Keith Olbermann Targets Washington Redskins in Wake of Confederate Flag Debate
The ESPN commentator believes a lawyer for Dan Snyder may have inadvertently admitted that the nickname is offensive.
ESPN’s Keith Olbermann believes that a lawyer for Dan Snyder may have inadvertently admitted that the Washington Redskins’ name is indeed offensive.
On Wednesday—against the backdrop of a national debate on the offensiveness of the Confederate flag–Olbermann drew several parallels between the flag and the NFL team’s nickname, highlighting the typical defenses of both symbols (“heritage,” “tradition” and “respect”).
But in answering a judge about the Confederate flag case and its relation to the team’s nickname, Olbermann points out that Robert Raskopf, a lawyer for the team, did not use any of the “nonsensical” arguments Dan Snyder has employed in the past—completely omitting any denial that the name was “offensive.”
“He did not say anything resembling ‘our team is nothing like the Confederate flag’ or ‘our team name is not offensive,'” said Olbermann.
Instead
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