ESPN is now under fire after tweeting out the claim that NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace found a noose in his garage, even though the FBI has since determined that it was merely a garage pull line.
As The Daily Wire reports:
ESPN faced backlash on Tuesday afternoon over a tweet that claimed that a “noose” was found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage last year, despite the fact that the FBI concluded that it was a garage door pull.
ESPN made the claim in a nearly three-minute preview video that it posted to Twitter about a documentary that the left-leaning sports organization released today on Bubba Wallace and a controversy that emerged last year when a crew member reported finding a “noose” in his garage.
Nowhere in the short video clip did ESPN disclose the fact that NASCAR had said in a statement that the FBI concluded that the “noose” was a garage door pull down rope.
“The FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms, that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall,” NASCAR said in its statement. “This was obviously well before the 43 team’s arrival and garage assignment.”
Last year, a noose was found in Bubba Wallace's stall at Talladega Superspeedway. The next day, the NASCAR community stood with him in unity.
"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
The news comes in the wake of a jury in Chicago finding actor Jussie Smollett guilty of faking a hate crime.
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there isn’t anyone in the garages that didn’t know about the “door hoops”!!!
ESPN? What about those idiot fellow NASCAR drivers who made it a point to treat Wallace like some kind of abused disciple of Jesus. It takes a bunch of morons to buy into the constant media lies. Have we heard any mea culpas from anyone yet?
Stupid is as stupid is allowed. Shame of Jessie Wallace, I mean Bubba Smollett.