Columnist Jemele Hill is an avid Pistons fan, and that’s fine, but in a recent anti-Boston column, she went way too far.
Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.
So she’s saying that being a Celtics fan is akin to being pro-Hitler.
Nice.
Since she started at ESPN, Hill has been under fire from the blogosphere in part due to her defense of Barry Bonds as well as her inability to put a logical thought together.
For its part, ESPN said that an editor didn’t see her column before it went up and it has since been modified. (If so, how is what she does any different than blogging?)
She has been suspended pending further action.
Note to writers everywhere – using Hitler for comparison purposes is lazy, but if you’re going to do it, be very, very careful.
