that’s fascinating considering his Black dad was nowhere to be found but his White mom and grandma raised him”), and female on-air talent’s wardrobes (“When you dress like that, I’m not saying you deserve the gross comments, but you know what you’re doing when you’re putting that outfit on, too”) on Jay Cutler’s podcast.
They also say the criticism she received from coworkers (which she cited as harassment, and blamed the company for not defending her from) is protected expression from those coworkers. They also say some of her “lost” assignments were at the request of people representing the people and events she was supposed to interview or host, and they say that decisions on who appears on what show are “casting decisions” that fall under their own protected expression.
On the lost assignment front, Strauss writes that ESPN’s filing also includes that Steele losing a previously-announced assignment to interview Halle Berry at an ESPNw summit was at the request of Berry’s PR team, and her lost role hosting a V Foundation gala was after the organizers “perceived her comments about the coronavirus vaccine to be ‘anti-science.’”
It is obvious this is a lawsuit that a “Karen” would file.
That is why that golf ball hit her in the face. It is karma for, in my opinion, her being a terrible person. If you want to spew MAGA talking points and hate on black people, go to FOX NEWS or hang out with Herschel Walker.
Her lawyer goes on to try to compare Steele to Scarlett Johansson of all people, and that is when I decided to move on from reading what they had to say.
I am sure ESPN can’t wait for her contract to be up so they can fire her.
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