CNN Columnist Defends ESPN’s Decision to Pull Robert Lee from Broadcasting Virginia Football Game

The little-known Chinese-American sports play-by-play broadcaster was pulled from announcing the University of Virginia football home opener by ESPN because his first names ("Robert" and "Lee") are the same as the Confederate general's. The author says it's "unreasonable, ignorant and downright ridiculous to associate his name in any way with the Confederate general" but still thinks it was a good idea to pull him from the game:  "Still," she says, "nothing we've witnessed in Charlottesville, or since, has been reasonable or intelligent."

Boston Stood for Suppression of Free Speech and Free Press
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Boston Stood for Suppression of Free Speech and Free Press

James P. Freeman

"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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