ESPN Shamelessly Tries to Resell the Bubba Wallace Noose Story as a Thing – Opinion

One of the things that we’ve seen over and over again in news stories from mass shootings to an alleged “noose” in a NASCAR garage is people jumping in and pushing their political narrative before getting all the facts.

It’s a staple of Black Lives Matter, for example. It is often a mistake to leave critical information out of stories that they promote. We saw how they didn’t care about the facts in the case of Jussie Smollett; it was just about pushing the ‘correct’ political narrative. That’s why any time you have any politically-charged news story, it’s always a good idea to reserve a certain amount of judgment until you have more facts. Video is not always the best way to get all of it.

We’ve had the facts in on the story of Bubba Wallace and the noose in the NASCAR garage for a while now. At least as much as we’re likely to ever get or need. The FBI concluded that there was no racial aspect to the case, since it wasn’t even a noose — it was a garage door pull.

NEWS: A statement from the FBI regarding the NASCAR noose incident in Talladega has been released. It indicates that it was an error. There was no crime. As early as last year, the noose had been there. pic.twitter.com/j2MGrOvUN3

— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) June 23, 2020

NASCAR makes a statement regarding the situation pic.twitter.com/RC6asyMxMn

— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) June 23, 2020

This was done in June 2020.

Yet today, ESPN posted a tweet advertising a documentary/interview with Wallace about the “noose” in Wallace’s garage with an emotional video about how he and NASCAR dealt with it and all the “hate.”

Bubba Wallace found a noose last year at Talladega SUPERspeedway’s stall. He was reunited with the NASCAR community on Monday.

“I was like, ‘Holy s—, it’s the whole garage.’ … That’s when I lost it.” pic.twitter.com/Zh5HWumagX

— ESPN (@espn) December 14, 2021

Nowhere in the video does it say that it wasn’t a “noose” and that there was no “hate” directed at Wallace. ESPN itself reported on the FBI statement, so they know full well it wasn’t a noose.

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— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) December 15, 2021

Then, what is the point of this clip? If it was just about saying that everyone was very embracing of Bubba Wallace, they would have included that it wasn’t a noose and they wouldn’t have been talking about “hate” in the video. No, they still appear to be trying to push it as though it was real, even now, even with the FBI’s findingz and their own reporting on it.

If that’s to get clicks and draw more of an audience for what is now a total non-story, that’s pretty despicable and sick. They are effectively spreading fake news and don’t seem to care about disclaimers, even though they were ratioed in next week.

Meanwhile, Twitter — which is always moaning about misleading things on its platform — hasn’t said a darn thing about it that I can tell. This tweet remains up, without further explanation.